Swing the Statue!

by Victoria Williams

Swing the Statue! cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1990
  • Label: Rough Trade
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 43:58
  • Community rating: 3.57/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Embracing a deeply idiosyncratic folk style, 'Swing the Statue!' showcases the artist's fragile, wavering vibrato and deeply personal storytelling. The eccentric acoustic arrangements established her as a beloved cult figure within the burgeoning alternative country scene.

Genres

Descriptors: folk, acoustic, female-vocals, witty, idiosyncratic

Tracklist

  1. Why Look At The Moon (2:30)
  2. Boogieman (3:50)
  3. Clothesline (4:32)
  4. Tarbelly And Featherfoot (4:30)
  5. On Time (3:12)
  6. Holy Spirit (4:38)
  7. Summer Of Drugs (4:50)
  8. I Can't Cry Hard Enough (3:38)
  9. Wobbling (3:15)
  10. Vieux Amis (2:10)
  11. Weeds (3:36)
  12. Lift Him Up (3:17)

Credits

  • Andrew Williams - acoustic guitar, vocals, acoustic guitar, backing vocals
  • Don Falzone - double bass [upright], acoustic bass
  • Willie Aron - electric guitar, organ, organ, backing vocals, acoustic guitar, backing vocals, acoustic guitar, vocals
  • Steven Soles - mandolin, trombone
  • Marty Rifkin - steel guitar [pedal]
  • David Williams - vocals, backing vocals, vocals, piano, written-by
  • Byron Berline - fiddle, fiddle, mandolin
  • John Philip Shenale - keyboards [kurzweil], organ [hammond], horns [kurzweil], organ [b-3], keyboards [kurzweil]

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