Joel R.L. Phelps & The Downer Trio - "Blackbird" | 031

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Joel RL Phelps - Blackbird Cover

Track Listing:

  1. Then Slowly Turn
  2. I Got A Live One
  3. Unless You're Tired Of Living
  4. Get The Chills
  5. Invited
  6. Lost Continent
  7. Blessed Salt Lake
  8. Wading In The Water
  9. Poor Delaney
  10. One Got Caught
  11. Landslide
  12. My Friend X
  13. I Got a Live One
  14. Blessed Salt Lake
  15. Landslide

“[A] near perfect album. Not a bad song on it.” – The Daily Sabbatical

“Blackbird is at once tragic and tender, an epic expression of defeat that masterfully underscores its despair with sweet strains of hope.” – CMJ

“Phelps’ voice is a modern day wonder, moving from a gentle whisper to a savage scream, often in the same line. His songs and delivery exude the kind of existential anguish that I haven’t heard since American Music Club’s frighteningly intense first four albums.” – Comes With A Smile

First released by Pacifico in 1999, then re-issued by 12XU in 2001.

Tracks 12-15 are bonus tracks available only on the 2001 release.