Aimee Mann - The Forgotten Arm - Audio Streams

Aimee Mann
Aimee Mann - The Forgotten Arm - Audio Streams

Aimee Mann

"The Forgotten Arm" (SuperEgo), her fifth solo release, is a concept album. They are sharp, spare short stories set to music. A dozen songs that tell, rather loosely, the story of John and Caroline as they meet, fall in love and road trip across America. It is the musical equivalent of a novella.

Produced by singer-songwriter Joe Henry, The Forgotten Arm was recorded over just five days last summer. It is also Mann's most straightforward rock record to date.

"Joe makes records really fast and he makes them in a very natural way," says Mann. "He sort of cast the members of the band well"--including Sheryl Crow's guitarist Jeff Trott; Julian Coryell on additional guitars; Jebin Bruni on keyboards; bass player Paul Bryan; and Victor Indrizzo and Jay Bellarose on drums--"and then we just made the record fast and simple."

About a year ago Aimee took up boxing, hence the album's title.
"My friend who boxes has this move he was showing me and his

Aimee Mann - The Forgotten Arm - Audio Streams

name for it is The Forgotten Arm. It's like when you have someone on the ropes and you're hitting with your left hand and you have you're other hand between the two of you and your opponent forgets about the right arm, so you can bring it in for an uppercut. To me it's about the fact that the knock out punch is always the one you never see coming."

Let the tracks speak for themselves and check them out on her website:

http://www.aimeemann.com/theforgottenarm.html

The first three tracks off the album are posted on her site for your listening pleasure. She will be adding a new track every week, leading up to the album's release date May 3rd, 2005.

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