'On Gone to Heaven, guitarist and vocalist Jacob Fleischli regrouped the Tractor Kings in order to record at Matt Talbott's Great Western Record Recorders Studio in Tolono, IL, a town where Fleischli's ancestors settled after immigrating to the U.S. from Ireland in the 1880s. The energy Fleischli took from recording there resulted in a complex and bittersweet collection of stripped-down folk songs on Gone to Heaven, the group's second disc on Mud Records. The title track kicks things off with a feverish ha   [ read more ]

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'The debut by the Champaign-Urbana duo of guitarist Jacob Fleischli and drummer Rebecca Rury is an intriguing mix of alt-country and artsy slowcore, kind of like a cross between those two otherwise dissimilar duos the Handsome Family and the Tall Dwarfs. Strangely, though, the combination works. Fleischli's songs are pure country, from the Gram Parsons-like I Was Born to the forlorn, dusty ache of I'll Ride No More and the honky-tonk groove of Ballad of a Bum, and his voice strongly recalls Bob Dylan's Nas   [ read more ]

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'Still staking their claim to the elusive land where {alt-country} and shoegaze overlap, the Tractor Kings have returned after a five-year layoff with their third album, 2008's Homesick. Leader, vocalist, and guitarist Jake Fleischli has joined forces with a new guitarist for this set, Johnny Chemical Davidson, and between them they conjure a thick cloud of neo-psychedelic sounds over Fleischli's tunes. This music sounds at once trippy and organic, rooted in the melodic traditions of country music but with   [ read more ]

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Jacob Fleischli returns with his sophomore effort, Gone To Heaven. Recorded at Matt (Centaur/Hum) Talbott's Great Western Record Recorders in Tolono, Illinois - the same town that the Fleishli forefathers settled in upon immigrating to the US. This record is a fitting homecoming pairing Jake's obsession with death and the ghosts of his past, merging his Bob Dylan fixation with Talbott's sonic expertise. This is indeed a special album. In addition to Dylan's pervasive influence listeners will hear echoes of    [ read more ]

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Still staking their claim to the elusive land where alt-country and shoegaze overlap, the Tractor Kings have returned after a five-year layoff with their third album, 2008's Homesick. Leader, vocalist, and guitarist Jake Fleischli has joined forces with a new guitarist for this set, Johnny "Chemical" Davidson, and between them they conjure a thick cloud of neo-psychedelic sounds over Fleischli's tunes. This music sounds at once trippy and organic, rooted in the melodic traditions of {\c   [ read more ]

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