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Artist:	FAIRFIELD, FRANK
Title:	Frank Fairfield
Label:	TOMPKINS SQUARE
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	TSQ 2257CD

"'A young Californian who sings and plays as someone who's crawled out of the Virginia mountains carrying familiar songs that in his hands sound forgotten: broken lines, a dissonant drone, the fiddle or the banjo all percussion, every rising moment louder than the one before it.' -- Greil Marcus. California-based fiddle, guitar and banjo player, and ardent 78 collector Frank Fairfield has made his living as a musician, often found playing on the streets of Los Angeles. Handpicked by Fleet Foxes to open their U.S. tour, Frank released a 7" on Tompkins Square (TSQ7 003EP) and recorded his self-titled debut album. His 7" won over tough critics and purists like Grammy winning producer Chris King (Charley Patton, People Take Warning box set), Phil Alexander (Mojo) and Greil Marcus, to name a few. From liner notes by John Tottenham: 'Few questions can be satisfactorily answered about Frank Fairfield, mostly because he keeps to himself. He seems to be at once very open to share his insights, but yet in no way willing to give away his secrets. He was born in the San Joaquin Valley of California. He speaks of his grandfather leaving Texas to pick crops around the country, a constant traveler, a musician, who eventually 'got religion' and settled in Kettleman City, Kings County as a pastor. Dust storms, tumbleweeds, cotton crops... this imagery has been richly cultivated in Fairfield's young mind. Somewhere along the road Frank Fairfield finds himself and begins to play his grandfather's old fiddle, picks up the banjo and gitbox, and starts playing the tunes of old with great conviction, learning many songs from the collection of rural gramophone records he has hungrily hunted down.'"

Artist:	FAIRFIELD, FRANK
Title:	Unheard Ofs & Forgotten Abouts
Label:	TOMPKINS SQUARE
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	TSQ 2387CD

Subtitled: Rare and unheralded gramophone recordings from around the world -- (1916-1964). "On this, the first release on Frank Fairfield's Tompkins Square imprint, Pawn Records, Fairfield presents an exciting collection of reissued recordings from his personal 78 rpm record collection. It provides a broad view of the 'Gramophone era,' specifically concerning the recording of vernacular music from around the world: from Atlanta, Georgia to Kisumu, Kenya; from the '10s to the '60s. The records have been beautifully transferred by the highly respected record collector and producer Michael Kieffer. Frank's self-titled debut album on Tompkins Square has won over fans like Greil Marcus and Ry Cooder, and landed Frank opening spots for Fleet Foxes and Brendan Benson. Pitchfork ran an extensive interview with Frank in their new column The Out Door, and he's been a staple on Greg Vandy's show on KEXP, Seattle." Includes 16-page booklet with notes on each track by Fairfield.

Artist:	FAIRFIELD, FRANK
Title:	Out On The Open West
Label:	TOMPKINS SQUARE
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	TSQ 2578CD

"A young Californian who sings and plays as someone who's crawled out of the Virginia mountains carrying familiar songs that in his hands sound forgotten: broken lines, a dissonant drone, the fiddle or the banjo all percussion, every rising moment louder than the one before it." -- Greil Marcus
"Out on the Open West is Frank Fairfield's new album. It was produced by Michael Kieffer (Origin Jazz Library) and features guest accompaniment by Willie Watson (Old Crow Medicine Show), Jerron 'Blind Boy' Paxton, Tom Marion, Justin and Josh Petrojvic and Brandon Armstrong. The album is a departure for Frank, having written most of the tunes himself, and bringing in the other players to round out his songs. His music has made fans of people like Ry Cooder, Grammy-winning producer Chris King (Charley Patton, People Take Warning box sets) and Greil Marcus, to name a few."

Artist:	FAIRFIELD, FRANK
Title:	Out On The Open West
Label:	TOMPKINS SQUARE
Format:	LP
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	TSQ 2585LP

LP version. "A young Californian who sings and plays as someone who's crawled out of the Virginia mountains carrying familiar songs that in his hands sound forgotten: broken lines, a dissonant drone, the fiddle or the banjo all percussion, every rising moment louder than the one before it." -- Greil Marcus
"Out on the Open West is Frank Fairfield's new album. It was produced by Michael Kieffer (Origin Jazz Library) and features guest accompaniment by Willie Watson (Old Crow Medicine Show), Jerron 'Blind Boy' Paxton, Tom Marion, Justin and Josh Petrojvic and Brandon Armstrong. The album is a departure for Frank, having written most of the tunes himself, and bringing in the other players to round out his songs. His music has made fans of people like Ry Cooder, Grammy-winning producer Chris King (Charley Patton, People Take Warning box sets) and Greil Marcus, to name a few."

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