Mark Heard, Hammers & Nails - 1h 9m 52s

Tracks & Durations

1. Season of Words	4:39
2. Shaking	4:35
3. I Hang My Head	4:05
4. I Might Have Felt That Way	4:42
5. Hold Me Closer	5:00
6. I Always Do	4:12
7. When His Luck Runs Out	4:10
8. Back Streets	5:03
9. Your World or Mine	3:33
10. Everything is Alright	3:54
11. She Don't Have a Clue	3:07
12. We Have Let Freedom Ring	3:59
13. Mystery Mind	4:13
14. Silence	0:17
15. No	3:18
16. Shaky Situation	4:07
17. What Kind of Friend	2:00
18. Silence	0:17
19. Jericho	4:32

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Review

Mark Heard is one of the reasons Paste exists. His 1992 death from heart attack stands as one of the great losses that popular music has suffered (while his recorded output dramatically exceeds, say, Jeff Buckley, Mark Heard was just hitting his peak when he died at 41 and his best work was very likely ahead of him - witness the output of Mallonee, Dylan, Lucinda, and Cockburn in their forties and beyond). Yes, Mark Heard is that good and belongs in that group. A tribute album called Orphans of God, released in 1996, included Cockburn, Pierce Pettis, Bill Mallonee, Victoria Williams, Buddy & Julie Miller, Tom Prasada-Rao, Phil Keaggy, Brooks Williams, Ashley Cleveland, Michael Been of The Call, Colin Linden, and Daniel Amos. Not bad for a guy with no mainstream hits.

Hammers & Nails is being released simultaneously with a book on Mark's life of the same name and requires a bit of explanation - even Kurt Cobain has only put out one new song in the past year and he's only been dead for 9 years and yet here's Mark Heard with 11 new songs 11 years posthumous. Recorded as demos from 1987-1989 and just prior to Mark's final series of masterworks, Dry Bones Dance, Second Hand, and Satellite Sky, these songs function as the prequel to his brilliant final chapter and a bridge from his earlier work.

Paste is proud to join with Mark's family to help ensure that his musical legacy is perpetuated. Hammers & Nails contains six bonus tracks rescued from now out-of-print compilations in addition to eleven unreleased recordings.

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