Through a Faraway Window: A Tribute to Jimmy Silva

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The brilliant lyrics and jangling melodies of San Francisco Bay Area native Jimmy Silva are a superb fit for the often-abused tribute album format. Over the course of four luminous solo albums for PopLlama and East Side Digital, Silva would frequently step aside and let the lead-vocal spotlight fall upon singers as diverse as Sal Valentino of the Beau Brummels or Bill Jedrzejewski or Kim Wonderley, both members of Silva's final band, the Goats. Jimmy Silva died tragically in Seattle in 1994 at the age of 42 from complications after contracting chicken pox. But his small legion of friends and admirers have never forgotten Silva and his sometimes stirring/often melancholy songs. Like New Testament disciples, they have banded together on From A Faraway Window (SteadyBoy) to celebrate the music their dear friend left behind. Rock journalist Jud Cost and Texas Music Hall of Famer Freddie Steady Krc along with ex-Goats Kim Wonderley and Eric Scott have rounded up selections from Scott McCaughey and Peter Buck of the Minus 5 (and R.E.M.), Jon Auer of the Posies, Roy Loney of the Flamin' Groovies, Freddie Steady Krc of Roky Erickson & the Explosives, Christy McWilson, the Jigsaw Seen, Sal Valentino of the Beau Brummels, Dennis Diken of the Smithereens, the Young Fresh Fellows, John Wesley Harding and Chris Eckman of the Walkabouts in a technicolor, extra-large mural depicting the very best material from the haunting catalog of Jimmy Silva.

1: Intro - Carnival Barker
2: Waking Up (With Jim Babjak) - Dennis Diken
3: All the Places - Sal Valentino
4: Kate of the Human Race - Young Fresh Fellows
5: I've Got Time - The Flywheels
6: People Standing in a Line - The Minus 5
7: Christmas Is Holy - John Wesley Harding
8: Spontaneous Entertainment - Jimmy Silva
9: Big House - Roy Loney
10: Man of the Cloth - Christy McWilson
11: Doesn't Matter at All - Chris Eckman
12: I'll Never Go to Sea Again - Bill Rivers Trio
13: Love of Land - Jim Hrabetin
14: City of Sisterly Love - Jon Auer
15: St. Catherine's Statue - The Minus 5
16: We Want the Empty Seat - Jimmy Silva
17: Fair Exchange - Young Fresh Fellows
18: Train Crossing - The Goats
19: Need I Know - John Wesley Harding
20: May the 2nd - The Flywheels
21: Robot Men - Jimmy Silva
22: Tin Whistle and a Wooden Drum - Freddie Steady Krc
23: Through a Faraway Window - Chris Eckman
24: The Branch - The Jigsaw Seen
25: Tell It to the Raven - Joey Kline
26: For the Masses - Jimmy Silva
27: Grease the Wheel - Sal Valentino
28: A Fine and Private Place - Eddy Irvine
29: Jim Silva Ad - Jimmy Silva and The Smithereens

Number of Discs: 1

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