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Micah P Hinson

Micah P Hinson and The Nothing

America Canada Micah P Hinson was born in Memphis Tennessee USA into a strict Christian fundamentalist household He began to experiment with music upon moving to Abilene Texas in his teen In the relative isolation of this town he became immersed in the local music scene In 2003 he teamed up with the Texas collective the Earlies which provided a lush backdrop for Hinson's winsome tales of love loss and regret before releasing solo albums for Sketchbook Jade Tee and Full Time Hobby 'Micah P Hinson and the Nothing' his first release on Talitres is a collection of songs Micah wrote before a terrible van accident he had on the Spanish highway in 2011 Unsure if or when his arms would ever work properly again Micah began listening to demos he has made before he went on that Spanish trip The songs took a different light and he began sending them off to people around the world The Twilight Sad his Belgium Quartet his Texan sidekick T Nicholas Phelps and with their help he began to create a record without the use of his arms Soon after this Micah was invited to go and record in Santander Espana at Moon River Studio For two weeks and two days Fernando 'Mac' and Micah realized what was to become 'Micah P Hinson and The Nothing' working with an astounding array of local musicians sitting behind the trap set standing beside the upright bass holding a viola or tumbling away the tympani Double LP with download code

Tracklist

• 1. How Are You, Just a Dream?
  2. On the Way Home (To Abilene)
  3. The One to Save You Now
  4. I Ain't Movin'
  5. The Same Old Shit
  6. The Life, Living, Death and Dying of a Certain and Peculiar L. J. Nichols
  7. Sons of the USSR
  8. There's Only One Name
  9. God Is Good
  10. The Quill
  11. Love, Wait for Me
  12. A Million Light Years
  13. The Crosshairs