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Executioner's Last Songs Volumes 2 + 3
Pine Valley Cosmonauts
Executioner's Last Songs Volumes 2 + 3
Genres: Country, Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock
 
  •  Track Listings (13) - Disc #1
  •  Track Listings (14) - Disc #2

Here's the The Pine Valley Cosmonauts playing their old death card and raising a little more hell and cash to help wean America off its life threatening death penalty dependency. Since the completion of Volume One, we invi...  more »

     
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All Artists: Pine Valley Cosmonauts
Title: Executioner's Last Songs Volumes 2 + 3
Members Wishing: 6
Total Copies: 0
Label: Bloodshot Records
Original Release Date: 1/1/2000
Re-Release Date: 6/17/2003
Genres: Country, Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock
Styles: Americana, Roadhouse Country, Country Rock
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
UPC: 744302009520

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Album Description
Here's the The Pine Valley Cosmonauts playing their old death card and raising a little more hell and cash to help wean America off its life threatening death penalty dependency. Since the completion of Volume One, we invited more of our favorite singers and songwriters to contribute voices and reputations and were pleasantly trampled by herds of willing collaborators (hence the double disc). They suggested deathly ditties unknown to us, wrote site-specific new ones or quietly bent our cruel and unusual will. Songs of death, murder and mayhem to help drag the dark beast to closure. We think you'll agree, this is one tremendous collection regardless of where you stand in the ever so colorful political spectrum. Contributing artists include: Tim Rutili (Califone), Dave Alvin (Blasters, Knitters), Kurt Wagner (Lambchop), Otis Clay (smoooth soul singin' legend), Sally Timms, Kelly Hogan, Rico Bell, Chris Mills, Deano (Waco Brothers), English folk heroine Charlotte Greig, Alejandro Escovedo, Rebecca Gates (Spinanes), Rhett Miller (Old 97's), Rex Hobart, Edith Frost, Mark Eitzel (American Music Club), Gurf Morlix, The Meat Purveyors, English folk-rock weirdo genius Kevin Coyne, Jon Rauhouse, a classic track from The Sundowners, and much more. This 2 record set is bargain priced, and all artists' proceeds benefit the National Coalition Against the Death Penalty.
 

CD Reviews

Not up to the 1st volume's standards
punkviper | Pittsburgh, PA USA | 12/02/2005
(3 out of 5 stars)

"The 1st Executioner's Last Songs was a surprise hit, full of a great mix of various "alt-country" styles all dealing with various aspects of criminals being put to death. The kind of album that you don't expect much from, but due to its superior group of songs & songwriters becomes a regular in your CD rotation. But... this particular 2-disc comp does not reach those heights. Maybe it's due to Volume 1 being so spectacular that one assumes these 2 volumes would also deliver the goods... not so. The tunes here are mostly dull, lifeless, and a pale imitation of those brave souls on Volume 1. In fact, THIS set kind of fulfills the meager promise one would associate with a compilation of this nature, and it's hurt all the more by its older & more developed sibling. Kudos for the cause and all, but if it's the music you're after, you can skip these and invest in Volume 1 instead."