Released August 11, 2009 Length 44:56 | Recorded January – April 2009 Letters from a Flying Machine(2009) Release date 11 August 2009 Genre Folk music | |
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Label Signature Sounds Recordings Similar Notes from Elsewhere, Kitchen Radio, The Trouble with Poets, The Good Stuff, Deep Blue | ||
Letters from a Flying Machine is an album by American singer/songwriter Peter Mulvey, released in 2009.
Contents
Letters from a Flying Machine is a collection of new songs and spoken-word "letters" by Mulvey, the letters written while in flight to his nieces and nephews.
Reception
Allmusic's review of the album wrote of the spoken word sections "Most are painful to listen to, lacking the grace and lighthearted humor that mark his songwriting," but wrote the songs "aren't as heavy-handed, even when they take on weighty subjects."
Track listing
All songs by Peter Mulvey unless noted.
- "Kids in the Square" (Peter Mulvey, Tim Gearan) – 3:43
- "Some People" – 3:17
- "Letter from a Flying Machine" [spoken] – 3:02
- "Windshield" – 3:42
- "What's Keeping Erica?" (Mulvey, Paul Cebar) – 3:08
- ". . . Plus the Many Inevitable Fragments" [spoken] – 2:40
- "Dynamite Bill" (Mulvey, Gearan) – 3:21
- "Shoulderbirds (You Know Me)" (Mulvey, Gearan) – 3:37
- "Bears" (spoken) – 3:54
- "Mailman" – 3:15
- "Vlad the Astrophysicist" [spoken] – 5:40
- "On a Wing and a Prayer" (Mulvey, Tim Fagan) – 3:42
- "Love is Here to Stay" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 1:55
Personnel
Songs
1Kids in the Square3:43
2Some People3:17
3Letter From a Flying Machine3:02
References
Letters from a Flying Machine Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA