[ Sub Pop Records / CD ]
Release Date: Monday 15 March 2010
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'Dear Companion' explores the musician's ties to the place they love and aims to draw attention to the problem of Mountaintop Removal coal mining (MTR) and its impact on the people and heritage of central Appalachia.
'Dear Companion' is a collaboration between 3 Kentucky, US musicians; the songs were written and performed by Ben Sollee & Daniel Martin Moore, produced by and featuring Yim Yames (My Morning Jacket, Monsters of Folk).
'Dear Companion' explores the musician's ties to the place they love and aims to draw attention to the problem of Mountaintop Removal coal mining (MTR) and its impact on the people and heritage of central Appalachia.
The music aches with honesty, longing and hope. Every song is a fine, perfect creation and they all hang together to form a true album that can be listened to from start to finish, in the same way a rich, layered novel might be devoured.