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"Gentlemen's Choice" from THE CAUTIONARY TALES OF MARK OLIVER EVERETT (Out April 22).  Pre-order available now at http://eelstheband.com/stores.php  

The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett

Gentlemen's Choice

From the album Tomorrow Is My Turn

The landscape of American music is littered with the ghosts of the unknowable and mysterious blues musician, scratchy voices on a 78 conjuring up an era and an energy long gone. No one represents this better, perhaps, than Geeshie Wiley, who, along with equally unknown L.V. Thomas, recorded a handful of sides for Paramount Records in 1930–31. “Last Kind Word Blues” calls to me in a way that I can’t really explain, but when producer T Bone Burnett suggested it for the record, I knew instantly it was the way to begin.

Tomorrow Is My Turn

Last Kind Words

Close up, Vol. 1 - Love Songs

Small Blue Thing

dearly beloved…amanda palmer & jherek bischoff mourn the passing of a mutual hero, prince, with this string quartet tribute.
recorded in the weeks after prince’s heartbreakingly premature passing in LA & NYC.

read the backstory at http://bit.ly/AFPurpleRainpage

DOWNLOAD THIS TRACK AT BANDCAMP for $1, with proceeds to sheila e's elevate hope foundation: http://bit.ly/AFPurpleRain

(this project was made possible by over 8,000 people supporting the making of true independent art at https://www.patreon.com/amandapalmer. 

please join so that we can make more of the things we love.)

Jherek Bischoff: string arranging, mixing, mastering.
Amanda Palmer: vocals.

the team @ ELBO studios in LA:

the strings:
Serena McKinney - violin
Ben Ullery - viola
Alma Fernandez - viola
Jacob Braun - cello

in the studio:
Chris Fogel - engineer
John Witt Chapman - engineer
Ryan McClure - asst. engineer

the team @ future-past studio in hudson, NY:
Patrick Higgins - head engineer
Rudy Mingaray- assistant engineer

prince artwork: done on commission from the patreon by sarah beetson: http://www.sarahbeetson.com/

more about ELEVATE HOPE (http://www.elevatehope.org/)
The Elevate Hope Foundation (EHF) is dedicated to providing abused and abandoned children an alternative method of therapy through music and the arts, and funding special services and programs that assist the needs of these children using these fundamental methods.

Co-founded in 2001 by entertainer Sheila E. and business manager, Lynn Mabry, EHF supports existing programs of their beneficiaries through monetary funding and in-kind donations e.g. musical instruments, art supplies, and work stations complete with computers, keyboards and applicable instructional software.

Gentlemen's Choice

-EELS

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