Jon Auer / Ken Stringfellow - Private Sides flac album

In 1988, Stringfellow and Auer began playing together as The Posies and self-released their first album, Failure, which included some of the earlier material they'd written separately Failure was well received by the press and put into regular rotation at college and commercial radio stations, prompting Stringfellow and Auer to quickly assemble a full band. In 2003, Stringfellow and Auer released Private Sides, a six-song split EP on Arena Rock Recording C. Rykodisc. As a sideman, Stringfellow has worked with Brendan Benson, Cali, Snow Patrol, and others

Even though Private Sides is not the Posies reunion record that fans of the legendary power pop band were hoping for, it is bound to make the band's fans pretty happy.

Founding members Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow co-wrote pop-rock songs with simple chord progressions, catchy melodies and tight vocal harmonies, all the while rocking their hearts out. In the late ‘90s, though, the band took a back seat to other projects. Since the split-up of the band (they still occasionally play together, but there’s no new album in sight), Auer and Stringfellow have each released decent, enjoyable solo albums. Like Lennon and McCartney’s, though, their solo efforts lack the energy and quality of their collaborative work. Still not their finest work, Private Sides is nevertheless a fun collection of material that gives fans a side-by-side comparison of the pair’s solo work. The EP kicks off with Auer’s When The Lights Go Up, a country-ish ballad featuring soaring violins and melancholy vocals. Though tuneful and mellow at first, the song gets boring fast and drags on a bit too long.

Auer's songs are a country-rock ballad with some mournful violin work and heartbreaking vocals ("When the Lights Go Up"), a monotonous guitar pop tune that sounds like a Posies outtake ("Beautiful"), and a pounding and monolithic track that sounds like Cheap Trick doing the soundtrack to an AIP horror movie ("All U People").

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Private Sides - EP. Jon Auer & Ken Stringfellow. Danzig in the Moonlight.

Living room concert van Ken Stringfellow Ken Stringfellow is samen met Jon Auer de oprichter van de legendarische powerpopband The Posies. Met een loepheldere stem liet Stringfellow in de jaren ‘90 veel harten sneller kloppen. Zei je powerpop, dan zei je The Posies. Daar bleef het voor Ken niet eens bij: al vanaf begin jaren ‘90 tourde hij met die andere fameuze popband, Big Star. M muzieklandschap, Indie en meer, Ken Stringfellow heeft sinds het debuut van zijn band The Posies in 1988 meer dan e. .

Ken Stringfellow is most widely known as Jon Auer's partner in the Seattle-based "power pop" group, The Posies, but is also a well-respected artist and producer in his own right. Ken's solo career began with the 1997 release, This Sounds Like Goodbye and the low-fi, experimental feel of this album was a departure from the richness of The Posies sound.