Songs for a Blue Guitar

Songs for a Blue Guitar is an album that exists in the long shadows of a late afternoon. It captures that specific moment when the warmth of the sun fades and a chill begins to set in. Mark Kozelek moves away from the ethereal, ghostly textures of earlier Red House Painters records and embraces a rugged, earthier sound. You will hear the creak of the chair and the scrape of fingers on strings, but you will also hear the roar of a tube amp pushed to its breaking point. It is a record of immense space and patience, where songs are allowed to breathe and unravel over ten minutes or more.

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