Biography
The narratives — or what he calls "talking-songs" — of Adam Gnade (pronounced "guh-nah-dee") come from his urge to document life in America. Drawing from early music, old American talking blues, and protest ballads from the 1930s, Gnade is accompanied by his band the Confederate Yankees: Thaddeus Christian (guitar), Shiloh Halsey (bass), Johnny Askew (organ), and Brian Smith (drums). After a few self-released experimental recordings, he released his first official album, Run Hide Retreat Surrender, on Loud + Clear in 2005. In the following year he issued the limited-run We Are Bones and Ghosts Down Stone Walled Wells. Gnade signed on with U.K. label Drowned in Sound, which released the EP Shout the Rafters Down! in November 2006. Gnade's first book, which continues the stories from his records, arrived that winter, while a collaboration with British outfit Youthmovies resulted in the Honey Slides EP the following fall.
Top Songs
| Name | Album | Time | Price | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Prince of the Confederacy | DBA Tape Club: Year 2, Pt. 1 | 8:31 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 2 | Run hide retreat surrender | run hide retreat surrender | 2:44 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 3 | New Yorkers don't care/A people's history of Delaware | run hide retreat surrender | 7:34 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 4 | Dance to the war | run hide retreat surrender | 6:16 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 5 | The ballad of Frances and Amelia/Green graves/Jersey Turnpike | run hide retreat surrender | 5:00 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 6 | The old lover | run hide retreat surrender | 5:35 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 7 | Room for three and the bayou summer | run hide retreat surrender | 4:27 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 8 | Shout the battle cry for freedom | run hide retreat surrender | 6:10 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 9 | So long darling/It's no use | run hide retreat surrender | 3:08 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 10 | The winter/Their apartment | run hide retreat surrender | 4:19 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
