The Paranoid Style - For Executive Meeting (Vinyl)

The Paranoid Style album begins with an elegy for the radical, tragic Pop Art titan Barney Bubbles and ends with a revved-up cover of Rosanne Cash's peerless "Seven Year Ache." Throughout the ten songs in-between, Elizabeth Nelson weaves together stories about figures like Steve Cropper, P.G. Wodehouse, and Doug Yule. She visits her hometown and ponders Jack Kerouac's house in her childhood neighborhood. She laments the loss of David Berman and Adam Schlesinger, and duets with Patterson Hood from the Drive-By Truckers on an infectious tribute to John Prine. She ponders the desecration of the music industry and drinks her beer in a tavern and sings the working gal's blues.  Loaded with vivid detail and memorable riffs, it proves what in-the-know critics have been saying for years: Elizabeth Nelson is one of our best songwriters.

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. Barney Bubbles
2. I'd Bet My Land and Titles
3. Love ; Demotion
4. Exit Interview with P.G. Wodehouse
5. Until Birnam Woods Comes to Dunsinane
6. Alive and Vexing
7. Ten Floors of Basement
8. The Worst of My Love
9. Steve Cropper Plays Femme Fatale
10. Doug Yule
11. Moveable Feast Blues
12. Seven Year Ache