GORD DOWNIE MUSIC PLUS

Elegant alternate studio takes of classics like 'Vancouver Divorce' and 'Lofty Pines' express the fluidity of the family band that comprised the Gas Station recording sessions in Toronto, that May of 2000 while home recordings dated November 1999, Carlaw Avenue, of 'SF Song,' 'Trick Rider,' and 'Chancellor,' and more, spotlight Gord in close communion with his tape recorder and coffee machine. The in-all 28-song collection presents a portrait of Downie with a rarely before heard intimacy, unrefined and dripping in the wildness of the moment.

GORD DOWNIE MUSIC PLUS

Entitled Coke Machine Glow: Songwriters’ Cabal, the triple-album features the original two-disc set plus a bonus record of twelve unreleased demos, alternate versions, and never-before-heard outtakes – carefully curated by Gord’s “oldest Toronto friend” Josh Finlayson and brother Patrick Downie with Arts & Crafts’ Jonathan Shedletzky – including the ominous “I Stand Before The Songwriters’ Cabal” and two opposing versions of the mysterious “Contact.”

Now, to mark its 20th anniversary, Arts & Crafts announces a special expanded reissue that posthumously revisits the songs and poetry of this prolific period of Downie’s career. Twenty years since its release, Coke Machine Glow remains a teetering, charming body of work, never static, shot across its canvas in brilliant glowing embers and warm honey tones. The first solo project by one of the world’s great wordsmiths, Coke Machine Glow’s sixteen painterly songs were released with an accompanying book of poetry, collectively emanating Downie’s heartrending stories, from the road as from home, in his signature quirk and complex, approachable wit. Gord Downie’s Coke Machine Glow was released in 2001, in between Music Work (2000) and In Violet Light (2002), the ninth and tenth albums by his mighty band of brothers in The Tragically Hip.

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