REIGNING SOUND: Home for Orphans LP

Description

Originally put together in 2005 for release on Sympathy For The Record Industry, ‘Home For Orphan’s saw Reigning Sound founder Greg Cartwright pull together a selection of rarities and out-takes from the band’s past. Now with additional tracks, Merge re-issues the compilation for its 15th anniversary.

When Reigning Sound’s Greg Cartwright assembled the tracklist for 2005’s Home for Orphans compilation LP, he was mining from a moody pool of outtakes and rarities cut at various locations across his hometown of Memphis. Stephen Deusner wrote in his review for Pitchfork: “Greg Cartwright has an ear for the hooks and hits from the mid-20th century, when rock, country, and r&b were only just beginning to diverge, and his songs with the Reigning Sound have the authenticity of dusty 45s by long-forgotten artists, buried for decades in some lonely LP store or flea market.”

Featuring the original Memphis lineup of singer-guitarist Cartwright, bassist Jeremy Scott, drummer Greg Roberson, and organist Alex Greene, Home for Orphans presents Reigning Sound’s classic sonic blueprint.

Tracking:
Find Me Now
If You Can’t Give Me Everything
Funny Thing
Medication Blues #1
Carol
What Could I Do?
If Christmas Can’t Bring You Home
Pretty Girl
Without You
Don’t Send Me No Flowers, I Ain’t Dead Yet (Live)