The Lost Highway Tapes, by Nick Faber presents The Lost Highway Tapes

The Lost Highway Tapes

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1.	Highway To The Stars 04:18	buy track
2.	Sensational 04:12	buy track
3.	Soon You'll Be Mine 03:34	buy track
4.	Something To Say 04:17	buy track
5.	The Time Of Your Life 03:52	buy track
6.	The Sickness 03:38	buy track
7.	Search And You'll Find 04:06	buy track
8.	Mexico Way 03:38	buy track
9.	Never Gonna Get It 03:42	buy track
10.	Border Fire 03:44	buy track
11.	Packing Case Blues 03:28	buy track

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On one of his mid 90s record digs in the United States, producer Nick Faber (Appleseed, Hightower Set, John Turrell, Lakuta) saw his latest breakbeat scavenger hunt across southern Florida interrupted by a weathered, brow-beaten musician in his late fifties playing guitar in the street.

Transfixed by the powerful and eerie blues coming from a steel guitar played with brass slide and dextrous fingers, Faber came across the life-experienced wanderer again the next day and the next. Sounding like something straight out of an Alan Lomax recording, the bluesman – who referred to himself as Bison on account of the lucky nickel he wore around his neck – said he moved from town to town playing his guitar for food and whiskey. Using a minidisc player to make field recordings of the player’s acoustic and electric slide guitar, Faber vowed to take them back to the UK and tell everyone about this unassuming guitar hero….only for his mirage-like muse to have hit the road the next day, presumably on the next leg of his drifter’s existence.

Faber returned to the UK and the recordings gathered dust, almost lost to fading memory. Until twenty years later, when he stumbled across a young singer busking on London’s rainy pavements, playing harmonica blues and pining for sunnier climes. Faber made the missing link between the performers old and new, and began to record and mould his newfound subject as was his original intention decades earlier.

Now the tracks are ready for the world to hear, as Nick Faber, with Dan Lish on visuals, presents his own versions of these Lost Highway Tapes.

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released September 18, 2020

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On a mid 90s record dig in the U.S.A. producer Nick Faber saw his breakbeat scavenger hunt interrupted by a weathered, brow- beaten musician playing guitar in the street.

Using a minidisc player to make field recordings of the player’s acoustic and electric slide guitar, Faber vowed to take them back to the UK and tell everyone about this unassuming guitar hero…. ... more

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