![]() ![]() ![]() MacArthur Fellow Chris Thile is the founding member of Punch Brothers, which a Boston Globe reviewer has called "the tightest, most impressive live band I have ever seen." The group's four Nonesuch albums are Punch, Antifogmatic, Who's Feeling Young Now?, and The Phosphorescent Blues. They all made such meaningful contributions to these songs. That goes for all the musicians who played on this last APHC season. I would bounce lyrics off them at rehearsals-melodic moves, harmonic parts. Thile says, "All three had made really meaningful contributions to how the songs ended up expressing themselves. Bartlett provided, in Thile's words, "whatever sounds weren't accounted for." Three guest singers also perform on the album, all of whom had been on A Prairie Home Companion multiple times: Sarah Jarosz, Gaby Moreno, and Aoife O'Donovan. Ted Poor-like Hampton, a member of Andrew Bird's touring band-played drums on five tracks. Thile manned all the stringed instruments during the album sessions, save for bass (Alan Hampton) and viola (Nadia Sirota, on the title track). That's the theme that I noticed rising up, greater than 'here is what was happening last week' or 'here is the place we were.' It's a celebration of people who haven't switched off, despite being given every reason to do so." We're in a place where listening is a precious commodity. It's hard to maintain focus or give something enough attention to appreciate it. I find myself all too often on the other side of the conversation, talking about what I'm doing. ![]() For Thanks for Listening, Thile and producer Thomas Bartlett chose ten songs from nineteen possibilities and created new studio recordings of them, rather than merely documenting them as originally performed.Īs Thile says, "The album pivoted away from the show and toward the listeners-and not just to the listeners of Prairie Home but to anyone who listens to things. ![]() Since becoming the American Public Media program's host, Thile has, each week, written one new (often topical) "Song of the Week" that gets its debut performance on that Saturday's live broadcast-with Thile, the house band, and some of his guest musicians. The album is a collection of songs that were originally written for performance on A Prairie Home Companion. Nonesuch Records releases mandolinist, singer, songwriter, and radio host Chris Thile's Thanks for Listening on December 8, 2017, with the vinyl to follow on December 15. For Thanks for Listening, Thile and producer Thomas Bartlett chose ten songs from nineteen possibilities and created new studio recordings of them, rather than merely documenting them as originally performed. ![]()
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