Marshall Tully
Marshall Tully
© 2001 Bulk Candy Recording Co. (775020108523)
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A hearty tug on the milk-teat of rock & roll. Guitars a' plenty, world-wisened songwriting, and a trippy sonic mix.
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- 1 Pandora's Box
- 2 Bail
- 3 Chocolate and Honey
- 4 Class Clown
- 5 Blue-eyed Troublemaker
- 6 Frail
- 7 Running With the Hunted
- 8 Paint By Numbers
- 9 Too Perfect
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Rock & roll eats its young. Coax most musicians with a few cocktails and they just might show you the scars. Marshall Tully tattoos around his.
Instead of exorcising his demons, the Toronto-based singer/songwriter puts them into four-minute boxes and drags them out for a sixty-minute routine.
These are not your typical flavor-of-the-week neophyte musings...
Growing up in various locales throughout western Canada, most of Tully's formative years were unashamedly spent in the basement, lost in the blissful world of LPs and headphones.
Avidly digesting virtually every style of music imaginable, his love of the electric guitar soon followed, as did ventures into songwriting, home recording, and eventually, the bizarre world of fronting a rock band.
Through a lengthy tour-of-duty with countless club gigs and an indie CD release (1996's Everything Must Go), he steadily developed a fine reputation as a world-wisened songwriter and compelling performer, drawing flattering comparisons to artists such as Frank Black, Elvis Costello, and Cracker.
Fast-forward to 1998. Tully uproots from the prairies to peddle his musical wares in Toronto.
After a handful of local club dates, Tully and his new band enter the studio to record the follow-up to his debut disc.
The planets align beautifully- bright young Los-Angeles based producer and longtime friend Marek happens to be in town for a pal's wedding, and Tully snags him for the sessions on a moment's notice.
Fresh from engineering duties with Queens of the Stone Age, Marek swiftly captures the raw vibe of the band with a minimum of flash. Tully and mix engineer Eric Ratz (Big Sugar) then spend the next year painstakingly embellishing the tracks in local studios, adding tape echoes & loops, Mellotrons, and anything else that hurls a sonic curveball into the classic pop songwriting template.
The winter of 2000 will bring the release of this extraordinary new self-titled Marshall Tully disc, an ambitious collection of three years' worth of songwriting self-autopsy.
He'll also be back hitting the clubs in full swing with an all-new lineup, promising a live show more intense and dynamic than ever.
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- author: CD Baby
World-wisened songwriting, and a trippy sonic mix.
Goody good good
author: T TaittOooh this Pandora's Box is you'll want to open. Also Bail and the rhyming Frail... ils sont tres bon. Marshall Tully is a truly thoughtful songwriter and talented guitarist, and a very special soul.
Finally - I remember what rock is supposed to be.
author: Ajs - Little D RecordingThere is no facade about Marshall Tully's staggering compilation . It is a roller-coaster ride from the heart from beginning to end. 'Frail' cuts through the drama mostly associated with rock and is pure on the table angst. 'Blue Eyed Trouble Maker' is as close to pop as this release gets – solid knee slapping, fingers tapping. Comparisons may be made between Tully and The Black Crowes and Tom Petty – listening closely (and in fact looking at Tully) memories of Jeff Buckley exist. This is exceptional work – Toronto is certainly lucky to have him.
Tully projects a certain rock n roll element into these new times that is sorely
author: Ben Ohmart, Music Dish"There's something smokin' and original going on here... Positive and swinging production has a definite edge... Tully writes the kind of mainstream rock that you could quote for moons. A sense of humor, mixed up with the real and imagined troubles of the modern world, make for a 39 minute wow package."
Marshall Tully will rock your socks off!
author: Jack LuckmanThis is a superb album from start to finish. Opening cut Pandora's Box slinks out of the speakers like a michievous snake and you know you're in for a ride. Class Clown is Summer highway driving music at it's best, while Bail is one of the cleverest rocks songs I've heard in a long time. When Tully decides to slow it down on tracks like Frail and Running with the Hunted you get some of the best acoustic rock ballads this side of Sticky Fingers. The songwriting is poignant and thoughtful...there's not an ounce of fat on this disc, and the production is second to none....one of the best sounding indie CDs you'll get your ears around this year....do yourself a favour and pick this up!.