Ben Weaver

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Surrealism + Blues 04:37 Tools
Wings as Knives 04:14 Tools
Rain Leaves Smoke 03:19 Tools
East Jefferson 03:11 Tools
Plastic Bag 04:06 Tools
White Snow 03:14 Tools
Whatever You Want To Havn't You 03:52 Tools
In November 02:14 Tools
Like a Vine After the Sun 03:50 Tools
Down 25 03:34 Tools
Black on Black 03:11 Tools
Anything With Words 04:04 Tools
City Girl 02:46 Tools
The Unelected 03:06 Tools
Frankie 03:03 Tools
Sorrow 04:19 Tools
Drag The Hills 03:02 Tools
Geisha 03:32 Tools
Voice in the Wilderness 05:40 Tools
Grass Doe 04:28 Tools
While I'm Gone 03:12 Tools
Red Red Fox 03:43 Tools
Highway Kind 03:36 Tools
Old Mule 05:17 Tools
Ballad of a Thin Man 07:20 Tools
Split Ends 03:51 Tools
40 Watt Bulb 00:00 Tools
Grieve All You Want 04:23 Tools
Maiden Cliff 03:32 Tools
Soldier's War 04:26 Tools
Alligators And Owls 03:22 Tools
Hawks And Crows 03:15 Tools
22 Shells 03:25 Tools
The Rooster's Wife 02:03 Tools
Dead Bird 04:08 Tools
Said In Stones 03:06 Tools
Hey Ray 06:19 Tools
Pretty Girl 02:58 Tools
Ragged words 00:00 Tools
Cold House 03:51 Tools
Old Mission 06:17 Tools
Out Behind The House 04:27 Tools
John Martin 04:19 Tools
History Of Weather 02:29 Tools
Introlude 00:30 Tools
Like a Wound 05:40 Tools
Handed Down 05:00 Tools
Broken by 2 03:18 Tools
Sway With Me 00:00 Tools
Blood 05:46 Tools
Sara 04:39 Tools
I Cried All Night 05:00 Tools
2 Girls 03:21 Tools
Divided By Animal 07:52 Tools
Ella Mae 02:20 Tools
el camino blues 03:04 Tools
Bill Brown 02:11 Tools
Rose Marie 03:28 Tools
Sometimes 02:05 Tools
Ben Weaver - White Snow 02:05 Tools
Ramblin' Bones 07:52 Tools
The Ocean Ain't Blue 03:34 Tools
lonesome as am radio 03:09 Tools
Precious Time 03:40 Tools
Living In The Ground 05:50 Tools
Stay With Me 07:52 Tools
Ben Weaver - East Jefferson 03:14 Tools
Black Horse 03:41 Tools
Don't Despair 05:24 Tools
Appaloosa 05:26 Tools
Pissin' in the Wind 03:41 Tools
Ocean Ain't Blue 03:33 Tools
Hawk and Crows 00:30 Tools
Woodpecker Song 02:40 Tools
Dear Brown Earth 04:28 Tools
Frank's Getaway Car 04:28 Tools
Those Semis Sounded Like Thunder 02:54 Tools
Here's to my Disgrace 02:49 Tools
Christian Demons 06:52 Tools
Sunshine Tonight 04:09 Tools
More Than I Miss You 04:03 Tools
Horse Hair and Hay 04:21 Tools
Semis Sounded Like Thunder 02:53 Tools
Littleman 02:57 Tools
pretty girls 02:58 Tools
Always Loved You 03:12 Tools
Liza 05:26 Tools
Lowride 04:51 Tools
The Night Is a Coal Pit 04:28 Tools
Boxcars 10:01 Tools
Vapor 04:13 Tools
Nelson Mississippi 08:25 Tools
Way Down 05:24 Tools
Mr. Reilly 02:57 Tools
Don't Wanna Go Nowhere 04:51 Tools
Jon Henry 04:51 Tools
Rainstorm in Iowa 04:51 Tools
Minnesota Artist - Ben Weaver - Down 25 04:51 Tools
Dusty Mill 04:51 Tools
International Flatbed 04:07 Tools
Ben Weaver - Wings As Knives 04:11 Tools
Some Old Wine 04:11 Tools
This Train 03:28 Tools
Jug Band Music 02:45 Tools
694 Blues 03:28 Tools
Little Tomato 03:36 Tools
Peach Picking Time Down In Georgia 03:36 Tools
Oma's Song 03:36 Tools
Miss The Midwest 03:36 Tools
dont wanna go nowhere 04:51 Tools
Blue Moon Paradise 03:36 Tools
The Nature Of The Thing 04:51 Tools
Bare 04:13 Tools
Frankie (mmmm): 04:13 Tools
Ben Weaver - Ella Mae 04:13 Tools
Scare Crow 00:38 Tools
Rooster's Wife 02:04 Tools
White Snow (Album Version) 03:14 Tools
Downstream 04:28 Tools
Ben Weaver - 2 Girls 02:04 Tools
Dead Horse Point 03:14 Tools
Grass Doe (Album) 04:28 Tools
East Jefferson (Album) 04:28 Tools
City Girl (Album) 04:28 Tools
Track 1 04:28 Tools
The Night Is Coal Pit 04:28 Tools
Handfuls of Water 03:06 Tools
Great Grandmother 03:14 Tools
Drag the Hills (Album) 04:28 Tools
Rooster's Wife (Album) 04:28 Tools
Uncle Whistle Bones 03:57 Tools
Dear X 02:49 Tools
Maiden Cliff (Album) 04:28 Tools
22 Shells (Album) 04:28 Tools
08 - down 25 04:28 Tools
Coldest Winter 1944 04:28 Tools
Shadows in the Bark 03:09 Tools
While I'm Gone (Album) 04:28 Tools
12 - geisha 04:28 Tools
11 - frankie 04:28 Tools
Hawk Eyed Nephew 03:06 Tools
Considering Leaves 02:49 Tools
10 - sorrow 04:19 Tools
Split Ends (Album) 03:14 Tools
Track 2 03:14 Tools
Track 5 03:14 Tools
Track 4 03:14 Tools
Track 8 03:14 Tools
Late in the Evening 03:09 Tools
Even If 03:14 Tools
Ramblin' Round 03:09 Tools
Anything With Words (Album Version) 03:14 Tools
Track 3 03:14 Tools
Track 6 03:14 Tools
Track 7 03:14 Tools
Sister Chestnut 03:09 Tools
Over These Hills 03:14 Tools
Rain Leaves Smoke (live) 03:14 Tools
Track 9 03:14 Tools
Happier 03:14 Tools
Dead Bird (Album Version) 03:14 Tools
Soldier's War (Album Version) 03:14 Tools
Red Red Fox (Album Version) 03:14 Tools
Pretty Girl (Album Version) 03:14 Tools
Hawks and Crows (Album Version) 03:14 Tools
the un electec 03:06 Tools
Like A Vine After The Sun (live) 03:06 Tools
Low Ride 03:06 Tools
In The Vapor 03:57 Tools
14 - whatever you want to haunt you 03:57 Tools
Said in Stones (Album Version) 03:57 Tools
Hey Ray (Album Version) 03:57 Tools
biostatement2 03:57 Tools
Here's to My Distance 02:49 Tools
International Flat Bed 03:57 Tools
Lonesome as AM radion 03:09 Tools
03 - blood 03:09 Tools
20101001_Ben_Weaver_East_Jefferson 02:49 Tools
benWeaver_track8 02:49 Tools
benWeaver_track12 02:49 Tools
Old mule. 03:09 Tools
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“I only have one rule when it comes to songwriting. That is: whenever I have an idea I stop whatever I am doing and I write it down.” So goes the life of Ben Weaver. And though the Eugene, Oregon-born songwriter spends more time in his basement getting those ideas down than is likely proper or healthy, it’s hard to argue with the results – evocative, hushed songs populated by birds, phone booths, lovers, empty parking lots, friends, shoppers in the checkout line, and plastic bags stuck in trees. A former Casket Company warehouse in Minneapolis, Minnesota is Weaver’s current world headquarters. Multitudinous organs, synthesizers, guitars, a sampler, a piano, a dog, Polaroid cameras, sketch books, New Yorker back issues, boxes of CDs and a PowerBook mark the territory. There is an air of controlled chaos and the musty smell of old tube amps. This is where, under the watchful eye of a dog and perhaps several hundred interred ghosts, Weaver’s striking new album, Paper Sky, took shape. With the aid of committed producer Brian Deck (Modest Mouse, Iron & Wine), the record coalesces into a seamless blend of urban and rural, experimental and roots. “This record explores urban and industrial themes that I hadn’t touched before. I have been living in the city and that has made me see the relationship between the city and field differently.” Consequently, Weaver’s interest in experimental and electronic music steps to the forefront on Paper Sky, with crinkly synthesizer textures and other mutilated sounds mixed beneath beautiful layers of cello and blasts of processed trumpet. “Deck exposed me to the Austrian laptop performer Fennesz. He was a huge influence for a lot of the sound stage and static feel of this record. But I was also listening to a lot of Bill Evans, Glenn Gould, Silver Jews...” When not writing, recording or releasing his records, Weaver is often on the road, touring through Europe, America and Australia. “I try and change my surroundings as often as I can,” says Weaver, who performs solo and with a revolving cast of collaborators. “This way I am always being exposed to new things that effect and change my interpretation of the world, which leads to a constant renewal in my art.” Weaver writes continuously, a process perhaps more akin to breathing than composing, and has released a veritable Minnesota blizzard of material – at the tender age of 27, Paper Sky is his fifth record. So perhaps it’s not a surprise that Weaver has already set to planning the record to follow Paper Sky. “I have always identified with those people who make art because they have to, that sense of necessity and urgency. That is why I make art, to fulfill that need within myself and to connect with, and provide art to the people of the world who also cannot live without it.”. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.