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Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away Everything You Love WIll Be Taken Away

Slaid teams up with old friends and new for a whole new batch of songs.

Produced by Gurf Morlix, Charles Arthur, Billy Harvey and Slaid Cleaves.


"Bleak but beautiful."  Jim Farber, NY Daily News

tracks:
01 Cry
02 Hard to Believe
03 Beyond Love
04 Green Mountains and Me
05 Run Jolee Run
06 Dreams
07 Black T Shirt
08 Tumbleweed Stew
09 Twistin'
10 Beautiful Thing
11 Temporary

Everything You Love plays seamlessly, like one of Lucinda Williams' classic early albums, pristine, honest, and lingering. --Jim Caligiuri, Austin Chronicle

Ribbon of Highway

Ribbon of Highway Endless Skyway

The Woody Guthrie Tribute Tour is finally out on CD.  


Released October 2008

Temporarily out of stock
Featuring Bob Childers, Jimmy LaFave, Joel Rafael, Slaid Cleaves, Eliza Gilkyson, Sara Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion, Ellis Paul,Kevin Welch, Michael Fracasso with special appearances by Pete Seeger and Fred Hellerman.
Unsung cover

"Cleaves tells gorgeously compact stories in a voice packed with Texas trail dust."  -- Entertainment Weekly

Unsung is a special project for Slaid, a collection of songs by friends and colleagues including Karen Poston, Michael O'Connor and Adam Carroll.  More info and samples here.

Released May 2006

$15.00



tracks:
01 Devil's Lullaby
02 Another Kind of Blue
03 Everette
04 Oh Roberta
05 Racecar Joe
06 Call It Sleep
07 Millionaire
08 Fairest of Them All
09 Flowered Dresses
10 Gospel Moment
11 Working Stiff
12 Getaway Car
13 Song for June



"One of the finest singer-songwriters from Texas"
- The New York Times
Wishbones is the long-awaited follow-up to 2000's award-winning album, Broke Down.  Produced by Austin Hall of Famer Gurf Morlix, Wishbones showcases Slaid's story-songs with a more muscular sound.

Released March 2004

$15.00


tracks:
01 Wishbones
02 Road Too Long
03 Drinkin' Days
04 Sinner's Prayer
05 Tiger Tom Dixon's Blues
06 Below
07 Quick as Dreams
08 Horses
09 Hearts Break
10 Borderline
11 New Year's Day




"Cleaves' songs ache with a desperate honesty, mired in the mundane beauty of everyday life."
- Christopher Hess, Austin Chronicle

Broke Down is Slaid's breakout album. Featured on NPR's Fresh Air, Mountain Stage and World Cafe, "Broke Down" spent 5 weeks at the top of Gavin's Americana radio chart and appeared in the following Top Ten lists:  P2, No Depression, KGSR (Austin), WFUV (New York), Austin American Statesman, Austin Chronicle.

Released January 2000

$15.00

 

tracks:
01 Broke Down
02 One Good Year
03 Horseshoe Lounge
04 Cold and Lonely
05 Breakfast in Hell
06 Lydia
07 Bring it On
08 This Morning I Am Born Again
09 Key Chain
10 I Feel the Blues Moving In


"He's got a melodic sense to match his narrative skills and he draws as much from Rockabilly and Hank Williams as he does from Vintage Bob Dylan....his sharp perspectives and sharper hooks distinguish him almost as much as his name."
- Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader (Critic's Choice)

No Angel Knows

Slaid's first national release, on Philo/Rounder, shot to #2 on the Gavin Americana radio chart in early 1997, garnering critial praise nationwide and leading to the start of Slaid's recent worldwide touring schedule.

$15.00 


tracks:
01 Not Going Down
02 No Angel Knows
03 Dance Around the Fire
04 Jennie's All Right
05 Look Back at Me
06 Wrecking Ball
07 The River Runs
08 Don't Tell Me
09 Skunk Juice
10 Last of the V-8s
11 29

Holiday Sampler

The Sampler is a 5 song EP and includes holiday songs for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's Day and Valentine's Day.

$8.00

tracks:
01 Monster In Law
02 November Skies
03 You're A Mean One, Mr Grinch
04 One Good Year (trumpet mix)
05 You Don't Have to Tell Me

For the Brave and Free

Independently released on cassette in 1993 and reissued on CD in 2001.

Currently Out of Print

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tracks:
01 Ramblers
02 Brother's Keeper
03 For the Brave
04 Danger
05 Careful
06 Something to Lose
07 The Ballad of Nick and Betty
08 Another Man's Wealth
09 The Dad Song
10 Yippie-I-O
11 Desert Dreams

bonus tracks: Troubled Times, Marty, Lost, Racetracks and Rodeos, Double Crossed Heart, Do You Still Believe


"Sharply etched, understated songs that have all the elements of great short stories - believable characters, vivid incidents, and telling details."
- Austin Chronicle

Life's Other Side

Independently released in 1992 and reissued in July of 1997.

Currently Out of Print

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tracks:
01 Willie of the Wind
02 Life's Other Side
03 Justice
04 Live Free
05 Vacationland
06 You Don't Have to Tell Me
07 Too Sentimental
08 Diamond Ring
09 Key Chain
10 Ramblin' Man
11 The Gun Story
12 The Rain Song
13 Don't Say No
14 Hope is a Hard Thing to Kill


The Promise / Looks Good From the Road

Slaid's first recordings from way back in 1990 and originally released on cassette only. Reissued on CD, April 1998.

Currently Out of Print

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tracks:
01 Sweet Summertime
02 Let's Go
03 Tonguetied
04 All That Matters
05 Smitten
06 Lonesome Highway
07 Wrecking Ball
08 Homeboys
09 Hollow Shell
10 I Ain't Got No Home
11 The Promise
12 Lap of Luxury / Warden's Hotel
13 On Your Own
14 Willie of the Wind
15 Hollow Shell
16 Wrecking Ball
17 Smitten
18 Lucky

bonus tracks: Too Sentimental, Don't Say No, Hope is a Hard Thing to Kill


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