John Cale Words For The Dying (CLEAR VINYL) Vinyl

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John Cale Words For The Dying (CLEAR VINYL) VinylFirst time vinyl repress of a John Cale album originally released on the Opal label in 1989, produced by Brian Eno. Words For The Dying has at its heart The Falklands Suite, Cales baroque if heartfelt response to the Anglo Argentinian War, which finds him setting the poems of his beloved Dylan Thomas to music. When building songs around anothers words, the results often sound forced, but Cale does a magnificent job of compressing Thomass lyricism into

and two Grammy nominations later

Recorded at Sound City in Van Nuys

a horn section on "Legend"

Tamil singer Sairam Iyer solos in his own language

Released: 4/19/2019

In the tradition of past quirky Cohen covers like Irving Berlin's "Always" and Richard Blakeslee's "Passing Thru

rk the space to let everything unravel

Like much pop music in the mid-1990s

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Even though the album deals primarily with aftermath of her divorce and includes serious moments of self-confrontation like "Sober

and The Ghost of Tom Joad -- which means this box is buttressed by the 1993 live set In Concert/MTV Plugged and two EPs