Red Tornado
With his second album, Red Tornado, Leigh Marble set out to make an record with more dirt, sweat, and human interaction than its predecessor, Peep. "Red Tornado" is a descriptor of the emotional state that each of these songs came out of, whether it be depression, frustration, or high anxiety.
Whether it's album opener "Lucky Bastards", a song about ambition and poisonous envy, the American dream vexed to nightmare by the vapidity of pat aphorisms, or "On Your Way", a kiss-off song to a friend full of high ideals and low standards. Or "Salt In the Wound", a song Marble describes as "a memoriam to a number of slow-suicide cases I've known in Portland." "Maybe I would have called the album 'Blood on the Tracks'," he laughs, "Except somebody, I think, used that already."
Track Listing
- Lucky Bastards
- On Your Way
- Salt In The Wound
- Fast & Loose
- Baby Ruth
- So Far
- Get Yours
- The Big Words
- Gave It All
- Stakes
- Strip The Bed
The Players
Leigh Marble: vocals, guitars, bass, slide bass, harmonica, organ bass, Mellotron, tamborine, maracas, claps
Ben Macy: organs, piano, accordion, Rhodes, backing vocals, maracas, claps
Jason Russell: drums, shaker, claps
Mike Apinyakul: slide guitars on 1, electric guitar on 4
Peter Broderick: violins on 2, 5, 9
Produced & Engineered by: Leigh Marble
Mixed by: Jeff Stuart Saltzman
Recorded at: Fishboy & Magic Closet Studios
Additional Engineering: Ian Watts, Jeff Stuart Saltzman
Mastered by: Jeff Lipton at Peerless Mastering
Album Design by: Dylan McConnell
©℗2007 Leigh Marble