Joseph Childress – Chariots

admin on Oct 30th 2009

Joseph Childress – Chariots [Exclusive]

After championing ‘Animal’ as one of my favourite tracks of last year, I’ve finally got a copy of Joseph Childress’ debut album, The Rebirths, and have barely stopped playing it all week. It’s difficult to make an album with just an acoustic guitar and still absorb the listener right the way through, but there’s such a variety of so ideas and styles in here that it stays fresh and engaging. The Rebirths was recorded in the bathroom of Childress’s parents over the course of a week in 2006 and remains released. But he has since then recorded a new album with Mike Coykendall (engineer behind M. Ward’s early albums) and though it doesn’t have a label behind it yet, there should be a limited vinyl pressing of 500 in spring 2010.

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