Someday My Blues Will Cover the Earth

by His Name Is Alive

Someday My Blues Will Cover the Earth cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 9 July 2001
  • Label: 4AD
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 42:15
  • Community rating: 2.93/5 from 1 rating

Artists on this release: Jacob Danziger, Greg Calbi, Vaughan Oliver, Warren Defever, Brett Lyman, Fred Thomas, Scott Goldstein, Lovetta Pippen, Steve King, Duke Ellington, Ida Pearle

Album Notes & Community Reviews

His Name Is Alive's Warren Defever reconceived the project as a soul group for 'Someday My Blues Will Cover the Earth', with vocalist Lovetta Pippen fronting arrangements drawn from 1970s R&B. Released on 4AD, it is the band's most direct engagement with American soul forms.

Genres

Descriptors: soulful, melodic, female-vocals, lo-fi, diverse

Tracklist

  1. Nothing Special (4:18)
  2. Interlude (0:24)
  3. Happy Blues (4:29)
  4. Solitude (1:41)
  5. Write My Name In The Groove (5:51)
  6. Your Cheating Heart (3:38)
  7. Our Last Affair (4:28)
  8. One Year (3:36)
  9. Interlude (0:48)
  10. Karins Blues (3:14)
  11. Are We Still Married (3:37)
  12. Someday My Blues Will Cover The Earth (5:32)
  13. Last Time (0:39)

Credits

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