{"id":3272,"date":"2017-05-14T11:45:33","date_gmt":"2017-05-14T16:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/?p=3272"},"modified":"2018-08-20T14:10:25","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T19:10:25","slug":"christopher-gold-new-album-two-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/christopher-gold-new-album-two-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Gold&#8217;s new album <em>You Are a Ghost<\/em> is two records in one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On \u201cDon\u2019t Feel Like Living,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christophergold.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Christopher Gold<\/a> sings about \u201ctoo many nights in too many bars, just waiting for the lights to come on.\u201d\u00a0We\u2019ve all been there \u2014 after all, Madison is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pictures\/americas-20-drunkest-cities\/18\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one of the drunkest cities<\/a> in America. Who hasn\u2019t gotten a little overserved on a night out, only to be brought crashing back to reality when, say, your boss shows up unexpectedly? (Because I <em>definitely<\/em> haven\u2019t, FYI.)<\/p>\n<p>Gold certainly knows, and his\u00a0excellent new album <em>You Are a Ghost<\/em> is full of ruminations on what happens when the party actually ends.<\/p>\n<p>The Appleton-based troubadour plays a slightly punkier version of heartland rock that\u2019s garnered him comparisons to artists like The Gaslight Anthem\u2019s Brian Fallon. Like Fallon, Gold has a penchant for stripping back his songs. In fact, there are two albums within <em>You Are a Ghost<\/em>: 10 original rock songs performed with his band, The New Old Things, and another 10 tracks featuring acoustic versions of those same songs.<\/p>\n<p>One of the reasons for double dipping, Gold says, was practicality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI play between 100 and 150 shows a year, and well over half of them are solo shows because that\u2019s what\u2019s called for or the band isn\u2019t available,\u201d he says. \u201cSo [when] I play solo shows and people ask which of my records sound the most like my live set, I have to explain that none of them do because I record with a band. This time I wanted to have something that really accurately represented the live set, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"689\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8viEvjLR0P8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>You Are a Ghost<\/em>\u00a0(the rock version, that is)\u00a0has a very heavy Drag the River vibe to it, and that\u2019s not just because of Gold\u2019s eerie vocal similarity to that band&#8217;s\u00a0vocalist, Chad Price, who also sang in punk legends ALL. It zigzags between shitkicking rock \u2018n\u2019 roll like \u201cDevils\u201d and more down-tempo alt-country like album highlight \u201cFurther South.\u201d The latter is a triumph lyrically as Gold\u00a0celebrates his own hybrid of southern roots and northern mentality while addressing the near-fetishizing of Dixie many artists from north of the Mason-Dixon tend to do when writing country songs.<\/p>\n<p>Gold is at his best when baring himself. As a family man and professional musician, he\u2019s a living representation of the dichotomy of \u201cthe party\u201d and \u201cafter the party.\u201d He addresses this directly on \u201cWhen I Was Gone,\u201d singing: \u201cThey had their medicines, that daily dose to make me feel okay. But as the days went on I got too bitter to ever want to stay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"689\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3kM0f96ZfIM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A native of Owensboro, Kentucky, Gold cut his teeth playing in the blues-punk act The Dirty Rotten So &amp; So\u2019s before moving to Appleton and beginning a solo career, marking himself as one of many ex-punks who made the jump to Americana. But\u00a0he sees it\u00a0as\u00a0more of a reunion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe two genres just aren\u2019t that different,\u201d Gold\u00a0says. \u201cThey\u2019re both no frills, stripped back, honest music. And another reason is that people aren\u2019t going <em>from<\/em> punk to Americana; they\u2019re going <em>back<\/em> to Americana. Many of the people doing it will tell you they grew up listening to folk and country and then just rediscovered it at some point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gold will be celebrating the release of <em>You Are a Ghost<\/em>\u00a0tomorrow (Monday, May 15)\u00a0at The Frequency <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madisonfrequency.com\/event\/1473171-hugh-masterson-brian-elmquist-madison\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">as part of a bill<\/a> with a pair of alt-country luminaries: Milwaukee\u2019s Hugh \u201cBob\u201d Masterson and Brian Elmquist, frontman of Brooklyn, N.Y.-based band The Lone Bellow. It\u2019s one of two Frequency shows for Gold next week; he\u2019ll also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madisonfrequency.com\/event\/1444303-hope-country-madison\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">open for Hope Country<\/a> on Thursday, May 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On \u201cDon\u2019t Feel Like Living,\u201d Christopher Gold sings about \u201ctoo many nights in too many bars, just waiting for the lights to come on.\u201d\u00a0We\u2019ve all been there \u2014 after all, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5151],"tags":[1138,54,1970,131],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.3 (Yoast SEO v18.5.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Christopher Gold&#039;s new album is two records in one | The Bozho<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Appleton-based troubadour&#039;s excellent new album &quot;You Are a Ghost&quot; is full of ruminations on what happens when the party actually ends.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/christopher-gold-new-album-two-records\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Christopher Gold\u2019s new album is two records in one\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"He plays two shows at The Frequency this week.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/christopher-gold-new-album-two-records\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Bozho\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thebozho\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-05-14T16:45:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2018-08-20T19:10:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Christopher-Gold.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Christopher Gold\u2019s new album is two records in one\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"He plays two shows at The Frequency this week.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Christopher-Gold.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@thebozho\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@thebozho\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Tom Whitcomb\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"The Bozho\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thebozho\/\",\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/thebozho\",\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thebozho\"],\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/#logo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/logo.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/logo.png\",\"width\":600,\"height\":280,\"caption\":\"The Bozho\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/#logo\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/\",\"name\":\"The Bozho\",\"description\":\"Seeing things. 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