Wood Bug, by Alex Archibald

Wood Bug

by Alex Archibald

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mountmaxwell Restlessly curious and inventive at every turn, like all of Archibald's work. Love this album. Favorite track: Odlum and Gravely.

Art K Listening to an Alex Archibald album takes you on a sound journey through the history of string music, from old time influences to modern flourishes. Alex’s stellar playing holds it all together. Great tape.

lornarowe Alex's music is so deeply human - his style of playing is rooted in emotional and intellectual honesty and generosity. He's one of Vancouver's best and most treasured guitarists, and this is some of his finest work.

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1.	Old Money 01:43	buy track
2.	Carry Wood, Chop Water 01:14	buy track
3.	MAD Boy 02:47	buy track
4.	Lost Cat, Weeks Later 02:56	buy track
5.	Hopefully Mutinous 04:20	buy track
6.	Odlum and Gravely 03:55	buy track
7.	Hard Rock Harold 02:22	buy track
8.	Groucho's Last Days 02:16	buy track
9.	Spinster 04:38	buy track
10.	Wood Bug 01:54	buy track
11.	Warmth of Day Far Away 02:34	buy track
12.	Thicket Life 03:13	buy track
13.	Like No One's Watching 03:14	buy track

about

For Alexander Cederlund, aka: Bonesleigh R.I.P.

This album was recorded mostly towards the end of 2020 and in the winter of 2021. "MAD Boy" is for Morrisey Archibald Doyle. "Lost Cat" is for a cat that came back to my sister's house after not having been seen for a while. "Hopefully Mutinous" is a call to action for myself, born out of an improv-ed piece that solidified itself through repeated playing. "Odlum and Gravely" is a kind of horror/fantasy about the industrial area near where I live. "Hard Rock Harold" is for my grandfather Harold Rayner, who was a log scaler on the BC coast, hard rock being a nickname used by his co-workers referring to his work ethic. "Spinster" relates to where I feel I'm at sometimes in life. "Wood Bug" has a bunch of personal meaning, the field recordings here are mostly taken from my apartment balcony (a garbage truck which is coincidentally semi-wood bug shaped, birds, people going by) as is the view in the front cover photo. "Like No One's Watching" was named by Louise Archibald.

credits

released March 20, 2022

Played, recorded, art by: Archibald
Mastered by Josh Stevenson

Instruments:
Fraulini Angelina 14 fret (X braced) (3,5,9,12)
1934 Sears Supertone Resonator (1,6,11,13)
Sigma 000-vs (8)
Carl Arcand 5 string open backed banjo (2,4,7)
Art and Lutherie parlor guitar (10)
Double sided rubber band plastic container harp (10)

Thanks to: Katie and Jamie, Arthur, Ashley, Christa and Terry, Ralph Johnston, Glenn Jones for the kind critique and the finely cropped capo.

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Alex Archibald Vancouver, British Columbia

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