Tennessee & Other Stories..., by Hans Chew

Tennessee & Other Stories...

by Hans Chew

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"Tennessee & Other Stories..." is pressed on 160 gram Czech vinyl and housed within a handsome jacket bearing new artwork from Melodie Provenzano. The album is accompanied by a download coupon for DRM-free MP3s of the album as well as five additional bonus live tracks recorded in february of 2011 and feature Hans as backed by his live band. This record is a joint release between Three Lobed Recordings and Divide By Zero Records.

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1.	Old Monteagle & Muscadine (Tennessee Part 1) 02:58	buy track
2.	Carry Me Bury Me (Tennessee Part 2) 01:39	buy track
3.	I Would There Was A Train (Tennessee Part 3) 06:33	buy track
4.	New Cypress Grove Boogie 04:05	buy track
5.	Long Time Man 06:07	buy track
6.	Forever Again 03:54	buy track
7.	Queen Of The Damned Blues 03:54	buy track
8.	Magnet Moon 04:40	buy track
9.	Words & Music 04:01	buy track
10.	Only Son 04:55	buy track

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three lobed recordings is extremely excited to be involved with divide by zero records in the release of tennessee & other stories…, hans chew’s debut solo album. while chew is best known as the honky-tonk pianist and auxiliary vocalist behind brooklyn’s psychedelic americana outfit d. charles speer & the helix (including his lead vocal turns on both “life insurance” off distillation, and “bar-abbas blues” off the “in madagascar” 7”), his skill as a piano player has also previously been on prominent display in support to both jack rose (appearing on both the black dirt sessions and luck in the valley, as well as contributing as a member of jack’s live band at arthurdesh in 2009) and oakley hall. chew’s playing and skill have thrived during his time living in new york city, but prior to his move he spent several years of musical gestation honing his skills as a piano player in residence at atlanta's infamous clermont hotel. tennessee & other stories… was born out of that residency where many of these songs were written there in the middle of the night in a dingy third-floor hotel room.

for chew tennessee & other stories… is the culmination of many paths leading out of the wilderness. like how the waning south of old has given way to the new, his tale is a coming-of-age-story starting with narrowly averted self-destruction and concluding in a painful resurrection. this theme is woven musically and thematically throughout tennessee & other stories… as chew pays homage to his southern beginnings, a lineage that includes tobacco farmers and methodists, bluegrass musicians and evangelists, gamblers and alcoholics. chew’s skill as a multi-instrumentalist (he takes the reigns on most of the playing on the entire record) adds tremendous intimacy to his ability to fully relay the album’s stories with a singular voice. chew is supported on selected tracks by a stellar cast of players, including some of his past and/or present band mates in d. charles speer & the helix, such as dave shuford (no neck blues band, enos slaughter), marc orleans (sunburned hand of the man, enos slaughter) and jason meagher (no neck blues band, coach fingers). meagher also doubled time as the album’s engineer at his own black dirt studio. tennessee & other stories… was mixed by clint steele and mastered by glenn schick mastering.

the “tenneessee trilogy” – “old monteagle & muscadine”, “carry me bury me,” and “i would there was a train” – start tennessee & other stories… off with a bang and quickly immerse the listener into the album's dark and introspective mood. this trio firmly focuses on death and rebirth and provides a backward glimpse into the narrator’s life left behind in the old south set to a soundtrack of acoustic and electric guitars, pedal steel, banjo, mandolin and organ. piano is the album’s instrument of choice and numbers like “new cypress grove boogie” and “forever again” both demonstrate the deep attraction and magic that drew chew, like so many previous practitioners, to the eighty-eights. both of these tracks demonstrate chew’s talents within two of multiple schools of piano boogie. “forever again” utilizes a tulsa-oriented piano-funk as the central basis of its gospel-blues choral promise of death, while “new cypress grove boogie” serves up more of a new orleans styled jaunt. while tennessee & other stories… as a whole demonstrates chew’s formidable songwriting skills, the album also offers listeners a singular cover: the tim rose penned “long time man,” here presented as a darkly southern gothic re-interpretation of nick cave’s arrangement. tennessee & other stories… is an extremely strong and confident record from start to finish, one that establishes hans chew as both a unique addition to and significant voice within america’s current outsider scene.

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released September 7, 2007

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