{"title":"Lee Bains 111 and the Glory Fires","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"old-time-folks","title":"Old-Time Folks","description":"\u003cp\u003eSince releasing their first album \u003ci\u003eThere Is a Bomb in Gilead\u003c\/i\u003ein 2012, the road-worn Birmingham, Alabama band has built a reputation as being what NPR calls “punks revved up by the hot-damn hallelujah of Southern rock” who carry on “the Friday-night custom of burning down the house,” a raw live sound that they captured with Texas punk producer Tim Kerr on studio albums \u003ci\u003eDereconstructed\u003c\/i\u003e(2014) and \u003ci\u003eYouth Detention\u003c\/i\u003e(2017) before recording a full-on live album at their favorite hometown dive, \u003ci\u003eLive at the Nick\u003c\/i\u003e(2019). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile the Glory Fires have spent a decade propagating what the New York Times calls “pandemonium with a conscience,” they’ve long talked about wanting to make a classic record – not a transparent document of their playing live with the occasional embellishment – but a record.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo, that’s what they did. They contacted Athens, Georgia’s David Barbe, whose work with the Drive-By Truckers, Sugar, Son Volt, Vic Chesnutt and countless other artists has earned him a legendary reputation amongst Southern independent rockers, and they agreed to set about bringing this vision to fruition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile tackling such lofty political, historical and philosophical concepts, the album is also the band’s most intimate, vulnerable and spiritual to date. The perspective is both outward- and inward-facing, Bains never taking on the persona or experience of others, but rather writing about the way his own limited experience and perspective of the band’s place can lift the veils of false narratives, and uncover “piles of winding stories” through time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn an age characterized by individualism, and at a time when the past seems to be the sole domain of the status quo, \u003ci\u003eOld-Time Folks\u003c\/i\u003e illustrates the deep, thick, tangled roots of liberation, collectivism, mutuality and solidarity in the Deep South, and where they are flowering and bringing forth fruit today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Don Giovanni","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP | x2","offer_id":50463997231435,"sku":"1148129","price":37.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50463997559115,"sku":"1148128","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/b16eddd9-dbaa-4876-910b-492c0ace3ace_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727269613"},{"product_id":"sweet-disorder","title":"Sweet Disorder!","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrand new 7\" by Birmingham, Alabama's Lee Bains III and the Glory Fires. It features two new, exclusive tracks. The song 'Sweet Disorder!' is about disrupting systems that have proven to fall short of, if not completely undermine, their purported missions (e.g., criminal justice, mental health, the church, language) for the sake of realigning them with those missions. The song developed out of months spent revisiting the Objectivist poets, binging on early Clash albums, and observing the Atlanta actions surrounding the deaths of Michael Brown, Eric Garner and other unarmed people of color. The song is the first completed work in a group of songs, tentatively titled Juvenile Detention, aimed at investigating questions of socialization, youth, identity, law, privilege, religion, culture, place, causality and memory. The song 'Stars' was originally performed by the Birmingham band Primitons, and was released on their self-titled, Mitch Easter-produced 1982 masterpiece EP. The song is a result of the powerful songwriting team of non-performing lyricist Stephanie Truelove Wright and singer\/tunesmith Mats Roden - an original pillar of our city's punk\/independent scene, a pioneering openly gay hometown musician, a gentle, self-deprecating soul, and a brilliant songwriter and bandleader who managed to craft melodies out of whimsy and nostalgia, sweetness and fire, sophistication and trash in such a way that could only have taken shape on the Southside of Birmingham. Mats passed away in 2014, and this record is dedicated to his memory and to his songs. 'Sweet Disorder!' was produced by Tim Kerr, cut by Jeremy Ferguson, mixed by Lee and Jeremy - all at Battletapes in Nashville, TN. 'Stars' was recorded by Lee on Lee's phone in Atlanta, GA. Shined up by Jeremy at Battletapes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sub Pop","offers":[{"title":"7\"","offer_id":50490856341835,"sku":"389295","price":4.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/614268a0-7bfb-477b-8641-7154298b76e5_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727677026"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/collections\/lee-bains-111-and-the-glory-fires.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}