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Skin & Bones

By Jeff Mellin

The first-ever collection of lyrics by artist Jeff Mellin
Photographs byJohn Soares
Introduction by Garrett Caples

The premier co-release of Kolourmeim an underground indie label Stereorrific Recordings, Skin & Bones is the first-ever collection of lyrics by songwriter and artist Jeff Mellin. Named for a lyric from his "tour de force"* album Jeff Mell!n Saves the World, this book covers songs from Mellin's bare-bones coffeehouse days to his later, more fleshed-out power-pop material.

"While it's often difficult to gauge the worth of pop lyrics printed on the page without musical accompaniment, it's remarkable how well Skin & Bones reads, as lyrics in the poetic sense," says Caples. "Jeff's lyrics considered as poetry at their best evoke the only-just stylistically-belated, yet entirely individual and intense poems of Weldon Kees; even at their least effective, they have the readable lightness of Edward Arlington Robinson, and everyone knows Paul Simon made 'Richard Corey' a better song than it ever was a poem, which illustrates my point nicely."

Skin & Bones also features photographs by the award-winning photographer John Soares, another long-time Stereorrific collaborator. Stereorrific plans to release a companion CD of Mellin's best recordings later this year, including new material he's recorded with producer Pete Weiss, members of the Stereorrific group Orange Nichole and Doug Yule of the Velvet Underground.


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"an accomplished talent whose adventuresome fare veers from literate Bob Dylan-esque folk rants to dusty '90s alt-country to bouncy, blue-skied jangle-pop." -- Jesse Ashlock, Epitonic.com

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