Track Listing

1. Dog In Winter
2. Blue Daisy
3. Bike Shop Boy
4. Bigger Ocean
5. Fishnet Stockings
6. Sugar And Salt
7. Holy Virgin Star
8. Give It A Kiss
9. Rat On The Tracks
10. Pawn Shop Fire
11. Bitter Angels
12. Dirty Little Dog
13. Family Plot, Mayfield Kentucky
14. Wingdale Asylum Seekes
15. Indira's Lost And Found

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #68631 in Music
• Released on: 2005-05-10
• Number of discs: 1

Album Description
Features 15 total tracks including 'Bigger Ocean', 'Sugar And Salt', 'Bitter Angel', 'Wingdale Asylum Seekers', 'Fishnet Stockings', 'Indiria's Lost And Found' and more. Agenda. 2005.

Customer Reviews

The Best Folk Music Coming Out of Brooklyn Now
Even if the Wingdale Community Singers didn't include a famous author as one of its members, its CD debut would still be recognized as intelligent, truly accessible, urban folk music from dimly lit streets and alleys of Brooklyn, NY. The lyrics and music conjur up an almost surreal urban realm realized in pictures by the likes of Gregory Crewdson, Bruce Gilden and Jeff Mermelstein, among others. Though blessed with superb lyrics from eminent American writer Rick Moody, the main reason to acquire this album is to hear the excellent vocal harmonies of and the superb melodies composed by Rick's partners; songwriters and musicians Hannah Marcus and David Grubbs. These are musicians who have their mutual affection for traditional bluegrass, folk and country music molded into something truly memorable that is the best body of work I have heard so far coming from Brooklyn, New York (One that isn't even connected at all to Brooklyn's over-hyped, rather mediocre, country music scene; a harsh assessment which I have heard from Brooklyn residents who are professional classical musicians.).

Listen to it Thrice
I've had this album for about three years - got it on the strength of "Dog in Winter" heard on Folk Alley radio. I liked it reasonably well, and played it occasionally.

Last week I had to take a long drive and brought the album with me. In the silence and lack of distraction I heard the album more clearly, and realized that it was far better than I'd thought ... and I'd thought it was OK.

There's three things going on for me. One's the lyrics, easily lost in a noisy world. This is first class poetry, over and over.

The second's musical lyricism. There's almost no slickness in the album, the vocals and instrumentals are understated, casual, almost dry ... both in the production and affect senses of the word. So you have to listen close. And when you do, they're nearly, casually, perfect.

Winding up with a sense of peoples lives. Little dirty dogs with pure white feet, finding a body in the park. Immigrants who lose daughters to the urban unknown; send sons to Yale. Bike shop boys living their lives in spite of the landlord, with the aspect of a crow. Rich stuff, but low key, low key.

I love this album.

The Best Folk Music Coming Out of Brooklyn Now
Even if the Wingdale Community Singers didn't include a famous author as one of its members, its CD debut would still be recognized as intelligent, truly accessible, urban folk music from dimly lit streets and alleys of Brooklyn, NY. The lyrics and music conjur up an almost surreal urban realm realized in pictures by the likes of Gregory Crewdson, Bruce Gilden and Jeff Mermelstein, among others. Though blessed with superb lyrics from eminent American writer Rick Moody, the main reason to acquire this album is to hear the excellent vocal harmonies of and the superb melodies composed by Rick's partners; songwriters and musicians Hannah Marcus and David Grubbs. These are musicians who have their mutual affection for traditional bluegrass, folk and country music molded into something truly memorable that is the best body of work I have heard so far coming from Brooklyn, New York (One that isn't even connected at all to Brooklyn's over-hyped, rather mediocre, country music scene; a harsh assessment which I have heard from Brooklyn residents who are professional classical musicians.).