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Golden Birds : Transamerica
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Layered love songs from the west coast.
Genre: Rock: Acoustic
Release Date: 2005
Transamerica
Golden Birds
Record Label: Golden Birds
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1. Cadmium 2:50 + MP3 $0.99
2. Another Great American Zombie 3:47 + MP3 $0.99
3. It's Your City 3:32 + MP3 $0.99
4. Sioux Falls 3:26 + MP3 $0.99
5. New Year's Eve 3:32 + MP3 $0.99
6. Do You Know Why They Call Me The Count 3:19 + MP3 $0.99
7. Closing Hymn 4:29 + MP3 $0.99
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Album Notes

Golden Birds, from San Francisco, CA, have been described as everything from Post-Rock to Indie-Folk to (our favorite) "Brutal Pop".

But Transamerica is a step in the gentler, more stripped-down direction, with all songs composed only of acoustic guitar, acoustic bass, glockenspiel, accordion, and a whole lot of voices. Thematically, it is a record about separation and distance. A collection of love songs: to those who are elsewhere from people stuck "here", but also to the East Coast from the West, to the "West Bay" from the East, and to the simplicity and innocence of the past - when life was an open frontier, when love was single-minded and all-consuming - from the convoluted, fractured present.

Transamerica was released to coincide with Golden Birds' "Fifty" tour - performances on the steps of each capitol building in the United States during the summer of 2005. More information can be found at http://www.goldenbirds.com/fifty.

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REVIEWS

my favorite album
author: Jenny
                            
seriously.  'new year's eve' and 'sioux falls' are both among my favorite songs of all time.

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Stroke my Folk
author: Christopher Dube
                            
Simply Amazing Music!

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Totally
author: Casey Leech
                            
This CD will change your life.  Well, not any major decisions. But more then the Shins.
ANYWAYZ, if you like acoustic, folk, anti-folk, MUSIC IN GENERAL, then you should buy this. 
I only wish there were more songs, but totally worth the money. 
Lyrics, rhythms, melodies, -- all wonderful!

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Totally
author: Casey Leech
                            
This CD will change your life.  Well, not any major decisions. But more then the Shins.
ANYWAYZ, if you like acoustic, folk, anti-folk, MUSIC IN GENERAL, then you should buy this. 
I only wish there were more songs, but totally worth the money. 
Lyrics, rhythms, melodies, -- all wonderful!

                            Read more...
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