Twice Told Tales is the ninth studio album by Jamestown, New York band 10,000 Maniacs. It is an album that consists of many traditional folk songs from the British Isles. For this album, they team up with producer Armand John Petri, who had worked with the band since 1991, as well as producing their 1999 album The Earth Pressed Flat. Coming back into the fold was founding member John Lombardo, who had supplied the band with a cassette full of songs he loved, as well as putting together the arrangements. The band funded the project through the online direct-to-fan music platform PledgeMusic. The funding drive ran from May 2014 to March 2015. Early promotion of the project included a concert held at the Reg Lenna Center For The Arts in Jamestown, which was also streamed online. The album was released through Cleopatra Records on April 10, 2015.
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Released | April 4, 2015 | |||
Recorded | Tarbox Studios, Cassadaga, NY and the Funhouse, Silver Creek, NY | |||
Genre | Folk | |||
Label | Cleopatra Records | |||
Producer | Armand John Petri | |||
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 57/100[1] |
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AllMusic | [2] |
According to the review aggregator Metacritic, Twice Told Tales received "mixed or average reviews" based on a weighted average score of 57 out of 100 from four critic scores.[1]
All songs traditional except "The Song of Wandering Aengus": words by William Butler Yeats, set to music by Travis Edmonson.
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