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See stories by David Brown. Retrieved All tracks are written by Robert Harrison No. Rovi Corporation. Gallagher began talking up the American band to the British press, with the eventual result that the British psych-pop label Rainbow Quartz reissued Kontiki in the U. Kontiki Frontman Robert Harrison still writes and produces for himself and others out of his home in Austin.

And so The Big Picture , which was our next record, ended up getting delayed. Kontiki Deluxe Edition Bonus Disc [ edit ]. References [ edit ]. Harrison founded The Star Apple Kingdom in , a name under which he categorizes all of his work as a producer and artist.

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The Patreon project continued into NPR Music's Stephen Thompson recently winnowed the thousands of bands playing the South by Southwest music festival down to a song playlist. Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata Articles with hAudio microformats Album articles lacking alt text for covers.

March All Streams. At first, Harrison had doubts that the music would be taken seriously due to the quality of the recording gear, but the encouragement of former bassist Matt Hovis towards the material pushed him to continue the recording. An electric version of "Spin My Wheels", recorded during the early sessions with Dave McNair, was included on a bonus track on the Japanese CD edition, also released in The trio recorded their second album, 's Kontiki, on borrowed equipment in Harrison's garage, before handing the tapes over to producer Brad Jones to remix and add instruments to.

Live4ever Media. The album was met with critical acclaim, and three more songs from the project, featuring singer Nicole Atkins , were released at the end of the year. After the commercial failure of that album, Hovis and Thibeaux left the group, and Harrison and Williams, occasionally aided by bassist George Reiff and drummers Dana Myzer and Darin Murphy, began writing and recording what would become their second album.

Wikidata item. When Kontiki was reissued in England and became a success, the sessions for the third album were almost done, but Harrison held off on releasing it.

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If Americans didn't quite get it, it was a different story on the other side of the pond. Cotton Mather isn't the only band of its era post-grunge, pre-blog to watch a beloved album go out of print. The band gets its name from 17th century Puritan preacher and author Cotton Mather , a minister at Boston's North Church. David entered radio journalism thanks to a love of storytelling, an obsession with news, and a desire to keep his hair long and play in rock bands.

KUTX Music. When the finished product did come out, promoter Biff Kennedy says the reception was lukewarm — to put it politely. Original Release [ edit ]. Although the shows were meant to be one-off performances, the group eventually began performing and recording again as a functioning band.