Chris Thile - Laysongs (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

The album is his first truly solo album: just Thile, his voice, and his mandolin, on new recordings of six original songs and three covers, all of which contextualize and banter with his ideas about spirituality. Recorded in a converted upstate New York church during the pandemic, Laysongs’ centerpiece is the three-part “Salt (in the Wounds) of the Earth,” which was inspired by C.S. Lewis’sThe Screwtape Letters. The album also features a song Thile wrote about Dionysus; a performance of the fourth movement of Béla Bartók’sSonata for Solo Violin; “God Is Alive, Magic Is Afoot” based on Buffy Sainte-Marie’s adaptation of a Leonard Cohen poem; a cover of bluegrass legend Hazel Dickens’ “Won’t You Come and Sing for Me;” and an original instrumental loosely modeled after the Prelude from J.S. Bach’s Partita for Solo Violin in E Major

TRACKLIST

1. Chris Thile - Laysong
2. Chris Thile - Ecclesiastes
3. Chris Thile - God Is Alive Magic Is Afoot
4. Chris Thile - Salt (in the Wounds) of the Earth, Pt. 1
5. Chris Thile - Salt (in the Wounds) of the Earth, Pt. 2
6. Chris Thile - Salt (in the Wounds) of the Earth, Pt. 3
7. Chris Thile - Sonata for Solo Violin, Sz. 117: IV. Presto
8. Chris Thile - Dionysus
9. Chris Thile - Won't You Come and Sing for Me



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