{"product_id":"laysongs","title":"Laysongs","description":"\u003cp\u003eNonesuch Records releases mandolinist, singer, and songwriter Chris Thile’s \u003ci\u003eLaysongs.\u003c\/i\u003e The album is his first truly solo album: just Thile, his voice, and his mandolin, on new recordings of six original songs and three covers, all of which contextualise and banter with his ideas about spirituality. Recorded in a converted upstate New York church during the pandemic, \u003ci\u003eLaysongs’\u003c\/i\u003e centrepiece is the three-part ‘Salt (in the Wounds) of the Earth’, which was inspired by C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters. The album also features a song Thile wrote about Dionysus; a performance of the fourth movement of Béla Bartók’s Sonata for Solo Violin; ‘God Is Alive, Magic Is Afoot’ based on Buffy Sainte-Marie’s adaptation of a Leonard Cohen poem; a cover of bluegrass legend Hazel Dickens’ ‘Won’t You Come and Sing for Me’; and an original instrumental loosely modelled after the Prelude from J.S. Bach’s Partita for Solo Violin in E Major. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nonesuch","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50522476773707,"sku":"1119326","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50522476511563,"sku":"1119324","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/6df0cdb5-f5a5-4282-ba92-54f901152fed_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1728008114","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/products\/laysongs","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}