- God Bless Your Black Heart -
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Album Info:
Written, Produced, Engineered, and Mixed by John Congleton
Copyright 2004 malakiemusicandsound ASCAP
Players:
John Congleton: Vocals / Guitars / Organs / Synths / Programming / Sampling
Sean Kirkpatrick: Piano / Synths / Background Vocals
Bobby Weaver: Bass Guitar
Aryn Dalton: Trap Kit / Percussion
Scott Danbom, Becki Phares: Violin
Danna Berger, Renata Van Der Vyer: Viola
Kristopher J Youmans: Cello
Rus Wimbish: Double Bass
Tony Scholl: Horns
Will Johnson: Additional Background Vocals
Chris Godbey: Extra Programming, Assistance
Rob Weschler: Mastering
Jim Fritz: Assistance
Chrisoph Amann: Vinyl Mastering
String Arrangement: Kristopher J Youmans, John Congleton, Elliot Figg
Photographs, Design and Layout: Amjad Faur
Art Direction: Amjad Faur, John Congleton
Cattle Decapitation: Caroline Majors
Layout Assistance: Tina Herschelman, Paul Rebsom
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From Kill Rock Stars:
Desperate times call for desperate measures. (Um, we're not referring to the Patriot Act.) Dallas native John Congleton knows desperation. He also knows paranoia, anxiety, tension and stress. You can talk to him about it, but you can also listen to the band he leads, the Paper Chase. God Bless Your Black Heart , the quartet's Kill Rock Stars debut (and third full-length overall), might be the most desperate record you'll hear in this year of desperate records: tight knots of spiderwebbed guitar lines tangled up with off-kilter piano parts and seasick string charts, laid over some of the heaviest drums since John Bonham put brontosaurus bone to woolly mammoth skin. (Credit Congleton's day job as an in-demand studio engineer/producer for the diamond-hard sound.)
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