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Our Precious City - Phenom original CD released Summer 2004 »http://cdbaby.com/cd/silverhearts«

if you have paypal, you can buy either of these directly from the label - just write an email to steve@banburypark.com - he will be happy to hook you up!!

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The Silver Hearts track-for-track interpretation of Tom Waits' Rain Dogs and other Hearts merchandise here..- »http://cdbaby.com/cd/silverhearts3«

"Brothel Blues" "A Saloon Symphony" "Ghost Town Orchestra" "The Muppets meet Harry Smith's Anthology of Folk Music".."Music to rob trains by"...

For the past five years, Peterborough?s The Silver Hearts have drawn comparisons as unique as their music. With a membership ranging from 12-17, and instrumentation consisting of the standard drums, bass, guitar, piano and the more obtuse, sousaphone, theramin, trombone, trumpet, harmonicas, and accordion, The Silver Hearts have established their own blend of burlesque swing, southern gospel, pre-war blues, field hollers: Exciting music, rooted in tradition. In the summer of 2005 The Silver Hearts were just waking up from a well-deserved nap. They?d given up the punishing touring schedule of previous years for family life or a paying job. They?d even walked away from the weekly gig at Peterborough?s historic Montreal House where they?d cut and re-cut their teeth every Wednesday for five years. What drew them back together was when Banbury Park Records presented the opportunity to play a one-night ?specialty show? in Toronto where The Silver Hearts would team up with Deadly Snakes vocalist & guitarist, Andre Ethier. The inspiration for the show came from the synergy displayed by Bob Dylan & The Band. The blueprint was their historic "Before The Flood" live album. Even though Andre was a stranger to most of the Hearts, his energy and his courage immediately gelled with the band, and inspired people who thought they?d given their all a few times over to give?er all over again. The Silver Hearts estranged as they had been from themselves and each other, revelled in the chance to work on a project together again. The time away from the band had allowed people to stretch, and people came to the rehearsals with new songs that, like the best of the old ones, were unfamiliar and yet immediately memorable and loveable. They sounded not quite like Silver Hearts songs - until they played them. The songs pushed the band in new directions, forcing the band to rely less on sounds and more on feel. Andre?s fierce commitment to making music was contagious, and tended to infect all the songs that were put to tape, drawing out performances that, like Andre?s vocals, always ran dangerously close to falling apart. The result of all that is right here: Dear Stranger.