Richmond Fontaine - $87 And A Guilty Conscience That Gets Worse

Limited edition mini album which features two cd rom tracks with the making of "A Ghost I Became" and a promo video of "El Tiradito". Limited to
2000 (digi pak). The  title track "$87 and A Guilty Conscience that Gets Worse the Longer I Go"  is  another tale of a hapless drifter seeing violence
and sadness at every turn, written by lead singer and songwriter Willy Vlautin, it also features Howe Gelb on paino. "$87 and a …" is taken from the
bands desert soaked masterpiece "Thirteen Cities".
"Heartbreakingly great" 7/10 NME ...  "Quite simply, Vlautin's one of the most compelling songwriters working today, compared equally to great
American novelists llike Raymond Carver or John Steinbeck and musicians such as Bruce Springsteen or Tom Waits" The Sun "Uncut favourites
marry rich desert twang to melancholy tales" **** Uncut
"For all those travelling Springsteen's Thunder Road, Richmond Fontaine are the new drivers" (The) Word
Many of the other tracks came from the same sessions as "Thirteen Cities"  including the beautiful instrumental/remixed verson of "The Kid from
Belmont Street" which sees even more of Jacob Valenzuela's lovely trumpet work alongside Paul Brainard's pedal steel. The cd
finishes with an  nstrumental re working of "$87 and a…"
The new year see's Willy Vlautin continue his busy schedule with the release of his second novel for Faber & Faber intitled "Northline" and has joined
the lecture/reading circuit across the globe with his last book  "The Motel Life" being published in seven languages.

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