The album is an instrumental, quite lush pleasing and evocative, belaying a heartfelt musical experience to walk hand in hand with Wlautin’s strong but down and out characters, characters who know they’ve gotta get back up on their feet again, but for now, seem perplexed enough to be grateful they’re simply hanging on. Fontaine recognizes this, laying down a series of songs that come across as equally tapped out weary and abandoned, as if in middle age, after reading this book, Fontaine has been able to reach into his very soul and recognize many of these aspects within himself, laying it out with cinematic blissful twanging guitars, a pedal steel, along with light handed drumming, songs that come across as deep rooted musical vignettes about growing older and asking more pointed questions, because the answers suddenly seem to matter all the more.
CONDITION: NEW! MARKED UPC.
TRACK LISTING
01 – Horace Hopper
02 – Victor Gets on the Bus
03 – Dream of the City and the City Itself
04 – Living Where You’re Not Wanted
05 – Horace and the Trophy
06 – Rescue and Defeat in Salt Lake City
07 – Horace Decides to Go Pro
08 – Mr. Reese’s Place in La Jolla
09 – Hector Hidalgo
10 – Meeting Billy in El Paso
11 – Night out with Diego
12 – Waking up with Busted Ribs
13 – The Fight with Raymundo Figueroa
14 – Horses in Las Vegas
15 – Finding Horace on the Street
16 – We’ll Be Cattlemen
17 – Back of the Pickup
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