Louis Ledford, Reverie - 48m 6s

Tracks & Durations

1. All Of My Dreams/Most of the Time	4:39
2. Make It Home	5:45
3. Belle Isle	6:09
4. Are You Listening	4:03
5. Lonesome Road	5:39
6. Maury Street	4:50
7. Lately	4:09
8. Strange Dangerous Flower	4:20
9. September	8:26

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Review

Although a city kid born and raised in Richmond, VA, Louis Ledford's familiar roots lay in Western North Carolina and Southwestern Virginia where as a child he soaked up the rural culture and music. Ledford spent much of the 1990's fronting and writing songs for the Alt Country band Used Carlotta. He borrows from Randy Newman his style of crawling inside a character and presenting the songs as visually as possible. Ledford cites Raymond Carver, Charles Bukowski, John Fante and William Faulkner as influences. "I see myself as a storyteller. My songs are like very short stories."

In February 2004, with Bob Rupe on board as co-producer and engineer and some of Richmond's finest musicians, Ledford began recording his debut solo album entitled REVERIE. The studio was Bob's Victorian era home. The sessions were loose and live, recorded without headphones, with little isolation or other studio trappings. "Heck, we had the windows open on one unusually hot afternoon. You could hear dogs barking on the tracks." From the civil war era "Belle Isle" to a first-hand cinema verite account of a trip to a Brooklyn gig and ground zero shortly after September 11 ("September"), Ledford finds the tender heart at the core of the epic tale.

Ledford has spent 14 years writing and singing his own songs. He has made a living as a carpenter, a pawnbroker, gas station attendant, bartender, janitor and window dresser. He has opened for many artists he admires including; Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Peter Case, Greg Allman, Michael Hurley, Warren Zevon, Mojo Nixon, David Allen Coe, Southern Culture On the Skids, Junior Brown, Marcia Ball, NRBQ, Drive By Truckers, Eugene Chadbourne, and Kenny Roby.

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