Ben Folds - Lonely Avenue

2010 collaboration between piano-playing songwriter Ben Folds and author, Oscar-nominated screenwriter and lyricist Nick Hornby. The London-based Hornby supplied the words for Lonely Avenue, a project sparked by the long-distance friendship that developed after Hornby published Songbook. Nashville resident Folds then set Hornby's lyrics to music in the vintage, orchestra-sized studio he'd rescued from oblivion and has been working in for the last 10 years. Folds recorded everything live in analog to two-inch tape, finally mastering the disc at Abbey Road. Joining Folds in the studio at various points were his own band, a string section, and legendary arranger Paul Buckmaster, who, as Folds describes him, is "the person who makes you feel the goose bumps at the chorus and you don't know why."

1) A Working Day
2) Picture Window
3) Levi Johnston's Blues
4) Doc Pomus
5) Your Dogs
6) Practical Amanda
7) Claire's Ninth
8) Password
9) From Above
10) Saskia Hamilton
11) Belinda