Sam Amidon - But This Chicken Proved Falsehearted

Limited translucent blue colored vinyl LP pressing includes digital download card with bonus tracks. Before Sam Amidon's acclaimed albums for Nonesuch Records and Bedroom Community, he'd released a few on his own. After a collection of traditional Irish instrumentals, Amidon (as samamidon) delivered his true "debut" But This Chicken Proved Falsehearted. Recorded in 2005 with longtime collaborator Thomas Bartlett (Mumford & Sons, Sufjan Stevens, The National, David Byrne), Vermont-born Amidon re-imagines traditional songs alongside covers as diverse as Mississippi John Hurt to Tears For Fears, and rearranges them into his own unique and mesmerizing compositions. Unavailable for years, original copies now sell for top dollar on the collectors market. Nearly a decade later, But This Chicken Proved Falsehearted finally receives the reissue it deserves.

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. Falsehearted Chicken
2. True Born Sons of Levi
3. Interlude
4. Head Over Heels
5. 1842
6. Interlude
7. Another Man Done Gone
8. Louis Collins
9. Interlude
10. Roll on John
11. Rocky Island
12. Tribulation
13. Oh Where
14. Louis Collins
15. Bourbon and Levi
16. Another Man Done Gone
17. Tribulation
18. The Moon Shines Bright, the Stars They Give Light
19. Head Over Heels
20. Bourbon and 1842
21. Rocky Island
22. Won't Turn Back
23. Saro Bounce