Duet For Guitars #2

by M. Ward

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1.	Duet for Guitars #2 02:05	buy track
2.	Beautiful Car 02:37	buy track
3.	Fishing Boat Song 01:43	buy track
4.	Scene from #12 02:51	buy track
5.	Good News 03:13	buy track
6.	The Crooked Spine 01:37	buy track
7.	Look Me Over 04:08	buy track
8.	Who May Be Lazy 03:06	buy track
9.	It Won't Happen Twice 02:46	buy track
10.	He Asked Me to Be a Snake & Live Underground 01:19	buy track
11.	Song from Debby's Stairs 03:20	buy track
12.	It Was a Beautiful Car 01:06	buy track
13.	Were You There? 02:37	buy track
14.	Not a Gang 02:33	buy track
15.	Duet for Guitars #1 02:15	buy track

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Originally released on CD in 1999, M. Ward's debut is a sparse, mostly live affair recorded with pal and engineer Adam Selzer of Norfolk & Western at Type Foundry Studio in Portland, OR. Listeners who are already accustomed to Ward's breathy, conversational vocal delivery and soft-picked, West Coast Americana melodies will find much to love here. Duet for Guitars #2 is peppered with instrumentals in the John Fahey and Bad Timing-era Jim O'Rourke vein, and Ward's lackadaisical picking sounds just as lazily precise here as it does on future recordings. There's a real warmth to the sessions that transcends the often bare-bones production. For the most part, it sound like most takes were done live with two microphones, with the occasional overdub, and that style suits Ward's dreamy tales of molasses-slow teenage summers ("Beautiful Car") and oddball parables like "Fishing Boat Song." It's also interesting to hear him shedding the inflections of some of his more obvious heroes like Neil Young ("Who May Be Lazy") and Bob Dylan ("It Won't Happen Twice").

Remastered & reissued in 2007 with 3 bonus tracks by Merge on CD & Digital and Jealous Butcher on Vinyl.

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released June 27, 1999

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M. Ward Portland, Oregon

M. Ward is a singer-songwriter and guitarist who rose to prominence in the Portland, Oregon music scene. In addition to his solo work, he is known as a member of She & Him and Monsters of Folk.

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Jul 24

Cat's Cradle

Carrboro, NC

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