Sound Wheel is artist and musician Alison Mosshart's first solo spoken word album and companion piece to her new printed collection of paintings, photographs, short stories and poetry, Car Ma.

It is an album about cars, rock n' roll, and love. It's an album about America, performance, and life on the road. It's an album about fender bender portraiture, story tellin' tire tracks, and the never-ending search for the spirit under the hood.

Mosshart imagines the auto body shop like some other Coney Island. And America's highways, the last great roller coasters. She shows us that the engine on fire is connected to the guitar feeding back since birth. And the sensation of walking on stage and facing an audience is like the laugh before the scream in a car without brakes.

Mosshart ruminates that automobiles, with their doors and mirrors and windows, engines and wheels and radios, portray us. Mirror our need to be in or to exit, our inward reflections and outward visions, our lifetimes of tinkering with the mysterious heart. That which runs until it doesn't.

Throughout history the car has been a symbol of freedom and hopeful adventure. It stands to reason it is also a symbol of our subsequent spinning out... over things we never thought could happen during a song that fucking good with the volume up that fucking loud.

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Sound Wheel

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Sound Wheel is artist and musician Alison Mosshart's first solo spoken word album and companion piece to her new printed collection of paintings, photographs, short stories and poetry, Car Ma.

It is an album about cars, rock n' roll, and love. It's an album about America, performance, and life on the road. It's an album about fender bender portraiture, story tellin' tire tracks, and the never-ending search for the spirit under the hood.

Mosshart imagines the auto body shop like some other Coney Island. And America's highways, the last great roller coasters. She shows us that the engine on fire is connected to the guitar feeding back since birth. And the sensation of walking on stage and facing an audience is like the laugh before the scream in a car without brakes.

Mosshart ruminates that automobiles, with their doors and mirrors and windows, engines and wheels and radios, portray us. Mirror our need to be in or to exit, our inward reflections and outward visions, our lifetimes of tinkering with the mysterious heart. That which runs until it doesn't.

Throughout history the car has been a symbol of freedom and hopeful adventure. It stands to reason it is also a symbol of our subsequent spinning out... over things we never thought could happen during a song that fucking good with the volume up that fucking loud.

Tracklist

  1. 1. Intro - Talk Talk Talk
  2. 2. Windows Up
  3. 3. Pink Whip
  4. 4. Last Pack of Holy Smokes
  5. 5. Interlude / Psycho Hwy
  6. 6. Salt Lake City Drag
  7. 7. Interlude / In or Out
  8. 8. LA
  9. 9. Cables Galore
  10. 10. Interlude / The Storm
  11. 11. The Distance
  12. 12. Interlude / Oh Say Can You See
  13. 13. Sonic States of America
  14. 14. Interlude / Blah Blah Blah
  15. 15. Miami
  16. 16. Admit It
  17. 17. Angelyne
  18. 18. Oh Black Shark
  19. 19. S Town
  20. 20. Interlude / Chevy Eyes Pepsi Jesus
  21. 21. Hold On
  22. 22. Interlude / See Ya There
  23. 23. Louisiana
  24. 24. Around and Around and Around
  25. 25. Eliminator
  26. 26. Sexy Pontiac
  27. 27. Interlude / Horrible Singing Voices
  28. 28. Let’s Start a Band
  29. 29. Demon Prince
  30. 30. She’s a Trip
  31. 31. Road Kill
  32. 32. Animals
  33. 33. Sunday Style
  34. 34. High Performance
  35. 35. In Between Jobs
  36. 36. Returning the Screw
  37. 37. High Horses
  38. 38. Summertime
  39. 39. Interlude/ Real Real Real
  40. 40. Eastern Standards in the Wild West
  41. 41. The Electric Sads
  42. 42. Interlude/ White Firebird
  43. 43. A Dime
  44. 44. Little Bottle
  45. 45. Mindfield
  46. 46. The Daughter of the American Used Car Dealer
  47. 47. Vroom Chicka Vroom