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Back Porch Spirituals

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Back Porch Spirituals
Studio album by
ReleasedDecember 9, 2001
GenreFolk pop
LabelIndependent album
ProducerJeremy Fisher
Jeremy Fisher chronology
Back Porch Spirituals
(2001)
Let It Shine
(2004)

Back Porch Spirituals is the first studio album by the Canadian singer-songwriter Jeremy Fisher.[1] It was released independently in 2001.[2]

Fisher bicycled alone across North America, from Seattle to Halifax, to promote the album.[3]

Reception

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In reviewing the album, the Times Colonist wrote that the tracks on the album "seem to have seamlessly grown out of Fisher's Kerouacian rootlessness and contagious energy".[4]

Track listing

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  1. "The Devil Found a Friend in Me"
  2. "Ain't Got Nothing but Plenty of Time"
  3. "Jolly Rodger"
  4. "Kiss the Moon"
  5. "You, Me, and the Sunshine"
  6. "Twister"
  7. "Saddle Up the Horse"
  8. "Marengo, Saskatchewan"
  9. "Song for Robert Zimmerman"
  10. "Safe and Sound"

References

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  1. ^ "Jeremy Fisher | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  2. ^ "Smokin' Folkie: Jeremy Fisher" – via www.washingtonpost.com.
  3. ^ Dye, David (March 12, 2008). "Jeremy Fisher: Pedal-Powered Rock", NPR. Retrieved June 17, 2015.
    - Hasty, Katie (October 11, 2007). "Jeremy Fisher Gets 'Blue'", Billboard. Retrieved June 17, 2015.
  4. ^ Blake, Joseph (February 16, 2003). "Quirky, soulful, earthy – these discs have it", Times Colonist, p. B11.