Coke Machine Glow: Songwriters' Cabal (20th Anniversary Edition)

by Gord Downie

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Includes the original Coke Machine Glow album, the bonus Songwriters' Cabal disc, and the additional audiobook of poetry read by family and friends. Housed in triple gatefold jacket with lyric booklet.

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Triple-album vinyl edition featuring the original double-record plus Songwriters' Cabal bonus album. Hand-numbered limited edition one-time pressing of 2000 units. Includes Audiobook CD insert, with Coke Machine Glow poetry read by family and friends. Housed in triple-gatefold jacket, with embossed printing and matte flood finish, printed inner sleeves, paintings by Willo Downie, liner notes by Josh Finlayson, and 16-page booklet featuring Gord's handwritten lyrics.

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1.	Starpainters 01:40	buy track
2.	Vancouver Divorce 03:56	buy track
3.	SF Song 03:15	buy track
4.	Trick Rider 04:23	buy track
5.	Canada Geese 02:27	buy track
6.	Chancellor 04:25	buy track
7.	The Never-Ending Present 05:05	buy track
8.	Nothing but Heartache in Your Social Life 03:08	buy track
9.	Blackflies 03:58	buy track
10.	Lofty Pines 04:51	buy track
11.	Boy Bruised by Butterfly Chase 03:09	buy track
12.	Mystery 03:59	buy track
13.	Elaborate 05:25	buy track
14.	Yer Possessed 03:38	buy track
15.	Every Irrelevance 05:21	buy track
16.	Insomniacs of the World, Good Night 04:59	buy track
17.	Vancouver Divorce (Alternate Take) 04:27	buy track
18.	Trick Rider (Demo) 04:19	buy track
19.	SF Song (Demo) 02:30	buy track
20.	Contact (Demo) 03:09	buy track
21.	Down Down Down (Demo) 03:08	buy track
22.	Putting Down (Demo) 02:57	buy track
23.	Chancellor (Demo) 03:22	buy track
24.	The Never-Ending Present (Demo) 03:49	buy track
25.	I Stand Before the Songwriters' Cabal (Outtake) 03:08	buy track
26.	Contact (Outtake) 03:37	buy track
27.	Mystery (Alternate Take) 02:55	buy track
28.	Lofty Pines (Alternate Take) 03:44	buy track

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Originally released in 2001, Coke Machine Glow was Gord Downie's first solo album away from The Tragically Hip – an ambitious, singular, highly collaborative collection of songs that showcases the iconic frontman's peerless lyricism, vivid storytelling, and irrepressible knack for melody. Now, on the album's 20th anniversary, Arts & Crafts will release an expanded triple-album version featuring Songwriters' Cabal: a bonus disc of unreleased tracks, alternate takes, demos, and kitchen table recordings from 1999-2000. The 28-song collection presents a portrait of Downie with a rarely before heard intimacy, unrefined and dripping in the aura of the moment. Alternate studio takes of favourites like "Vancouver Divorce" and "Lofty Pines" express the fluidity of the band that comprised the Gas Station recording sessions; while home recordings of perennial favourites like "SF Song," "Trick Rider," and "Chancellor," spotlight Gord in close communion with his tape recorder and coffee machine. Produced by GD, Josh Finlayson, and Steven Drake, featuring Dale Morningstar, Julie Doiron, Kevin Hearn, Atom Egoyan, Dave Clark, Don Kerr, and more, Coke Machine Glow: Songwriters' Cabal is a document of Gord at the precipice of his illustrious solo career, stepping to the mic – voice tinkling like a chandelier – with everything and nothing before him to prove.

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released August 27, 2021

PRODUCED by GD; Josh Finlayson and Steven Drake

Discs 1 and 2 RECORDED at The Gas Station, Toronto by Steven Drake, May 2001 • Tracks A1, A2, A3, A4, B1, B4, C3, C4, D1 MIXED at The Gas Station by SD • Tracks B2, B3, C1, C2, D2, D3, D4 MIXED at Greenhouse Studios, Vancouver • Tracks E1, F4, F5, F6 RECORDED at The Gas Station, Toronto 2000 and MIXED by Steven Drake at Suna Studios, Vancouver 2021 • Tracks E2, E3, E4, E5, E6, F1, F2, F3 RECORDED by GD at Carlaw Ave, Toronto 1999. Discs 1 and 2 MASTERED by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering, Portland, Maine • Disc 3 MASTERED by Harris Newman at Grey Market Mastering, Montréal, Québec

EXECUTIVE PRODUCED by Patrick Downie, Josh Finlayson and Jonathan Shedletzky

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Gord Downie Toronto, Ontario

Gordon Downie was a Canadian rock singer-songwriter, musician, writer and activist. He was the lead singer and lyricist for the Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip, which he fronted from their formation in 1984 until his passing in 2017.

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