Summer's Parting Ways, by Brian Grainger

Summer's Parting Ways

by Brian Grainger

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Tom Hamill Is this not what music is all about?
Every once in a while, an album comes along and strikes just right. Perhaps they'll say, "it's for the best." Wistful, dreamy, nostalgic.
Highly recommended. Favorite track: Pine Valley.

Zachary Seal. A golden pasture surrounded by an old fence. Antique farm equipment left to rust. Dusty roads leading to the horizon. Favorite track: Rural Sparks.

da5idh Like an audio Instax. melancholy but happy, a sublime hazy and woozy memory of sultry summers past. Stands alongside Dif Juz & the 4AD canon for me, the sleeve notes are poetry. Grab the CD for another saucer full of secrets... Favorite track: We Walked Home.

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Limited to 100 Pieces. Double LP of "Summer's Parting Ways", each LP is cased in it's own individual screen printed jacket, packaged together in one clear, resealable poly-sleeve.

*This Vinyl Edition also includes 3 Bonus Tracks; Country Low, Passing (Reprised), and Pine Valley II.

**NOTE: We are also including an artwork insert with info about the record that was printed prior to some track listing additions that were made to the album, so the info on the insert is not up to date. We're including it anyway.

This Vinyl Edition may also include secrets.

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2 CD Set. Includes the bonus disc "CITADEL & OTHER SONGS", 13 Demos and Outtakes.

CITADEL & OTHER SONGS Track Listing:
Citadel, Swampside, Daytime Yellow, Highschool Guitar (Cleveland Informal), Little Sailboat, Country Bend, Morning Sparkles, A Yawning Wind (Rolling Knoll Informal), Where The Geese Go, Milemaker Blues, The Only Way You Can Go, Under Rainclouds, Backyard Colored Blue.

This CD Edition may also include secrets.

Includes unlimited streaming of Summer's Parting Ways via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
This package Includes the Vinyl Edition and CD Edition of "Summer's Parting Ways"

The Double LP Vinyl Edition of "Summer's Parting Ways" is limited to 100 pieces. Each LP is cased in it's own individual screen printed jacket, packaged together in one clear, resealable poly-sleeve.

*The Vinyl Edition also includes 3 Bonus Tracks; Country Low, Passing (Reprised), and Pine Valley II.

**NOTE: We are also including an artwork insert with info about the record that was printed prior to some track listing additions that were made to the album, so the info on the insert is not up to date. We're including it anyway.

The CD Edition is a 2 CD Set. It includes the bonus disc "CITADEL & OTHER SONGS", 13 Demos and Outtakes.

CITADEL & OTHER SONGS Track Listing:
Citadel, Swampside, Daytime Yellow, Highschool Guitar (Cleveland Informal), Little Sailboat, Country Bend, Morning Sparkles, A Yawning Wind (Rolling Knoll Informal), Where The Geese Go, Milemaker Blues, The Only Way You Can Go, Under Rainclouds, Backyard Colored Blue.

Both the Vinyl Edition and the CD Edition may contain secrets.

Includes unlimited streaming of Summer's Parting Ways via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. ... more

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	1.	A Yawning Wind 03:26
	2.	Highschool Guitar 04:06
	3.	Pale Meadow 04:52
	4.	Rural Sparks 03:48
	5.	Pine Valley 05:12
	6.	Saccharine 04:49
	7.	Golden Hours 03:05
	8.	Deerfield 04:06
	9.	Happy To Be Going Home Again 02:27
	10.	Bear Mountain 07:05
	11.	Weeping Willow 03:48
	12.	We Walked Home 05:23

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Summer's Parting Ways was written and recorded following Brian's Eight Thousander release in 2007, and over those 11 years it has hung on the vine, a fabled sun-cast apple in a subtropical orchard. Crafted with possibly more care and deliberation than just about anything else in his prolific catalog, Summer's Parting Ways consists of detuned acoustic and electric guitars, played late into the nights and even later into the mornings of a humid Carolinian bedroom. Backed by a lethargic assembly of drum machines, organ pedal bass and a fair share of guest appearances from friends, and laid to honest warm cassette tape, it is the culmination of recalled memories, hazy summers and lonesome drives through rural backroads, to the bittersweetness of vacant beach parties, teenage boredoms and wistful solitary introspection. It's a long wave goodbye to those times when summer's sunny days seemed endless and orange, before highschool naivete has all faded away and rendered the time down to just another month on the calendar. Summer's Parting Ways remembers all of those things, and all of the other places you always wondered about, roads you wished you had biked down, green woods you'd have certainly explored. It bottles up the sunshine, saccharine and soda pop into a psychedelic perfume that settles across the empty fields of your mind, planting seeds of sad magic. Blue skies, saltwater seas, forests of wonderment - all under its spell, missing the past, sleeping beneath weeping willows and the star blasted nights behind them. A golden hour etched into a circular mirror, echoing an infinity of melancholic Sundays for you to comfortably recall via the cracked diamond of nostalgia.

UPDATE: 10/13/2020
We are waiting on one more element for the vinyl to arrive. We're hoping by then end of the week. All vinyl packages will start to ship as soon as it arrives. CD-only orders will start shipping 10/18/2020

UPDATE: 10.30/2020
All elements for the vinyl packages are now in house, and being assembled and packed for delivery by Monday, November 2, 2020.

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