Ron Sexsmith, Beth Orton, Bill Callahan and Others on JUDEE SILL Tribute Album

     MUSIC NEWS - American Dust records has announces an September release of CRAYON ANGEL: A TRIBUTE TO THE MUSIC OF JUDEE SILL.  The album will feature new recordings by a range of artists that includes Beth Orton, Bill Callahan, Ron Sexsmith, Final Fantasy, Nicolai Dunger, Marisa Nadler & Black Hole Infinity, Colossal Yes (with members of Six Organs of Admittance and Comets on Fire), Meg Baird, Frida Hyvönen, and Daniel Rossen of Grizzly Bear and Department of Eagles. (See full track list below.)Judee Sill was the first artist signed to David Geffen's Asylum Records and released two cherished cult LPs, 1971's Judee Sill and 1973's Heart Food, before vanishing from the music scene and eventually dying of a drug overdose in North Hollywood, CA back in 1979. Though she had been forgotten for many years, her music has enjoyed a period of rediscovery since her two studio albums were reissued on CD in 2005.In addition to cover versions of songs from Judee's modest recorded output, Crayon Angel also features two new JUDEE SILL written tunes for which sheet music, but no known original recordings, survive. BETH ORTON brings to life the complex and lovely "Reach for the Sky" (preview the song on Beth's site),  while BILL CALLAHAN records the epic slow-burn number "Like a Rainbow," a co-write with Judee's onetime boyfriend Lal Baum (great-grandson of Wizard of Oz author L. Frank Baum - wow !).

CRAYON ANGEL: A TRIBUTE TO THE MUSIC OF JUDEE SILL is releasing September 22, tracklist here-

01 Ron Sexsmith: "Crayon Angel"
02 Beth Orton: "Reach for the Sky"
03 Daniel Rossen: "Waterfall"
04 Frida Hyvönen: "Jesus Was a Cross Maker"
05 Shalants: "Lopin Along Thru the Cosmos"
06 Final Fantasy: "The Donor"
07 Nicolai Dunger: "Soldier of the Heart"
08 Trembling Blue Stars: "Lady-O"
09 Colossal Yes: "The Phoenix"
10 Marissa Nadler & Black Hole Infinity: "The Kiss"
11 Princeton: "Down Where the Valleys Are Low"
12 The Bye Bye Blackbirds: "There's a Rugged Road"
13 Meg Baird: "When the Bridegroom Comes"
14 Bill Callahan: "For a Rainbow"
15 P.G. Six: "Til Dreams Come True"

MP3s here, and more @ American Dust