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Palace Brothers - There is No-One what Will Take Care of You

Track listing:
  1. Idle Hands are the Devil's Playthings 2:06
  2. Long Before 6:11
  3. I Tried to Stay Healthy for You 3:30
  4. The Cellar Song 3:51
  5. (I was Drunk at the) Pulpit 3:51
  6. There is No-One what Will Take Care of You 2:55
  7. O Lord Are You in Need? 2:58
  8. Merida 3:38
  9. King Me 3:49
  10. I Had a Good Mother and Father 2:54
  11. Riding 4:23
  12. O Paul 2:49

Notes


from Original Silver

There Is No-One What Will Take Care of You is the name of the first album by the Palace Brothers. It was released in 1993 on Drag City Records. It is Will Oldham's debut album, and also features several members of Louisville rock band Slint.

The album was included in Mojo Magazine's book The Mojo Collection: The Greatest Albums of All Time (2001).


Will Oldham's first album under the Palace rubric, There Is No-One What Will Take Care of You, seemed to emerge from under a cloud of mystery on its first release in 1993. The first edition had no credits save a list of names under the heading "Impossible Without," leading to all manner of speculation in the indie community about who was responsible; the album sounded as if some ancient songsters who had somehow escaped Harry Smith's attention years before had recorded a session in their living room, which somehow found its way to the offices of Drag City. On There Is No-One What Will Take Care of You, Oldham sounds like a lost-lost cousin of the Louvin Brothers who, after ending up on skid row, is equally convinced that Satan is real, since he smells his foul breath every waking moment of his life. Oldham's stark, intimate tales of sin, lust, alcohol, and hopelessness are fascinating, horribly compelling stuff, and while it would be easy for this material to sound ironic or condescending, it isn't — Oldham makes his characters' shame, confusion, and desperate search for grace real and genuinely moving. There Is No-One What Will Take Care of You may not be the best Palace album, but it is the work where Will Oldham's obsession with sin and redemption shines forth with the most painful and absorbing clarity.