Name: Songs From A Stolen Guitar
Brand: Simon Joyner

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

BBI0472

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Rough Trade Exclusive

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-06-03

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Shellshock

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

4260064994714

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

BBI0471X

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4260064994707

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1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / red

BBI0471

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Black

1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Simon Joyner

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

Label GB

BB Island

Simon Joyner is a singer/songwriter from Omaha, Nebraska, USA. He began writing and performing his songs in 1990, releasing a few cassette recordings of his first songs to a growing local audience before his first vinyl-only LP "The Cowardly Traveller Pays His Toll" brought him international attention in 1994.
Over the last decade, Simon has released several LPs and singles as well as many compilation appearances on both U.S. and European labels. His talent was recognized by *John Peel*, who gave him his first radio play outside the U.S.
If you enjoy artists such as David Dondero, Neva Dinova, or Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band, then you'll appreciate Simon Joyner's music. With influences ranging from Smog to Bonnie Prince Billy, Simon's unique sound will captivate fans of indie folk and alternative rock alike.

Omaha singer-songwriter Simon Joyner, who's been making records since 1990, has been on a roll since his mid-career magnum opus, 2012's Ghosts, one of the great double albums of the past 25 years. On Songs From A Stolen Guitar, he is abetted by collaborators new and old, but the social distancing required by the pandemic of 2020 imbues the album with a distinct and poignant tenor. The remoteness of the individual players on Songs From A Stolen Guitar, while necessarily eliminating some of the ragged spontaneity of much of Joyner's previous work, yields a sort of silver-lining effect: Joyner's songs, produced more meticulously and perhaps more intentionally here than on any of his previous albums, cut through that much cleaner, foregrounding both his dazzling wordplay and his clarity of vision. If Ghosts was his Tonight's the Night-clamorous, naked, and unmoored-Songs From A Stolen Guitar may just turn out to be his Harvest.

Songs From A Stolen Guitar was recorded across several different cities. Joyner recorded his vocals and guitar live in Omaha; bassist Wil Hendrix added his parts at home in San Francisco, Michael Krassner recorded his guitar and piano overdubs at home in Phoenix, and drummer / percussionist Ryan Jewell recorded in Colorado. This musical chain letter then made its way back to Omaha where David Nance (guitars and backing vocals), Ben Brodin (organ and vibraphone), and Megan Siebe (viola and backing vocals) overdubbed-separately-their respective contributions. As with any album recorded and / or released in the midst of wide scale upheaval, it is easy to read into these songs, and the performances of them, a thread of alienation, loneliness, and loss. Still, when it comes to Simon Joyner records, you pay your ticket to hear great songs, and in this category, too, Songs From A Stolen Guitar does not disappoint. It turns out that the limitations imposed on the creation of Songs From A Stolen Guitar are, ultimately, serendipitous. The result is the rare album that sounds like what it's about: the chasm that separates loneliness from aloneness, the lines between love and surrender, the distinction between the tornado and what it leaves behind.

Songs From A Stolen Guitar

Music GB