Tracklist

#1 Crayon Angel

By Ron Sexsmith
#2 Reach for the Sky

By Beth Orton
#3 Waterfall

By Daniel Rossen
#4 Jesus Was a Cross Maker

By Frida Hyvönen
#5 Lopin' Along Thru the Cosmos

By Shalants
#6 The Donor

By Final Fantasy
#7 Soldier of the Heart

By Nicolai Dunger
#8 Lady-O

By Trembling Blue Stars
#9 The Phoenix

By Colossal Yes
#10 The Kiss

By Marissa Nadler & Black Hole Infinity
#11 Down Where the Valleys Are Low

By Princeton
#12 There's a Rugged Road

By The Bye Bye Blackbirds
#13 When the Bridegroom Comes

By Meg Baird
#14 For a Rainbow

By Bill Callahan
#15 Til Dreams Come True

By P.G. Six

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V/a / Crayon Angel: A Tribute To The Music Of Judee Sill

American Dust

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DAD 109
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Street Date:
September 22nd, 2009
Ship Date:
September 14th, 2009
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Street Date:
September 22nd, 2009
Ship Date:
September 14th, 2009

Crayon Angel: A Tribute to the Music of Judee Sill features new recordings by Beth Orton, Bill Callahan, Ron Sexsmith, Final Fantasy, Nicolai Dunger, Marisa Nadler & Black Hole Infinity, Colossal Yes (with members of Six Organs of Admittance and Comets on Fire), Meg Baird, Frida Hyvoenen, and Daniel Rossen of Grizzly Bear and Department of Eagles. Judee Sill was the first artist signed to David Geffen's Asylum Records and released two cherished cult LPs, 1971's Judee Sill and 1973's Heart Food, before vanishing from the music scene and eventually dying of a drug overdose in North Hollywood, California, in 1979. Though forgotten for years, her music has enjoyed a period of rediscovery since her two studio albums were reissued on CD in 2005. In addition to cover versions of songs from Sill's modest recorded output, Crayon Angel also features two new Sill-penned songs, for which sheet music, but no known original recordings, survive. Beth Orton brings to life the complex and lovely "Reach for the Sky," while Bill Callahan records the epic slow-burn number "Like a Rainbow," a co-write with Sill's onetime boyfriend Lal Baum (great-grandson of Wizard of Oz author L. Frank Baum--how about that?). "Sill's music was complex, elegantly crafted, and yet completely devoid of pretension or overwrought melodrama.... She had a gift for making very complicated things sound simple, beautiful." --Dominique Leone, Pitchfork "My music would have been very different but for her. If you're a fan of the more soulful, hymnal side of Brian Wilson, then she is the female equivalent.... The most achingly beautiful melodies and chord structures I have ever heard."--Andy Partridge (XTC) "Her songs were simultaneously personal and incredibly grand. If people sang this stuff in church, a lot of us might still be there." --Jim O'Rourke (Sonic Youth, Wilco) "Her best songs are so, so good." --Greg Burk, LA Weekly