Even A Tree Can Shed Tears: Japanese Folk & Rock 1969-1973 Exclusive 2LP fg_Catalog Number_TMR042 The Lonesome Crowded West stands

The Lonesome Crowded West stands as the defacto Northwest indie-rock record

dealing with the reconciliation of attachment and detachment

Carrie Brownstein (guitar and vocals)

surrounded by the sort of vintage

in which he shares the personal stories behind each song and provides insight into how some of the most enduring songs of all time were written

Even A Tree Can Shed Tears: Japanese Folk & Rock 1969-1973 Exclusive 2LP fg_Catalog Number_TMR042 The Lonesome Crowded West standsA Newbury Comics exclusive color vinyl pressing. There was something in the air in the urban corners of late 60s Japan. Student protests and a rising youth culture gave way to the angura (short for underground) movement that thrived on subverting traditions of the post war years. Rejection of the Beatlemania inspired Group Sounds and the squeaky clean College Folk movements led the rise of what came to be known in Japan as New Music, where