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Joseph Lemay - Seventeen Acres. Before patching up the old trailer in West Tennessee, grass grew through cracks on the floor and copperheads mingled between decades of stacked boxes on a grandfather's hand-me-down farm. It was in this abandoned singlewide that Americana artist Joseph LeMay cleared a space for his new life as a married man and Seventeen Acres, his first full-length release. -- -- Filled with stories of dissecting the nuances of love and uncertainty, Seventeen Acres was produced by LeMay himself and came to life in the same space the stories originated. Songs like "Fruit on the Vine" and "Warrant for My Worry" ache with missed expectations and hope in their draught, while "Molly My Girl" and "Just So" are timeless tales of endearing love. Start to finish, LeMay's labor is driven by this love and all the desperation, fear and commitment that comes with it. -- -- "Music fulfills a need," says LeMay. "It's communicating across mediums. We don't just want words. It's the color and the canvas. The cadence and the lyric." It's with a balanced grasp of bare truth and pursuit of grace that LeMay channels this primal need in the desolation of his Seventeen Acres. -- -- LeMay began performing at an age when most kids are focused on learning the alphabet. Just barely a teen, the young musician could add Showtime at the Apollo, an opening gig for Brian Wilson and a countless line of county fairs across the southeast to his list of growing accomplishments.
Condition:NEW. Brand New Factory Sealed
TRACK LISTINGS
01) Seventeen Acres
02) You Still Do It
03) Crazy Woman
04) Fruit On The Vine
05) Warrant For My Worry
06) Call It Quits
07) Nothing You Can Do
08) Possumhaw
09) Molly My Girl
10) Redwing
11) Just So
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