Hey Mr Ferryman is Eitzel’s first full studio album recorded entirely in London. It was made at 355 Studios with Mercury Prize winner Bernard Butler (ex-Suede, McAlmont & Butler), who has produced and/or recorded albums with Tricky, Ben Watt, Bert Jansch, Edwyn Collins, and more. Butler produced Hey Mr Ferryman and played all of the electric guitar, bass, and keyboard parts on the album. Hey Mr Ferryman features the vivid melodies long associated with Eitzel’s former band American Music Club—which remains a cult favorite to this day—as well as Butler’s distinctive guitar that serves to complement Eitzel’s expressive vocals. Of that voice, Pitchfork once wrote: “If Leonard Cohen’s voice is a story about the passage of time and Levon Helm’s is a story about losing what is most precious to you, Eitzel’s is about the circuitous roads we take in search of ourselves.” “The songs on this record are about celebrating musicians and music, about misogyny, the long shadow of history, getting one’s head out of one’s ass,” quips Eitzel on the themes of Ferryman. “Also oceans, blood, skies, hearts, gay pioneers, carpenters, weeping women, and how death waits for you even in the happiest place on earth: Las Vegas.”

Tracklist:

The Last Ten Years
An Answer
The Road
Nothing And Everything
An Angel’s Wing Brushed The Penny Slots
In My Role As Professional Singer And Ham
Mr Humphries
La Llorona
Just Because
Let Me Go
Sleep From My Eyes
The Singer (For Jason Molina) [Bonus Track]
An Answer (Battersea Session - Mixed By Danton Supple) [Bonus Track]

UPC: 673855058221
Label: Merge Records
Release Date: 1.27.17
Format: CD

Mark Eitzel - Hey Mr Ferryman (CD)