ARTISTS / Black Water Choir
Black Water Choir
Stray Dogs
Catalog Numbers: FH-032 / FH:VI-012
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Original Release Date: November 29, 2013
Genre: Folk / Alt Country / Americana
Radio Friendly: Yes
Type: LP
Purchase: Bandcamp
Links: Discogs Info
pressing information
Digital: Worldwide
Cassette Tape: Furhoof: Sixth Man
1st Press (2015): 125
”Smoky-Haze” transparent cassette with greyscale paper A-Side label, greyscale 5-Panel J-Card (two-sided) with lyrics and extended artwork from illustrator Ham B. Smith, in a black-back plastic Norelco case. Includes bonus previously unreleased song "Whiskey-Water." Hand-stamped and hand-numbered.
Tracklisting
1. Ghosts of Summer – 03:05
2. Where I'm Going – 03:29
3. There's No Place You Can Rest – 02:24
4. North on Twenty-Six – 03:19
5. Some Nights (Let's Take it Home) – 04:22
6. Death No. 1 – 05:33
7. There's a Flood Outside and I'm Stuck in Here – 05:03
8. Ice Homes – 03:20
9. Where You Are – 02:21
10. Morning Light – 01:33
11. In the Hills – 05:15
12. Late Night and Late Forever – 02:22
13. Whiskey-Water – 02:16 (Bonus Song - Previously Unreleased)
Total Run Time: 44:13
Side Split: A 1-6, B 7-13
Lyrics: Clean
Credits
Written, Performed, and Recorded by Corey Hines.
Artwork by Ham B. Smith.
Layout by Ryan McCardle.
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"Stray Dogs is a collection of songs that I've recorded over the years living in Georgia and North Carolina. They are an extension of my experiences and commentary on places, drunken nights, my friends and the people I've let in to my personal life. I hope you can find some similarities in your own life and that these songs provide some form of solace." – Corey Hines.
Release Biography
Black Water Choir is the collective mind of Corey Hines, blending folk and alt-country styles with a dark-pop influence echoing throughout; often experimenting with raw, lo-fidelity recordings and noises to create an ambient room-scape within a song. Spending the majority of his life in western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee where the influence of mountains, weather and light have found their way into the core of the writing process, including sounds, rhythms, lyrics and overall texture, The name Black Water Choir came about while Hines was based out of Savannah, GA and is an homage to the black water rivers that meander through the low-country of the southern United States.
About his debut full-length Hines says, "‘Stray Dogs’ is a collection of songs that I've recorded over the years living in Georgia and North Carolina. They are an extension of my experiences and commentary on places, drunken nights, my friends and the people I've let in to my personal life. I hope you can find some similarities in your own life and that these songs provide some form of solace." ‘Stray Dogs’ was originally self-released in 2013, but was later re-released March 24th 2015 via Furious Hooves digitally worldwide, as well as on limited edition cassette with a bonus song.
“The bedroom-style recording feel gives ‘Stray Dogs’ an unparalleled kind of accessibility, like we’ve stayed up all night talking on the porch with Hines and he’s picking up his guitar just as the sun comes up. Vocals crackle and peak at times, breaking through that digital wall. There’s a sultry-cool swing about songs like ‘Some Nights (Let’s Take it Home)’ that captures that height of Savannah summer, of a lagging, distinctly Southern kind of peaceable doubt. You know the time: the sweat has just become a part of you, you wander the streets with friends, drink cheap beer, and talk about goals and dreams beyond the immediate, poignant moment.
– Anna Chandler for Connect Savannah, premiere of ‘Stray Dogs.’
In late 2014 Black Water Choir started performing live again, both solo and as a duo with Alexis Ambrose. They played in and around Savannah including the Savannah Stopover festival. The duo also performed a live session with ArtLab Sessions. Hines also self-released an EP in 2014 entitled ‘The Black River Recordings.’
Press & Accolades
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