Thanks for Listening Chris Thile SKU: 0075597933550 Barcode: 075597933550 19.00 £19.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Nonesuch Released Date: 11th December 2017 Buying Format: 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info ‘The virtuoso mandolinist Chris Thile is that rare being: an all-round musician who can settle into any style, from bluegrass to classical.’ – Guardian Nonesuch Records releases mandolinist, singer, songwriter, and radio host Chris Thile’s Thanks for Listening. The album is a collection of songs that were originally written for performance on A Prairie Home Companion. Since becoming the American Public Media program’s host, Thile has, each week, written one new (often topical) ‘Song of the Week’ that gets its debut performance on that Saturday’s live broadcast – with Thile, the house band, and some of his guest musicians. For Thanks for Listening, Thile and producer Thomas Bartlett chose ten songs from nineteen possibilities and created new studio recordings of them, rather than merely documenting them as originally performed. As Thile says, “The album pivoted away from the show and toward the listeners – and not just to the listeners of Prairie Home but to anyone who listens to things. They are my heroes – people who listen. I find myself all too often on the other side of the conversation, talking about what I’m doing. It’s hard to maintain focus or give something enough attention to appreciate it. We’re in a place where listening is a precious commodity. That’s the theme that I noticed rising up, greater than ‘here is what was happening last week’ or ‘here is the place we were.’ It’s a celebration of people who haven’t switched off, despite being given every reason to do so.” Thile manned all the stringed instruments during the album sessions, save for bass (Alan Hampton) and viola (Nadia Sirota, on the title track). Ted Poor – like Hampton, a member of Andrew Bird’s touring band – played drums on five tracks. Bartlett provided, in Thile’s words, “whatever sounds weren’t accounted for.” Three guest singers also perform on the album, all of whom had been on A Prairie Home Companion multiple times: Sarah Jarosz, Gaby Moreno, and Aoife O’Donovan. Thile says, “All three had made really meaningful contributions to how the songs ended up expressing themselves. I would bounce lyrics off them at rehearsals – melodic moves, harmonic parts. That goes for all the musicians who played on this last APHC season. They all made such meaningful contributions to these songs. I’m really grateful.” MacArthur Fellow Chris Thile is the founding member of Punch Brothers, which a Boston Globe reviewer has called ‘the tightest, most impressive live band I have ever seen.’ The group’s four Nonesuch albums are Punch, Antifogmatic, Who’s Feeling Young Now?, and The Phosphorescent Blues. Thile’s other Nonesuch releases include a duo album with guitarist Michael Daves, two records with bassist Edgar Meyer (one of which won a Grammy), a Bach album with Yo-Yo Ma and Meyer, a duet album with jazz pianist Brad Mehldau, and the T Bone Burnett–produced soundtrack to the Coen brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis. As a soloist, Thile has released five albums – most recently the highly praised Bach: Sonatas and Partitas, Vol. 1 – and performed extensively as a duo with fellow eminent mandolinist Mike Marshall. He spent his formative years as a member of the Grammy Award–winning, multi-platinum selling band Nickel Creek, which reunited in 2014 for its highest-charting album to date, A Dotted Line, and an extensive tour. Thile has been host of public radio favorite A Prairie Home Companion since last season, when he took over for longtime host Garrison Keillor. He had been a regular guest on the program since the age of fifteen. “I grew up with the show, says Chris. “I take this opportunity, this job, immensely seriously and with great awe.” Musical guests on the show so far have included Jack White, Paul Simon, Yo-Yo Ma, Regina Spektor, and Esperanza Spalding, as well as spoken word guests like Trevor Noah and Maria Bamford. Thile’s second season begins October 7 with guests Chris Stapleton and Julien Baker. Artist Chris Thile Genre Americana / Country , Rock And Pop Label Nonesuch Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country United Kingdom Track Listings 1. I Made This For You 2. Feedback Loop 3. Elephant In The Room 4. Douglas Fir 5. Thank You, New York 6. Stanley Ann 7. Modern Friendship 8. Falsetto 9. Balboa 10. 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