Tracklisting

Tandy – To A Friend
1. Person To Person (5:15)
2. To A Friend (3:52)
3. Home (2:58)
4. Desire (5:05)
5. Epitaph (3:37)
6. The Fever Breaks (4:42)
7. Girls Like Us (5:57)
8. It's Still Ringing (4:41)
9. Superette (5:48)
10. Providence (6:12)
11. [Bonus Track] Hello Old Friend (3:28)

Tandy – Did You Think I Was Gone?
1. I'm The Werewolf (5:27)
2. Healer (3:38)
3. Misery Boys (5:19)
4. Evensong (3:55)
5. The Run Run (2:53)
6. Bait (3:36)
7. On A Hill (5:05)
8. The Window (4:57)
9. Interlude (0:19)
10. Did You Think I Was Gone? (4:25)
11. [Bonus Track] Miseremix (4:49)

Description

Upon signing to 2 Minutes 59 Records, the label re-released both 2006's Did You Think I Was Gone?, and To A Friend, both previously sold out. To A Friend "Ambient prog roots rock at it's finest and the best Tandy record to date" (prior to 2005). From the opening elegance of Person To Person to the closing grace of Providence this album is a sustained musical moment of haunting, poignant beauty. To A Friend represents one of the strongest collections of Mike Ferrio's Tandy songs. The record also features Ferrio's first co-write (w/ drummer Bruce Martin) and two stunning duets with the amazing Ana Egge. Guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, alchemist Drew Glackin provides musical highlights (check his mandocello on The Fever Breaks) and Scott Yoder is the glue that holds this soulful, impassioned quartet together. This is one of the rare, truly organic records that you will return to and enjoy time and time again.

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Tracklisting

1. Fidelis (W/ Malcolm Holcombe)
2. Facing Winter (Alone Again)
3. The Distric Doctor
4. Becky California
5. Far From Home
6. Pictures Of China
7. Bright Brown
8. I Signed A Circle
9. Ship To Shore
10. Ted
11. Eastern Mountain Birds (2000)
12. New Candy Necklace
13. Lorna Boy (W/ Dave Van Ronk)
14. Shine (W/ Kelly Willis)
15. The Truth Is Better Then A Lie
16. Sister Golden Hair (W/ Jim White)

Description

With a gruff and gritty voice reminiscent of John Prine, Mike Ferrio singer/songwriter (and former Butthole Surfer roadie), is the leader of NYC’s Tandy. This 5 year retrospective features 16 cuts from their records with two new tracks thrown in for good measure. Other Tandy members include pedal steel player Drew Glackin from the Silos and Crash Test Dummies, drummer Bruce Martin (Tom Tom Club) and bassist Scott Yoder (Amy Rigby band) Their basic and very rootsy Alternative country sound is balanced by a healthy dose of rock and features guest spots from Kelly Willis, Dave Van Ronk and Jim White who joins Ferrio on a great cover of America’s 1975 hit "Sister Golden Hair". Ferrio’s words are personal memoirs from his youth as a farmboy in upstate New York and the whole CD rings with power, humility and authenticity.

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Tracklisting

1. New Candy Necklace
2. Becky California
3. Fidelis
4. The Truth Is Better Than A Lie
5. Louis Green
6. True Fine Love
7. The Stations
8. That's My Candle
9. Won't Break Down
10. Might Shine Again
11. New Candy Necklace (reprise)

Description

"The Bloodroot Transcriptions", is another live-in-the-studio, high contrast production. Legendary Asheville, North Carolina singer-songwriter, Malcolm Holcombe delivers inspired guest vocals on blues-rocker, "Fidelis" and on the bitter-sweet, "The Truth Is Better Than A Lie." Church Of Betty co-founders, Chris Rael and Deep Signh, add sitar and tabla to the intruiging, "Becky California" and the celabratory "True Fine Love". Mike Lavdanski of the Reading, Pennsylvania roots powerhouse, Frog Holler, plays a mean banjo on "Louis Green" and on the playful album closer, "Might Shine Again".

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Tracklisting

1. The District Doctor
2. Bright Brown
3. I Signed a Circle
4. Pictures of China
5. Ted
6. Lorna Boy
7. You I'll be Following
8. Gate Thirty-Two
9. Hey, Darlene
10. Ninety-Nine
11. Get Back Central
12. She Sent Him Home

Description

Released September 1, 1999. Produced by Mike Ferrio. Recorded at Coyote Recording Studios, Brooklyn, NY. Features vocals by Dave Van Ronk on track #6. All original songs, except "You I'll be Following" originally by Arthur Lee and Love. To order your copy, just send a check or money order for $12.98, we'll pay the postage, to: Yellow Slipper Recordings. P.O. Box 220135, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11222. Please make checks payable to Mike Ferrio. Allow 7-10 days for delivery of orders.

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Tracklisting

1. The First Thing Broken
2. Disappeared
3. Facing Winter (Alone Again)
4. Far Fron Home
5. Hope You Had Fun
6. Questioningly
7. Who Knew
8. The Metal It's Worth
9. No Earthly Reason
10. Shannon Goodson
11. Ship to Shore
12. Shine
13. Pull

Description

Released May 28, 1999. Produced by Mike Ferrio and Albert Caiati. Recorded at Coyote Recording Studios, Brooklyn, and at Congress House, Austin, Texas.Features guest vocals by Kelly Willis on tracks#9 and #12. Also features an inspired cover version of the Ramones, "Questioningly." Just send a check or money order for $12.98, we'll pay the postage, to Yellow Slipper Recordings. P.O. Box 220135, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11222. Please make checks payable to Mike Ferrio. Allow 7-10 days for delivery of orders.

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Tracklisting

1. About the Flowers
2. Refuse To Shine
3. Then You Came
4. Holds No Home
5. Almost Gone
6. Not Afraid To Say
7. Shovel
8. Once Was Wide
9. Seemless Town
10. House By The Highway
11. Eastern Mountain Birds
12. Jeff's Wild-Eyed Goat
13. Letting You Go

Description

Only 400 left of the original 1,000. Not to be reprinted. Originaly recorded for Tomato Records at Willie Nelson's Cut n/ Putt, Perdenales, Texas. Produced by Kevin Eggers. Features guitars by Rich Brotherton (Robert Earl Keene). Only available here.

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