From the Flannelgraph Records compilation The Holidays Don't Have To Be So Rotten Vol. 3
http://flannelgraphrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-holidays-dont-have-to-be-so-rotten-volume-three

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Frank Capra

From the PIAPTK compilation The Rising Cost of Livin’ High and Lovin’ Hard: A Tribute to Kris Kristofferson
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To Beat The Devil (Kris Kristofferson cover)

From Songs For "Crap Kingdom:" A Young Adult Novel By DC Pierson
https://soundcloud.com/dc-pierson/sets/songs-for-crap-kingdom-a-young

Also available on the free Advance Base mixtape Plastic Owen Band: advancebase.bandcamp.com/album/plastic-owen-band

Motion Juice

From the mixtape Charcuteries and Champagne Vol. 1 by Tony Trimm

http://tonytrimm.com

Honda Civic (feat. Hannibal Buress)

Written by Nanci Griffith. May she rest in peace.

Owen Ashworth: vocals, sampler,  Oscartron, drum machine
Nicholas Krgovich: backing vocals
Xandy Chelmis: pedal steel

Recorded & mixed by Owen Ashworth at Advance Basement, Oak Park, IL except for Nick & Xandy's parts, which they recorded at home in Vancouver, BC & Asheville, NC respectively.

Cover art by Margaret Hitch

Love At The Five & Dime (Nanci Griffith cover)

Ballad Of Forty Dollars (Tom T. Hall cover)

In The Dining Room (Ryan Dann & Joe Pera cover)

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Gordon Ashworth: autoharp
Owen Ashworth: autoharptron, bass synth, Omnichord, piano, rhythm box, sampler, vocals
Twila Ashworth: vocals
Julie Byrne: vocals

Summer Music Remix (feat. Gordon Ashworth & Julie Byrne)

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"Philadelphia" is my favorite Neil Young song. It's from the soundtrack of the motion picture Philadelphia starring Tom Hanks & Denzel Washington. I went to see Neil Young play a concert the other night & he didn't play this song & I was bummed so I went home & recorded this.

Philadelphia (Neil Young cover)

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Lodi (CCR cover)

Whirlaway The Horse

Natural Light (Casiotone for the Painfully Alone cover)

Unreleased version

A different recording of this song appears on the album A Shut-In's Prayer

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Christmas In Oakland (Otouto version)

In 2012, my electric piano & I were invited to be the "house band" for a live recording of a music interview show called The Low Times. The recording took place in front of a live audience at The Hideout in Chicago, Illinois. The guests that night were Richard Marx & Steve Albini. I taught myself instrumental versions of "Right Here Waiting" to play as Richard Marx's walk-on music & "Kittypants" by Shellac to play as Steve Albini's walk-on music. It felt absolutely crazy to perform Steve Albini's music for him as he walked on stage that night. I was too shy to introduce myself after the show, & despite ending up in the same room on a number of different occasions over the years, I never told him what his music meant to me, or that I vividly remembered the electric feeling of hearing Big Black's "The Power of Independent Trucking" on a college radio station in the backseat of my friend Dan's car during my junior year of high school, or that I bought every Big Black record that I could find in the years that followed. I never told him that I still had that angry, fucked-up sound in my head all those years later. Thank you & rest in peace Steve Albini.

Here is a twelve-year-old rehearsal tape of me playing "Kittypants" on my electric piano. I hope you enjoy it.

Kittypants (Shellac cover)

NEPHEW IN THE WILD CD/LP/Digital out August 21, 2015
on Orindal Records & Tomlab Records
http://orindal.com (USA)
http://tomlab.com (EU/UK)

It’s been three years since Advance Base’s debut album, A Shut-In’s Prayer, made #19 on MOJO Magazine's Best Albums of 2012 list. Since then, singer, songwriter & multi-instrumentalist Owen Ashworth has published a book of drawings, made beats for Chicago rapper Serengeti, recorded the debut single by psych-folk troubadour Julie Byrne, paid tribute to gospel & outsider music legend Washington Phillips (see 2013’s The World Is In A Bad Fix Everywhere EP), contributed electric piano & co-writing credits to Sun Kil Moon’s critically acclaimed 2014 album, Benji, & produced more than a dozen other releases for his own label, Orindal Records. Ashworth has finally turned his focus back on his own music & given us Nephew in the Wild, the second official album by Advance Base.

Nephew in the Wild is a nostalgic, melancholic & occasionally harrowing collection of lo-fi indie rock & electronic pop. Electric pianos, drum kits, drum machines, autoharps, Omnichords, Optigans, Mellotrons & the occasional guitar lay the foundation for sweetly sad stories about lonely Midwesterners trying to make sense of their troubled pasts. In the world of Nephew in the Wild, the internet hasn’t been invented yet, & a person only has to pack up & move somewhere new if they never want to be heard from again. Disappearance, displacement, hell, child-raising, Christmas, Michigan, arson, aging & animals are reccuring themes throughout the album.

Nephew in the Wild was recorded by Ashworth in his basement in Oak Park, Illinois, with additional instrumentation by Nicholas Krgovich (No Kids, P:ano, Gigi), Mike Adams (Mike Adams at His Honest Weight, husband&wife), Howard Draper (Tre Orsi, Okkervil River, Shearwater) & Mat Sweet (Boduf Songs). Ashworth’s baritone vocals & frank, conversational lyrics sit at the front of the mix throughout nine of Nephew in the Wild’s ten songs, while guest vocalist Jody Weinmann takes the lead on the album’s only co-write, “My Love for You is Like a Puppy Underfoot.”

Personnel:
Owen Ashworth: autoharp, bass, drums, drum machines,
electric piano, Omnichord, piano, sampler & vocals
with
Mike Adams: synthesizer (5), drums (9)
Nick Ammerman: autoharp (7)
Edward Crouse: bass (7)
Howard Draper: lap steel guitar (3)
Emma Hospelhorn: bass (2)
Nicholas Krgovich: backing vocals (6), synthesizer (10)
Mat Sweet: guitar (9)
Jody Weinmann: Omnichord & vocals (7)

Produced by Owen Ashworth
Mixed by Owen Ashworth & Matthew Barnhart
Mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk

Trisha Please Come Home

Pamela (album version)

Recorded live at the Blockhouse in Bloomington, Indiana, December 11, 2015
Mixed by Mike Adams

Mike Adams - drums
Nick Ammerman - bass
Owen Ashworth - electric piano, autoharp & vocals
Matt Barnhart - guitar
Edward Crouse - piano
Howard Draper - lap steel guitar

Pamela / The Only Other Girl from Back Home (Live)

Our Cat (Nov 3, 2011)

Bright Idea Instrumental

You wake from the same dream
where you get fat
& to your shock you give birth
to your old cat
your neighbor’s snoring
hear the parakeet
sit by the window
& stare down at the street
sunrise grey & orange streaks
thirty more weeks

The morning train
the crush & sound
it’s seventeen stops
before you get downtown
your stomach’s queasy
with flashes of heat
but maybe once that belly shows
you’ll get a seat
it roars & it creaks
thirty more weeks

Check rental listings
on your lunch at work
you could have a real house
if you just left New York
a vegetable garden
a white picket fence
closer to mom
& reasonable rents
a happy place for childhood memories
thirty more weeks

Same Dream (Version 2)

from A Shut-In's Prayer (Orindal/Caldo Verde/Tomlab)

Summer Music

New Gospel

Public domain hymn recorded for the documentary film The Reverend's Secret Mission

Abide with Me

from Instrumentals #1 (Orindal)

limited edition cassette & download out Oct 9, 2012

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Abalone Knife/Dwight

(Unreleased)

Recorded live at the Athenaeum Theatre in Chicago, IL, November 2, 2012.

David Allen (Nov 2, 2012)

Rabbits (April 3, 2020)

Come Back To Us Barbara Lewis Hare Krishna Beauregard (John Prine)

This is the first track from a new Advance Base album called Live at Home. All of the songs were taken from livestream concert broadcasts performed during quarantine.

Live at Home is a digital-only release. It'll be available exclusively on Bandcamp on August 7.

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True Love Death Dream (Live at Home)

From the EP The World Is In A Bad Fix Everywhere: Advance Base Plays the Music of Washington Phillips

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Mother's Last Word To Her Son (Washington Phillips cover)

Instrumental Synthesizer Music

Advance Base Christmas Livestream
Friday, December 18 at 8:30PM Central
https://www.youtube.com/user/advancebase


"Christmas Steve"

There are always twinkle lights
at my auntie's house
& you can hear Jingle Bells
Always playin' loud

Because when he was seventeen
My cousin Steven took LSD
on Christmas Eve
Now he's always kind of Christmassy

Christmas Steve

He walks around town in his Santa hat
He doesn't bother anyone
He's got a job at my other cousin's work
Mowin' lawns out in the sun

But because back in '93
He swallowed too much LSD
on Christmas Eve
he's just always kind of Christmassy

Christmas Steve

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