Thrill Jockey release the tenth album from Jack Rose, who sadly passed away recently. ‘Luck In The Valley’ is a testament to his genius.

Jack Rose first rose to prominence with the drone/noise/folk unit Pelt. Pelt can be counted among the early influential new music underground bands such as UN, No Neck Blues Band, Charalambides, Tower Recordings and Six Organs Of Admittance. Rose released his first solo LP in 2002, ‘Red Horse, White Mule’, of post-Takoma, American primitive guitar. Along with the influences of John Fahey and Robbie Basho, Rose also incorporated North Indian classical, early American blues, bluegrass and minimalism into his singular style. 2005 saw the release of his fourth album, ‘Kensington Blues’, which incorporated all of the aforementioned
influences and his playing/composing fully flowered. That album is now considered a classic of contemporary guitar music.

In 2008 and 2009 Rose released ‘Dr. Ragtime & Pals’ and ‘Jack Rose & The
Black Twig Pickers’ respectively. Those recordings featured many additional players like Glenn Jones, Micah Blue Smaldone, Harmonica Dan and The Black Twig Pickers. The songs drew heavily on pre-war influences, either written by Rose or his arrangements of early American classics. ‘Luck In The Valley’ will be the third album in this set of recordings that Rose jokingly refered to as his ‘Ditch Trilogy’. Rose continues his exploration of pre-war American music with a set of brand new material featuring The Black Twig Pickers, Glenn Jones, Harmonica Dan and Hans Chew, along with a handful of solo pieces. This recording set out to capture the energy and feel of the classic three-track shack recordings by The Wray Brothers and Mordicai Jones. The album finds Rose employing new themes and techniques that haven’t appeared on previous releases.

‘Luck In The Valley’ finds Rose at his best surrounded by like-minded friends on a recording that is enriched by a sense of history but entirely new, vibrant and warm.

The LP version is presented in an old-style tip-on jacket with a hand-pasted letter pressed cover.