Troubadour, by Rickolus

Troubadour

by Rickolus

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bri kimsel When this came out in 2013, I listened to this for nearly two months straight. Troubadour changed the way I think about love, and it's been great. Favorite track: Most Of Us.

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1.	Hobby Horse 04:04	buy track
2.	I Said I Don't Care 02:47	buy track
3.	Snow Globes 04:24	buy track
4.	Thieves 03:33	buy track
5.	Canyons 04:10	buy track
6.	Chasing Thunder 04:43	buy track
7.	Herschel 03:59	buy track
8.	Dreamzzz 02:13	buy track
9.	Most Of Us 03:46	buy track
10.	Night Kids 02:45	buy track
11.	Surrender 04:30	buy track
12.	Whatever, Etc 03:05	buy track
13.	Roy Great Britian IV 04:50	buy track
14.	Young Heart 02:17	buy track
15.	The Lonely Fox 04:44	buy track
16.	White Whale 03:53	buy track
17.	We Paint The Rocks Gold 01:58	buy track
18.	9th Street To San Pablo 04:41	buy track
19.	Echos On 8th Avenue 04:05	buy track
20.	Theatre Eleven 03:36	buy track
21.	October 05:10	buy track
22.	Confessions Of An Empty Bird 04:29	buy track
23.	The Waltz 01:13	buy track
24.	Banquet 02:43	buy track

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"I'm happy to present these handmade pre order packages to you for my new double album Troubadour. The package comes with a homemade CD package, individual sleeves for each disc with the song titles on them and a four color poster print (each print is hand numbered) of a RickoLus original drawing. They were all screen printed by my friend J.T. Felix (@crookedpaw) and I in my garage in Jacksonville, FL. The CD package material is 100% recycled stock from Stumptown Printers and the poster paper is from French Paper Co. We only printed 100 of these packages so get them while they last!" — Rickolus

Inspired by a passage from Joseph Campbell's "The Power Of Myth", Rickolus' Troubadour is an album about love as the highest spiritual experience and specifically Richard Colado's (aka Rickolus) love for his wife. It is a recounting of a love that grew longer while the cigarettes grew shorter, while the four track recordings piled up.

At the beginning of the writing process for Troubadour, Colado had a hard time deciding whether to write metaphorically or literally about his marriage. It was a mess from the start, but in true Rickolus form he jumped in and learned how to swim. Lyrically, Colado decided to make an abstract collage of pictures of his wife that he keeps in his head, instead of trying to paint a portrait of them that was more easily recognizable. Upon finishing those songs however, he felt like they were too abstract to really represent their relationship fully.

Asking his muse what to do, she set herself to the task of listening to the mountain of demos he'd recorded. After a brief amount of listening, she returned with a list that had only a few songs marked off and said "you have two albums". The two of them split them up between acoustic and electric songs, thus making Troubadour a double album.

Rickolus still feels like the album is still kind of a mess but, that in itself, represents love better then a condensed ten song album ever could. Since when was love tight, concise and clear? We've all known it to be a complete, fucking beautiful mess!

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released October 29, 2013

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