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Night Through: Singles & Collected Works 1976-2004

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Loren Connors

FV36 3xCD/MP3

Released June 6, 2006

Tracks:

  • 1-1. Come On In My Kitchen (1:49)
  • 1-3. Ribbon O' Blues (7:04)
  • 1-4. Pickin' It Up (1:24)
  • 1-5. Tight and Loose (3:53)
  • 1-6. Mother & Son (2:18)
  • 1-7. Many Miles More (2:54)
  • 1-8. When You Sleep (1:45)
  • 1-9. Along the Way (3:02)
  • 1-10. Home Again (1:20)
  • 1-11. No Goodbyes (2:30)
  • 1-12. Departure (2:57)
  • 1-13. The Five Points (1:51)
  • 1-14. Moonyean (2:13)
  • 1-15. Saoirse ("Freedom") (4:16)
  • 1-16. Little Shoes (2:29)
  • 1-17. Jesus Is Condemned To Death (1:24)
  • 1-18. Jesus Carries The Cross, The First Fall (2:05)
  • 1-19. Jesus Meets Mary (1:35)
  • 1-20. Simon Helps Carry The Cross, Veronica Wipes His Face, The Second Fall (1:26)
  • 1-21. Jesus Comforts The Women Of Jerusalem (1:18)
  • 1-22. The Third Fall, Jesus Is Stripped Of His Garments, The Crucifixion (0:58)
  • 1-23. Jesus Dies (1:22)
  • 1-24. The Deposition (1:34)
  • 1-25. Entombment (0:47)
  • 1-26. Deirdre Of The Sorrows Pt. 1 (0:29)
  • 1-27. Deirdre Of The Sorrows Pt. 2 (0:41)
  • 1-28. Deirdre Of The Sorrows Pt. 3 (0:47)
  • 1-29. Deirdre Of The Sorrows Pt. 4 (2:59)
  • 1-30. Battle Of Clontarf Pt. 1 (1:45)
  • 1-31. Battle Of Clontarf Pt. 2 (1:15)
  • 1-32. Battle Of Clontarf Pt. 3 (3:29)
  • 1-33. Battle Of Clontarf Pt. 4 (2:02)
  • 1-34. Battle Of Clontarf Pt. 5 (1:58)
  • 1-35. Battle Of Clontarf Pt. 6 (2:45)
  • 2-1. Betty Mae (with Robert Crotty) (5:14)
  • 2-2. Night Through (1:55)
  • 2-3. Blight (2:05)
  • 2-4. Eviction (2:14)
  • 2-5. Exile (1:11)
  • 2-6. The End, The Afternoon, The Light (3:10)
  • 2-7. The End, The Afternoon, The Light Pt. 2 (4:45)
  • 2-8. A Selke's Air (4:41)
  • 2-9. Adonais (4:12)
  • 2-10. Spirit (6:28)
  • 2-11. In A Street Full Of Rain (4:59)
  • 2-12. Air (4:42)
  • 2-13. Oh Bonny Doone (3:58)
  • 2-14. Woman Taken In Adultery (4:21)
  • 2-15. For NY 9/11/01 (4:08)
  • 2-16. Pretty As Ever (2:45)
  • 2-17. The Departing Of A Dream Vol. IV (1:34)
  • 2-18. Moon Gone Down (9:58)
  • 2-19. Peace (performed by Mary Mazzacane) (1:15)
  • 3-1. Why We Came Together (1:38)
  • 3-2. Suzanne's Rain (6:09)
  • 3-3. I've Had Trouble, I've Had Joy (5:15)
  • 3-4. Untitled (2:11)
  • 3-5. Haunted House (performed by Haunted House) (15:21)
  • 3-6. Shadows (3:29)
  • 3-7. Only When You Sleep (5:05)
  • 3-8. Star Of Bethlehem Pt. 1 (3:41)
  • 3-9. Star Of Bethelehm Pt. 2 (1:43)
  • 3-10. I Love You Porgy (1:35)
  • 3-11. Earth (3:15)
  • 3-12. Stars (2:24)
  • 3-13. Night In Vain (2:56)
  • 3-14. Untitled (1:50)
  • 3-15. Untitled (1:20)
  • 3-16. Untitled (1:48)
  • 3-17. For Miles Davis (6:54)
  • 3-18. For Miles Pt. 2 (3:20)

Essential 3xCD collection of singles by New York City avant blues guitarist Loren Connors, one of America's most unique and challenging voices. Night Through spans four decades of Connors' recordings from the earliest acoustic session and first solo 7" -- Ribbon o' Blues on St. Joan -- to rare singles issued by Table of the Elements, Road Cone, Father Yod, Menlo Park, Gyttja, Union Pole, and others, to his late 90s band Haunted House and recent acoustic recordings.

Overall, three and half hours of music: 12 7" singles, private CDR releases, collaborations with Suzanne Langille and Robert Crotty, compilation appearances, and 22 unreleased pieces including a 1959 recording by Connors' mother Mary Mazzacane. 24 page color booklet contains detailed notes and cover art for each single, never before seen photographs, an essay by renowned blues scholar Dr. William Ferris and commentary from Connors, Langille, Road Cone's Mike Hinds and others.

Remastered from the original tapes by Jim O'Rourke, this is the definitive overview of Connors' journey as the consummate solo artist from embryonic origins in New Haven, CT to the rise as a monumental presence and spirit channeler. Whether considered avant garde or pure spirit haunt, Connors' guitar speaks purely from the soul in solo settings or with his revered collaborations with the likes of Alan Licht, Jandek, Keiji Haino, Christina Carter, Langille, O'Rourke, Kath Bloom and John Fahey.

"Just cause it's timeless does not mean it can wait." -- Cadence

"[Connors] is an American original in much the same sense as John Fahey or Jandek, in that he's chosen a classically American form, in this case the blues, and in true pioneer spirit taken it off somewhere else..." -- David Keenan, The Wire

"Outside of Derek Bailey and John Fahey, I've never heard such purity in guitar playing." -- Jim O'Rourke