Sky Road Songs, by Elliott Sharp's Terraplane

Sky Road Songs

by Elliott Sharp's Terraplane

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1.	Outward 01:23	buy track
2.	Endless Path 03:22	buy track
3.	Down On The Block 04:26	buy track
4.	Dangerous Lands 04:20	buy track
5.	Banking Blues 03:08	buy track
6.	This House Is For Sale 05:00	buy track
7.	Fade To Noir 04:23	buy track
8.	Off The Hook 03:11	buy track
9.	Off My Mind 02:44	buy track
10.	I Blame You 04:17	buy track
11.	The Common Extreme 06:05	buy track
12.	Sky Road Song 05:00	buy track
13.	Inward 02:00	buy track
14.	Banking Blues (Still Got Those) 03:13	buy track

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With Sky Road Songs, Elliott Sharp has placed the emphasis on the songs – concise, focused, emotional and memorable, both drawing on the blues tradition and looking towards a futuristic sound.
Sky Road Songs producer Joe Mardin contributes great ears and a stalwart sense of structure to the project. The powerful vocals of Eric Mingus unveil incredible range and melodic subtlety. Standouts from him include Sharp's "Sky Road Song," a melancholy jet-lag meditation, and "This House Is For Sale," with howling vocals evoking the blues masters over sweet-and-salty guitar obbligato. Recently departed legendary guitarist Hubert Sumlin features on this track, in what was ultimately his final recording session. Tracie Morris simmers and wails on “Endless Path”, a concrete evocation of the Sky Road, and on the Southern Gothic/swampedelic “I Blame You.” Joe Mardin contributes the sardonic “Banking Blues,” a scathing but humorous indictment of current American economics, on which he sings lead.

1 Outward (Sharp)
2 Endless Path (Morris/Sharp)
3 Down On The Block (Sharp)
4 Dangerous Lands (Sharp)
5 Banking Blues (Mardin)
6 This House Is For Sale (MIngus/Sharp)
7 Fade To Noir (Morris/Sharp)
8 Off The Hook (Sharp)
9 Off My Mind (MIngus/Sharp)
10 I Blame You (Morris/Sharp)
11 The Common Extreme (Morris/Sharp)
12 Sky Road Song (Sharp)
13 Inward (Sharp)

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released October 21, 2022

Produced by Joe Mardin

Dedicated with love and respect to Hubert Sumlin.

Outward (music:Sharp)
E# - mandocello, electric guitar, electronics, handclaps
Joe Mardin - harmonica, handclaps

Endless Path (lyrics: Morris, music:Sharp)
Tracie Morris - vocals
Curtis Fowlkes - trombone
Alex Harding - baritone sax
Dave Hofstra - bass
Don McKenzie - drums
E# - electric guitars, alto sax

Down On The Block (lyrics & music: Sharp)
Eric Mingus - vocals
David Hofstra - electric bass
Don McKenzie - drums
Curtis Fowlkes - trombone
Alex Harding - baritone saxophone
Joe Mardin - shaker
E# - electric and resonator guitars

Dangerous Lands (lyrics & music: Sharp)
Eric Mingus - vocals
David Hofstra - bass
Don McKenzie - drums
Joe Mardin - sonic distillation
E# - electric guitars, electronics

Banking Blues (lyrics & music: Mardin)
Joe Mardin - lead and background vocals, drums, bass, chank guitar
Tracie Morris - background vocal
Eric Mingus - background vocal
Curtis Fowlkes - trombone
Alex Harding - baritone sax
E# - electric guitars, slide guitar, overtone bass

This House Is For Sale (lyrics: MIngus, music: Sharp)
Eric Mingus - vocals
Hubert Sumlin - electric guitar
David Hofstra - bass
Don McKenzie - drums
Joe Mardin - electric piano
E# - electric slide guitar

Fade To Noir (lyrics: Morris, music: Sharp, Mardin)
Tracie Morris - vocals
Curtis Fowlkes - trombone
Alex Harding - baritone sax
Dave Hofstra - bass
Don McKenzie - drums
Joe Mardin - vibraphone, clarinet arrangement, background vocal
E# - electric guitar, alto sax, bass clarinet

Off The Hook (music: Sharp)
Dave Hofstra - bass
Don McKenzie - drums
Joe Mardin - shaker, vibraslap
E# - lap steel guitar, alto sax, bass clarinet

Off My Mind (lyrics: MIngus, music: Sharp)
Eric Mingus - vocals
Curtis Fowlkes - trombone
E# - mandocello, mandolin, bass drum

I Blame You (lyrics: Morris, music: Sharp)
Tracie Morris - vocals
Dave Hofstra - electric bass
Don McKenzie - drums
Joe Mardin - arrangement and vocal processing, junglize
E# - slide guitar, electric guitar, tambouronics, junglize

The Common Extreme (lyrics: Morris, music:Sharp)
Tracie Morris - vocals
Curtis Fowlkes - trombone
Alex Harding - baritone sax
Dave Hofstra - bass
Don McKenzie - drums
Joe Mardin - tarang, plastic bag percussion, arrangement
E# - electric guitars

Sky Road Song (lyrics & music: Sharp)
Eric Mingus - vocals
Dave Hofstra - acoustic bass
Don McKenzie - drums
Joe Mardin - background vocal
E# - electric guitars

Inward (music: Sharp)
E#: mandocello, electronics, throat singing

Banking Blues (lyrics & music: Mardin)
Eric Mingus - lead and background vocals
Tracie Morris - background vocal
Dave Hofstra - bass
Don McKenzie - drums
E# - electric guitar, slide guitar

Recording:
Magic Shop - NYC by Ted Young. Kabir Hermon - assistant engineer
NuNoise Studio - NYC by Joe Mardin
Studio zOaR - NYC by Joe Mardin and Cy Fore

Mixed by Joe Mardin at NuNoise Studio

Mastered by Joe Mardin and Elliott Sharp at NuNoise Studio

Executive producer - Werner Aldinger

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Elliott Sharp's Terraplane New York, New York

Elliott Sharp’s Terraplane is certainly blues but also something beyond. Begun in 1991, Terraplane has been through many permutations and synthesizes the intersection of country and urban blues with Mississippi fife & drum bands, post-Ayler jazz, Hendrixian guitaristics, the sonic innovations of Sharp's long-running ensemble Carbon and the rhythmic force of the groove, ... more

discography

Forged

Aug 2023
Blue Edge

Jun 2023
Sky Road Songs

Oct 2022
4AM Always

Oct 2022
Century

Jul 2021
Blues For Next

Apr 2020
Kick It Six

Apr 2020
Music For Yellowman

Apr 2020
Terraplane

Apr 2020

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