No common ancestral folkie - no mercurial Fahey or lilting Joni - makes a fitting a touchstone to this third Wayfaring Strangers installment. These Lonesome Heroes are linked instead by mood: the turn of a strange phrase, a piano oddly mic'd, the sound of a room, both its guitar and man falling perfectly out of tune. For these somber, dark, and meditative troubadours, we opened up space for everything between a shambling revisit of some dusted Highway 61 capillary and a blue afternoon gone black. Each traveler tracked here took first steps out of his own Nowhere Special. Some made stops in common, but none ever honestly intersected, and each recording thus owes its sound to a divergent time, method, and reason. From back-porch singer-songwriters who never played a single professional gig to those dragged off stage only by years, these sung tales were mostly privately pressed, privately created, and intended for the most private of audiences: those kindred lonely few who listened along the way.
A1 Jim Schoenfeld– Before
A2 Jim Ransom– It's So Profound
A3 Poor Richard– As I Walk
A4 Tucker Zimmerman– No Love Lost
B1 Kieran White– Hummingbirds
B2 Les Moore – Ooh Pah Do Pah Do
B3 Rob Carr– R.N.B. II
B4 Jack Hardy– The Tailor
B5 George Cromarty– Little Children
C1 Jay Bolotin– Dear Father
C2 Tony Trosley – Deep Night
C3 Roger Lewis – Autumn
C4 Tim Ward – Good Morning
D1 David Kauffman– Kiss Another Day Goodbye
D2 John Villemonte– I Am The Moonlight
D3 Bob Brown – Close Of The Day
D4 Robb Kunkel– O'Light
A1 Jim Schoenfeld– Before
A2 Jim Ransom– It's So Profound
A3 Poor Richard– As I Walk
A4 Tucker Zimmerman– No Love Lost
B1 Kieran White– Hummingbirds
B2 Les Moore – Ooh Pah Do Pah Do
B3 Rob Carr– R.N.B. II
B4 Jack Hardy– The Tailor
B5 George Cromarty– Little Children
C1 Jay Bolotin– Dear Father
C2 Tony Trosley – Deep Night
C3 Roger Lewis – Autumn
C4 Tim Ward – Good Morning
D1 David Kauffman– Kiss Another Day Goodbye
D2 John Villemonte– I Am The Moonlight
D3 Bob Brown – Close Of The Day
D4 Robb Kunkel– O'Light