SIMON JOYNER
THE LOUSY DANCE

Recorded at Truckstop
Produced by Michael Krassner
Arrangements by Fred Lonberg-Holm
Engineered by Michael Krassner and Joe Ferguson
Mastered at Kingsize Sound Labs by Ken Sluter

PERSONNEL
Jessica Billey: violin
Jeb Bishop: trombone
Chris Deden: percussion
Joe Ferguson: engineering
Ryan Hembrey: bass
Will Hendricks: piano, accordian, vibes
Simon Joyner: guitar, vocals
Charles Kim: pedal steel
Glenn Kotche: drums, percussion
Michael Krassner: electric guitar, production, engineering
Fred Lonberg-Holm: cello, string and horn arrangements
Ernst Long: flugelhorn, trumpet
Ken Vandermark: clarinet

SONGS
1. The Lousy Dance
2. I Will Find You (mp3)
3. Fool's Gold on Main St.
4. Long Dark Night
5. It Will Never Be This Way Again
6. When She Drops Her Veil
7. The Rain Asked For A Holiday
8. John Train Blues

REVIEW
Call it hegemony, call it the Eisenhowerization of America, call it what you will; since the middle of this century, our society has been equating speed with success and thereby devaluing the notion of individual craftsmanship.

It's sad, really, how depersonalized everything has become; we've replaced timber-frame cabins with subdivisions, stone walls with chain-link fences, handshakes with contracts sent through fascimile machines. And, somewhere in the post-Dylan-Cohen-Van Zandt era, we've replaced real songwriters with impostors-self-victimizing, cliché-collaging, manufactured personalities designed specifically for the suburban mall demographic and its split-level legions of well-heeled adolescents.

Simon Joyner, poet, singer and songwriter, is quietly doing his damnedest to avoid this pervasive mediocrity that's seeping into contemporary culture; for the past decade, he's been earnestly crafting some of the most important, genuine and honest records in the American musical canon. - The Miscellany News

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