2025 Charity Shop Purchases #19 - Hat Check Girl -Goodbye Butterfield
One of the good thing about Charity shopping for music is taking the occasional punt on something you know absolutely nothing about - a total stab in the dark as it were.
At 99p Goodbye Butterfield by Hat Check Girl caught my eye. It is from 2014 on the Gallway Bay Music label from Santa Barbara. A glance at the track list had me thinking that it might be Americana but it seems that they are a folk duo namely Annie Gallup and Peter Gallway.
Not only is it folk it is also a concept album as the sleeve notes explain -
We were visiting Montana when the fictional town of Butterfield and its inhabitants came to us.There is a particular atmosphere in a small Northern city,magnifying the stories of people whoe entire lives play out there, of those who got away , and those that pass through.
A cursurory first listen had me thinking it was going back. However, a more attentive second listen had me thinking it is worth hanging onto for now particularly as it has a thin sleeve and therefore doesn't take up much space
See what you think
Hat Check Girl -Tennesse Plates
Hat Check Girl - Goodbye Butterfield
Pleasant. If I had bought a copy it would probably go in the "keep but in the knowledge I will probably never listen to it again" box. Its the biggest of my boxes.
ReplyDeleteMine too!
DeleteYou've posted a lot worse than this, it's not a bad listen
ReplyDeleteI'm going to come back to these later (liked the start of Goodbye Butterfield) cos I got distracted by trying to think of a line in a Laurie Anderson song about a Hat Check Girl........ turns out it's not a girl but a guy ('He looked like a hat check clerk in an ice rink') and the track is Let X = X which is worth a listen
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