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Record LabelCD Baby, Cdb

UPC0616892956723

eBay Product ID (ePID)25046037805

Product Key Features

Release Year2012

FormatCD

GenreCountry

ArtistMurry Hammond

Release TitleI Don't Know Where I'm Going but I'm on My Way

Dimensions

Item Height0.24 in

Item Weight0.12 lb

Item Length5.72 in

Item Width4.92 in

Additional Product Features

Number of Tracks17

Number of Discs1

TracksWhat Are They Doing in Heaventoday?, Between the Switches, Lost at Sea, I Never Will Marry, Wreck of the 97, Life Is Like a Mountain Railroad, Next Time Take the Train, Riding the Rods, Grainer, You Will Often Meet Obstruction, In the Shadow of Clinch Mountain, Satan Your Kingdom Must Comedown Pt. 1, Satan Your Kingdom Must Comedown Pt. 2, As You Roll Across the Trestle, Rainbow's End, Other Younger Days, I Believe I Believe

NotesOld 97's bass player and co-frontman Murry Hammond celebrates the release of his first full-length album outside of the Old 97's, with \'I Don't Know Where I'm Going But I'm On My Way.\' Hammond has played many memorable solo shows over the years, but it was certain events in his life, including the death of both parents, leaving Texas to start a family in California, and a renewed spiritual sense, that inspired him to record I Don't Know Where I'm Going But I'm On My Way. Hammond has been given the credit - and to some, the blame - for the persistent roots influence found in the 97's songwriting and sound, and that sound is found here in it's distilled form. "Both in my own contributions and in co-writing with Rhett [Miller], I've always tended to push the chug of train songs, the soul of old-time songs and spirituals, the high-lonesome wail of mountain music, and the pure tuneful fun of singing cowboy music." Hammond's contributions have been some of the group's most engaging, including the lament "Valentine" and "Color of a Lonely Heart is Blue," and with Miller he co-wrote some of the group's best-known songs, among them "Timebomb," "Indefinitely" and "The New Kid." Hammond completed I Don't Know Where I'm Going But I'm On My Way over the course of 2007 in San Diego, California with producer Mark Neill, with whom Hammond worked on the Old 97's 2004 release Drag It Up. The album uses all acoustic instruments (six- and twelve-string guitars, a harmonium pump-organ), cowboy poetry-style spoken word and instrumentals, and lots of "period" reverb to paint a psychological journey through a world of spiritual trouble and triumph, restlessness, hope, loss, longing, regret, and wonder. Train songs and spirituals abound as Hammond displays his love of all things Carter Family, Hank Williams and Johnny Cash, but with the twist of incorporating the moody approach of ambient artists such as Brian Eno. Like that of his heroes, the music has a minimalist heart, at once serene and severe. For three months prior to the CD\'s August 2008 street date, the album was made available exclusively at Old 97's shows and through special mail-order. Hammond wished to capitalize on fan anticipation of the album's release in order to raise funds for the non-profit organization Project Mercy. Project Mercy builds basic housing in the poorest sections around Tijuana, Mexico (similar in mission to Habitat for Humanity) using volunteer labor provided by area churches. A group of men and women from Hammond's home church in Burbank, Calif. (where he performs roots gospel music weekly when he's not traveling) have adopted the organization as a primary mission. Hammond was in a unique position to raise funds quickly, and in time to fund fall building before the 2008 winter sets in. The strategy has already paid off, for as of July 1st generous fans purchased enough CDs to pay for one house. The album will always be made available at Old 97's shows, with 100% going to charitable groups such as Project Mercy. Inspired by the grass-roots ethic of early punk record labels such as Dischord and Touch & Go, Hammond decided to operate DIY. He funded all facets of the CD from recording to manufacturing, and he distributes by dealing directly with independent music stores and mail-order houses. Although he also sells on one of the large online music sites that shall be unnamed here, Hammond wants you to know, "I fill all my own orders personally. It gives me a chance to occasionally write something thoughtful or joke-y on the mailing box." Hammond is also excited to have contributed a new track, "Bound for Canaan," to a compilation of Sacred Harp music (also known as "shaped note singing") that was produced by the filmmakers of Awake My Soul, a documentary film about the 200-year history of Sacred Harp worship singing in the U.S. The film was shown in 2007 and 2008 on 120 PBS stations, and was released this year on DVD. The compilation also features Innocence