
Nothing is as easy as it sounds.
Spiritualized’s J Spaceman and John Coxon put music to William Eggleston’s film Stranded in Canton for a live showing back in 2015. Fat Possum released this heavenly slice of raw life back in October and I recommend kicking back and listening through.
Stranded in Canton is a black-and-white film portrait of Memphis in 1974, shot in bars and on street corners, showing Eggleston’s friends carousing, playing music and firing pistols into the night sky. It is raw, greasy, Quaalude-y and hot. Jagged and intimate, the film is a handheld window into a different world; “Hogarth on Beale Street” as writer Richard Williams describes it in the album’s liner notes.
Raw, greasy, Quaalude-y and hot is also an apt description of the contents contained herein: