Letters from a Flying Machine

Letters from a Flying Machine
Studio album by Peter Mulvey
Released August 11, 2009
Recorded January – April 2009
Genre Indie, folk
Length 44:56
Label Signature Sounds
Producer Dave Chalfant, Peter Mulvey
Peter Mulvey chronology
Notes from Elsewhere
(2007)		 Letters from a Flying Machine
(2009)		 The Good Stuff
(2012)

Letters from a Flying Machine is an album by American singer/songwriter Peter Mulvey, released in 2009.

Letters from a Flying Machine is a collection of new songs and spoken-word "letters" by Mulvey, the letters written while in flight to his nieces and nephews.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]

Allmusic's review of the album wrote of the spoken word sections "Most are painful to listen to, lacking the grace and lighthearted humor that mark his songwriting," but wrote the songs "aren't as heavy-handed, even when they take on weighty subjects."[1]

Track listing

All songs by Peter Mulvey unless noted.

  1. "Kids in the Square" (Peter Mulvey, Tim Gearan) – 3:43
  2. "Some People" – 3:17
  3. "Letter from a Flying Machine" [spoken] – 3:02
  4. "Windshield" – 3:42
  5. "What's Keeping Erica?" (Mulvey, Paul Cebar) – 3:08
  6. ". . . Plus the Many Inevitable Fragments" [spoken] – 2:40
  7. "Dynamite Bill" (Mulvey, Gearan) – 3:21
  8. "Shoulderbirds (You Know Me)" (Mulvey, Gearan) – 3:37
  9. "Bears" (spoken) – 3:54
  10. "Mailman" – 3:15
  11. "Vlad the Astrophysicist" [spoken] – 5:40
  12. "On a Wing and a Prayer" (Mulvey, Tim Fagan) – 3:42
  13. "Love Is Here to Stay" (George Gershwin) – 1:55

Personnel

Production notes

References

  1. 1 2 "Letters from a Flying Machine Review". Allmusic. Retrieved November 20, 2014.
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