North Americans – Long Cool World LP cream*

North Americans-the project from Los Angeles guitarist Patrick McDermott and Portland's Barry Walker on pedal steel-release their album Long Cool World via Third Man Records. Long Cool World strips away most of the musical collaborators, allowing Walker and McDermott to settle on an approach that is at once intricate and simple, creating hypnotic music that loops and layers, with subtle shimmers of noise or quiet psychedelic freakouts hiding beneath McDermott's unshowy but emotionally affecting guitarwork and Walker's pedal steel hum. The duo refined their collaborative relationship as well, with McDermott sending isolated guitar tracks to Walker, who then listened to them while on drives and walks around Portland, before going into the studio with only a loose sense of what he wanted to add to them. Eventually McDermott and Walker came together to record the album, giving the whole thing a sort of free-flowing, naturally collaborative feel.

Label: Third Man Records – TMR-878
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Cream vinyl
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Released: Apr 7, 2023
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
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Tracklist

A1 The Living End
A2 Classic Water
A3 The Last Rockabilly
A4 The River Is Wide
A5 Think Of Me As A Place
B1 The Nighthawks Are Out
B2 Crossed Up
B3 Western Town With Road To Mountain
B4 Bad Box