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Like so many, arts reporter Geoff Edgers was grounded by the pandemic. So he decided to launch an Instagram Live show called Stuck With Geoff from his barn in Massachusetts.
His guests have included Jamie Lee Curtis, Anthony Fauci and David Byrne, among others. Recently, Edgers chatted with songwriter and mandolin whiz Chris Thile.
Q: I ve been listening to your new record, Laysongs, which is an old-fashioned-looking record but not an old-fashioned record. It s remarkable hearing someone pull off an entire record of just mandolin and voice. Are there other great examples of that?
A: Let me think. I don t know of them, I know of solo mandolin, no singing. Off the top of my head, I can t think of one.
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Chris Thile presents a truly solo album,
Laysongs, on which his voice and mandolin are the sole contributors. Released by Nonesuch Records, the album contains six originals, including “Salt (in the Wounds) of the Earth,” a three-part suite inspired by C.S. Lewis’
The Screwtape Letters, and three covers and was co-produced by Thile’s wife, Claire Coffee. “[Coffee] has incredible taste and narrative intuition,” Thile said. “She was able to help me weave the original and non-original material together.” Engineer Jody Elff recorded
Laysongs with Thile at Future-Past, a recording studio in Upstate New York built inside an old church. The album’s content was informed by Thile’s Christian upbringing, spurred by Nonesuch’s Chairman Emeritus Bob Hurwitz, who told Thile he, “should do a God-themed record of some kind, it’s all over [Thile’s] work.”