The Original version of The Delines Scenic Sessions sold out almost immediately, apparently they now change hands for up to £150 if you can find a copy of this now legendary downbeat alt country album from one of Wily Vlautin's many bands, in this one he performs alongside Amy Boone, Cory Gray, Freddy Trujillo and Sean Oldham they recorded at Scenic Burrows Studios in Portland Oregon with John Morgan Askew producing.
The album opens with the slow deliberate Cool Your Jets with Amy Boone making clear that she wants you to take it nice and slow when you get back home, if you ever really feel at home anywhere, this has a cool detached beauty like a countrified Mazzy Star, this is a wondrously beautiful song of love and betrayal.
I'm Just A Ghost opens with a sustained keyboard note hinting at the misery to come, Amy has become a ghost of her former self, the sort of person no one sees when she walks down the street anymore, the pain and sorrow come through this gently evocative late-night rumination.
Gold Dreaming feels more upbeat, with some gorgeous pedal steel and a delicate piano line that comes and go, Amy can reflect on all the dreams you had together, this has a supple grace.
Night Bus slowly imperceptibly rumbles across a barren landscape. Friday Night is all the ingredients you need to cuddle up and get to it on that Friday Night, Amy needs red wine and Ice cream, some trumpets, glorious organ playing and whatever you do, don't get distracted on the way home, whatever you do get everything on the shopping list too, he may have given up on getting what he wants once he hears the full list mind.
Saloon Six has a pianist tinkling away in a corner in an old school honky tonk style. Suddenly Sirens In The Night disrupt the mood of reflections on your parents old grocery store and an old friend permanently in love with her vodka bottle, are those sirens ready to carry her away to rehab, is there a way back to sobriety and normality, or are these wasted years as lost as the car that got stolen just after you heard the gun shots in the night.
I Wasn't Looking is the trademark retort of phone zombies the globe over these days, when they get hit by cars or hooted at, but this time it's about another messy love affair on the skids, she was fooled by his piercing blue eyes, did he get her to melt, or was she wise to his games, this slowly strums the answers to those questions and more. The Delines can confirm of course the Piano Player Always Drinks Free even if he plays for less than a minute.
The album closes with Sunshine the sort that you see the next morning, while you do the walk of shame once more, dreaming of the moon, exploding during the nights fun and games, this is a cool slow stumble back home, you just want to lay on the dew spattered grass to collect your thoughts, wondering at just how relaxing this music makes you feel.
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