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Tractor Kings - Gone To Heaven

Artist: Tractor Kings Title: Gone To Heaven Catalog#: Mud-CD-051 Price: $10.00	Tracks on this CD:
	Gone To Heaven
	Side By Side
	Take Me Back
	Buried In the Sky
	Beautiful Night
	My Little Cousin
	Little Moses
	Never Lonely
	Goodnight
	My Old Ways Are Gone

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 (manifested most clearly through a cover of A.P. Carter's "Little Moses") listeners will hear echoes of the darker side of Uncle Tupelo (moreso toward Farrar's soul-searching than Tweedy's pop), a rootsy-psychedelia akin to Green On Red meets Beachwood Sparks meets Jesus And Mary Chain's "Psychocandy," and the catharsis/psychosis of The Gun Club's "Fire Of Love" if it were diffused through a prism formed by Mercury Rev's "Deserters Songs" or immersed in a vat of My Morning Jacket. (Don't think out it as a run-on sentence, think of it as Faulkner-esque.) Gone To Heaven is a dark journey, wrought with peril, but well-worth the trip. The band that Jake's assembled for this outing includes Matt Filippo (The Mezzanines) on bass, Angie Heaton (Corndolly/Liquorette) on drums, R.M. Racky on pedal steel, Matt Talbott (Centaur/Hum) on guitar, tambourine, and vocals, Steve Ucherek (The Blackouts/Land Camera Sound) on guitar and vocals, and Lyle Hodges (Amphibian) on synthesizer.