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{"id":8671271616762,"title":"Charles \"Poppy Bob\" Walker \/\/ Dirt Bike Vacation LP","handle":"charles-poppy-bob-walker-dirt-bike-vacation-lp","description":"\u003cp\u003eアメリカ・アリゾナのアマチュアギタリストCharles \"Poppy Bob\" Walkerが、2024年10月にイギリス・リバプールのフォークレーベルWorried Songsからリリースしたレコードです。\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1980年半ばに人知れず日記のようにシングルテイクで録音したLo-Fiアンビエント・ブルース15曲を収録。\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJon Collinが好きな方にオススメします。\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e※デジタル音源を無料でお送りいたしますのでお気軽にご連絡くださいませ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=755312045\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=755312045\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=none\/track=2950974461\/transparent=true\/\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" seamless=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eレーベルその他作品は\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/tobirarecords.com\/collections\/wrdsns\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/tobirarecords.com\/collections\/wrdsns\"\u003eこちら\u003c\/a\u003e \/\/\/ Click \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/tobirarecords.com\/collections\/wrdsns\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/tobirarecords.com\/collections\/wrdsns\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e to see more Worried Songs releases available at Tobira.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e----------------------\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e12\" black vinyl. Includes A4 booklet. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e1. High Above 01:26\u003cbr\u003e2. Baby Bird 01:29\u003cbr\u003e3. Backyard Soliloquy 01:23\u003cbr\u003e4. Driving to Town 01:03\u003cbr\u003e5. Continuation to Moon Doctor 01:11\u003cbr\u003e6. Airbase Blues 02:14\u003cbr\u003e7. Goodbye YMCA 01:21\u003cbr\u003e8. Train Over Main Span 01:07\u003cbr\u003e9. Signs for Ehrenberg 01:23\u003cbr\u003e10. In with the Grackles 01:54\u003cbr\u003e11. Granite Bluffs 01:07\u003cbr\u003e12. Back to the Foothills 00:54\u003cbr\u003e13. On the Couch with Bernie 01:30\u003cbr\u003e14. Sunset in the Gilas 02:28\u003cbr\u003e15. Walking at Night 01:15\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWorried Songs:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eDirt Bike Vacation—for Worried Songs Records—explores the sonic world of the late amateur guitar player, Charles ‘Poppy Bob’ Walker, through a captivating set of instrumental songs made in the mid-1980s. Recorded on a single-track, Marantz field recorder, the project is a transportive document of Walker’s days spent as a meatpacking employee in Yuma, Arizona and the dailiness of that existence: driving to work, sitting in his backyard, walking around drunkenly, unwinding on the couch with a friend. These sketches, showing an experimental tendency, are surprisingly ahead of their time; some exhibit ad hoc tape delay (“Granite Bluffs,” “Goodbye YMCA”), while others make use of primitive overdubbing (“Continuation to Moon Doctor”). Not dissimilar to works such as Bruce Langhorne’s The Hired Hand soundtrack, Walker’s guitar playing is melodic, texturally rich and beautifully sober.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eOn a musical tour from Nashville to Los Angeles, musician-archivist, Cameron Knowler, uncovered these songs from a series of dusty cassette tapes housed at a branch of the Yuma County\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e Library. Originally tipped off by cryptic metadata entries found through an online finding aid, Knowler requested a sound sample and was immediately drawn in by their eerie, yet hopeful nature: “I didn’t care what they sounded like at first, but once I heard just a few seconds, I had to find out everything I could about Charles, who he was, and if he was still alive.” As it turns out, the two had miraculously crossed paths over 20 years prior when Cameron was a young boy accompanying his mother, a gem trader, on a biyearly sojourn to Quartzsite, a town 80 miles north of Yuma:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Charles, sitting down and smoking in a recliner, withdrawn, held what I now understand to be a mid-1990s Martin D-28 guitar. Unlike other old-timers, his instrument was sharply tuned and had a nice sound, even to my young and uncalibrated ears. Though his left hand showed signs of highly developed arthritis, his musical ideas were animated by a palpably deep understanding of fretboard anatomy, arrangement and harmony.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSorting through the index cards associated with these tapes, Knowler was able to gain a detailed sense of most recording’s provenance, whereabouts and time: Walker’s Datsun pickup truck chugging along boiling hot Interstate 80, the Marine Corps Air Station parking lot, the Eastern Wetlands on the banks of the Colorado River, a fishing trip to Martinez Lake. Trying to reduce the amount of his own subjectivities coloring the work, Cameron constructed titles and track sequences by borrowing information gleaned from Charles’ handwritten notes: “I tried to organize everything by time of day, giving the listener the sense of how a Yuma day might sound and feel like, and each song title—even the record itself—is borrowed from his own words.” This proved no small task, as many notecards had to be deciphered and then coupled with their native tapes which needed extensive restoration treatments.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe result is a project very much out of the blue, and one that is intensely personal to Knowler, having grown up in the same town under similar circumstances. “It feels like a part of my own journey as a guitarist reckoning with the defining marks of a gothic border town,” he remarks. “At the time I would’ve met Walker, I didn’t have much outside influence, but he has been in there all the while.” In their current form, the tracks combine to create a sonic journey that boldly contributes to the traditions of acoustic guitar soli, archival digs and field recordings all the same; most importantly, it is a creative document which shows a day-in-the-life of a man grappling with the human experience under a ubiquitous Yuma sun.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e \"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003ca\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-about\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtist : Charles \"Poppy Bob\" Walker\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLabel : Worried Songs\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2024-11-27T06:55:37+09:00","created_at":"2024-11-26T17:03:22+09:00","vendor":"Tobira Records","type":"","tags":["ambient","folk \/ left-field pop","jazz","lp","new","worried songs"],"price":468700,"price_min":468700,"price_max":468700,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":46895827288314,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Charles \"Poppy Bob\" Walker \/\/ Dirt Bike Vacation LP","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":468700,"weight":430,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/tobirarecords.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/bike1.jpg?v=1732608098","\/\/tobirarecords.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/bike2.jpg?v=1732608098"],"featured_image":"\/\/tobirarecords.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/bike1.jpg?v=1732608098","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":35233143161082,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":700,"width":700,"src":"\/\/tobirarecords.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/bike1.jpg?v=1732608098"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":700,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/tobirarecords.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/bike1.jpg?v=1732608098","width":700},{"alt":null,"id":35233143193850,"position":2,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":1200,"width":1200,"src":"\/\/tobirarecords.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/bike2.jpg?v=1732608098"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":1200,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/tobirarecords.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/bike2.jpg?v=1732608098","width":1200}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eアメリカ・アリゾナのアマチュアギタリストCharles \"Poppy Bob\" Walkerが、2024年10月にイギリス・リバプールのフォークレーベルWorried Songsからリリースしたレコードです。\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1980年半ばに人知れず日記のようにシングルテイクで録音したLo-Fiアンビエント・ブルース15曲を収録。\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJon Collinが好きな方にオススメします。\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e※デジタル音源を無料でお送りいたしますのでお気軽にご連絡くださいませ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=755312045\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=755312045\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=none\/track=2950974461\/transparent=true\/\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" seamless=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eレーベルその他作品は\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/tobirarecords.com\/collections\/wrdsns\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/tobirarecords.com\/collections\/wrdsns\"\u003eこちら\u003c\/a\u003e \/\/\/ Click \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/tobirarecords.com\/collections\/wrdsns\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/tobirarecords.com\/collections\/wrdsns\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e to see more Worried Songs releases available at Tobira.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e----------------------\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e12\" black vinyl. Includes A4 booklet. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e1. High Above 01:26\u003cbr\u003e2. Baby Bird 01:29\u003cbr\u003e3. Backyard Soliloquy 01:23\u003cbr\u003e4. Driving to Town 01:03\u003cbr\u003e5. Continuation to Moon Doctor 01:11\u003cbr\u003e6. Airbase Blues 02:14\u003cbr\u003e7. Goodbye YMCA 01:21\u003cbr\u003e8. Train Over Main Span 01:07\u003cbr\u003e9. Signs for Ehrenberg 01:23\u003cbr\u003e10. In with the Grackles 01:54\u003cbr\u003e11. Granite Bluffs 01:07\u003cbr\u003e12. Back to the Foothills 00:54\u003cbr\u003e13. On the Couch with Bernie 01:30\u003cbr\u003e14. Sunset in the Gilas 02:28\u003cbr\u003e15. Walking at Night 01:15\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWorried Songs:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eDirt Bike Vacation—for Worried Songs Records—explores the sonic world of the late amateur guitar player, Charles ‘Poppy Bob’ Walker, through a captivating set of instrumental songs made in the mid-1980s. Recorded on a single-track, Marantz field recorder, the project is a transportive document of Walker’s days spent as a meatpacking employee in Yuma, Arizona and the dailiness of that existence: driving to work, sitting in his backyard, walking around drunkenly, unwinding on the couch with a friend. These sketches, showing an experimental tendency, are surprisingly ahead of their time; some exhibit ad hoc tape delay (“Granite Bluffs,” “Goodbye YMCA”), while others make use of primitive overdubbing (“Continuation to Moon Doctor”). Not dissimilar to works such as Bruce Langhorne’s The Hired Hand soundtrack, Walker’s guitar playing is melodic, texturally rich and beautifully sober.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eOn a musical tour from Nashville to Los Angeles, musician-archivist, Cameron Knowler, uncovered these songs from a series of dusty cassette tapes housed at a branch of the Yuma County\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e Library. Originally tipped off by cryptic metadata entries found through an online finding aid, Knowler requested a sound sample and was immediately drawn in by their eerie, yet hopeful nature: “I didn’t care what they sounded like at first, but once I heard just a few seconds, I had to find out everything I could about Charles, who he was, and if he was still alive.” As it turns out, the two had miraculously crossed paths over 20 years prior when Cameron was a young boy accompanying his mother, a gem trader, on a biyearly sojourn to Quartzsite, a town 80 miles north of Yuma:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Charles, sitting down and smoking in a recliner, withdrawn, held what I now understand to be a mid-1990s Martin D-28 guitar. Unlike other old-timers, his instrument was sharply tuned and had a nice sound, even to my young and uncalibrated ears. Though his left hand showed signs of highly developed arthritis, his musical ideas were animated by a palpably deep understanding of fretboard anatomy, arrangement and harmony.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSorting through the index cards associated with these tapes, Knowler was able to gain a detailed sense of most recording’s provenance, whereabouts and time: Walker’s Datsun pickup truck chugging along boiling hot Interstate 80, the Marine Corps Air Station parking lot, the Eastern Wetlands on the banks of the Colorado River, a fishing trip to Martinez Lake. Trying to reduce the amount of his own subjectivities coloring the work, Cameron constructed titles and track sequences by borrowing information gleaned from Charles’ handwritten notes: “I tried to organize everything by time of day, giving the listener the sense of how a Yuma day might sound and feel like, and each song title—even the record itself—is borrowed from his own words.” This proved no small task, as many notecards had to be deciphered and then coupled with their native tapes which needed extensive restoration treatments.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe result is a project very much out of the blue, and one that is intensely personal to Knowler, having grown up in the same town under similar circumstances. “It feels like a part of my own journey as a guitarist reckoning with the defining marks of a gothic border town,” he remarks. “At the time I would’ve met Walker, I didn’t have much outside influence, but he has been in there all the while.” In their current form, the tracks combine to create a sonic journey that boldly contributes to the traditions of acoustic guitar soli, archival digs and field recordings all the same; most importantly, it is a creative document which shows a day-in-the-life of a man grappling with the human experience under a ubiquitous Yuma sun.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e \"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003ca\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-about\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtist : Charles \"Poppy Bob\" Walker\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLabel : Worried Songs\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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