Track Listing DISC 1: 1. Gallows Pole - (with Tim Rulili/Sally Timms/Rebecca Gates/Jo Walston/Jon Langford) 2. Louis Collins - (with Dave Alvin/Dean Schlabowske) 3. Fall of Troy, The - (with Kurt Wagner) 4. Banks of the Ohio - (with Otis Clay) 5. Homicide - (with Skid Marks/Sally Timms) 6. Green Green Grass of Home - (with Kelly Hogan) 7. Death Row - (with Rico Bell) 8. Gulag Blues - (with Lu Edmonds/John Rice) 9. Horses - (with Chris Mills/Dean Schlabowske/Dave Alvin) 10. Strange Fruit - (with Diane Izzo/John Rice) 11. One Dyin' & A Buryin' - (live, with David Yow) 12. Delilah - (with Jon Langford/Sally Timms) 13. Willie O'Winsbury - (with Charlotte Greig)
DISC 2: 1. Bad News - (with Alejandro Escovedo/Jon Langford) 2. Ballad of Billy Joe, The - (with Rebecca Gates) 3. Dang Me - (with Rhett Miller) 4. Forever to Burn - (with Rex Hobart) 5. Death Where Is Thy Sting - (with Pat Brennan) 6. Long Black Veil - (with Sally Timms/Edith Frost) 7. God's Eternal Love - (with Mark Eitzel) 8. Hangin' Me Tonight - (with Gurf Morlix) 9. John Hardy - (with The Meat Purveyors) 10. Pardon This Coffin - (with Jon Rauhouse) 11. Saviour - (with Kevin Coyne) 12. Green Green Grass of Home - (with Dave Alvin) 13. Angel of Death - (with Tom Greenhalgh) 14. Tom Dooley - (live, with The Sundowners)
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Alejandro Escovedo, Dave Alvin, Kelly Hogan, Mark Eitzel, Otis Clay, Rhett Miller, Sally Timms | | Producer: | Celine, Jon Langford | | Distributor: | Ryko Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes All profits from THE EXECUTIONER'S LAST SONGS will benefit national anti-death penalty organizations. The Pine Valley Cosmonauts: Jon Langford (vocals, guitar); Sally Timms (vocals, sound effects); Celine (guitar, steel guitar, dobro, mandolin, fiddle, bouzouki, electric sitar, bass); Drew Carson (mandolin); Pat Brennan (piano, Wurlitzer piano, organ, Mellotron); Tom V. Ray (electric & double bass); Steve Goulding (drums). Additional personnel includes: Dave Alvin, Rhett Miller, Otis Clay, Alejandro Escovedo, Sally Timms, Mark Eitzel, Kelly Hogan (vocals); Robert Coyne (guitar); John Rauhouse (pedal steel); Chase Morrison (cello); Barcley McKay (piano, electric piano); Jamal Ruhe (bass, drums, background vocals); The Meat Purveyors; The Sundowners. Recorded at Western Sound Labs, Chicago, Illinois.
Editorial Reviews ...With a lineup as enormous as the project's weight, these country alchemists sing hard about death to get you to appreciate life... CMJ (06/30/2003)
4 stars out of 5 - ...Superb stuff from organiser Jon Langford, Kurt Wagner, Dave Alvin et al... Mojo (09/01/2003)
4 stars out of 5 - ...Superb stuff from organiser Jon Langford, Kurt Wagner, Dave Alvin et al...CMJ (6/30/03, p.7) - ...With a lineup as enormous as the project's weight, these country alchemists sing hard about death to get you to appreciate life... Mojo (09/01/2003)
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