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It has its own voice, which comes from some place between the two of us, says author, Oscar-nominated screenwriter and now lyricist Nick Hornby of Lonely Avenue, his unique, words-and-music collaboration with Ben Folds. Singer-songwriter-pianist Folds puts it more bluntly: I felt like I d found something rare on eBay or something. Nick should have done it before but it s his first big effort and I feel like I really scored here. Hornby first attracted the attention of music fans - and artists like Folds - with his brilliant, bittersweet 1995 novel High Fidelity, about an obsessive record collector s crumbling personal life that was translated into a cult classic film starring John Cusack and even a stage musical. Hornby has been an admirer since attending Folds first U.K. shows. In fact, Hornby devoted an entire essay in his 2002 collection of music-themed short pieces, Songbook, to Folds, praising the sophisticated simplicity of Folds writing. The London-based Hornby supplied the words for Lonely Avenue, a project sparked by the long-distance friendship that developed after Hornby published Songbook. Nashville resident Folds then set Hornby s lyrics to music in the vintage, orchestra-sized studio he d rescued from oblivion and has been working in for the last ten years. The hero of High Fidelity would have approved: Folds conceived the album as a vinyl release and recorded everything live in analog to two-inch tape, finally mastering the disc at Abbey Road. Joining Folds in the studio at various points were his own band, a string section, and legendary arranger Paul Buckmaster, who, as Folds describes him, is the person who makes you feel the goose bumps at the chorus and you don t know why. (Those are Buckmaster s string charts, for example, on Elton John s Tiny Dancer and The Rolling Stones Moonlight Mile. ) Lonely Avenue offers equal measures of humor and pathos in often deceptively cheerful songs. Folds literally gives voice to Hornby s endearingly mixed up, lovelorn characters, who come across as sympathetic even at their most hapless. An aging pop singer has to endlessly and agonizingly reprise his one hit, a paean to a woman he left years ago, to the fans who still attend his shows ( Belinda ). A mother deliberately avoids a stunning view of New Years Eve fireworks as she ministers to her seriously ill child in a London hospital ( Picture Window ). Hornby reconstructs the world of crippled, Brill Building-era songwriter Doc Pomus circa 1962 ( Doc Pomus ), and imagines, with unexpected tenderness, the moment when Alaskan teenager Levi Johnston discovered he d impregnated the newly announced vice-presidential candidate s daughter, Bristol Palin. The result is an 11-song set that s as playful as it is soul-stirring, and more than a little magical. Says Folds, With some albums the comet goes by and you grab it while it s passing and everything you do has some comet dust on it. This is one of those albums.
Also available in a Deluxe Edition that includes the album on CD, four short stories by Hornby, and 15 images by acclaimed photographer Joel Meyerowitz, all in a hardbound, 152-page book.
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