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- Date Released: February 22, 2005
- Genre: Rock/Pop
- Style: Indie Rock
- Label: Water / IODA
The last recordings from a supernaturally tender and criminally unsung '70s California singer-songwriter
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We Say...
Judee Sill never got to finish her third album. By the time the California singer-songwriter recorded the eight songs that open this set (at ex-Monkee Mike Nesmith's studio) in 1974, her career was falling apart; she didn't get around to mixing them before she vanished from music, dying of a drug overdose in 1979. Those last recordings went unheard until Jim O'Rourke completed them in 2004.
They're phenomenal — supernaturally tender meditations on Sill's twin fascinations with secular and divine love, with real existential darkness lurking just below their airy surfaces. (The Carole King-ish "Things Are Lookin' Up" sounds like the happiest song here until you realize that it comes from an emotional place that has nowhere to look but up.) Sill came of age with the Laurel Canyon generation of songwriters — Graham Nash championed her work, and there are hints of Joni Mitchell about her presentation. But her songs' secret weapon is her grounding in gospel music. "That's the Spirit" gradually builds into a double-time holy-roller blowout; "I'm Over" might be a paraphrase of "How I Got Over" for L.A. pot-smokers. That same language keeps hinting at the disaster that was ahead of her: "Apocalypse Express" has the crystalline finger-picking and peaceful, easy harmonies of yacht-rock, but it's about the Final Judgement she was longing for, and so is the smooth New Orleans groove of "The Good Ship Omega."
The rest of Dreams Come True is made up of demos and casual work tapes, which are not nearly as devastating as the Nesmith material but still a treasure for Sillophiles — "Dead Time Bummer Blues," an indignant complaint about one of her stints in jail, is particularly nifty.
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| 01. |  |
That's The Spirit |
4:18 |
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| 02. | |
I'm Over |
3:38 |
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| 03. | |
Apocalypse Express |
2:48 |
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| 04. | |
The Living End |
3:01 |
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| 05. | |
Things Are Lookin' Up |
3:17 |
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| 06. | |
The good Ship Omega |
3:28 |
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| 07. | |
Last Resort |
2:33 |
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| 08. | |
Till Dreams Come True |
3:29 |
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| 09. | |
Living End |
4:08 |
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| 10. | |
I'm Over |
4:20 |
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| 11. | |
Till Dreams Come True |
3:24 |
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11 Total Tracks, 38:24 Total Length
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| 01. | |
Dead Time Bummer Blues |
2:30 |
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| 02. | |
Sunnyside Up Luck |
5:06 |
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| 03. | |
Emerald River Dance |
3:10 |
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| 04. | |
Waterfall |
3:09 |
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| 05. | |
North Country |
3:12 |
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| 06. | |
Farmers Daughter - The Chicken Is In The Garden |
1:10 |
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| 07. | |
The Wreck of the FFV - Fast Flying Vestibule |
3:13 |
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| 08. | |
500 Miles |
2:01 |
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| 09. | |
Oh boy The Magician |
5:10 |
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09 Total Tracks, 28:41 Total Length
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