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Recorded in Arizona with Calexico's Joey Burns producing, Amos Lee's fourth studio album, 2011's Mission Bell, finds the singer/songwriter in a thoughtful mood and once again wrapping his soulful folk numbers in country, blues, and soft rock. A ruminative, lazy summer day of an album, Mission Bell is not dissimilar to Lee's last effort, 2008's Last Days at the Lodge, but lacks the more contemporary R&B tracks that made Last Days a bit of a departure from Lee's more granola leanings. Here listeners get the introspective leadoff track "El Camino" and the airy Steve Winwood-sounding ballad "Violin." Similarly engaging is the jaunty mid-album anthem "Flower," which is equal parts the Commodores' "Easy" and Hall & Oates' "She's Gone." It's a brilliant, joyously melodic number with the only downside being that it only works to remind you how melodically dire the rest of the album is. Which isn't to say Mission Bell is bad. On the contrary, there is a lot to admire here and maybe that's the main problem. Lee is a talented songwriter with a distinctive pop voice who is becoming recognized as an heir to the American singer/songwriter throne -- a notion given weight by the addition of several well-known guest artists here, including roots rocker Lucinda Williams and country legend Willie Nelson. That said, he often favors rambling, low-key country numbers that get you to quietly consider the bittersweet nature of our existence rather than lose yourself in the song. You come off a track like "Flower" and keep waiting for another one to grab you in the same "instant classic" kind of way. If Mission Bell rings true, it's in the lyrics with Lee's knack for stories and personal revelations keeping you listening, and not always the melodic content.

Mission Bell

El Camino

Windows Are Rolled Down

Stay With Me

Hello Again

Learned A Lot

Cup Of Sorrow

Behind Me Now

Somebody That I Used To Know (feat. Kimbra)

From the album Making Mirrors

Produced by Wally De Backer

Mixed by Francois Tetaz, assisted by Wally at Moose Mastering, Richmond, VIC
Bass recorded by Wally in Lucas Taranto's loungeroom, Melbourne, VIC
All other sounds put together by Wally in The Barn, Merricks, VIC

Bass guitar: Lucas Taranto
Lead and backing vocals: Kimbra
Guitar, flutes, percussion and synth samples, lead and backing vocals: Wally

Contains a sample of the recording “Seville” as performed by Luiz Bonfa.
Courtesy of Geffen Records, under license from Universal Music Enterprises.
Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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Now and then I think of when we were together
Like when you said you felt so happy you could die
Told myself that you were right for me
But felt so lonely in your company
But that was love and it's an ache I still remember
You can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness
Like resignation to the end
Always the end
So when we found that we could not make sense
Well you said that we would still be friends
But I'll admit that I was glad that it was over
But you didn't have to cut me off
Make out like it never happened
And that we were nothing
And I don't even need your love
But you treat me like a stranger
And that feels so rough
You didn't have to stoop so low
Have your friends collect your records
And then change your number
I guess that I don't need that though
Now you're just somebody that I used to know
Now and then I think of all the times you screwed me over
But had me believing it was always something that I'd done
And I don't wanna live that way
Reading into every word you say
You said that you could let it go
And I wouldn't catch you hung up on somebody that you used to know...
But you didn't have to cut me off
Make out like it never happened
And that we were nothing
And I don't even need your love
But you treat me like a stranger
And that feels so rough
You didn't have to stoop so low
Have your friends collect your records
And then change your number
I guess that I don't need that though
Now you're just somebody that I used to know
I used to know
That I used to know
Somebody...
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Making Mirrors

Somebody That I Used To Know (feat. Kimbra)

Yourself or Someone Like You

Sunny Side Up

Coming up Easy

These Streets

Million Faces

White Lies

Loving You

6th Avenue Heartache

Mountains Of Sorrow, Rivers Of Song

Tricksters, Hucksters, And Scamps

Stranger

Dresser Drawer

Johnson Blvd

As The Crow Flies

There I Go Again

Chill In The Air

(Rotten Apples) The Smashing Pumpkins Greatest Hits

1979

Give Me Something

Explosion

Abracadabra

Listen

Sweet Emotion

21st Century Breakdown

21 Guns

Blunderbuss

I'm Shakin'

Spirit

Vaporize

Stressed Out

Live at Red Rocks

Colors (feat. Colorado Symphony)

Keep It Loose, Keep It Tight (feat. Colorado Symphony)

To The Sea

No Good With Faces

Wait Up For Me

The Breathing Shadow

A Lesson in Evil

All On My Mind

All On My Mind (Single Version)

Street Corner Preacher (feat. Colorado Symphony)

Smashing Pumpkins Live On Pulse Basement Jam BLEED (1988)

There I Go Again

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