http://www.smithjournal.com.au/blogs/arts/willis-earl-beal-album-giveaway-2013Willis Earl Beal (album giveaway)
If you'd only read about Willis Earl Beal on the net, you'd think he was pure fiction. But on his second album, Nobody Knows, he sounds very, very real.
Beal's backstory is the modern PR flack's dream. Ex army. Formerly homeless. Prone to leaving CDRs at bus stations. Discovered via ephemera-collecting website FOUND after leaving hand-drawn notes around Albuquerque advertising for a girlfriend. He can't be real, right?
But the voice is. Like a lived-in leather jacket smothered in butter. Or something.
Until now, Beal has been backed by, well, a karaoke machine and found instruments as featured on his debut album Acousmatic Sorcery. This makes Nobody Knows even more startlingly widescreen. From the relatively traditional soul of the Cat Power-aided "Coming Through" to the gospel stomp of "Too Dry To Cry" and the intimate R&B of "The Flow", each song is more confident and assured than the last.
Nobody Knows is out September 9 on iTunes (you can pre-order it now) and we have five copies to give away thanks to XL Recordings. Just send your name and address to giveaways@smithjournal.com.au to enter.
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