Jennifer O'Connor "Over the Mountain. Across the Valley and Back to the Stars." CD (2006)
Jennifer O'Connor "Over the Mountain. Across the Valley and Back to the Stars." CD (2006)
Jennifer O'Connor "Over the Mountain. Across the Valley and Back to the Stars." CD (2006)
Jennifer O'Connor "Over the Mountain. Across the Valley and Back to the Stars." CD (2006)
Jennifer O'Connor "Over the Mountain. Across the Valley and Back to the Stars." CD (2006)
Jennifer O'Connor "Over the Mountain. Across the Valley and Back to the Stars." CD (2006)
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Jennifer O'Connor "Over the Mountain. Across the Valley and Back to the Stars." CD (2006)

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Details: Jennifer O'Connor "Over the Mountain. Across the Valley and Back to the Stars." CD (Matador, 2006). Clear plastic case. Sticker included. Previously owned item. 

Description: "Over The Mountain, Across The Valley and Back To The Stars is the 3rd full-length album from Jennifer O’Connor, but it has the immediacy of a debut. Her life saw many personal upheavals which informed it more than she expected. “I wouldn’t say that I always write from experience, but I did a lot of it on this record.” For her most emotional songs yet, she self-produced and got rid of reverb and extraneous sounds, giving them an urgency that her other records didn’t always have. She explains, “There’s a lot of space; we purposefully pared everything down to what was necessary for the song.”

While Jennifer writes (and often performs) alone on guitar, each song here (save the acoustic single-take “Today”) is fleshed out with a band that includes her longtime drummer Jon Langmead, James McNew (Yo La Tengo) on bass, Kendall Meade (Sparklehorse) on keyboards & vocals, and other friends including Britt Daniel (Spoon) on vocals, and Al Weatherhead, who produced Color & plays guitar on many tracks. The record was recorded by Jim Bentley at The Fort in Brooklyn."

Grade: VG+/VG

TRACK LISTING:

01. Century Estates
02. Dirty City Blues
03. Exeter, Rhode Island
04. Sister
05. Today
06. Bullshit Maze
07. Complicated Rhyme
08. I Was So Wrong
09. Turn It Down
10. Perfect Match
11. Tonight We Ride
12. I'll Bring You Home