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Put your hands on the remote! browse music »Sparks Would Fly by Patrik Tanner & the Faraway Men
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11 tracks | 38 minutes
Released Aug 2005
on Dark One
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:54 Baby, I Must Go lyrics FREE 02:54 Baby, I Must Go lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:54 Baby, I Must Go
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:27 It Ain't Love Just Yet lyrics BUY MP3 03:27 It Ain't Love Just Yet lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:27 It Ain't Love Just Yet
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:48 Plans to Leave lyrics BUY MP3 02:48 Plans to Leave lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:48 Plans to Leave
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:12 In Another Year (or two) lyrics BUY MP3 03:12 In Another Year (or two) lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:12 In Another Year (or two)
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:54 Gone, Gone, Gone lyrics BUY MP3 03:54 Gone, Gone, Gone lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:54 Gone, Gone, Gone
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 06:02 Freeborn, Idaho lyrics BUY MP3 06:02 Freeborn, Idaho lyrics "GIFT MP3" 06:02 Freeborn, Idaho
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:56 The Matter with Us lyrics BUY MP3 02:56 The Matter with Us lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:56 The Matter with Us
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:34 Time Like the Present lyrics BUY MP3 04:34 Time Like the Present lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:34 Time Like the Present
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:41 Faraway Men (& Faithless Women) lyrics BUY MP3 02:41 Faraway Men (& Faithless Women) lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:41 Faraway Men (& Faithless Women)
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Americana rolled with a little twang but on the lighter side of both.
Bio / Background
A proper old timey country record. Once again with The Faraway Men providing the back beat.
"I always liked the image in my mind of the Irish ending up in East Texas and being so damned lonely that country music came out of them," says Tanner.
Perhaps that sentiment was sown when Tanner was a Swedish transplant in Southern California. In any event ... and lest he remain in a continued fit of isolation ... shortly after his return to the Twin Cities in 1994, Patrik formed The Faraway Men. With outlaws Mark Juenemann on bass and Brandon Fjetland on drums & hambone, they released 1997's Done Broke Down and 1998's Sparks Would Fly. The band was a perfect vehicle for Tanner to express his fondness for great songsmith-storytellers like Gram Parsons, George Jones and Elvis Costello while spinning his own unique tales of love-gone-bad with both swagger and soul.
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While hailed by some critics as torchbearers of the "alt-country" genre, the band actually sought to take a more reverential approach to classic C&W roots - one that defied expectations of either alt-country's urban hipster twang or the Nashvillian bubblegum that continues to dominate today's country scene. As PULSE of the Twin Cities exclaimed, "if this is country, then country just got unbelievably cool."
On 2001's Allsorts, The Faraway Men took a sharp stylistic turn, offering up a guitar rock concept album rich with 1970s-style international pop ballad overtones. With the recent addition of fellow wunderkind guitarist Jon James, Patrik and company continue down a similarly twisted interstate, daring to cross that line separating radio nirvana from fiery auto wreck. Whichever way the wheel may turn, within the glorious confines of their basement rehearsal space, Minnesota's best-kept rock-n-roll secret remain patiently waiting to spontaneously combust.
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