Ernest Hood · Neighborhoods

Label: Freedom To Spend / Genre: Country · Folk · Blues

TRACKS FOR BACK TO THE WOODLANDS
1. Saturday Morning Doze
2. At The Store
3. August Haze
4. The Secret Place
5. After School
6. Gloaming
7. From The Bluff
8. Night Games

Ernest Hood’s Neighborhoods was released some two decades after the Portland, Oregon born and raised musician’s first forays into field recordings. These very recordings, and those captured over intervening years, define the universal sound and aural images of childhood, a theme memorialized by Hood’s privately-pressed opus of 1975.

Freedom to Spend has restored Ernest Hood’s nostalgic masterpiece with the same care with which he viewed his source material, offering a remastered version of Neighborhoods transferred from the original tapes, expanded across four vinyl sides (the original version was crammed on two). The new edition reproduces Hood’s celebratory liner notes in full, alongside new liner notes by Michael Klausman.

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