Artists Pay Tribute To Cult Music Favorite, The Late Judee Sill

Crayon Angel: A Tribute To the Music of Judee Sill

September 22, American Dust will release CRAYON ANGEL: A TRIBUTE TO THE MUSIC OF JUDEE SILL, which features Beth Orton, Bill Callahan, Ron Sexsmith, Final Fantasy, Nicolai Dunger, Marisa Nadler & Black Hole Infinity, Colossal Yes (with members of Six Organs of Admittance and Comets on Fire), Meg Baird, Frida Hyvönen, and Daniel Rossen of Grizzly Bear and Department of Eagles.

Judee Sill has the distinction of being the first artist signed to David Geffen's Asylum Records. She released two albums, 1971's Judee Sill and 1973's Heart Food, before exiting the music industry and later dying of a drug overdose in North Hollywood, California in 1979. Her albums were reissued on in 2005, and have garnered a cult following.





Crayon Angel: A Tribute to the Music of Judee Sill
(American Dust)
Street date: Sept. 22, 2009
01 Ron Sexsmith: "Crayon Angel"
02 Beth Orton: "Reach for the Sky"
03 Daniel Rossen: "Waterfall"
04 Frida Hyvönen: "Jesus Was a Cross Maker"
05 Shalants: "Lopin Along Thru the Cosmos"
06 Final Fantasy: "The Donor"
07 Nicolai Dunger: "Soldier of the Heart"
08 Trembling Blue Stars: "Lady-O"
09 Colossal Yes: "The Phoenix"
10 Marissa Nadler & Black Hole Infinity: "The Kiss"
11 Princeton: "Down Where the Valleys Are Low"
12 The Bye Bye Blackbirds: "There's a Rugged Road"
13 Meg Baird: "When the Bridegroom Comes"
14 Bill Callahan: "For a Rainbow"
15 P.G. Six: "Til Dreams Come True"


Trivia:

In addition to cover versions of Sill's published songs, Crayon Angel also features two unearthed - never before released Sill tracks.

Bill Callahan recorded "Like a Rainbow," which was co-written with Sill's onetime boyfriend Lal Baum (great-grandson of Wizard of Oz author L. Frank Baum.

RELATED LINKS:
American Dust - http://www.americandust.net

More on Judee Sill - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judee_Sill