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20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION via, ahem, 10,000 Hz.
- 1st time on vinyl
- expanded vinyl reissue w/ 3 previously unreleased demos
- remastered by Wes Wolfe of Tangible Formats
- extensive liner notes by Grayson Haver Currin
- LTD numbered edition of 300
- #1 – #100 on 180g black vinyl LP
- #101 – #300 on opaque green w/ white marbled vinyl LP
- standard LP jacket w/ obi strip + 4-panel insert
- 20-track companion download
“How quickly can a could-have-been-classic get lost? Can it happen in just four years? A decade? Two?
In 2004, North Carolinas very new Schooner seemed poised to become the next beloved emissary of that states long-heralded indie rock and alt-country scenes. Reid Johnsons uncanny knack for hooks and his sensitive little twang dovetailed so perfectly with the harmonies of his sister, Kathryn. Billy Alphins sweet lope and ready-when-you-are drive anchored their songs, alongside bassist Tripp Cox, with heart and insight. Their debut, You Forget About Your Heart, seemed a sure bet, its wry tunes about tender places inhabiting an unlikely intersection of slippery psychedelia and bleary-eyed country, home-recorded brooding and blown-out rock.
Bad breaks? Mismatched ambitions? Slipped opportunities? For whatever reasons, it never quite happened, and Schooner, at least as they are here, stalled after one more record, after just four more years. These nine songs, though, are Johnsons poetic real-time documents of losslost love, lost time, lost possibility, all rendered with the faintly hopeful sense that good things may come back around.
And so it goes now for You Forget About Your Heart, a wistful but triumphal sliver of big feelings bound to still-bigger hooks, now reemerging from a vital circa-millennium scene 20 years after the fact. Remastered by Wes Wolfe in an edition of 300 LPs (for the first time ever, mind you), this version also includes liner notes that share the story of the bands beginnings and three previously unreleased demos that reiterate Schooners lambent heartnever forgotten, per se, but reintroduced here through its could-still-be-a-classic debut.”
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