Gary Owens: I Have Some Thoughts, by Graves

Gary Owens: I Have Some Thoughts

by Graves

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レブ Show me a post-everything album making some grand artistic statement and I shrug but show me a dude singing tunes about drinking milk in front of the fridge alone at night and and you've got me on the verge of tears. I guess that's what getting older does to you. Favorite track: Book Song.

jeremiahmurphy115 Love how mellowed out and soft this one is. Definitely matched that golden age AM radio it was going for. I could listen to this forever💕 Favorite track: Where Goes All The Love.

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1.	Little Dumb Dogs 01:51	buy track
2.	Woo A Fool 03:15	buy track
3.	Cavin' In 03:26	buy track
4.	Direct Light Sun 01:36	buy track
5.	Weather the Hard Times 02:07	buy track
6.	Great Divide 02:42	buy track
7.	Keep You From the End 02:55	buy track
8.	Bad Teeth 03:15	buy track
9.	Achee Keetchee 02:10	buy track
10.	Maybe We Just Get That Pig 03:21	buy track
11.	Sugar 02:55	buy track
12.	Time Wasted 02:42	buy track
13.	Puzzle Song 03:38	buy track
14.	Where Goes All The Love 03:06	buy track
15.	Book Song 02:27	buy track
16.	Exit Light 05:35	buy track

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Perpetual Doom and Curly Cassettes are proud to announce the new collaborative release from Graves: Gary Owens “I Have Some Thoughts.” Graves is the project of California’s Greg Olin, who has been releasing music under the moniker for nearly two decades. And for his latest release, he takes a new name—is Gary Owens that smiling young man with the lap steel on the album cover?—to breathe fresh life into an old, old sound. These sixteen tracks sway with the moonstruck sweetness of classic country, blending the sounds of golden age AM radio with a laidback West Count vibe.

Gary Owens “I Have Some Thoughts” is all about that bittersweet feeling of days gone by. “Dopey-eyed on a moonlit shore” is how Olin puts it on “Time Wasted,” a soft-strummed ballad reminiscent of the Nashville sound of Roger Miller and Merle Haggard. Many tracks feel plucked from that simpler time, from the upbeat downer “Cavin’ In” to the kitschy fun of “Atchee Ketchee” where he stumbles nonsense lines before finally singing, “I just wanna find the words to say I love you.” Olin recorded half the record during the pandemic, and he describes the process, slowly building tracks, waiting for collaborators to send their parts, as one of excitement, “like always waiting for a check or fresh pair of socks to arrive in the via snail mail.” Graves blends the mellow with the slightly sour, addressing aging and mortality in clever ways on songs that recall the best of David Berman’s Silver Jews and Purple Mountains projects. The harmonica and close harmonies of “Keep You From the End” find him struggling to reconcile with change and mortality, a question that finds an appropriate metaphor nestled in gentle keyboards on “Bad Teeth & Bad Wine.”

Recorded alongside Nick Aives (Sonny & the Sunsets, Ty Segall, Vetiver), Cory Gray (Delines, Dandy Warhols, Old Unconscious) Rusty Miller (Sonny & The Sunsets, Kelly Stoltz) and Jason Cirimele (Sugar Candy Mountain, Guantanamo Baywatch), Gary Owens features great new songwriting from a legendary indie musician, tackling time, love, and sadness with poise and a little humor. Olin captures the mood perfectly on lead single “Little Dumb Dogs” when he asks, “What’s a bird to do but fly away?” Then he adds, just for good measure: “Cuckoo, cuckoo.”

Aquarium Drunkard review: "A masterpiece...with a deadpan delivery, the inward lyrics of Graves effortlessly intersect a nonlinear trajectory that overflows with humor, tragedy, nostalgia and a sincere, melancholic starkness that recalls the unmistakable prose of David Berman." Read here: aquariumdrunkard.com/2023/06/21/graves-gary-owens-i-have-some-thoughts/

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released June 30, 2023

S.F. SESSION: Songs 1,3,10,12,16 Recorded By Bob Thayer at Bamboo Bungalow Studio B Bass: Nick Aives Drums: Rusty Miller Electric Guitar: Jason Cirimele Guitar & Voes: Greg Olin Horns: Cory Gray PORTLAND SESSION: Songs 2,4,6,7, 13 Recorded by: Cory Gray at Old Unconscious Studios Bass: Samuel Farrell Drums: Rocko Russo Organ: Cory Gray Guitar & Voes: Greg Olin

REMOTE SESSIONS: Songs: 8,14 All instruments recorded by Nick Aives Songs: 5,9,11,15 Recorded by: Jason Cirimeli, Nick Aives, Greg Olin Bass & Voes: Nick Aives Guitar: Jason Cirimele Guitar & Voes: Greg Olin Pedal Steel: All sessions by Tim Ramsey Brought to you by Curly Cassettes, Perpetual Doom and The Helpful Shelf Mixed by: Cory Gray & Greg Olin

Mastered by: Paul Oldham
Record Art and Layout: Samuel Farrell

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