{"title":"Lonnie Holley","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrowse our collection of Lonnie Holley vinyl records, CDs, box sets, and more at Darkside Records. Shop new and used releases with fresh inventory arriving daily.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"lonnie-holley-national-freedom","title":"Lonnie Holley- National Freedom (Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 5-song collaboration between artist Lonnie Holley and the late\nvisionary producer Richard Swift is a tribute to urgent, raw, American\nart - from Howlin' Wolf to Captain Beefheart, from Cecil Taylor to Bo\nDiddley. The songs pulse with anger, hope, energy and a bit of swagger.\nYou can hear sweat and tears through the speaker. Swift left us two years\nago today, but his spirit buzzes through these songs.\nDuring a West Coast tour with Deerhunter in late summer 2013, Holley\nwas put in touch with Swift by a friend who suggested using a day off\non tour to record at Swift's National Freedom Studio in Cottage Grove,\nOregon. Now rather legendary, Swift was in a breakout moment as a\nproducer having recently worked with artists like The Shins, Foxygen\nand Damien Jurado. Holley's essential debut album, Just Before Music,\nhad come out the year prior. The cosmic connection between Holley\nand Swift was immediate. They put down five songs in their day\ntogether: all conjured in the studio and one-of-a-kind.\nAt the end of that day in 2013, Swift - always up until the wee hours -\nmade a late night call to the friend who had set up the session. He was\neffusive about the experience - thrilled to have found a kindred spirit\nin Lonnie Holley and thankful to spend a day crafting unclassifiable,\nextemporaneous and soulful music.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrack List\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCrystal Doorknob\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e In It Too Deep\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Like Hell Broke Away\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Do T Rocker\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e So Many Rivers (The First Time)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jagjaguwar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45006601715933,"sku":"656605238012","price":19.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/3867353-2643734.jpg?v=1727213854"},{"product_id":"lonnie-holley-mith","title":"Lonnie Holley- Mith (Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jagjaguwar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45006605385949,"sku":"656605231617","price":27.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/3818055.jpg?v=1727213682"},{"product_id":"lonnie-holley-mith-1","title":"Lonnie Holley- Mith (Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jagjaguwar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45006618558685,"sku":"656605231631","price":27.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/3818057.jpg?v=1727213123"},{"product_id":"lonnie-holley-oh-me-oh-my-clear-blue","title":"Lonnie Holley- Oh Me Oh My - Clear Blue (Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Oh Me Oh My' is both elegant and ferocious. It is stirring in one moment and a balm the next. It details histories both global and personal. Lonnie Holley's harrowing youth and young manhood in the Jim Crow South are well-told at this point - his sale into a different home as a child for just a bottle of whiskey; his abuse at the infamous Mount Meigs correctional facility for boys; the destruction of his art environment by the Birmingham airport expansion. But Holley's music is less a performance of pain endured and more a display of perseverance, of relentless hope. Intricately and lovingly produced by LA's Jacknife Lee (The Cure, REM, Modest Mouse), there is both kinetic, shortwave funk that call to mind Brian Eno's 'My Life in the Bush of Ghosts' and the deep space satellite sounds of Eno's ambient works. But it's a tremendous achievement in sonics all it's own.\n\nIt's also an achievement in the refinement of Holley's impressionistic, stream-of-consciousness lyrics. On the title track which deals with mutual human understanding\", Holley is able to make a profound point as ever in far fewer phrases: \"The deeper we go, the more chances there are, for us to understand the oh-me's and understand the oh-my's.\" Illustrious collaborators like Michael Stipe, Sharon Van Etten, Moor Mother and Justin Vernon of Bon Iver serve as not only as choirs of angels and co-pilots to give Lonnie's message flight but as proof of Lonnie Holley as a galvanizing, iconoclastic force across the music community.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrack List\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTesting\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e I Am A Part Of The Wonder\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Oh Me Oh My\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Earth Will Be There\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Mount Meigs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Better Get That Crop In Soon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Kindness Will Follow Your Tears\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e None Of Us Have But A Little While\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e If We Get Lost They Will Find Us\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e I Can’t Hush\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Future Children\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jagjaguwar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45006854062301,"sku":"656605243733","price":26.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/4171967-2933957.jpg?v=1727203418"},{"product_id":"lonnie-holley-oh-me-oh-my","title":"Lonnie Holley- Oh Me Oh My (Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Oh Me Oh My' is both elegant and ferocious. It is stirring in one moment and a balm the next. It details histories both global and personal. Lonnie Holley's harrowing youth and young manhood in the Jim Crow South are well-told at this point - his sale into a different home as a child for just a bottle of whiskey; his abuse at the infamous Mount Meigs correctional facility for boys; the destruction of his art environment by the Birmingham airport expansion. But Holley's music is less a performance of pain endured and more a display of perseverance, of relentless hope. Intricately and lovingly produced by LA's Jacknife Lee (The Cure, REM, Modest Mouse), there is both kinetic, shortwave funk that call to mind Brian Eno's 'My Life in the Bush of Ghosts' and the deep space satellite sounds of Eno's ambient works. But it's a tremendous achievement in sonics all it's own.\n\nIt's also an achievement in the refinement of Holley's impressionistic, stream-of-consciousness lyrics. On the title track which deals with mutual human understanding\", Holley is able to make a profound point as ever in far fewer phrases: \"The deeper we go, the more chances there are, for us to understand the oh-me's and understand the oh-my's.\" Illustrious collaborators like Michael Stipe, Sharon Van Etten, Moor Mother and Justin Vernon of Bon Iver serve as not only as choirs of angels and co-pilots to give Lonnie's message flight but as proof of Lonnie Holley as a galvanizing, iconoclastic force across the music community.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrack List\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTesting\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e I Am A Part Of The Wonder\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Oh Me Oh My\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Earth Will Be There\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Mount Meigs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Better Get That Crop In Soon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Kindness Will Follow Your Tears\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e None Of Us Have But A Little While\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e If We Get Lost They Will Find Us\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e I Can’t Hush\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Future Children\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jagjaguwar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45006882111709,"sku":"656605243719","price":25.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/4171965-2933955.jpg?v=1727202489"},{"product_id":"lonnie-holley-tonky","title":"Lonnie Holley- Tonky (Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere are poets like the great Mary Oliver, who might\nsuggest that one's primary function when moving through the\nworld, for as long as they have life and the ability to move through\nthe world, is to play close attention to that which others may foolishly\ncall small, or quotidian. The brain and heart are both containers, with\nas much space as you wish for them to have, and to live is to create\ncollections of found affections. Sounds from your beloved and\nfamiliar blocks, movements of the trees and the people beneath\nthem, the way someone you adore may hold you for a few lingering\nseconds before releasing from a hug and vanishing into a crowded\ncrosswalk. To think of our living, our making, and our loving in this\nway means that, at least for some of us, we may be propelled forward\nby the prospect of what's next. What moment we can hold and place\nin our overflowing pockets.\nThe work of Lonnie Holley is, for me, a work of this kind of\naccumulation and close attention. The delight of finding a sound\nand pressing it up against another found sound and another until,\nbefore a listener knows it, they are awash in a symphony of sound\nthat feels like it stitches together as it is washing over you. Tonky is\nan album that takes it's name from a childhood nickname that was\naffixed to Holley when he lived a portion of his childhood life in a\nhonky tonk. Lonnie Holley's life of survival and endurance is one that\nrequired - and no doubt still requires - a kind of invention. An\ninvention that is also rich and present in Holley's songs, which are full\nand immersive on Tonky, an album that begins with it's longest song,\na nine minute, exhaustive marathon of a tune called \"Seeds,\" which\nbegins with a single sparse sound and then expands. Chants, faint\nkeys, strings, and atop it all, Holley's voice, not singing, but speaking\nplainly about working the earth when he was young, the violence he\nendured in the process of it all, going to bed bloodied and in pain\nfrom beatings. The song expands into a metaphor about place,\nabout the failures of home, or anywhere meant to protect you not\nliving up to what it sells itself to be, even if you tirelessly work at it,\nwork on it, work to make something worthwhile of it.\n\"Seeds\" not only sets the tone for an album that revolves\naround rebirth, renewal, and the limits of hope and faith, but it\nhighlights what Holley's greatest strength as a musician is, to me,\nwhich is a commitment to abundance, and generosity. He is an\nincredibly gifted storyteller with a commitment to the oral tradition,\nsuch that many listeners (myself among them,) would be entirely\ncontent sitting at the feet of a Lonnie Holley record and turning an\near to his robust, expansive storytelling. But Tonky is an album as\nexpansive in sound as it is in making a place for a wide range of\nfeatured artists to come through the door of the record and feel at\nhome, no matter how they spend the time they get on a song.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrack List\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSeeds\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Life\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Protest With Love\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Burden (I Turned Nothing Into Something)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Same Stars\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Kings In The Jungle Slaves In The Field\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Strength of A Song\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e What’s Going On?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Fear The Machine\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e I Looked Over My Shoulder\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Did I Do Enough?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e That’s Not Art That’s Not Music\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Those Stars Are Still Shining\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e A Change Is Gonna Come\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AEC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46054219481309,"sku":"656605246819","price":30.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/4400440-3319224.jpg?v=1737469938"},{"product_id":"lonnie-holley-tonky-red","title":"Lonnie Holley- Tonky - Red (Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere are poets like the great Mary Oliver, who might\nsuggest that one's primary function when moving through the\nworld, for as long as they have life and the ability to move through\nthe world, is to play close attention to that which others may foolishly\ncall small, or quotidian. The brain and heart are both containers, with\nas much space as you wish for them to have, and to live is to create\ncollections of found affections. Sounds from your beloved and\nfamiliar blocks, movements of the trees and the people beneath\nthem, the way someone you adore may hold you for a few lingering\nseconds before releasing from a hug and vanishing into a crowded\ncrosswalk. To think of our living, our making, and our loving in this\nway means that, at least for some of us, we may be propelled forward\nby the prospect of what's next. What moment we can hold and place\nin our overflowing pockets.\nThe work of Lonnie Holley is, for me, a work of this kind of\naccumulation and close attention. The delight of finding a sound\nand pressing it up against another found sound and another until,\nbefore a listener knows it, they are awash in a symphony of sound\nthat feels like it stitches together as it is washing over you. Tonky is\nan album that takes it's name from a childhood nickname that was\naffixed to Holley when he lived a portion of his childhood life in a\nhonky tonk. Lonnie Holley's life of survival and endurance is one that\nrequired - and no doubt still requires - a kind of invention. An\ninvention that is also rich and present in Holley's songs, which are full\nand immersive on Tonky, an album that begins with it's longest song,\na nine minute, exhaustive marathon of a tune called \"Seeds,\" which\nbegins with a single sparse sound and then expands. Chants, faint\nkeys, strings, and atop it all, Holley's voice, not singing, but speaking\nplainly about working the earth when he was young, the violence he\nendured in the process of it all, going to bed bloodied and in pain\nfrom beatings. The song expands into a metaphor about place,\nabout the failures of home, or anywhere meant to protect you not\nliving up to what it sells itself to be, even if you tirelessly work at it,\nwork on it, work to make something worthwhile of it.\n\"Seeds\" not only sets the tone for an album that revolves\naround rebirth, renewal, and the limits of hope and faith, but it\nhighlights what Holley's greatest strength as a musician is, to me,\nwhich is a commitment to abundance, and generosity. He is an\nincredibly gifted storyteller with a commitment to the oral tradition,\nsuch that many listeners (myself among them,) would be entirely\ncontent sitting at the feet of a Lonnie Holley record and turning an\near to his robust, expansive storytelling. But Tonky is an album as\nexpansive in sound as it is in making a place for a wide range of\nfeatured artists to come through the door of the record and feel at\nhome, no matter how they spend the time they get on a song.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrack List\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSeeds\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Life\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Protest With Love\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Burden (I Turned Nothing Into Something)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Same Stars\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Kings In The Jungle Slaves In The Field\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Strength of A Song\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e What’s Going On?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Fear The Machine\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e I Looked Over My Shoulder\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Did I Do Enough?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e That’s Not Art That’s Not Music\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Those Stars Are Still Shining\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e A Change Is Gonna Come\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AEC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46054249169117,"sku":"656605246833","price":32.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/4400442-3319226.jpg?v=1737470215"},{"product_id":"lonnie-holley-tonky-1","title":"Lonnie Holley- Tonky (CD)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere are poets like the great Mary Oliver, who might\r\nsuggest that one's primary function when moving through the\r\nworld, for as long as they have life and the ability to move through\r\nthe world, is to play close attention to that which others may foolishly\r\ncall small, or quotidian. The brain and heart are both containers, with\r\nas much space as you wish for them to have, and to live is to create\r\ncollections of found affections. Sounds from your beloved and\r\nfamiliar blocks, movements of the trees and the people beneath\r\nthem, the way someone you adore may hold you for a few lingering\r\nseconds before releasing from a hug and vanishing into a crowded\r\ncrosswalk. To think of our living, our making, and our loving in this\r\nway means that, at least for some of us, we may be propelled forward\r\nby the prospect of what's next. What moment we can hold and place\r\nin our overflowing pockets.\r\nThe work of Lonnie Holley is, for me, a work of this kind of\r\naccumulation and close attention. The delight of finding a sound\r\nand pressing it up against another found sound and another until,\r\nbefore a listener knows it, they are awash in a symphony of sound\r\nthat feels like it stitches together as it is washing over you. Tonky is\r\nan album that takes it's name from a childhood nickname that was\r\naffixed to Holley when he lived a portion of his childhood life in a\r\nhonky tonk. Lonnie Holley's life of survival and endurance is one that\r\nrequired - and no doubt still requires - a kind of invention. An\r\ninvention that is also rich and present in Holley's songs, which are full\r\nand immersive on Tonky, an album that begins with it's longest song,\r\na nine minute, exhaustive marathon of a tune called \"Seeds,\" which\r\nbegins with a single sparse sound and then expands. Chants, faint\r\nkeys, strings, and atop it all, Holley's voice, not singing, but speaking\r\nplainly about working the earth when he was young, the violence he\r\nendured in the process of it all, going to bed bloodied and in pain\r\nfrom beatings. The song expands into a metaphor about place,\r\nabout the failures of home, or anywhere meant to protect you not\r\nliving up to what it sells itself to be, even if you tirelessly work at it,\r\nwork on it, work to make something worthwhile of it.\r\n\"Seeds\" not only sets the tone for an album that revolves\r\naround rebirth, renewal, and the limits of hope and faith, but it\r\nhighlights what Holley's greatest strength as a musician is, to me,\r\nwhich is a commitment to abundance, and generosity. He is an\r\nincredibly gifted storyteller with a commitment to the oral tradition,\r\nsuch that many listeners (myself among them,) would be entirely\r\ncontent sitting at the feet of a Lonnie Holley record and turning an\r\near to his robust, expansive storytelling. But Tonky is an album as\r\nexpansive in sound as it is in making a place for a wide range of\r\nfeatured artists to come through the door of the record and feel at\r\nhome, no matter how they spend the time they get on a song.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrack List\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSeeds\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Life\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Protest With Love\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Burden (I Turned Nothing Into Something)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Same Stars\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Kings In The Jungle Slaves In The Field\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Strength of A Song\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e What’s Going On?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Fear The Machine\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e I Looked Over My Shoulder\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Did I Do Enough?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e That’s Not Art That’s Not Music\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Those Stars Are Still Shining\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e A Change Is Gonna Come\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003cp\u003eShop online 24\/7 at \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.darksiderecords.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eDarkside Records\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AEC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46054312181981,"sku":"656605246826","price":14.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/4400441-3319225.jpg?v=1737470624"},{"product_id":"lonnie-holley-mith-2","title":"Lonnie Holley- Mith (CD)","description":"\u003cp\u003eUPC \u0026gt; 656605231624\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFormat \u0026gt; New CD\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLabel \u0026gt; Jagjaguwar\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShop online at \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.darksiderecords.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eDarkside Records\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alliance - BT","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46982566150365,"sku":"656605231624","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/3818056.jpg?v=1762923700"},{"product_id":"matthew-e-white-lonnie-holley-broken-mirror-a-selfie-reflection","title":"Matthew E. 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Holley strolls into \"I Cried Space Dust\" as if he's wandered into the On the Corner sessions and offered unsolicited insights on true transcendence. \"I'm Not Tripping\" is an anthem of self-worth and self-enjoyment for a society mired in self-doubt, the words breaking like light beams through clouds of atomized drums and synths. And Holley begins the title track as a character mindlessly staring into a cell phone, captivated by his own image like Narcissus at water's edge. Holley ponders the egotism of projection over dizzying keyboards and guitars so jagged they conjure fractured glass. By song's end, he's mocking this infrastructure of pandering for likes, jeering us all above a savage bassline that dares you to differ.Holley and White may seem like unlikely collaborators, divided as they are by decades and disciplines. Holley, 70, first earned attention as a sculptor far removed from the fiefdom of fine art, using society's detritus to create curious bricolages that ferried deep narratives of ancestral pride, enduring pain, and eternal hope. His music-privately stowed on stacks of cassettes before he released his staggering 2012 debut, Just Before Music, at the age of 62-aired those ideas over extemporaneous pieces for prismatic keyboards. But on Big Inner and Fresh Blood, White, now 38, came into acclaim as one of his generation's most meticulous songwriters and arrangers. 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But Holley's music is less a performance of pain endured and more a display of perseverance, of relentless hope. Intricately and lovingly produced by LA's Jacknife Lee (The Cure, REM, Modest Mouse), there is both kinetic, shortwave funk that call to mind Brian Eno's 'My Life in the Bush of Ghosts' and the deep space satellite sounds of Eno's ambient works. But it's a tremendous achievement in sonics all it's own.It's also an achievement in the refinement of Holley's impressionistic, stream-of-consciousness lyrics. 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