C Joynes: Tom Winter, Tom Spring - VINYL LP

Title: Tom Winter, Tom Spring
Artist: C Joynes
Label: VHF Records
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 783881016710
Genre: Rock
Release Date: 2025-07-11
Number of Discs: 1

Debut LP by the duo of Gangloff and Joynes, finding novel ways to combine their accomplished takes on avant folk, American primitive, and outsider sound into a unique and beautiful jumble. Side A's "Rapid City" is a brisk fingerpicked jaunt featuring Joynes' unique acoustic/electric hybrid sound, followed by "West Cavalier" where Gangloff's sawing fiddle and Joynes' guitar take on a straight mountain-style tune. "Two Bishops" is a languorous and atmospheric Joynes' guitar feature that slips into an extended minor key fingerpicked tremolo. Gangloff's "The Other Side of Catawba" is a solo fiddle staple from his recent repertoire (and heard on his VHF LP "Evening Measures"), rendered here in a haunting, reverberant version. The old-time staple "Sail Away Ladies" closes the side at a tempo made for a country store dance. Side B takes a more expansive and outré attitude, with Joynes' nimble "An Opening" (and the brief noise interlude "Eight Sets of Inverted Commas") setting up the lengthy "Witch Marks," which closes proceedings with a dark and droning vibe.

Tracks:
1.1 Rapid City
1.2 West Cavalier
1.3 Two Bishops
1.4 The Other Side of Catawba
1.5 An Opening
1.6 Eight Sets of Inverted Commas
1.7 Witch Marks