Ernest Hood · Back to the Woodlands

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

TRACKS FOR BACK TO THE WOODLANDS
1. Noonday Yellows
2. Rain
3. Dusk
4. The Jantzen Rag (Raccoons)
5. Pleasant, This Garden
6. Bedroom of the Absent Child
7. Into The Groves
8. Warm Pathways
9. Sunny Banks
10. Fragrant Duff
11. Beaver's Pond
12. Untitled

Written and recorded between 1972 and 1982 in Western Oregon, Back to the Woodlands is a previously unreleased, and nearly lost, album made by Ernest Hood during the same era as his near mythical album Neighborhoods. A visionary combination of field recordings, zithers, and synthesizers, Back to the Woodlands offers an unprecedented depth of access to this singular artistic mind.

Working closely with his estate to maintain his original vision, Freedom to Spend has restored and remastered this never before released, lost masterpiece by Ernest Hood from the original tapes. Ernest Hood’s Back to the Woodlands will be issued on vinyl, as well as on CD in combination with its contemporary Where the Woods Begin, with new liner notes by Michael Klausman.

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