Cat No:
RPF1706
Release Date: 14 October 2022
Label: Royal Potato Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 020286223672
Genres: Rock Singer Songwriter
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Description
Leslie Mendelson's 'Love & Murder' is a stirring work instilled with emotional depth.
The 2017 studio effort was the long-awaited follow up to her Grammy Award-nominated
debut, 'Swan Feathers'. Produced by Mark Howard (Bob Dylan, Lucinda Williams), 'Love & Murder' is a sparse, raw collection of ten acoustic-based songs. Opening with "Jericho," a haunting number
that sets the tone for what's to come, it makes clear that the album lies more within
darker spaces that artists like Sharon Van Etten, Lana Del Rey and Dusty Springfield
inhabit. Songs like "Murder Me," "Coney Island," and "Chasing the Thrill" find Leslie
exploring loss in ways that feel personal and metaphorical, where the stories within are
multifaceted. She also recorded three covers: the classic-country infused "Cry, Cry
Darlin'," a take on Bob Dylan's classic "Just Like a Woman," played on the ukulele, and
a duet with The Grateful Dead's Bob Weir on Roy Orbison's "Blue Bayou." In fact,
Mendelson was unwittingly adopted by the West Coast jam scene after Weir heard her
take on "Friend of the Devil "and recruited her to perform with him.
On 'Love & Murder', however, Leslie Mendelson offers a different side of her artistry that
isn't present in her early work or recent collaborations. "This collection is just about the
songs and my voice," she says. " That's what people can connect with. It shows where I
am right now as an artist and where I want to go."
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Tracklisting
- 1. Jericho
- 2. Coney Island
- 3. Murder Me
- 4. Chasing the Thrill
- 5. Crazy
- 6. Blue Bayou
- 7. Love You Tonight
- 8. Just Like a Woman
- 9. The Circus is Coming
- 10. Cry, Cry DarlinÃ
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Lonesome Highway
Rainy Eyes
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Sunlight In An Empty Room
Chris Kasper
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Highway Butterfly: The Songs Of Neal Casal
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Compersion Quartet
Skerik, Brian Haas, James Singleton, Simon Lott
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Heartbreak, Misery & Death
Grayson Capps
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Painting With John (Music From The Original TV Series)
John Lurie
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Live At Levon's!
Larry Campbell, Teresa Williams
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All This Time
Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams
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If You Can't Say Anything Nice
Leslie Mendelson
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