Posthumous Success (album)

Posthumous Success is the 2009 album by Tom Brosseau.

Album insight

The album cover, a photo by Autumn de Wilde, shows Tom Brosseau, Sara Watkins, and Largo owner, Mark Flanagan, standing backstage in a mirrored hallway. Design and layout were created by longtime Brosseau collaborator, DLT.

Blurb from FatCat Records:^[1] "Tom Brosseau’s third full-length for FatCat marks a huge stylistic shift away from the spare, acoustic arrangements of his previous releases. Two producers, Adam Pierce (Mice Parade) and Ethan Rose (Small Sails), helming alternate tracks - along with a small army of guest musicians - help Brosseau flesh and clothe his songs’ sturdy skeletons, lending them breath, presence, and limb-stretching immediacy.

Unchanged, however, are Brosseau’s earnest wit, near-unearthly emotional grasp, and captivating, vibrato-soaked voice. With Posthumous Success (named after a chapter from a biography of Albert Camus), Brosseau brings his best group of songs into a sonically rich environment, and the result is buoyant, well-crafted, and sprawlingly lovely - his most accomplished and inviting effort to date."

Track listing

1. "My Favorite Color Blue"
2. "Been True"
3. "Big Time"
4. "Boothill"
5. "You Don't Know My Friends"
6. "Love To New Heights"
7. "Youth Decay"
8. "Give Me A Drumroll"
9. "Miss Lucy"
10. "Axe & Stump"
11. "Chandler, AZ"
12. "Wishbone Medallion"
13. "My Favorite Color Blue"

Personnel

• Tom Brosseau: Vocals, acoustic and electric guitar
• Adam Pierce: Drums on tracks 2, 3, 5, and 10
• Rob Laakso: Electric guitar on tracks 2, 3, 5
• Gary Jimmerson: Drums on tracks 6, 8, 12, and 13
• Ethan Rose: Synthesizers on tracks 6, 8, 9, 12, and 13; Banjo on track 4
• Adam Porterfield: Loops on track 6
• Shelley Short: Backing vocals in tracks 4 and 12
• Jayme Layne: Vocals on track 3
• Jeremy Backofen: Audio engineer, additional vocals
• Rob King: Fender Rhodes

References