{"title":"Alex Dupree","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlex Dupree\u003c\/strong\u003e got his musical start in Austin, Texas, and his voice still has some \u003ci\u003eHeartworn Highways\u003c\/i\u003e-era color to it. In the mid 00s, he founded the Trapdoor Band, an improvisatory folk group and vehicle for his lyric-driven songwriting, before switching to the Idyl moniker in 2009. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDupree moved to California to focus on poetry, studying and teaching at UC Irvine, with songwriting never far from his mind. He continued to hone his craft writing country songs for both the LA band\u003cstrong\u003e Mister Paradise\u003c\/strong\u003e and a duet project called \u003cstrong\u003eDawn \u0026amp; Dupree\u003c\/strong\u003e (with Iva Dawn of They\/Live). Despite a deep love for country music, Dupree’s songs never quite settled in that category, absorbing additional influences from the likes of Laurie Anderson, Arthur Russell, Bjork, and John Cale.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe story of \u003ci\u003eThieves \u003c\/i\u003eis the story of starting over. It’s a sturdy songwriter’s album with heady, heavy folk and country flourishes. Bill Callahan meets Willie Nelson. Or Harry Smith meets Barry Hannah. It’s about coming to terms with the uncanny patterns of your life, the strange repetitions you can’t escape.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe longed-for snow and the memory of snow,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ci\u003ethey fall together.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ci\u003eI’m tumbling down St. Lawrence Way,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ci\u003ebeen coming here forever. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"alex_dupree_you_winsome_you_lonesome","title":"Alex Dupree - You Winsome, You Lonesome","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou Winsome, You Lonesome\u003c\/i\u003e showcases Alex's finest songwriting to date, backed by members of the band Balmorhea. 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There’s Fortunado, the small-time hustler who “thought he’d be braver,” that is until he faces his own capacity for betrayal. Or the stooge of “Fake Diamonds, False Powers,” unrewarded for his loyalty and made violent by his affection.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);\"\u003eAccording to \u003cstrong\u003eAlex Dupree\u003c\/strong\u003e, these are stories about the Trump years, a span which coincided with his own attempt to rebuild a life after divorce. It was a time for the painful ending of illusions, about himself and about the country. Dupree was living between artist residencies, sublets, and storage units along I-10, and long hours spent on the highway soon found a form in the long lines of traditional folk ballads. Slowly, very slowly, new songs began to emerge:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);\"\u003eThe characters that populate \u003ci\u003eThieves\u003c\/i\u003e are plucked from a wide variety of historical and fantastical sources, but in Dupree’s voice they tell the story of a single self and, taken together, feel deeply confessional. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);\"\u003eProducer and engineer \u003cstrong\u003eMichael Krassner\u003c\/strong\u003e (Califone, Simon Joyner, Boxhead Ensemble) heard Alex Dupree perform at a house show with Simon Joyner around this time, in late 2019. He immediately registered the cinematic quality of the new songs and offered to record and arrange them. 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