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Seven Stars

by John Amadon

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1.
Empty Fiction 04:06
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2.
Will You Ever Know? 02:42
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3.
Let's Walk Without Talking 03:48
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4.
All Patched Up (free) 03:07
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5.
Ahead at the Turn 03:22
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6.
Bitter Prayers 04:14
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7.
Xanax 02:46
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8.
Tired Man Spinning 03:53
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9.
Lost Land (free) 03:00
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10.
Palace of Ruin 03:47
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11.
Seven Stars 04:05
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12.
Torn By Livid Ocean 04:53
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13.
Knocking Down Doors 04:06
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about

-This is a finely produced album whose sound would stop you in your tracks at a hi-fi shop; the lyrics will subsequently transfix you with their haunted imagination.-Hyperbolium.com
-Amadon is an experienced musician making an album at exactly his own pace and, far from inadvertently, producing a cohesive and highly personalised sequence of songs which posess a resonance and finely crafted lyrical adroitness.- Delusions of Adequacy
-Amadon’s songwriting is of the reflective, AOR school and the songs themselves are frameworks for guitar playing that on more than one occasion reaches levels of actual virtuosity.-Delusions of Adequacy

-There’s a quite remarkable range of styles and approaches to musicality all the way through Seven Stars, although the abiding impression it leaves is that of a skillfully played guitar album, and some of the fretwork is very well performed indeed. John Amadon’s return to music after his five year hiatus music has produced some very notable results, and, will a musician of his abilities remain known only in and around Portland? I don’t think so either.- Delusions of Adequacy

-Amadon’s elegant three-minute purist pop craftsmanship is a match for his casual, unaffected vocals and terse, sometimes chilling, sometimes nebulous lyrics.-New York Music Daily

Count this among the most intriguing rock records of the past several months.-New York Music Daily

Amadon really has a handle on classic pop songwriting-New York Music Daily

credits

released April 20, 2011

John Amadon-Vocals, guitar, bass, piano, organ
Scott McPherson-Drums tracks 1,3,4,5,6,7,8,10,11,12,13
Mike Coykendall-Drums track 9, Sounds and Bells track 7, Guitar solo track10, background vocals 9
William Slater-Piano/organ tracks 1,3, Rhodes 13, lead guitar 3,7 Bass 8, background vocals 9
Justin Thorpe-Drums track 2, lead guitar track 10, ebow track 12
Jill Coykendall-clarinet track 7
All songs written by John Amadon, except Tired Man Spinning, written by John Amadon and Mike Coykendall
Recorded at Big Black Pipe Studio, Portland, Oregon
Engineered by Justin Thorpe
Mixed by Justin Thorpe and John Amadon
Produced by John Amadon
Stereophonic Mastering by Timothy Stollenwerk
Artwork by Aramee Diethelm

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