ARTiST: Willy Mason
TiTLE: If The Ocean Gets Rough
LABEL: Virgin
GENRE: Indie
TiME: 42:15 min
SiZE: 57,6 MB
BiTRATE: VBRkbps
RiP DATE: Feb-01-2007
RELEASE DATE: Mar-05-2007
WEBSiTE: /www.willymason.com
Track List:
01. Gotta Keep Walking 03:12
02. The World That I Wanted 04:19
03. We Can Be Strong 03:55
04. Save Myself 03:44
05. I Can't Sleep 03:25
06. Riptide 02:58
07. When The River Moves On 04:38
08. If The Ocean Gets Rough 03:51
09. Simple Town 04:02
10. The End Of The Race 03:28
11. When The Leaves Have Fallen 04:43
Release Notes:
Willy Mason (born 21 November 1984) is an American
singer-songwriter. He is the son of Jemima James and
Michael Mason, both folk singers who - according to
Willy - have influenced his music. When Mason was
five, he and his family moved from New York to West
Tisbury, Massachusetts on the island of Martha's
Vineyard. He attended West Tisbury Elementary School
and Martha's Vineyard Regional High School, where he
participated in several local bands such as Keep
Thinking, Cultivation, and Slow Leslie.
Mason's popularity rose after musician Conor Oberst
discovered his music on a local Martha's Vinyard
Radio broadcast. Oberst would soon sign Mason to his
new record label, Team Love and release his debut
LP. Since then, he has toured with the likes of
Death Cab For Cutie, Ben Kweller, Unbusted, and
Radiohead and played such venues as the Glastonbury
Festival, South By Southwest, and the Offshore Ale
House.
His first commercial release was a 5-track EP, known
as the "G-Ma's Basement EP". This included solo
acoustic recordings of "Live It Up", Hard Hand To
Hold", Waiter At The Station", "Not Lie Down" and
"Oxygen". The CD was sold during 2004 live
appearances and on the internet.
In the summer months of 2004 Willy and his brother
Sam travelled to Old Soul Studios in the Catskills,
New York to record the debut album Where The Humans
Eat. Recording sessions were mostly live, in no more
than three takes, featuring Willy's guitar and
vocals, and Sam on the drums. Minimal overdubs of
guitar, bass and other instruments were added later.
The album was released on Conor Oberst's Team Love
label in the USA in October 2004, and by Virgin
Records in the UK in February 2005. Where The Humans
Eat and its singles (Oxygen and So Long), charted in
the UK Singles Chart and Albums Chart in 2005.
In 2004, he toured the United States, driving and
sleeping in a diesel-powered camper van. In November
of that year, it broke down in Death Valley. He paid
a local mechanic $1500 to repair the van and flew to
England for some scheduled tour dates. Upon his
return he found the mechanic's garage locked up and
the mechanic himself long gone. The van was tracked
down to a street parking space a couple of blocks
away, missing most of its key components, including
the radiator. The engine block itself was sitting on
the sidewalk. In an April 26th, 2006 radio session,
Willy says he is hoping to invest in a 15-passenger
school bus.
After many live appearances throughout 2004 and
2005, culminating with a performance at the
Glastonbury Festival, Willy took some time off and
returned to the family home in Martha's Vineyard. He
began writing new songs and put a band together,
featuring Nina Violet on viola and backing vocals,
and Zak Borden on mandolin. In the spring of 2006,
he began touring the USA and Europe with Nina and
Zak, amongst other musicians. So far this year he
has supported Beth Orton, KT Tunstall and Radiohead.
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