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[Rae]

I guess the answer was a little slow in coming, but fortunately now the answer is a bit more clear, and is kind of yes.

Oh whoa! Thanks, Davey! Looks like it came out back in March... hope the vinyl is still in print.

~Rae

[Davey]

Oh whoa! Thanks, Davey! Looks like it came out back in March... hope the vinyl is still in print.

~Rae

The record probably sounds nice, double LP on 180gm vinyl. The CD is mastered nicely, good levels, and the recording is pretty much live in the studio, recorded over 2 days in Berlin, with just a hint of reverb, maybe both natural and added, but gives it a nice warmth and fullness, especially on a good set of phones. Cause it is mostly a quiet record, just Josh and his guitar, nothing like Lift To Experience. The strings on "Woman, When I've Raised Hell" are a very nice addition, and note one of the players is Warren Ellis, whose violin is hard to miss. Good interview at Last of The Country Gentlemen: a Josh T. Pearson interview By Ian Johnston : Louder Than War ...

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It was in Berlin where Pearson recorded Last Of The Country Gentlemen, over two very cold days in February last year. “I went there to check out a studio, a friend of mine had,” Pearson recalls. “He’d just built a new one. They kinda have makeshift studios everywhere. He’s got it all fixed up. It’s expensive in Paris. London too, I don’t know how you live here. Anyway, I went there and it felt like home. It took two days to record but it took two months to recover between the days. I recorded it one day, recorded it and played it the second day and then we put the strings on it in London. We had to get out of there, wait until I was ready and to say, ’OK, let’s do it.’ The songs were done live…. It was recorded in Berlin because it was cheap. And the songs sort of began there so I wanted to go back. I spent a couple of years in Berlin. I wanted to go back.”

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Written & performed by Josh T. Pearson. Published by Mute Song Ltd.

Produced by Peter Sasala.

Recorded by Martin J. Fiedler at Klangbild Studios, Berlin.

Mixed by Gareth Jones at Mute Studio, London. Assisted by Neil Quinlan. Except 'Sweetheart I Ain't Your Christ' mixed by Martin J. Fiedler at Klangbild Studios, Berlin.

Additional recording & mixing by David 'Saxon' Greenep at Mute Studio, London.

Strings arranged & performed by Mike Siddell (3,6), Warren Ellis & (3,4), Will Calderbank (3) & SixToes (4).