Alan Sparhawk - non-Low-bands & solo

I know more discussion of his solo stuff since Mimi's passing is elsewhere but probably we should either use a thread like this or a wholly separate one

sed Ned, so right, here we are.

I've been playing the Trampled by Turtles album a lot, and it's starting to blow me away. Rich, sad, warm, ghostly stuff. "Screaming Song" hurts so much I might need to edit it out of my digital version... I'm not in Alan's situation but of course someday might be, and hearing it makes me imagine it more vividly than my heart can handle. The opener and closer are my current favorites, but every song is impressive. And the sequencing is awesome, meandering through different moods like a mountain stream.

Between this and "White Roses, My God" (which, on ILM, has not received the love it deserves! -- too heavy a shadow from his old band, I guess), I have a new living artist whose releases I'll be hanging on. It's been a spell.

"White Roses..." is one of the hardest listens I've attempted, I really was allergic to it. I listened the hell to Solo Guitar (2006) tho, years ago, as much as any Low album

Solo Guitar is amazing.

The Retribution Gospel Choir albums are also great, I'm particularly fond of the second one. I got to open for them on that tour in SF at the Hotel Utah, one of the best shows I ever played.

Tired Eyes, the Neil Young cover band he's in, absolutely smokes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl821lPCQbc

Wishing and hoping and praying he’ll record a reggae adjacent thing.

^ ohhh, that would rule.

Gotta spend some good time with Retribution Gospel Choir -- I tried the third record the other day, and it sounded pretty awesome.

Tired Eyes, the Neil Young cover band he's in, absolutely smokes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl821lPCQbc

Alan nailing those Neil harmonies!!

I'm enjoying how Retribution Gospel Choir swings from "way poppier than Low" on 2 to "waaaay less poppy than Low" on 3.

I guess I've always thought of Black Eyed Snakes as his most prominent side project but I think maybe that's because I'm from Minnesota and maybe it didn't get as much attention elsewhere

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvjT-XkAty8

That two drummer line-up was so great