Mississippi, by Kenny Nowell

Mississippi

by Kenny Nowell

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1.	Wave at the Train 04:16	buy track
2.	Short-shadowed Cows 03:22	buy track
3.	Eudora at the Jitney 06:22	buy track
4.	Monkey Castle 03:12	buy track
5.	North State Street 04:30	buy track

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The cover image for this album is a painting by my friend Traci Stover (www.tracistover.com
). All of her work is great, but this is the first image of a series of landscapes all of which capture something elusive about Mississippi.

I was once driving my mother back from visiting my brother in Orlando, and we crossed back into Mississippi during a thunderstorm in the late afternoon. She was looking out at a scrubby field beyond some vine-heavy barbed wire, a jagged dead tree out in the middle. She shuddered and said, “Oh, there’s just something about Mississippi.” We had only been in Florida for a few days. You’d have thought we’d been gone for months the way she experienced this flood of relief to cross the state line.

The funny thing is how two seconds before she spoke, I was looking at the same tree with its slashes of silver bark under the slate clouds and thinking “Oh, there’s just something about Mississippi.”

To be objective, I suppose that at that exact instant, another son was driving his mother across the Utah state line and they were both thinking “Oh, there’s just something about Utah.”

But whatever it was my mother and I saw outside the car in the rain is in Traci’s landscapes.

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released January 1, 2024

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Kenny Nowell Brooklyn, New York

Kenny Nowell was born and raised in Mississippi and resides in Brooklyn.

He recorded for the legendary Factory Records sister label Les Disques Du Crepuscules with his band Great Big Buildings. Melody Maker said the songs offer “hair-fine cracks through which you glimpse a private place.”

The NY Times said his "technique is ... a kind of Cubist sculpturing of consciousness." ... more

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