Novelist
Madison Smartt Bell and poet Wyn Cooper conjure late night music
for late night people on their new Gaff Music CD, Forty Words
for Fear, a dark, brooding collection of bluesy, shotgun shack
tunes. Late night music for late night people.
Esquire magazine dubbed it "sonic moonshine." The New
York Observer proclaimed it "a thoroughly absorbing piece
of work... Call it woodshed noir." And the Brattleboro (VT)
Reformer noted: "Bell, Cooper and their all-star teammates
found a way to pull from the arbitrary and the unconscious to
fashion a feast for the ear and a maze for the mind."
In addition to Bell and Cooper, the album features Jim Brock on
percussion, Don Dixon on bass, Mitch Easter on guitar and Chris
Frank on keyboards, tuba, damn near anything else that can make
a noise, and sharp hats. Jim Brock and Don Dixon co-produced.
Forty Words for Fear was recorded at Easter’s Fidelitorium
studio in Kernersville, NC.
