NATIVE KENTUCKIAN

R. Keenan Lawler speaks a private, fundamental language via his trademark metal-bodied resonator

guitar. With an intensely focused technique, he sets bluegrass- and blues-inflected tonalities against dense masses of harmonic
overtones and sustained textures. It is a mesmerizing sound, one that conjures the effect of various global trance-musics and has
beguiled a series of collaborators including Pelt, Matmos, Charalambides and My Morning Jacket. Inhabiting the mysterious
string-space between Tony Conrad and John Fahey, Lawler's is a wholly original idiom of music that brims with near-religious
exhaltation and spectral, gothic dread — a daring plunge through the darkened brambles of a particularly raw Americana.

"The notes ring like alien crystal, cascade like a rain of mirrors, erupt like a volcano woven of wire . . . it's bluegrass

for futurists . . . and the guitar is just a marvel, a gorgeous, silvery vision."

—NOUGAT MAGAZINE

"Hugely visual music, bringing space and imagery to the record which previously only half-existed . . . Gorgeous."

—BOOMKAT

"Keenan Lawler's scattered resonator guitar finds a secret vista firmly tucked away from all things real and human."

—THE BROKEN FACE

"Monolithic." —ISTHMUS,

MADISON

"Lawler forges a deep sound portal via his National Steel resonator guitar. His sound is primal and otherworldly,

meditative and boundless, He bridges the gap between the most primitive American mountain music and modern
day out jazz."

—FOXY DIGITALIS

"Mimics the structure of a Carnatic raga, rising from a languid melodic exposition to a thrilling climax awash in

overtones."

—CHICAGO READER

NEW RELEASE

ON

FORMAT: CD
RELEASE DATE: 24 October 2006
FILE UNDER: Rock
CATALOG NO: XER-CD-108
UPC: 600401108024

1. That Train Has Already Left the Station
2. Wall Climbing Spirit
3. 1930
4. The Air on Mars is Hard to Breathe,

We'll Just Have to Stay in Louisville

5. A Universal Rose
6. One of These Days
7. Our Prayer

TRACKS

R. Keenan Lawler

Music for the Bluegrass States

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