tracks

Octagon Hall Prelude
Pale Horse
Trouble My Heart (Oh Harriet)
I've Seen The Elephant
Sweetheart
Last June Light
The Story You Tell Yourself
We Were Marching On Christmas Day
Whistling Walk
Good Old Flag
Cursed Be The Wanderer
Paddy's Lamentation
Goodnight Mary
The Orphans

notes

This is a ghost story set to music… The documentary follows a group of musicians (The Orphan Brigade) as they spent a year writing and recording an album in one of the most haunted houses in the Southern United States. (The Octagon Hall, Franklin, KY) The group set out to tell the story of this eerie architectural oddity and of the family, soldiers, and servants who lived and died there. The group looked for inspiration and possible encounters with the spirits of this place. In the end they found that and much more.

The house became a symbol of how we are all haunted by the things that we cannot let go of. While tracing the lives of these 19th century characters they found a window into universal themes that we all face. What do we leave behind? Will we be remembered or do we ultimately become invisible? Are our beliefs just illusions we hold onto to justify the things we do? If we hold on too tightly to our causes will they ultimately destroy us? These musicians came to tell the story of this house and in the process told their own story…

Packaged as a digisleeve (gatefold for cd).

Track durations taken from WMP.

credits

Arranged By – Ben Glover (3) (tracks: 12)
Artwork – Joshua Britt (2), Neilson Hubbard
Engineer – Neilson Hubbard, Zach Bevill
Liner Notes – Marshall Chapman
Mastered By – Jim DeMain
Mixed By – Neilson Hubbard
Music By – Danny Mitchell, Dean Marold, Eamon McLoughlin, Heather Donegan, Kim Richey, Kris Donegan
Music By, Written By – Ben Glover (3) (tracks: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,13,14), Joshua Britt (2) (tracks: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,13,14), Neilson Hubbard (tracks: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,13,14)
Photography By – Jim DeMain, Joshua Britt (2)
Producer – Neilson Hubbard

companies

Phonographic Copyright (p) – The Orphan Brigade
Copyright (c) – The Orphan Brigade
Mixed At – Mr Lemons
Mastered At – Yes Master
Recorded At – The Octagon Hall Museum

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