Aw Come Aw Wry

The second Phosphorescent album, and his only one for Misra Records, ending on an 18-minute track.
Phosphorescent, 2005

Released
2005
Label
Misra

Aw Come Aw Wry is Phosphorescent's second full-length and his first and only record on Misra. It was released in 2005. The cover is a detail of Ambrogio Lorenzetti's fresco Effects of Good Government on the City Life, part of the series The Allegory of Good and Bad Government painted in 1338 to 1340 in the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena.

Several of the twelve tracks are short fragments titled Aw Come Aw Wry, numbered 3, 5 and 6, and the album ends with Nowhere Road, Georgia, February 21, 2005, which runs close to nineteen minutes. Daniel Rickard plays organ on Joe Tex, These Taming Blues, and Jesse Flavin plays lead guitar on Lost Name.

Track listing

  1. Not a Heel3:50
  2. Aw Come Aw Wry #50:45
  3. Joe Tex, These Taming Blues5:30
  4. Aw Come Aw Wry #61:12
  5. I Am a Full Grown Man (I Will Lay in the Grass All Day)5:31
  6. Dead Heart5:49
  7. Aw Come Aw Wry #30:49
  8. South (Of America)4:50
  9. Lost Name5:02
  10. Endless, Pt. 13:36
  11. Endless, Pt. 26:55
  12. Nowhere Road, Georgia, February 21, 200518:57

Personnel

More from Phosphorescent

Pride (2007), To Willie (2009), Here's to Taking It Easy (2010), Muchacho (2013), C'est La Vie (2018), Revelator (2024)

Sources

  1. Aw Come Aw Wry, Wikipedia
  2. Phosphorescent: Aw Come Aw Wry (master release), Discogs