Father John Misty – Live At Third Man Records [LP]

In September last year, Josh Tillman stopped by our Nashville headquarters on anotherwise ordinary Tuesday afternoon and surprised us all with a lunchtime solo,acoustic set before his sold-out Ryman Auditorium performance. We, of course,had our 1955 Scully Lathe warmed at the ready to capture the occasion.

As is typical for direct-to-acetate recordings in the Blue Room, Josh warmedup the room (and our engineers) with two songs before we started cutting theLP. He began with the debut performance of his newly penned Mr. Tillman(foreshadowing its release as the fi rst single on Gods Favorite Customer 9 monthslater). We then used the second song as an opportunity to carve a 12 on-the-spotsingle of Now Im Learning to Love the War, which was promptly handed it to alucky attendee for safe keeping. If you want to know more about that, youll haveto scour the depths of FJMs fan net.

Live at Third Man Records covers songs from all three Father