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Ovid in Exile

by Wesley Stace

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When I Knew 03:52
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Lydia 03:44
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Excalibur 03:04
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Other Girls 04:16
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The Buzz 02:50
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Subtitled “The Songs behind Self-Titled”, Wesley Stace's Ovid in Exile contains 12 of the solo acoustic demos recorded in Portland on 11/10/11 and bears the simple legend: “Produced by Scott McCaughey. Recorded by Tucker Martine. Played by Wesley Stace.”

Wes performed 45 songs in that four hour session later called “Songs in the Lydian Mode”. 21 of these were subsequently recorded for Self-Titled, of which 16 made the finished album. This epic session included 12 songs co-written with Eleanor Friedberger, many of which were subsequently recorded for her much-praised “Personal Record”.

Ovid in Exile contains the original acoustic versions of six songs that ended up on Self-Titled. Side one features five of these (and an otherwise unreleased song, Carmen et Error) re-sequenced into the “Ovid in Exile” suite. The second side, “Five Songs and a Mistake”, includes The Buzz, later recorded with The English UK for the Making Love To Bob Dylan 12″, and Old Man and the Bird, recorded by Megain Reilly on her album The Well.

The cover shows Ovid’s statue in Constanta on the Black Sea where the poet was exiled in 8 AD for “a song and a mistake”.

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released May 1, 2020

2020, Wesley Stace. Exclusively licensed to Yep Roc Records.

Produced by Scott McCaughey

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Wesley Stace Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Since his critically acclaimed 1990 debut Here Comes the Groom (lauded by the LA Times as “the first great rock record of the `90s”) John Wesley Harding has recorded 19 records for both major (Sire, Hollywood) and independent (Mammoth, Rhino, Appleseed) labels alike. His novels have been published by Little Brown and Picador in the U.S. ... more

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