The Coal Porters - Find The One

Find The One is the sixth album from ex-Long Ryder Sid Griffin's stellar new act the Coal Porters, one which shows the Coal Porters expanding their palette as they take acoustic folk and bluegrass into previously uncharted waters. Find The One features (take deep breath) five new Sid Songs, an astonishing campfire cover of David Bowie's classic Heroes, a guest appearance by ex-Fairport Convention guitarist Richard Thompson, a two-part instrumental collaboration from the band's virtuosos: fiddler Carly Frey and banjo man John Breese, as well as the first ever appearance of BBC radio legend Brian Matthew on an alt-country recording! To say nothing of a sitar and fiddle battle on the Rolling Stones' immortal Paint It, Black. Yes, a real sitar. Produced by the legendary John Wood, the man who recorded Fairport Convention in their glory days and who produced Nick Drake, Squeeze and Beth Orton, Find The One was recorded in north London earlier this year. It was mixed by Ed Stasium in Colorado, Ed being best known as Phil Spector's main engineer and for his work with the Ramones. Stasium mastered it, too, so it is the best sounding Coal Porters recording ever done.