Paradiso

Independent shop in BallardDirections

Available from Light in the Attic Records when we last checked, in the last two days. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

Recorded live in an old jail in the Tremé district of New Orleans, Scott Ballew's 4th LP is his biggest sounding yet. While the focus remains on his layered and cinematic approach to lyrics, the fidelity and arrangements on Paradiso prove to be a fitting new sonic landscape for Ballew's storytelling. Part Neil Young and Crazy Horse energy, part Terry Allen subversive mind bending, this amalgam has been best described as: "If Townes Van Zandt was produced by Ennio Morricone." Paradiso features an