Mp3: “Regal Goodbyes” – Blisses B

I received this album a few days ago courtesy of Noah Libby and Blisses B. I’ve listened to it several times since then. I’ve said it before, but I am not much of an album girl. I haven’t been in a very long time. With a few exceptions, Fanfarlo’s Reservoir and The Love Language’s Libraries are two such albums. I rarely find an album where I appreciate every song and am not tempted to press “next” again and again.

Thirty Days, Sixty Years felt comfortable and right throughout. I like it.

Here is their biography where I am struck by the words “Are we spending our time wisely, with the right people, and in the right place? What are we giving back?” which was the topic of a very meaningful conversation that I had with a dear friend just yesterday:

Blisses B, rooted firmly in the city that embraces music in all forms imaginable, introduces another compilation of genre-crashing rock and psychedelia with their second fulllength album, Thirty Days, Sixty Years. Debuted on Nov. 9, 2010, the album was recorded, produced, and engineered entirely by the San Francisco-based quartet.

Thirty Days, Sixty Years explores the mathematical parameters that define our lives — weekends, vacations, adolescence, adulthood, the reality of how much time we have left on this earth — and the personal equations that result from the many caveats that can extend and shorten most of these time frames. Are we spending our time wisely, with the right people, and in the right place? What are we giving back?

The fingerprints on Thirty Days, Sixty Years belong only to Blisses B. The album was tracked, mixed, and mastered entirely by bassist Nick Testa. Using electric and acoustic mandolins, piano, Leslie speakers and banjo, Ben Keegan (guitar, mandolin, keyboard, vocals), Noah Libby (vocals, guitar, banjo, mandolin), Matt McBride (drums, percussion), and Testa recorded Thirty Days, Sixty Years at Stout Studios in Oakland, Cal., on a 2-inch Studer tape machine. Overdubs and vocals were added at Devil’s Tail Studios in San Francisco. Keeping it in the family, the band tapped Keegan’s brother, Graham Keegan, to create the artwork for the album.

mp3: “Regal Goodbyes” – Blisses B Posted with permission from the band.
Buy: Thirty Days, Sixty Years via CD Baby

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