{"id":1241,"date":"2011-09-27T11:26:06","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T11:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/?p=1241"},"modified":"2011-09-27T11:27:38","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T11:27:38","slug":"richmond-fontaine-glee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/richmond-fontaine-glee\/","title":{"rendered":"Richmond Fontaine, Glee"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is a slightly extended version of the review that appears in today’s Nottingham Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Willy Vlautin likes his songs to speak for themselves. Richmond Fontaine\u2019s new album is a song suite that the band play in full during this two hour show. \u2018The High Country\u2019 has some narration, provided by guest vocalist Amy Boone, from The Damnations (replacing Deborah Kelley on the album), but most of the sad story of love, loss, derangement and escape comes through the songs. Willy doesn\u2019t give us any recaps. He does tell us how he started writing the album when he was woken at 4.30am by a logging lorry. Less convincingly, he insists that Bing Crosby is one of his patron saints (‘I know he beat his kids, but maybe they deserved it’, he jokes). For the first half hour, by the way, the band weren’t helped by a canoodling couple, standing at the front of centre stage (with a large gap around them), who spent the time snogging and feeling each other up. Willy dedicated one song to them, but he and Amy seemed relieved when they left. To get a room, presumably.<\/p>\n

\u2018The High Country\u2019 has several highlights, like \u2018The Chainsaw Sea\u2019 and \u2018Lost In The Trees\u2019, but might be hard work for those who don\u2019t already know it. To recompense, the remaining set concentrates on the band\u2019s most accessible songs, centred around their breakthrough \u2018Post To Wire\u2019 album. The addition of Boone turns the title track back into the magical duet that it originally was. There\u2019s a terrific \u2018Through\u2019 and a beautiful \u2018Allison Johnson\u2019. \u2018 \u2018Four Walls\u2019 brings matters to a tumultuous close. A glorious, melodic encore includes what might be their signature tune, \u2018Barely Losing\u2019 and a final \u2018Winner\u2019s Casino\u2019.<\/p>\n

Vlautin\u2019s debut novel \u2018The Motel Life\u2019 is about to be a movie starring Dakota Fanning. It\u2019s to be hoped his success as a novelist doesn\u2019t curtail the career of this fine band, who keep becoming better musicians. Earlier, Laura Gibson played a beguiling, varied set. With influences ranging from the Cowboy Junkies to Leadbelly, she is a a distinctive, promising talent.<\/p>\n

Laura Gibson – All The Pretty Little Horses<\/a><\/p>\n

Richmond Fontaine – The Chainsaw Sea<\/a><\/p>\n

Richmond Fontane – Post To Wire<\/a><\/p>\n

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This is a slightly extended version of the review that appears in today’s Nottingham Post.   Willy Vlautin likes his songs to speak for themselves. Richmond Fontaine\u2019s new album is a song suite that the band play in full during this two hour show. \u2018The High Country\u2019 has some narration, provided by guest vocalist Amy Boone, from The Damnations (replacing Deborah Kelley on the album), but most of the sad story of love, loss, derangement and escape comes through the songs. Willy doesn\u2019t give us any recaps. He does tell us how he started writing the album when he was woken at 4.30am by a logging lorry. Less convincingly, he insists that Bing Crosby is one of his patron saints (‘I know he beat his…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1247,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions\/1247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}