High Plains Alchemy, by John Baumann

High Plains Alchemy

by John Baumann

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1.	Eagle Ford 03:43	buy track
2.	Wind Farmer 03:01	buy track
3.	Gulf Moon 03:16	buy track
4.	High Plains Alchemy 04:34	buy track
5.	One Night in Marfa 03:08	buy track
6.	Dogs 03:17	buy track
7.	Tejano Woman 02:49	buy track
8.	Space & Light 04:04	buy track
9.	Board Game 02:40	buy track
10.	Ramona 04:05	buy track
11.	Late Great Eagle Scout 03:54	buy track

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"Minimal hype can be a bonus – no expectations means no pressure – but it can be a detriment when music as solid, original, and spirited as John Edward Baumann’s risks going unheard. Facing no more expectations than the average earnest Austin alt-country act, Baumann writes as if he had a Grammy in his back pocket and a rep to protect. Bringing to mind the homey, detailed wisdom of a Bruce Robison or Max Stalling, Baumann has a knack for plugging into a place or scenario (the boomtown optimism of “Eagle Ford,” the coastal humidity of “Gulf Moon”) and populating it with vivid notions that get a tossed-off line here, a whole verse there, a bridge if he opts to get that complicated. Produced with sympathetic grace by Corby Schaub, ruminative beauties like “Space & Light” get all the earthy gravity they deserve and relative goofs like “Dogs” get that whiff of sincerity that makes the joke funny more than once. Bonus points, of course, for using the word “unwieldy” properly in a song and appropriating “West Texas Alchemy” as a not-entirely-explained but entirely dig-worthy metaphor … in its own modest way, this is an unforgettable record." - Mike Ethan Messick

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released July 17, 2014

All songs written by: John Edward Baumann
Produced by Corby Schaub (guitars, keys, piano, mandolin, background vocals)
Engineered by John Ross Silva at Cedar Creek
Upright bass: Chris Creppes
Electric bass: Bill Small
Drums: Mike Bernal, Ray Rodriguez
Acoustic guitars and harmony vox: Cord Jackson
Harmony vox: Garrett T. Capps
Acoustic guitar: John Edward Bauman
Mixed by Ron Flynt
Mastered by Jerry Tubb

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