Sugar Hill Records will release a Tear in the Eye Is a Wound in the Heart... The second album by Black Prairie, the exploratory, back-porch ensemble founded by the Decemberists Chris Funk, Nate Query and Jenny Conlee. Produced by Tucker Martine, Tear in the Eye... is the follow up to Feast of the Hunter's Moon, and the first Black Prairie album to primarily feature vocalist Annalisa Torn felt. Written collaboratively by all band members, the album feels cinematic and familiar; Torn felt's gentle, classic country-inspired singing is connected to the band's Baltic-Appalachian instrumentals by strange, orchestral interludes. The record is an evolution of the band's love of instrumental, Italian film score weirdness and the venerable, forgotten roots of American and Eastern European folk.
1) Ms. Sindell
2) Rock of Ages
3) For the Love of John Hartford
4) Nowhere Massachusetts
5) More Jam for Ras
6) How Do You Ruin Me
7) Dirty River Stomp
8) Evil Leaves
9) What You Gave Me
10) Jump Up Jon
11) Winter Wind
12) Little Song Bird
13) Taraf
14) Richard Manuel
15) 34 Wishes
16) Lay Me Down in Tennessee