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The Boom That Put The Lights Out

by The Feebs

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Follow the Sound 02:43
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A Dead Soldiers Battalion 03:36
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(I'd Like to Think I'm Gonna Be) OK Today 02:01
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I'm Bringing Along My Gun 00:42
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Still and Blue 03:16
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The Boom That Put The Lights Out 01:33
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Black and Blue (That's What I Turned You) 04:17
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The Waking (free) 01:59
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St. Innocent 02:54
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Cut Grass 02:09
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2nd Chair Clarinet 01:09
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The Love All Around 02:00
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If You Were a Bomb 02:21
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The Next Time I'm In a Limo 00:50
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The Feebs return with their first authorized album in over ten years. Recorded at little ease, his home studio in se/pdx, "The Boom That Put The Lights Out" finds the Feebs at the top of his songwriting game, spooling out gorgeous low-key harmonies over acoustic guitar, banjo and Hammond organ. Haunting, contemplative songs of experience and wisdom as a byproduct of aging. Vivid poetry tossed off casually. Black humor and cloistered confessions echoing Westerberg, Barlow, Costello, Springsteen. Put the lights out and listen.

The Feebs' music has been described as "personal, varied, strongly based on traditional songwriting virtues but full of invention and fresh as can be." It's also been described as sounding like it was "recorded in the bathroom." Founding member of the seminal 80s Long Island, NY basement band The Martyrs, Jim O'Shaughnessy began recording as The Feebs in 1994 while living in North Carolina. A return to NY was followed by a none-too-soon relocation to Portland, Oregon where he recorded in his basement, dubbed Little Ease Studios. An obsession with the sounds of his favorite music (Costello, Westerberg, Beach Boys) inspires his own work. He plays all the instruments (guitar, bass, keyboards, lap steel, drums, an odd assortment of percussion, penny whistle, keymonica, etc., etc.) and records it all on a digital 8-track, which he tries as hard as possible to make sound like his old busted 4-track.

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released October 27, 2013

Words & Music by Jim O'Shaughnessy
Performed and recorded by Jim O'Shaughnessy
Little Ease Studios, Portland, OR
©℗ 2013 Jim O'Shaughnessy
Sleeping Brothers Records
www.sleepingbrothers.com

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Semi-fictional netlabel reissuing homemade albums from the catalog of Long Island's 90s tape label Big Casserole Records as well as releasing new music from same old guys & gals. Check out the hiss! NY/OR/CA.

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