New TGF Download - "Great Houses" Options

[PillarOfDavidson]

http://www.thegraciousfew.com/greathouses/

[rodrigolll2]

From FB:

At Some level, I've always been a blues guitarist. I wrote the riff to "Great Houses" stoned on the music of Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker. The great thing about The Gracious Few is that our band can fully embrace the dark underbelly of a song like this. Dana Colley, saxophonist for the incredible group Morphine added his soulful baritone and the recording went to another level. Kevin Martin and I shared a few emails about the turmoil in Haiti following the earthquake and how the problem seemed so looming. We wanted to help but didn't know how. In my reading, I stumbled onto a story of Haitian folklore and sent it Kevin. Somehow, he birthed these mystical lyrics mirroring the theme in the story and the sorrow we felt for the people of Haiti. - Chad Taylor

The track is self produced, recorded at SPOT, engineered by Patrick Dahlheimer & mixed by Karl Derfler (Tom Waits)

Kevin Martin - Vocals
Chad Taylor - Guitar
Patrick Dahlheimer - Bass
Chad Gracey - Drums
Sean Hennesy - Slide Guitar
Dana Colley - Baritone Saxophone

The dowload is free and we encorage you to share the link with anyone who might enjoy The Gracious Few!

http://www.thegraciousfew.com/greathouses/

[Aitkens]

Listening to this style from TGF has really gotten me into some old school dirty blues this summer.

[OutToDry]

Great stuff!!! Glad to get this track.

[Aitkens]

Don't take this the wrong way, as I'm very gracious to be getting such a great track.

Absolutely love it, but I miss the slide guitar from the live versions.

[rock4adiference]

Such an amazing song! Such a throwback blues song from the 40s or 50s, I LOVE IT!!!

[OutToDry]

Great old feel in this track......they've done it very very well.

For Aitkens, here: (10/30/2010 Lancaster PA):
http://www.mediafire.com/?flpftxc6twifaqf

[Pokey]

Don't take this the wrong way, as I'm very gracious to be getting such a great track.

Absolutely love it, but I miss the slide guitar from the live versions.

I agree with this, the electric slide was my favorite like the electric front porch versions like Nothing But Love etc..

but damn I dig the vibe from this, its dark and dirty and has character and just ... yeah, love it!

[OutToDry]

here you go!! NBL(FP) - 10/30/2010

http://www.mediafire.com/?2cdgr95l8lrtu4n

This post has been edited by OutToDry: Aug 23 2011, 9:02 pm

[Pokey]

I love the fact that this is released on the same day as the new Tom Waits single, the 2 songs go well together! Man imagine that, TGF hooking up with Tom Waits..

[Aitkens]

I just started getting into Tom Waits actually.

[OutToDry]

a few more (10/30/2010 - Lancaster PA)

HM (FP): http://www.mediafire.com/?896jjw5q8d7mu6p

TROY (FP): http://www.mediafire.com/?isb1r5uhztw5ub2

[Pokey]

a few more (10/30/2010 - Lancaster PA)

HM (FP): http://www.mediafire.com/?896jjw5q8d7mu6p

TROY (FP): http://www.mediafire.com/?isb1r5uhztw5ub2

Got most of these, I think my fav versions were from the cincinnati bootleg, great front porch versions there!

[Pokey]

I just started getting into Tom Waits actually.

Love Tom Waits, new album in October, new single is http://onethirtybpm.com/media/listen-tom-waits-bad-as-me/

I can definitely see him fitting well with TGF when they do songs like Great Houses.

I think this is my fav Waits track in this kind of style http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF3YQ5WajJk

This post has been edited by Pokey: Aug 23 2011, 9:21 pm

[+Ed+]

Hell this is tremendous! Thanks, Chad! And the rest of TGF for sure as well