To The Pouring Rain (Seth Augustus)
StreetDate: 02/16/2010 (PFR005)
—— Tracklist ——
1 To the Pouring Rain  (4:12)
2 Trickeries of the Great Emptiness  (4:36)
3 Cherry Rose  (4:58)
4 Big Cocoon  (4:03)
5 Slim Sam  (3:32)
6 Air to the Thrown  (4:32)
7 Convolution Blues  (3:08)
8 Buffalo Eight  (3:27)
9 Tiny Little Head  (3:42)
After haunting the outerlands of San Francisco's music world for the better part of two decades, Seth Augustus has emerged, full-born, with a fully realized sound and perspective that seems to exist outside of time and the limits of geography. Coarse and primitive textures, pre-war blues, hypnagogic tales told over tangos by midnight buskers, Seth's own sinister-electrified guitar and a stripped down drum kit mingle with the rhythms of early American folk and jazz, the cadences of carnival sounds and more than a little 60s-era Captain Beefheart.

To The Pouring Rain was recorded almost entirely at Augustus' make-shift home studio, where he recorded Jolie Holland's stunningly simple debut Catalpa five years prior. Released in time to support his first European tour, it was inspired by American blues and songwriting legends Charley Patton, Howlin Wolf, Tom Waits and Seth's friend and mentor, the blind blues throat singer, Paul Pena, as well as the Tuvan masters, Chirgichin, whose influence is also carried by Seth's Igil and Doshpuluur (Tuvan fiddle and banjo). It is a record of a throat singer and a world traveler, but foremost of a bluesman and a poet whose complex and ever evolving credo could be framed with a line from his song "Slim Sam:" 'Trying to be subtle without being sarcastic.'

"Blues with Heart and Beef"
- Americana UK

"This is the music God hears in his sleep when He has a high fever..."
- Spider Robinson, co-author with Robert A. Heinlein of VARIABLE STAR

"Seth Augustus is able to blend elements of blues, folk, and even a little jazz and world music in order to create intricate melodies that really create a lasting impression... definitely give this disc a shot."
- Cosmos Gaming
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