Working On My Farewell

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Working On My Farewell
John Craigie - Working On My Farewell.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedJanuary 18, 2015
RecordedGadgetbox Studios, Santa Cruz, CA and Fluff & Gravy Studios, Portland, OR
Genre Folk, British folk rock, Indie Folk
Length45:22
Label Zabriskie Point Records
Producer John Craigie
John Craigie chronology
The Apocalypse Is Over
(2013)
Working On My Farewell
(2015)
Capricorn in Retrograde...just kidding...Live in Portland
(2016)

Working On My Farewell is the fourth studio album by the folk-singer John Craigie. [1] It was released in January 2015 on Zabriskie Point Records. Recorded in small studios in Santa Cruz, California, and Portland, Oregon, this album is famous for being Craigie's "electric album", with each song being played on electric guitar – a departure from his primarily acoustic style. [2] [3] Although promoted as electric, it is actually one of Craigie's quietest and most melancholic albums, being compared to Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska and Beck's Sea Change'. [4] The title "Working On My Farewell"is taken from the lyrics of the song "Rexroth's Daughter" by Greg Brown [5]

Contents

As with the three previous studio albums, Randy Schwartz appears on drums and Cian Riordan is chief engineer. [6]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1Skipping Like a Stone3:49
2Burn That Dress4:34
3Vast Dead Forest4:31
4Mourning You3:34
5Catalina4:52
6Cactus3:45
7Bisbee4:37
8Coldest Colorado4:39
9My Darkest Lover5:29
10Vondelpark5:31

Personnel

Production:

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