Ed Askew – Final Painting (LP Vinyl)
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Ed Askew spent decades making music largely outside the commercial spotlight, his fingerpicked guitar and fragile tenor finding devoted listeners through cult folk and avant-garde circles dating back to his 1968 debut on ESP-Disk. That long arc of quiet, uncompromising work makes this final statement all the more weighted, a last conversation with the world from an artist who always said exactly what he meant, on his own terms.
In his last years of life, poet/painter/songwriter Ed Askew worked again with his producer on 2013's remarkable For the World album, Jerry David DeCicca. The twilight energy is at once lush and minimal, with contributions from Sharon Van Etten, Eve Searls, Canaan Faulkner, Bill Callahan, William Tyler, Ryan Jewell, Dustin Laurenzi, Fulvio Sigurta & Trevor Nikrant from Ryan Davis's Roadhouse Band. Bracing meditation on romance and the slow shuffle off our mortal coil. RIYL, the late musings of Lou Reed, Leonard Cohen & David Bowie.
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UPC: 781484098713
Label: Drag City
Release Date: 7.31.26
Format: LP Vinyl