Description
New Record
UPC: 767981182810
2x LP
Songs in A&E is a beautiful, chilling record and it was very nearly the last thing J Spaceman would ever release.
In 2005, with the writing and recording well underway, Spaceman was rushed to the Royal London Infirmary with double pneumonia. The sleeve of this reissue is a photograph taken as he lay in what his close friends and family feared at the time was his deathbed. "We thought he'd gone," recalled band mate John Coxon at the time.
The album is a collection of graceful, country-influenced songs that muse on familiar themes of love, death, hope and hopelessness. The country element was informed by a small black 1928 Gibson acoustic he'd bought in Cincinnati while the band toured the Amazing Grace record. Spaceman called it "The Devil."