Released October 17, 2000 Artist The Mountain Goats Producer John Darnielle | Length 43:00 Release date 17 October 2000 Label Absolutely Kosher Records | |
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The Coroner's Gambit
(2000) All Hail West Texas
(2002) Genres Lo-fi music, Rock music, Folk rock Similar Full Force Galesburg, Nothing for Juice, Get Lonely, Zopilote Machine, We Shall All Be Healed | ||
The mountain goats the coroner s gambit
The Coroner's Gambit is the fifth studio album by the Mountain Goats, released on October 17, 2000 by Absolutely Kosher Records. Several songs from this album, including The Coroner's Gambit, Bluejays and Cardinals, and Shadow Song, were written about Rozz Williams, who ended his life two years before the release of the album, and was a personal friend of John Darnielle. In some live versions, he will reference Williams by first name.
Contents
The mountain goats the coroner s gambit original take
Recording
The album is mostly John Darnielle and his acoustic guitar, but it has sparse auxiliary instrumentation as well. Most of the songs were recorded on John's Panasonic RX-FT500 boom box, but due to either mechanical failure or desire for clearer sound quality, he used a 4-track recording machine for some tracks.
Personnel
Songs
1Jaipur3:14
2Elijah3:08
3Trick Mirror2:40