Origin Myths, by Bobby Lee

Origin Myths

by Bobby Lee

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Reissue of the instantly sold out 2019 LP on black vinyl.
This one is on "Milky Myths" off-white / see through vinyl.
LP has 12 songs - digital album only has 8 !

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Ltd Ed LP (600) with FOUR extra tracks
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12 tracks on this limited edition LP, out May 7th

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	1.	Four Skies Above 02:46
	2.	Broken Prayer Stick 03:36
	3.	Looking for Pine and Obsidian 02:17
	4.	Fire Medicine Man 02:21
	5.	Rule the Summer Clouds 02:32
	6.	Impregnated By Drops of Rainbow 01:57
	7.	The Badger and the Locust 02:00
	8.	Enchanted Mesa 03:57

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Digital out worldwide March 5th.
Ltd Ed (600) LP out May 7th with FOUR extra songs

“Overdriven drum-machine low slung choogle" - MOJO

“The further Bobby unmoors himself from songs and heads towards long-form abstraction, the more engrossing it becomes” - UNCUT

Bobby Lee trades in a wide screen brand of cosmic country-folk, full of space and pawn shop guitars. There are touches of JJ Cale's analogue Americana, the swampy groove of Tony Joe White and Richard Thompson's sinewy, modal guitar work. Amps hum in the warm afternoon sun, kids and dogs snooze on the grass and broken drum machines keep time with the universe... Open sky/scorched earth improvisations recorded to four track tape during the rare moments of solitude afforded by lockdown and early fatherhood. Bobby Lee's "worn-denim psych-country" remains, but the ancestral spirits of Ashra, Popol Vuh and Terry Riley are present here too. Time and technological limitations have been embraced. A song dreamt up, tracked and mixed in an afternoon, never to be tampered with again. Imperfections allowed to stand; knowing that nothing is ever truly finished. The Bob Ross school of philosophy.

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released March 5, 2021

Bobby Lee: Electric Guitar, Bass Guitar, Drum Machine, Organ, Acoustic Guitar, Dulcimer, Lap Steel, recording, mixing and artwork.

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Tompkins Square label, established in 2005, has released acclaimed recordings by artists such as William Tyler, Gwenifer Raymond, Ryley Walker and Michael Chapman as well as reissues of folk, old-timey, gospel and American Primitive Guitar. The label has received 8 Grammy nominations. ... more

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