Rayland Baxter – ‘If I Were A Butterfly’ + ‘Wide Awake’ (Vinyl Bundle)
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2 colored vinyl bundle pack – ‘If I Were A Butterfly’ & ‘Wide Awake’‘Wide Awake’ pressed on orange vinyl‘If I Were A Butterfly’ pressed on coke-bottle clear vinyl
‘If I Were A Butterfly’ is Rayland Baxter’s first new album in 4 years. For the making of his fourth album, Baxter holed up for over a year at a former rubber-band factory turned studio in the Kentucky countryside—a seemingly humble environment that proved to be something of a wonderland. ‘If I Were a Butterfly’ finds Baxter co-producing alongside Tim O’Sullivan (The Head and the Heart, Grace Potter), slowly piecing together the album’s patchwork of lush psychedelia and Beatlesesque pop.
Rayland Baxter’s ‘Wide Awake’ is a dream realized. Since he first started writing music, this roving rock ‘n’ roll philosopher dreamed of a space where he could devote every waking hour to creating. The hard-touring musician finally found it in the form of an abandoned rubber band factory in Franklin, KY, where he covered the windows, threw a mattress on the floor, and with guitar and piano in tow, spent three straight months writing. At night he would sit and listen the sounds around him: coyotes, the howling wind, the faint prattle of the nightly TV news. The result of this isolation quest is ‘Wide Awake’ a ten-song collection that celebrates the best aspects of humanity and grasps at understanding the worst. ‘Wide Awake’ was produced by Butch Walker and features Walker himself on bass, Cage the Elephant’s Nick Bockrath on guitar, Dr. Dog’s Erick Slick on drums, and piano wizard Aaron Embry (Elliott Smith, Brian Eno) on keys.
‘If I Were A Butterfly’ is Rayland Baxter’s first new album in 4 years. For the making of his fourth album, Baxter holed up for over a year at a former rubber-band factory turned studio in the Kentucky countryside—a seemingly humble environment that proved to be something of a wonderland. ‘If I Were a Butterfly’ finds Baxter co-producing alongside Tim O’Sullivan (The Head and the Heart, Grace Potter), slowly piecing together the album’s patchwork of lush psychedelia and Beatlesesque pop.
Rayland Baxter’s ‘Wide Awake’ is a dream realized. Since he first started writing music, this roving rock ‘n’ roll philosopher dreamed of a space where he could devote every waking hour to creating. The hard-touring musician finally found it in the form of an abandoned rubber band factory in Franklin, KY, where he covered the windows, threw a mattress on the floor, and with guitar and piano in tow, spent three straight months writing. At night he would sit and listen the sounds around him: coyotes, the howling wind, the faint prattle of the nightly TV news. The result of this isolation quest is ‘Wide Awake’ a ten-song collection that celebrates the best aspects of humanity and grasps at understanding the worst. ‘Wide Awake’ was produced by Butch Walker and features Walker himself on bass, Cage the Elephant’s Nick Bockrath on guitar, Dr. Dog’s Erick Slick on drums, and piano wizard Aaron Embry (Elliott Smith, Brian Eno) on keys.