Cory Chisel & the Wandering Sons – Never Meant to Love You [O]ld Believers marks Cory Chisel’s second collaboration with producer/performer Brendan Benson, & was recorded on the analog equipment at Nashville’s Welcome To 1979 studio. Unsurprisingly, it sounds like a 70’s record; between Benson, David Vandervelde, & Dawes, Nashville is beginning to gain a reputation as the place to recapture the west coast songwriter vibes of the ’70s. And while Chisel’s new record mostly fits pretty snugly into that scene, Never Meant To Love You more overtly recalls fellow Minnesota son Bob Dylan, who made his own sojourn to…
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Born Again I had first gotten wind of Cory Chisel when he played the recent Newport Folk Festival. On my way to see the David Wax Museum, I passed by the stage where Cory Chisel & the Wandering Sons were playing. I stopped and listed to him play the first track off of his latest album, Death Won’t Send a Letter, Born Again. Chisel’s music has a haunting, folk-soul vocals and lyrics which are complemented by sounds of oboe, piano, bass violin, and percussion. All together it creates a near gospel-like folk rock that will bring you back again and…
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