Letting Go

Ben Sollee spent a few days this past summer trying to capture the songs and sounds that have influenced his life and music. The makeshift recording studio, a small house nestled in a hollow near Prospect, Kentucky, provided the backdrop for the project, a covers record, including songs by Arthur Russell, Otis Redding, Paul Simon, Harry Belafonte, The Zombies, Howard Finster, Bill Monroe, Fiona Apple, Tom Waits and Gillian Welch. Screened porches, hallways, decks, and living rooms lend their own particular character to the recordings, and the hollow’s voice can be heard throughout: bugs chirp, birds whistle, water flows, and the wind blows. More collaborator than background, the house and hollow provide the listener with a rich audial scenery and shape Sollee’s voice and cello as he seeks to capture his own versions of the songs that have shaped his development as a musician and songwriter.

Chocolate Jesus

Maggie Moore (s) (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

The Abandoned Hotel

Stalking Maggie(s)

Shoot Out at Kostco's

Kick the Dumpster

Remembering Maggie

Smoke in the Desert

Check The Backseat!

Shakedown at the Funeral

Finder's Fee

Down Not Out

Small Town Reckoning

When You Gonna Learn

My favorite song from one of my favorite childhood movies, Bedknobs and Broomsticks. Recorded in a small cabin in the woods of Kentucky.

Age Of Not Believing

Steeples Part One includes Forgotten, Pretend, and Loving Memory.

Forgotten

I've always loved this song by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. In the context of this exhausting election the words feel new and and refreshing. When everything feels like it is at stake it's too easy to distance ourselves from our fellow American's with different views. But, the truth is, in the next 4 days the country will elect our next leader. Then it will be time to move on. We will need to begin the process of healing. If you have not already voted, please do so! Your vote matters. 

Jordon and I recorded this cover this morning in Beacon, NY at Buffalo Stack Studios. I hope it can be a moment of repose. 
~ben

Time To Move On

Kentucky Spring, 2016

My Old Kentucky Home

A Few More Miles + Diamond Joe

A Few More Miles

Beauty Mark (Original Motion Picture Score)

Leaving the Table

Beauty Mark

Hurting

How to See the Sun Rise

If You're Gonna Lead My Country (EP)

A Change is Gonna Come

A Few Honest Words

Learning to Bend

Bend

Half-Made Man

The Pursuit of Happiness

Panning for Gold

Prettiest Tree on the Mountain

It's Not Impossible

Built for This

Land (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Edee's Theme

Memories

Cheyenne 6062

Learning To Trap

Healing Part 2

Over The Pines (from the Motion Picture "Land")

Over The Pines

Everything Is Gone

Cellist-Composer-Storyteller. Born and raised in Kentucky.
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