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Put your hands on the remote! browse music »Yeats Is Greats: The Speakers Sing the Poems of William Butler Yeats (and more) by The Speakers
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fave it Quirky | Folk Pop
16 tracks | 51 minutes
Released May 2005
on The Speakers
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 00:56 Oh! Hello There (I didn't see you come in) lyrics BUY MP3 00:56 Oh! Hello There (I didn't see you come in) lyrics "GIFT MP3" 00:56 Oh! Hello There (I didn't see you come in)
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:36 He wishes his Beloved Were Dead lyrics BUY MP3 02:36 He wishes his Beloved Were Dead lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:36 He wishes his Beloved Were Dead
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:06 A Cradle Song lyrics BUY MP3 02:06 A Cradle Song lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:06 A Cradle Song
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:44 The Mountain Tomb lyrics BUY MP3 03:44 The Mountain Tomb lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:44 The Mountain Tomb
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:07 It Goes lyrics BUY MP3 02:07 It Goes lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:07 It Goes
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:30 Hey Little Rat lyrics BUY MP3 03:30 Hey Little Rat lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:30 Hey Little Rat
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:08 Music for Concertina, Violin, & Russia lyrics BUY MP3 03:08 Music for Concertina, Violin, & Russia lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:08 Music for Concertina, Violin, & Russia
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:51 Lost in a Crowd lyrics BUY MP3 04:51 Lost in a Crowd lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:51 Lost in a Crowd
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 01:54 The Delicate Conversation lyrics BUY MP3 01:54 The Delicate Conversation lyrics "GIFT MP3" 01:54 The Delicate Conversation
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:30 The Fool by the Roadside lyrics BUY MP3 02:30 The Fool by the Roadside lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:30 The Fool by the Roadside
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:16 Nothing Ever Dies lyrics BUY MP3 04:16 Nothing Ever Dies lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:16 Nothing Ever Dies
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:12 To a Man Young and Old lyrics BUY MP3 02:12 To a Man Young and Old lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:12 To a Man Young and Old
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:53 The Temp Worker lyrics BUY MP3 03:53 The Temp Worker lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:53 The Temp Worker
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:32 To a Child Dancing in the Wind/Two Years Later lyrics BUY MP3 03:32 To a Child Dancing in the Wind/Two Years Later lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:32 To a Child Dancing in the Wind/Two Years Later
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:17 An Irish Airman foresees his Death lyrics BUY MP3 03:17 An Irish Airman foresees his Death lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:17 An Irish Airman foresees his Death
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 07:13 It Looks Like Pete has fallen Fast Asleep lyrics BUY MP3 07:13 It Looks Like Pete has fallen Fast Asleep lyrics "GIFT MP3" 07:13 It Looks Like Pete has fallen Fast Asleep
quiet experimental folk-pop songs--seven of the songs are Yeats poems set to music
Bio / Background
"...These songs are beautiful, fragile comforts. They're not joycore, no. They're just things to lean up against on these long midwinter days. Or in the nights. Trifles, I guess, in the same way that streetlamps are trifles. Or cherry trees. Or stars.
Voices fall across each-other, whispers blossoming into smiling song, folk that's crisscrossed just enough with foreign sound, shadows of accordion or clarinet, horns and drone. Hear a bit of Iron & Wine, but better. Maybe Sufjan circa Seven Swans. Grizzly Bear without the fear, Elliott Smith with a gang of kindly friends. Like Mt. Eerie, maybe, or The Robot Ate Me. But different.
Oh fuck it - just listen."
Sean from Said the Gramophone, January 5, 2006
"The Speakers are a lo-fi, new-folk duo from California. Their latest CD is a collection of songs with lyrics by William Butler Yeats. Brian Miller and Peter Musselman say they were inspired by the Irish poet's turn-of-the-century work because it sounded like country songs.
↓ more ↓Miller and Musselman have been playing together since they were in middle school in Lancaster, Pa. They continued to play into college and later moved to California where they formed The Speakers in 1999.
For their new CD they sang and played accordion, guitar, bass, banjo, drums, violins, piano, organ, spaced-out keyboards and threw in some whistling.
Miller has also been the guitarist for Jolie Holland for the last five years and has appeared on her last two albums, Catalpa and Escondida, and her upcoming third album, Springtime Can Kill You."
--NPR Open Mic, November 9, 2005
Special guests on Yeats is Greats are:
Chris Arnold - claves, Keyboard & co-producer (4)
Dave Mihaly - drums & percussion (1, 13, 15)
Jolie Holland - fiddle (4) co-composer (13)
Nancy Mitchell - voice, whistling (4)
David Kovenetsky - spiritual advisor
Phoebe Wayne - hand claps (13)
Ara Anderson - trumpet (13)
Nicole Russo - clarinet (4)
Polly Stone - voice (10)
and all the artwork was done by New York artist Lisa Sanditz
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