Stardust & Smog/Early Autumn Waltz at the Two/Fourteen
Buy/Listen
- Stardust & Smog
- Over My Shoulder
- Long Road
- Owen's Backhoe (Part One)
- Between The Lines
- Crooked Mouth
- Machine (Reprise)
- Drawn Into Your World
- Strings Sister/Blues For Hipster
- Bi-polar Seduction Blues of the Beautiful Eyes (The One I Like)
- "33"
- Still Got You
- Owen's Backhoe (Part Two)
- Caress of the Pale Moon (Half a Moon Away)
- Sonny Speaks (Again)
- Evil Spirits & Ardent Humour
- Sweet After Here
- Long Hair (Double Fuzz Version)
- Skin (Electric, Part Three)
- Acid Cowboy Country Queen Fuzz/Blend Blues (Again)
- Let It Hang
- Choking On The Dust (The Low Version)
- Skin (Acoustic, Part Two)
- Release Date: Oct 16, 2001
- Format: 2CD
- Label: Upland
Produced by Grandpa's Ghost.
Engineered by Jack Petracek.
Recorded, mixed and mastered at Music Masters, St. Louis, MO.
Additional recording done at Miller's Farm, someplace in the rolling country hills of Missouri (thanks Alice) and Academy Music, Pocahontas, IL.
Special guests include Janice Rieman on cello, Jill "Spitzie-West" Posey-Smith & V.L. Somerville.
Grandpa's Ghost is Ben Hanna, Bill Emerson, Mark Robke, Pat Kennett.
Press
- "I've sung the praises of this downstate band, which welds dark back-porch alt-country to heavy psychedelia in beautifully implausible ways, quite loudly in the past. But their most recent release, the double CD Stardust & Smog/Early Autumn Waltz (Upland), is so poignantly good, I've run out of notes" –
- "Hear now, the gospel according to Grandpa's Ghost, a St. Louis-area band whose fifth album, a double disc, is no mere hallucination, though it would seem a splendid (and mildly creepy) soundtrack to an acid trip in a rural Illinois cornfield. Sprawling and expansive by any definition, Stardust & Smog continues the bands journey away from its earlier, more conventional roots in alt-country into an uncharted kaleidoscope of American-inflected psychedelia" –
- "Grandpa's Ghost brings together radioactive acoustic drone, meandering countrified electronica and pan-fried space whispers; Stardust & Smog And The Early Autumn Waltz At the Two/Fourteen (Upland) is two CD's worthy of foggy notions that exist independent of time, space and the suns early rays" –
- "Grandpa's Ghost, Stardust and Smog/Early Autumn Waltz at the Two Fourteen, (Upland). Zigging when expected to zag, Grandpa's Ghost skips the usual noise almost completely on the first disc of this twofer, concentrating on heartbreakingly beautiful acoustic folk. Disc 2 gets back to more traditional Ghost territory, with enough guitar freakishness to bend even the most open of minds" –
- "An utterly sprawling and ambitious project. Grandpa's Ghost goes way out on a limb, and the effort pretty much pays off. Theres a lot of great stuff on these two discs, and when you put all the parts together, the whole is rather impressive as well" –