60 Watt Silver Lining

by Mark Eitzel

60 Watt Silver Lining cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 19 March 1996
  • Label: Virgin
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 54:14
  • Community rating: 3.55/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Following the disbandment of American Music Club, the acclaimed frontman debuted his solo career with this decidedly jazz-inflected collection. The recording utilizes muted trumpets, double bass, and piano to support Eitzel's deeply melancholic, emotionally devastated songwriting.

Genres

Descriptors: lgbtq, gay, male-vocals, guitars, acoustic, personal, melodic

Tracklist

  1. No Easy Way Down (3:40)
  2. Sacred Heart (3:57)
  3. Always Turn Away (4:26)
  4. Saved (5:01)
  5. Cleopatra Jones (4:12)
  6. When My Plane Finally Goes Down (4:16)
  7. Mission Rocket Resort (4:34)
  8. Wild Sea (4:37)
  9. Aspirin (4:43)
  10. Some Bartenders Have The Gift Of Pardon (5:19)
  11. Southend On Sea (4:10)
  12. Everything Is Beautiful (5:12)

Credits

  • Daniel Pearson - double bass [stand-up bass], mandolin, drum
  • Simone White - drums
  • Bruce Kaphan - piano, pedal steel guitar, bass, organ
  • Mark Isham - trumpet
  • Goffin And King - written-by

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