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Welcome to the "Beautiful Escape: The Songs of The Posies Revisited" page! Burning Sky Records has just released the 45-track (not counting any hidden tracks ;) ), 3-CD album "Beautiful Escape: The Songs of The Posies Revisited." You can order your copy from us NOW! Or, you can order the album and the EP for just $2 more - that's 50 great covers of Posies tracks!
Or, if you prefer - ALL of the "Beautiful Escape" tracks are now available on iTunes - you can download as many as you want there.
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Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow weigh in on "Beautiful Escape"!
Founding Posies member JON AUER has this to say about Beautiful Escape: The Songs of The Posies Revisited:
“I’ll have to own up to being suspect when I first heard the concept of forty-five different artists recording new versions of Posies songs. I guess at my core I feared polite, cursory renditions of our relatively ‘best known’, the proverbial ‘skating on the surface’ as they say in the vernacular or at the very least folks just ‘phoning it in’. Still, as skeptical as I might like to portray myself, and after lending my ears to the procession, I couldn’t deny the ultimate conclusion I arrived at: a lot of Beautiful Escape… truly manages to surprise me and I’m really touched that it does. At its best, if you will, I’d liken it to diving headfirst into a sonic mirror from a slightly alternate universe, a place where clusters of tone, choices of instrument, and phrasings of word are reinvented enough to render me able to enjoy something I originally created as if never considered possible in the first place. Wow. In a similar sense, perhaps it’s like a stranger finding one of your old photo albums and restaging your favorite pictures in ways and with colors you might never have visualized. Colors that look and feel somewhat familiar, but upon closer inspection smell like a fresh coat of paint on a house you barely remember building. Double wow. Who would’ve ‘thunk’ it possible? Not me, I assure you. I suppose until now, that is.â€
Founding Posies member KEN STRINGFELLOW adds:
“Though I don't think we're as important as the Velvets or Big Star, they say that everyone who heard those bands formed a band soon after--and thus, despite not achieving the high water mark in terms of sales, they profoundly influenced the course of popular music. Are the Posies the next band to join that list? Well, drop the word 'profoundly' and we're getting somewhere. So, in a sense, this collection is a nice cross section of the breadth and depth and global diversity of the people in whom we've struck a chord of inspiration. And it's true for all of us who make music, once you put something out there, you will be surprised how far it travels, and whose day it might make better. An inspiring thought, and I'm honored to contribute anytime to the inspiration to create.â€
Ken Stringfellow on the “Beautiful Escape†EP
Still thinking about it? Please check out what Posies founding member Ken Stringfellow had to say about the “Beautiful Escape …is Coming Right Along†EP on his web site:
“Listened to this week and can recommend…the EP preceeding the Posies tribute album—including Dominique’s version of ‘Will You Ever Ease Your Mind’ and Jim Protectors’ freak-take of ‘Coming Right Along’. I will register that I myself thought the artwork for the tribute was maybe too literal to the title, and could have been more Posie-ish, but, the tracks…wow! Every track on this EP is a novel, extremely well thought out and great sounding take on a Posies song, from ‘Dream All Day’ (by an LA band called the Meadows, but with 3 current or former Posies contributing) to ‘I Guess You’re Right’ (by some New Yorkers of some stripe). You can buy the EP for $7, so, same price as Itunes, and you get CD quality audio. One of the partners in making the Posies tribute is Steve Turnidge, who I have to say is an extremely talented mastering engineer, so the sonic quality of the tracks makes the physical disk worth having.â€
We were very gratified to hear that Ken has been digging the EP! (We were also very pleased to read the props for Steve – he really does do amazing work!) You probably saw Jon’s great comments on the Album, and now you’ve seen Ken’s take on the EP If The Posies themselves are liking the “Beautiful Escape releases, don’t you think you will, too?
We hope that you will check out the “Beautiful Escape†releases – I think that you will be very happy that you did!
Cheers,
Alan and the Burning Sky Records “Beautiful Escape†Team
