The True Light, by Joseph Allred

The True Light

by Joseph Allred

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	1.	The True Light 07:59
	2.	Who Will Heal Your Wounds 05:37
	3.	Generations Will Spring 07:23
	4.	Bethsaida 10:16
	5.	A Wreath for the Head 09:54

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Joseph Allred, or occasionally known as their alter-perspective, Blind Faulkner, is a Tennessee-born multi-instrumentalist, now residing in Massachusetts, who has received critical acclaim for their seemingly endless slew of incredible records, most of which showcase their talent for all things stringed.

Here, Worried Songs presents the initially private-pressed masterwork, ‘The True Light’, taking its name from the Gospel of John, a haunting lament for solo-harp guitar.

The five songs found on ‘The True Light’ bleed like a river, flowing from one to the next in waves of immense beauty, melancholia and yearning, reflecting on spirituality and belonging in its many forms. Strong Basho vibes on this one, yet, as always, Joseph expands and transcends on the ghosts of primitive-past, forging their own path.

In short, this is the real deal.

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If you don't know Allred already, you will soon." --Byron Coley,

“Each time I've seen Joseph Allred play a concert, I've choked up. Whether working in improvisation or composition, for harmonium, stringed instruments or voice, their music reveals a deep knowledge of diverse musical idioms secular and religious, with the sort of quiet force that comes from the acquisition of this knowledge, and their performances are striking and brave, simultaneously unadorned and rich as to suggest collaborations with realms beyond our own. The True Light retains these qualities: like Basho or Rose, it's uncompromising; like sacred musics, stately; like the music of so many American masters, it plows ahead on its terms and gives and gives.” – Eli Winter

“…fierce, raw and deeply moving.” – Pop Matters

“Multi-instrumentalist Joseph Allred had a startling answer for an interviewer who recently asked him, “Who are you?” “A sick man, a spiteful man, an unattractive man,” Allred said, adding, “I believe my liver is diseased.” In a press photo depicting him in a dark, funereal suit and holding his guitar with a somewhat accusatory look, he looks like a cross between Teddy Roosevelt and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, benign yet severe and unpredictable. That contrast is not quite so apparent in his music, but, standing on the shoulders of American folk music traditions, he generates a tension not far removed from the melodramas of the German new wave director. Folk music, not for the coffee shop singalong, but for a lonesome trek through a wilderness increasingly invaded by a brutal modern world.”-- Spectrum Culture

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released December 7, 2020

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