Thile, Chris - Laysongs FORP184.1

Thile, Chris - Laysongs FORP184.1Vinyl LP pressing. 2021 release. The album is his first truly solo album: just Thile, his voice, and his mandolin, on new recordings of six original songs and three covers, all of which contextualize and banter with his ideas about spirituality. Recorded in a converted upstate New York church during the pandemic, Laysongs' centerpiece is the three part "Salt (in the Wounds) of the Earth," which was inspired by C. S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters. The

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