Talking to Mountains, by Scott Ballew

Talking to Mountains

by Scott Ballew

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1.	Tent Song 04:35	buy track
2.	Talking to Mountains 02:49	buy track
3.	Morning Pirate 02:57	buy track
4.	Tortilla Moon 03:24	buy track
5.	Jubilee 02:35	buy track
6.	Mickey 03:23	buy track
7.	Barfly 03:54	buy track
8.	Good Luck Kid 02:45	buy track
9.	Country Song 02:04	buy track
10.	Wrong Kind of Blue 01:51	buy track
11.	Life Gone Dim 01:56	buy track

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Scott Ballew was born in Austin, TX in 1983. He didn’t exist when the cosmic cowboy craze glittered its way through town. And he was an infant when Daniel Johnston was selling cassettes outside of Tower Records on Guadalupe. At the age of 30, after a blurry decade of making films and commercials in Southern California, Scott returned home to Austin.

Inspired by the music of Michael Hurley and Townes Van Zandt, he first found a creative outlet in the form of films. Of the many projects, perhaps the most pivotal was directing the only documentary about the work of the great artist and musician Terry Allen, titled “Everything For All Reasons”.

Eventually Scott picked up the guitar when he got sober a few years ago. He taught himself a few chords, learned “Plastic Jesus” and some John Prine songs, and left the guitar in a corner for his friends to play. Then all of the sudden his dad got real sick and he found himself in the middle of a bad breakup, stuck at home with a piano and guitar while the world started falling apart in the spring of 2020.

Against his better judgement he started writing songs, and he wrote a lot of them. Pretty soon he was headed into an old house in Lockhart, TX to record some tunes with his friends. The resulting collection of songs became his debut album Talking to Mountains. Produced by longtime compadre Jesse Woods, the album features a host of friends from the Austin music scene including Todd Hannigan, Odessa Jorgenson, Austin Leonard Jones, and more.

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released February 5, 2021

Featuring:
Scott Ballew (vocals, piano, guitar)
Jesse Woods (vocals, guitar, organ, piano, whistle)
Shane Renfro (bass, guitar)
Jordan Johns (drums)
Odessa Jorgenson (violin)
Bukka Allen (piano, accordion)
Todd Hannigan (guitar)
Austin Leonard Jone (organ, vocals)
Will Patterson (misc magic)
Jesse Seibenberg (tambourine)

All songs by Scott Ballew, except "Tortilla Moon" by Scott Ballew & Jesse Woods, and "Life Gone Dim" by Austin Leonard Jones

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Scott Ballew Austin, Texas

Scott Ballew was born in Austin, TX. Year 1983. With his debut album at 37, he has peeled back another layer to reveal a poetic loner just as lost as the rest of us in this bright and burning futureworld. These songs were recorded in an old house in Lockhart, TX in the summer. It sounds like it. Unplug and drift down to 1972. It’s a long drive and something is always close behind. ... more

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