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Artist: Chris Thile & Michael Dawes
Album: Sleep With One Eye Open
Bitrate: 247kbps avg
Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz
Label: Nonesuch
Genre: Bluegrass
Size: 93.25 megs
PlayTime: 0h 50min 11sec total
Rip Date: 2011-06-26
Store Date: 2011-05-10

Track List:
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01. Rabbit In The Log                2:41
02. Cry, Cry Darliung                3:04
03. Loneliness And Desperation       2:26
04. Tennessee Blues                  3:02
05. 20/20 Vision                     3:15
06. You're Running Wild              2:35
07. Ookpik Waltz                     3:42
08. My Little Girl In Tennessee      2:50
09. Sleep With One Eye Open          3:18
10. Rain And Snow                    3:33
11. Mississippi Waltz                2:27
12. Bury Me Beneath The Willow       3:46
13. Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms     3:11
14. Billy In The Lowground           3:17
15. It Takes One To Know One         3:17
16. If I Should Wander Back Tonight  3:47

Release Notes:
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Sleep with One Eye Open is an impassioned collaboration/conversation between
mandolin virtuoso Chris Thile and guitarist Michael Daves, in which the subject
is bluegrass, specifically how this upstart duo can acknowledge history and
tradition while exuberantly defying convention. Though it was recorded in four
feverish days of sessions at Jack White's Third Man studio in Nashville, the
album has deep roots in a serendipitous side of New York City that reveals
itself at certain times of the night, when strangers become kindred spirits as
clubs empty out, and only the hardiest souls stick around to keep the music
playing. It's a story that begins, like so many, with a guy walking into a bar.

On Sleep with One Eye Open, Thile and Daves acknowledge history and tradition
while they exuberantly defy convention; they balance the tender with the
devil-may-care, emphasizing, as Thile puts it, "the slightly delinquent side of
bluegrass." Recording live to two-inch analog tape and singing into one vintage
microphone, the duo cut 16 tracks at Third Man, claiming the honor of being the
first artists White has allowed to record there on their own. (He also let them
borrow his house engineer, Vance Powell.)

Songs like "Loneliness and Desperation" and the title track emphasize
rollicking, rapid-fire arrangements that often serve, in tried-and-true
bluegrass fashion, to mask the most sorrowful of feelings. Daves and Thile's
voices blend as seamlessly and, on tracks like "Bury Me Beneath the Willow," as
plaintively-as their instruments. As Thile explains, "Mandolin and guitar and
two male voices - it's such a good sound. What was important for us was to get
that brother duet thing, but with this Lower East Side punk energy."

Though the sessions themselves have an appealing air of spontaneity, Sleep with
One Eye Open was a project literally years in the making. As Thile explains,
"All the work for this record had already been done at the jam sessions and at
the shows we put on at the Rockwood Music Hall; we just had to take a snapshot
of it. I think we found a way to maintain our wide-eyed wonder about this stuff
and deliver it with the sincerity of people who need to play this music to feel
good." Fans will no longer have to scour Facebook or Myspace hoping for news of
an impromptu, semi-secret gig from this pair: Thile and Daves are finally taking
their show on the road this spring, starting in May with a three-night stand at
Rockwood.