Truelove's Gutter
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Truelove's Gutter is the sixth studio album from musician Richard Hawley
, released on 21 September 2009. The album features some uncommon instrumentation, such as the waterphone
, megabass, and cristal baschet
. Thematically, Truelove's Gutter is Richard's darkest album to date. Richard told the BBC
that the album was inspired by particularly dark periods in his life and those of others. The first single, "For Your Lover, Give Some Time," was released as a digital download on 10 August 2009. The album title refers to a location in Hawley's native Sheffield
, which was named after 18th-century local innkeeper Thomas Truelove, who had a gutter that used to dump rubbish in the River Don.
Richard Hawley
Richard Hawley is a guitarist, singer-songwriter and producer. After his first band Treebound Story broke up, Hawley found success as a member of Britpop band Longpigs in the 1990s. He later joined the band Pulp, led by his friend Jarvis Cocker...
, released on 21 September 2009. The album features some uncommon instrumentation, such as the waterphone
Waterphone
A waterphone is a type of atonal acoustic musical instrument constructed largely of a stainless steel resonator "bowl" with a cylindrical "neck", which may or may not contain a small amount of water, and with brass rods around the rim of the bowl. The waterphone produces a vibrant ethereal type of...
, megabass, and cristal baschet
Cristal baschet
The Cristal Baschet is a musical instrument that produces sound from oscillating glass cylinders. The Cristal Baschet is also known as the Crystal Organ and the Crystal Baschet, and composed of 54 chromatically-tuned glass rods. The glass rods are rubbed with moistened fingers to produce vibrations...
. Thematically, Truelove's Gutter is Richard's darkest album to date. Richard told the BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
that the album was inspired by particularly dark periods in his life and those of others. The first single, "For Your Lover, Give Some Time," was released as a digital download on 10 August 2009. The album title refers to a location in Hawley's native Sheffield
Sheffield
Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough of South Yorkshire, England. Its name derives from the River Sheaf, which runs through the city. Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and with some of its southern suburbs annexed from Derbyshire, the city has grown from its largely...
, which was named after 18th-century local innkeeper Thomas Truelove, who had a gutter that used to dump rubbish in the River Don.
Track listing
All tracks written by Richard Hawley.- "As the Dawn Breaks" – 4:35
- Richard Hawley – vocals, Atkin acoustic parlour guitarParlor guitarParlor or parlour guitar usually refers to a type of smaller-bodied guitar smaller than that of a concert guitar.The popularity of these guitars peaked between the late 19th century until the 1950s...
- Shez Sheridan – mandolaMandolaThe mandola or tenor mandola is a fretted, stringed musical instrument. It is to the mandolin what the viola is to the violin: the four double courses of strings tuned in fifths to the same pitches as the viola , a fifth lower than a mandolin...
- Thomas Bloch – cristal baschetCristal baschetThe Cristal Baschet is a musical instrument that produces sound from oscillating glass cylinders. The Cristal Baschet is also known as the Crystal Organ and the Crystal Baschet, and composed of 54 chromatically-tuned glass rods. The glass rods are rubbed with moistened fingers to produce vibrations...
, glass harmonica - Colin Elliot – string organ
- Richard Hawley – vocals, Atkin acoustic parlour guitar
- "Open Up Your Door" – 4:42
- Richard Hawley – vocals, Gretsch Country GentlemanGretschThe Gretsch Company was founded in 1883 by Friedrich Gretsch, a twenty-seven year old German immigrant recently arrived in the US. Friedrich Gretsch manufactured banjos, tambourines, and drums, until his death in 1895. His son, Fred, moved operations to Brooklyn, New York in 1916...
, Fender MusicmasterFender MusicmasterThe Fender Musicmaster is an electric guitar by Fender, and was the first of their 3/4 scale guitars. With a single pickup and no tremolo arm, it was a basic but functional instrument....
, Gibson ES-335Gibson ES-335The Gibson ES-335 is the world's first commercial thinline arched-top semi-acoustic electric guitar. Released by the Gibson Guitar Corporation as part of its ES series in 1958, it is neither hollow nor solid; instead, a solid wood block runs through the center of its body...
, Danelectro baritone guitarDanelectroDanelectro is an American manufacturer of musical instruments and accessories, specializing in rock instruments such as guitars, bass guitars, amplifiers and effects units.-History:...
, DeArmond "shadowtone" pedalHarry DeArmondHarry DeArmond invented the first commercially available attachable guitar pickup in the mid 1930s. He established a working relationship with Horace 'Bud' Rowe's company to manufacture and develop these items... - Dean Beresford – drums
- Colin Elliot – Fender bass, glockenspielGlockenspielA glockenspiel is a percussion instrument composed of a set of tuned keys arranged in the fashion of the keyboard of a piano. In this way, it is similar to the xylophone; however, the xylophone's bars are made of wood, while the glockenspiel's are metal plates or tubes, and making it a metallophone...
- Shez Sheridan – Spanish guitar, 12-string acoustic guitar, lap steel guitar, vibraphoneVibraphoneThe vibraphone, sometimes called the vibraharp or simply the vibes, is a musical instrument in the struck idiophone subfamily of the percussion family....
- Jon Trier – piano
- The Red Skies – string section
- Richard Hawley – vocals, Gretsch Country Gentleman
- "Ashes on the Fire" – 4:24
- Richard Hawley – vocals, Gretsch 6196, Atkin acoustic parlour guitar, Baldwin 12-string electric guitar
- Dean Beresford – drums
- Colin Elliot – Fender bass, piano, celesteCelestaThe celesta or celeste is a struck idiophone operated by a keyboard. Its appearance is similar to that of an upright piano or of a large wooden music box . The keys are connected to hammers which strike a graduated set of metal plates suspended over wooden resonators...
- Shez Sheridan – harmony vocals, Spanish guitar, Gretsch "48" synchromatic acoustic guitar, TremoloTremoloTremolo, or tremolando, is a musical term that describes various trembling effects, falling roughly into two types. The first is a rapid reiteration...
mandolas, 12-string guitars
- "Remorse Code" – 9:51
- Richard Hawley – vocals, Atkin acoustic parlour guitar, Atkin jumbo guitar, Gretsch 6196, Burns Nu-SonicBurns LondonBurns London is a guitar-making company originally formed in 1960 as Ormston Burns Ltd. It was founded by James Ormston Burns , who has been described as the British Leo Fender...
, cymbals - Dean Beresford – drums
- Colin Elliot – Fender bass, the enchanted lyreLyreThe lyre is a stringed musical instrument known for its use in Greek classical antiquity and later. The word comes from the Greek "λύρα" and the earliest reference to the word is the Mycenaean Greek ru-ra-ta-e, meaning "lyrists", written in Linear B syllabic script...
- Shez Sheridan – tenor guitar, e-bowE-BowThe EBow or ebow is a hand-held, battery-powered electronic device for playing the electric guitar, invented by Greg Heet in 1969...
lap steel, feedback 12-string drones, dulcimerAppalachian dulcimerThe Appalachian dulcimer is a fretted string instrument of the zither family, typically with three or four strings. It is native to the Appalachian region of the United States...
, Fisherman's lyre - Jon Trier – pipe organ
- Richard Hawley – vocals, Atkin acoustic parlour guitar, Atkin jumbo guitar, Gretsch 6196, Burns Nu-Sonic
- "Don't Get Hung Up in Your Soul" – 4:16
- Richard Hawley – vocals, Atkin acoustic parlour guitar
- David Coulter – musical sawMusical sawA musical saw, also called a singing saw, is the application of a hand saw as a musical instrument. The sound creates an ethereal tone, very similar to the theremin...
- Colin Elliot – double bass
- Shez Sheridan – Alpine concert zitherZitherThe zither is a musical string instrument, most commonly found in Slovenia, Austria, Hungary citera, northwestern Croatia, the southern regions of Germany, alpine Europe and East Asian cultures, including China...
- "Soldier On" – 6:50
- Richard Hawley – vocals, Atkin acoustic parlour guitar, Atkin jumbo guitar, Gretsch clipper, Gretsch 12-string, Fender JaguarFender JaguarThe Fender Jaguar is an electric guitar introduced in 1962. A descendant of the Jazzmaster, the Jaguar quickly caught on in the emerging Surf music scene...
, Fender TelecasterFender TelecasterThe Fender Telecaster, colloquially known as the Tele , is typically a dual-pickup, solid-body electric guitar made by Fender.Its simple yet effective design and revolutionary sound broke ground and set trends in electric guitar manufacturing and popular music...
, Danelectro baritone, Gibson 120T - Dean Beresford – drums
- Thomas Bloch – Ondes MartenotOndes MartenotThe ondes Martenot , also known as the ondium Martenot, Martenot and ondes musicales, is an early electronic musical instrument invented in 1928 by Maurice Martenot. The original design was similar in sound to the theremin...
- Colin Elliot – Fender bass, double bass feedback, wind chimesWind Chimes"Wind Chimes" is a song composed by Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks for the American rock band The Beach Boys. The original version of the song was written and recorded for the aborted 1966 album Smile. The band completely re-recorded the song for inclusion on their next album, Smiley Smile...
, vibes, gongGongA gong is an East and South East Asian musical percussion instrument that takes the form of a flat metal disc which is hit with a mallet.... - Shez Sheridan – lap steel
- The Red Skies – string section
- Richard Hawley – vocals, Atkin acoustic parlour guitar, Atkin jumbo guitar, Gretsch clipper, Gretsch 12-string, Fender Jaguar
- "For Your Lover, Give Some Time" – 5:38
- Richard Hawley – vocals
- Colin Elliot – harpsichordHarpsichordA harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It produces sound by plucking a string when a key is pressed.In the narrow sense, "harpsichord" designates only the large wing-shaped instruments in which the strings are perpendicular to the keyboard...
, organ, celeste - Donald Grant – solo violin
- Liz Hanks – solo cello
- Shez Sheridan – Spanish guitar, Fisherman's lyre
- The Red Skies – string section
- "Don't You Cry" – 10:42
- Richard Hawley – vocals, Atkin acoustic parlour guitar, Gretsch 6120w, Gretsch G6118T-LTV 125th, snare drumSnare drumThe snare drum or side drum is a melodic percussion instrument with strands of snares made of curled metal wire, metal cable, plastic cable, or gut cords stretched across the drumhead, typically the bottom. Pipe and tabor and some military snare drums often have a second set of snares on the bottom...
- Dean Beresford – drums and cymbals
- Thomas Bloch – cristal baschet, glass harmonica, waterphoneWaterphoneA waterphone is a type of atonal acoustic musical instrument constructed largely of a stainless steel resonator "bowl" with a cylindrical "neck", which may or may not contain a small amount of water, and with brass rods around the rim of the bowl. The waterphone produces a vibrant ethereal type of...
- David Coulter – musical saw, waterphone
- Colin Elliot – Fender bass, hi-hatHi-hatA hi-hat, or hihat, is a type of cymbal and stand used as a typical part of a drum kit by percussionists in R&B, hip-hop, disco, jazz, rock and roll, house, reggae and other forms of contemporary popular music.- Operation :...
, harpsichord, glockenspiel, organ, synthesizer, steel drum, sleigh bells, Tibetan singing bowlsSinging bowlSinging bowls are a type of bell, specifically classified as a standing bell. Rather than hanging inverted or attached to a handle, singing bowls sit with the bottom surface resting...
, backing vocals - Shez Sheridan – acoustic 12-string guitar, Fisherman's lyre, Gretsch electric 12-string guitar, Baldwin electric 12-string guitar, Selmer lap steelThe Selmer CompanyHenri Selmer Paris company is a French family-owned enterprise, manufacturer of musical instruments based in Paris, France in 1885. It is known for its high-quality woodwind and brass instruments, especially saxophones, clarinets and trumpets...
, backing vocals - Jon Trier – celeste
- Richard Hawley – vocals, Atkin acoustic parlour guitar, Gretsch 6120w, Gretsch G6118T-LTV 125th, snare drum
Singles
- "For Your Lover, Give Some Time" (10 August 2009)
- Digital download
- "Open Up Your Door" (30 November 2009)
- Digital download
- False Lights from the Land EP (7 June 2010)
- 10" vinyl (also includes CD copy of EP)
- "Remorse Code"
- "Shallow Brown"
- "The Ellan Vannin Tragedy"
- "There's a Storm a-Comin'"
Production credits
- Produced by Richard Hawley and Colin Elliot at Yellow Arch Studios, Sheffield
- Engineering and orchestral arrangements by Colin Elliot
- Red Skies string section recorded in Axis Studios, Sheffield; engineered by Mike Timm
- The Red Skies string section:
- Violins – Donald Grant, Helena Smart, Catrin Morgan, Emma Wragg, Thea Spiers, Kirsty Mangan
- Violas – Felix Tanner, Natalie Holt
- Cellos – Lucy Payne, Liz Hanks
- Double bass on "For Your Lover, Give Some Time" – Richard Pryce
- Mastered by Duncan Cowell at Soundmastering, London
- Sleeve design by Nick Phillips
- Cover and cloud photography by Steve Gullick
- Lyric photography by Julian Holtom