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00-okkervil_river-black_sheep_boy-(jag80)-cd-2005-ipc.nfo
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                 |                   iPC                    |
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+----------------+------------------------------------------+----------------+
|                                                                            |
|   Artist    : Okkervil River                                               |
|   Album     : Black Sheep Boy                                              |
|   Label     : Jagjaguwar                                                   |
|   Catalog # : JAG80                                                        |
|                                                                            |
|                                                                            |
+-------------------------------[Release Info]-------------------------------+
|                                                                            |
|   Source     : CD                                                          |
|   Genre      : Indie                                                       |
|   Language   : English                                                     |
|   Rip date   : 2005-04-13                                                  |
|   Store date : 2005-04-05                                                  |
|   Rip tool   : EAC                                                         |
|   Encoder    : LAME 3.90.3 --alt-preset standard                           |
|   Quality    : 208kbps avg VBR 44.1/Joint Stereo                           |
|   Url        : http://www.jagjaguwar.com                                   |
|                                                                            |
+--------------------------------[Track List]--------------------------------+
|                                                                            |
|  1.  Black Sheep Boy                                                 1:18  |
|  2.  For Real                                                        4:42  |
|  3.  In A Radio Song                                                 5:39  |
|  4.  Black                                                           4:39  |
|  5.  Get Big                                                         3:55  |
|  6.  A King And A Queen                                              3:22  |
|  7.  A Stone                                                         5:23  |
|  8.  The Latest Toughs                                               3:11  |
|  9.  Song Of Our So-Called Friend                                    3:23  |
|  10. So Come Back, I Am Waiting                                      8:03  |
|  11. A Glow                                                          3:43  |
|  ------------------------------------------------------------------------  |
|                                                                     47:18  |
|                                                                            |
+-------------------------------[Release Notes]------------------------------+
|                                                                            |
|  On Okkervil River's first Jagjaguwar release, Don't Fall in Love with     |
|  Everyone You See, the band included a song entitled "Listening to Otis    |
|  Redding at Home During Christmas," a kind of re-imagining of Redding's    |
|  "I've Got Dreams to Remember" slyly configured around the character's     |
|  personal experience of the song and exploding, in the final chorus, into  |
|  an unabashed, exuberant cover. On the band's newest release, they         |
|  perform a trickier feat, as songwriter Will Sheff takes a lesser-known    |

|  spins that short song's imagery into a phantasmagorical evocation of the  |
|  title character, including a brief cover and a couple of sprawling,       |
|  surreal sequels.                                                          |
|                                                                            |
|  Okkervil River's 2003 album Down the River of Golden Dreams earned wide   |
|  critical praise; Magnet called it the 8th best album of the year,         |
|  comparing it to Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea and    |
|  adding that "Okkervil River has that sort of mythical genius. Down the    |
|  River...is a story of epic proportions--a battle with the enemies at hand |
|  that spirals into a confrontation of the demons within. "In the New York  |
|  Times, Kelefa Sanneh noted that "Down the River of Golden Dreams...lays   |
|  clever, heartbreaking lyrics over simple, stirring chord                  |
|  progressions...Mr. Sheff uses a rickety voice to disguise wild ambition," |
|  while David Fricke wrote in Rolling Stone that "Singer-songwriter Will    |
|  Sheff of the haunted-country quartet Okkervil River is ready for          |
|  worldwide renown. His ambitious melancholy on Down the River of Golden    |
|  Dreams...would be impressive enough with just soft strum and Sheff's      |

|                                                                            |
|  Black Sheep Boy is Okkervil River's most ambitious and cinematic record   |
|  yet, a love story and adult fable that evokes the mature songcraft of     |


|  Young's On the Beach, and the raw nerves and trick effects of Big Star's  |
|  Third/Sister Lovers. It also occasionally echoes Lou Reed's Transformer   |
|  in that it is actually the band's most playful and confident record by    |
|  far, delighting in linguistic games, scrapping all caution and reserve,   |
|  reveling equally in sheer pop, lacerating rock and roll, and straight-up  |
|  country weepers. The most fully-realized and wildly adventurous Okkervil  |

|  traditional palette of mandolin, pump organ, steel guitar, Wurlitzer,     |
|  strings and horns such previously foreign elements as children's          |
|  keyboards, digitally-manipulated field recordings, and dirty splatters    |
|  of distorted guitar. The longing might be keener, but the fun is funner   |
|  this time around, too; somebody has spiked the drinks, and there are at   |
|  least two bullets in the Russian roulette chamber.                        |
|                                                                            |

|  moved out of his house to spend all of 2003 on the road, touring for      |
|  Down the River of Golden Dreams and road-tripping around the country      |
|  during off weeks. After rehearsing many of the new songs on the road      |
|  during tours with Califone, John Vanderslice, Azure Ray, CocoRosie, and   |
|  Clem Snide, the band retreated to an un-air-conditioned Austin, Texas     |
|  tin roof shed to solidify the arrangements before going into the home     |
|  studio of Brian Beattie (an ex-member of Austin legends Glass Eye as      |
|  well as a producer for Daniel Johnston) who also recorded the band's      |

|                                                                            |
|  In pursuit of Black Sheep Boy, Beattie emptied his house, ran tangles of  |
|  cables and carefully-placed microphones through the hallways, and         |
|  captured most of it live in the wee hours of the night. The band then     |
|  dragged what they'd captured into Beattie's dark and tiny backyard shed   |
|  and began performing delicate surgery on it, grafting on horns,           |
|  introducing additional organs, and forcibly stimulating it by occasional  |
|  jarring blasts of electr                                                  |
|                                                                            |
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