Artist: The Resentments Album: Ghost Ship Bitrate: 235kbps avg Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz Label: Blue Rose Records Genre: Rock Size: 93.12 megs PlayTime: 0h 52min 27sec total Rip Date: 2013-08-31 Store Date: 2013-08-30 Track List: -------- 01. Nothin' I Can Do 3:35 02. Space Between 3:40 03. Love Ain't Thru With You 3:53 04. Trouble Find Me 5:42 05. Everybody Freeze 3:51 06. All Night Long 4:14 07. Ghost Ship 5:06 08. Mystified 3:44 09. Cool 5:16 10. Lookout Mountain 4:58 11. Perfect As A Photograph 2:56 12. Time Won't Heal Me 5:32 Release Notes: -------- Ghost Ship - it's true, the legendary RESENTMENTS from Austin, Tx. are releasing a brand-new studio album! That alone is a major development after everything the Americana/roots super group has been through in the last few years. The Resentments have undergone personnel changes, taken in fresh influences and slightly modified their musical style while preserving the integrity and calibre of their musical brand. The band still performs every Sunday at the Saxon Pub in South Austin - with some new members and plenty of new songs - but their spirit and attitude haven't changed: They're having fun playing music together, are staying real, showing emotion and great musicianship. Ghost Ship is the first release of the "new" Resentments and it shows that they have managed to capture this positive, professional attitude in the studio once again. In the early 2000s Stephen Bruton, Scrappy Jud Newcomb, Jon Dee Graham and Bruce Hughes (early on with drummer Mambo John Treanor, after his premature death in August 2001 with John Chipman) started loosely getting together to put a fun ending to weekends with some well-informed fans & friends. In the beginning, no one figured this would lead to an extensive discography - available on Blue Rose Records - and numerous live tours through half of Europe. It all started in 2002 with the live album Sunday Night Line Up followed by the studio albums The Resentments (04), Switcheroo (05), On My Way To See You (06) and Roselight (09). In December 2012 Blue Rose released the substantial live package Welcome To Our Living Room. This live recording from the Stuttgart Laboratorium in December 2006 was the last missing piece of the puzzle for The Resentments, Mark I. They would never play together again in this formation. Jon Dee Graham (True Believers, Alejandro Escovedo, John Doe, Calvin Russell) was the first to leave in early 2007 to focus on his solo career. He has by now released eight solo albums. The Resentments continued as a four-piece - under complicated circumstances. Stephen Bruton (guitarist, session player and solo artist extraordinaire, sideman to Kris Kristofferson since the 70s, Bonnie Raitt, Bob Dylan and others) was diagnosed with throat cancer and had to undergo treatment. In the summer 0f 2008 he played his last concert, he passed on in May 2009. Nothing would've been more natural than disbanding the band at this point. Scrappy Jud Newcomb (ex-Loose Diamonds, session guitarist and solo act), Bruce Hughes (ex-Poi Dog Pondering, Ugly Americans and Bob Schneider's bass player & guitarist) and John Chipman (played with the popular Band Of Heathens until 2012) were all independent, sought-after musicians. But they all felt indebted to Stephen Bruton and the Resentments legacy and in late 2009 replaced him with two musicians who fit the all-star requirements. They were already playing some of string-wizard, songwriter and singer Jeff Plankenhorn's songs so when he moved from Nashville to Austin with his mentor Ray Wylie Hubbard, he was a natural addition. Plank (Hubbard, Eliza Gilkyson, Hayes Carll, Slaid Cleaves) is a proponent of the band's country, folk, roots and Americana stylings which Bruton and Graham had represented. With guitars, dobro, lap steel and mandolin he adds beautiful colors to the Resentments' palette. The other newbie is Miles Zuniga, former head of the power pop/rock trio Fastball (1996-2009) who landed a hit in 1998 with "The Way". He writes sophisticated, Beatles-influenced pop songs sprinkled with rock, power pop, glam pop, guitar rock and a little Americana. Zuniga has a strong, original voice and alternates between acoustic & electric guitars, keyboards & bass. Giving all of its members equal time in the spotlight has always been part of the band's concept and this is also true of Ghost Ship. Bruce Hughes is the front runner, followed by Jud Newcomb, Miles Zuniga and Jeff Plankenhorn and then the whole spiel starts again. Thus, it's a diversified ride from Hughes' rhythmic and dynamic opener "Nothing I Can Do" to Plankenhorn's rootsy, dobro & mandolin-accompanied ballad "Time Won't Heal". In-between there's "Space Between" an acoustic rocker sung by Newcomb in his trademark raspy voice. His "Lookout Mountain", a first-rate melancholy ballad, also has what it takes to become a Resentments classic. Zuniga has not only learned from the Beatles (as "Love Ain't Through With You" shows), he also stands out like a young David Crosby on the album's title track with its subtle electric guitar parts. The other Plankenhorn numbers also deserve to be mentioned, "Trouble Find Me" and "Mystified", a co-write with Ellis Paul and Eliza Gilkyson. Plank is certainly the Americana guy within this band which takes a rejuvenated course towards acoustic pop. The Resentments can not only rock the Saxon Pub, every music club of the world will open their doors for them. Ghost Ship will be the key!