This provided Lake Street Dive with a welcome challenge: an opportunity to experiment with sound and arrangements and to collaborate on songwriting in a way the band had never attempted before
with tracks that would properly suit the specific moods of helicopter shoot-outs or villain headquarter explosions ("Attacked by Dogs
they travelled to upstate New York to work with Dave Fridmann - famed for recording with Mercury Rev
a meditative work that is a belated response to Sun Ra’s composition “Night of the Living Sky” which is also featured in the album
Wilson, Cassandra - Blue Light 'Til Dawn (Blue Note Classic Series) O'Halloran This provided Lake Street DiveDouble 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series is all analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes. Cassandra Wilson's 1993 Blue Note debut, Blue Light 'Til Dawn, wove a tapestry of jazz, blues, folk, and R&B into a singular sound that opened new avenues of expression for vocal jazz. Produced by Craig Street, the album's inventive instrumentation, plus Wilson's riveting vocals, transformed songs by Robert Johnson, Joni