Bad Timing

by Jim O'Rourke

Bad Timing cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 25 August 1997
  • Label: Drag City
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 44:09
  • Community rating: 4/5 from 8 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Bad Timing' is a lush, highly technical instrumental triumph of American Primitivism and avant-folk. Jim O'Rourke utilizes masterful, John Fahey-inspired acoustic guitar picking alongside subtle orchestral drones to create a deeply mellow, repetitive, and pastoral autumn atmosphere.

Genres

Descriptors: avant-garde, acoustic, instrumental, repetitive, technical, folk, melodic, minimal, reflective

Tracklist

  1. There's Hell in Hello But More in Goodbye (09:38)
  2. 94 the Long Way (13:57)
  3. Bad Timing (09:59)
  4. Happy Trails (10:35)

Credits

  • Jim O'Rourke - primary artist
  • John Golden - lacquer cut by
  • Brian Calvin - painting [cover painting]
  • Steve Keene - painting [inside]

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