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 Phosphorescent at The Echo in Los Angeles, California | |
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| Origin | Athens, Georgia, United States |
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| Years active | 2001–present |
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| Website | phosphorescentmusic |
Phosphorescent is the stage name of American singer-songwriter Matthew Houck. [1] [2] [3] Originally from Huntsville, Alabama, Houck began recording and performing under this nickname in 2001 in Athens, Georgia. He is currently based in Nashville, Tennessee.
Before recording under the name Phosphorescent, Matthew Houck traveled the world playing under the name Fillup Shack and self-released a limited pressing of the album Hipolit in 2000. [4] Houck later changed his recording name to Phosphorescent and released the full-length LP A Hundred Times or More in 2003. The album was released through Athens, Georgia-based independent label Warm Records. The following year, he released the EP The Weight of Flight . Phosphorescent rose to wider critical acclaim after releasing Aw Come Aw Wry in August 2005 and Pride in October 2007. The latter was named the 12th best album of 2007 by Stylus Magazine [5] and received an 8.0 rating from the online indie magazine Pitchfork . [6] In 2009, inspired by Willie Nelson's tribute album to Lefty Frizzell To Lefty from Willie , Houck crafted a tribute album to Nelson himself entitled To Willie , which was released through Dead Oceans. Phosphorescent released Here's to Taking It Easy in 2010.
Muchacho , Phosphorescent's sixth studio album, was released in 2013 to critical acclaim. [7] [8] [9] The full studio album C'est La Vie followed in 2018.
| Year | Title | Label |
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| 2003 | A Hundred Times or More | Warm |
| 2004 | The Weight of Flight EP | |
| 2005 | Aw Come Aw Wry | Misra |
| 2007 | Pride | Dead Oceans |
| 2009 | To Willie | |
| 2010 | Here's to Taking It Easy | |
| 2013 | Muchacho | |
| 2015 | Live at the Music Hall [10] | |
| 2018 | C'est La Vie |
| Year | Title | Label | Description |
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| 2005 | "I Am a Full Grown Man (I Will Lay in the Grass All Day)" | The Great Pop Supplement | UK limited 7" release |
| 2010 | Live / Ghost Lights EP | Dead Oceans | Limited-press tour EP |
| 2021 | The BBC Sessions | Bandcamp | Digital Album |
| 2022 | Trying to get to Heaven | Trying to get to Heaven | Single |
| Year | Compilation | Song |
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| 2003 | Esopus Magazine Number 1 Public Domain | "Home on the Range" (trad.) |
| 2006 | Awful Bliss Records: Songs For Another Place | "One of My Turns" (Pink Floyd) |
| 2009 | Live at KEXP Vol.5 | "Wolves" (solo, live) |
| 2009 | Splice Today: The Old Lonesome Sound | "Old Folks at Home (Swanee River)"(Stephen Foster) |
| 2009 | St. Ives Records: It Happened Here | "South (Of America)" (live) |
| 2010 | MOJO Magazine: Let It Be – Revisited | "Across the Universe"(Beatles) |
| 2010 | More Townes Van Zandt by the Great Unknown | "Why She's Acting This Way"(Townes Van Zandt) |
| 2011 | MOJO Magazine: Harvest – Revisited | "Are You Ready for the Country?"(Neil Young) |
| 2014 | The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Soundtrack | "Song For Zula" |
| 2019 | Matthias et Maxime by Xavier Dolan Soundtrack | "Song For Zula" |
| 2021 | Can't Get You Out of My Head - Part 6: Are We Pigeon? Are We Dancer? by Adam Curtis Soundtrack | "Song For Zula" |
Willie Hugh Nelson is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, activist, and actor. He was one of the main figures of the progressive and outlaw country subgenres that developed in the late 1960s as a reaction to the conservative restrictions of the Nashville sound. The critical success of his album Shotgun Willie (1973), combined with the critical and commercial success of Red Headed Stranger (1975) and Stardust (1978), made Nelson one of the most recognized artists in country music. Nelson has acted in over 30 films, co-authored several books, and has been involved in activism for the use of biofuels and the legalization of marijuana.
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Pancho & Lefty by Townes Van Zandt (1972) became well-known through a honky tonk album by outlaw country musicians Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson, released in 1983. Original vinyl copies from 1983 give the album's title as "Poncho & Lefty" on the cover, as well as on the inner sleeve and the record label; the album's title track is similarly rendered "Poncho & Lefty" on the cover, inner sleeve, and label. Later editions correct the title to the intended "Pancho & Lefty.” They are backed by Don Markham of The Strangers.
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To Willie is the fourth full-length album by Phosphorescent, and his second on the Dead Oceans label. The album is a tribute to Willie Nelson, with cover artwork in the style of Nelson's To Lefty From Willie, itself a cover album.
Muchacho is the sixth studio album by American indie rock act Phosphorescent, released on March 19, 2013 on Dead Oceans. Self-produced by Matthew Houck, the album was preceded by the single, "Song for Zula". "Song for Zula" was also featured in The Spectacular Now, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, and the series finale of Superstore: "All Sales Final".
Full Circle is the forty-third solo studio album by American country music singer-songwriter Loretta Lynn. It was released on March 4, 2016, by Sony Legacy. It was produced by Lynn's daughter, Patsy Lynn Russell, and John Carter Cash, the son of Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash. The album became Lynn's 40th album to reach the top ten of the US Billboard Top Country Albums chart and her career peak on the US Billboard 200, debuting at number 19. The album received a nomination for Best Country Album at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards.
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C'est La Vie is the seventh studio album by Phosphorescent. The album was released on Dead Oceans on October 5, 2018.
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