The Pines - Plak

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One listen to Phantom Limb and you instantly find yourself transported to that all-too-often unexplored crossroads between country music and old style R&B. This is a band steeped in a tradition where the two genres share their musical DNA. It's The Staples Singers fronting The Band in "The Last Waltz", Ray Charles striking gold when he made his first country album, Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham down in Muscle Shoals writing "Do Right Woman" (a song that would go on to be recorded by both Aretha Franklin and The Flying Burrito Brothers).<br /><br /> Champions of Bristol's alt-country scene, Phantom Limb's eagerly awaited return is marked by the release of "The Pines", the product of relentless touring with the likes of Rumer, The Avett Brothers, The Stax band, the late-great Solomon Burke and Candi Staton. Produced by personal hero Marc Ford (of The Black Crowes fame) at Compound Studios in Los Angeles, and mastered at the famous Abbey Road Studios, "The Pines" has been praised for its brave amalgamation of what many consider to have become polar-opposite genres.<br /><br /> »What modern pop has lacked recently ... wonderful« THE GUARDIAN<br /><br /> »Bristol is the new home of country rock ... and Phantom Limb are at its core« CLASSIC ROCK<br /><br /> »Luxuriant, harmonised 70s guitar pop. Phantom Limb have Little Feat, The Allman Bros and Delaney & Bonnie on their minds« WORD MAGAZINE<br /><br /> » … recalls the too-rare hook-up for The Band with the Staples Singers ... excellent« THE INDEPENDENT<br /><br /> Recording: 2011 at Compound Studios, Signal Hill, California and Château Du Clat, Les Chênes, France<br /><br /> Production: Marc Ford