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MUSICIANS:
John Beckmann: vocals and lyrics
Aoibheann Carey-Philpott: backing vocals
Jon Cobert: pianist on TWID
Danny Flam: saxophones, and horns
Gordon Ashe: drums on BTD
Matthew Carter: drum programming on HOHW
Will Wilde: harmonica on HOHW
William D. Lucey: bass, keyboards, samples and programming, electric and acoustic guitars
William D. Lucey: producer and mix
High Water written by John Beckman and William D. Lucey
Studio: LeftBank, Cork, Ireland
Michele Civetta: director
‪@Mortal_Prophets‬

SLEEPING IN MY BED [EP]
Release Date: March 15, 2024

PRESS RELEASE:
Having already taken the groups ethos to almost unimaginable heights with last summer’s Dealey Plaza Blues, John Beckmann, doing daring and dauntless business as Mortal Prophets, returns with the 6-song Sleeping in My Bed EP to assure us that that remarkable piece of work was no fluke.

Proving beyond doubt his placement on the list of this country’s canonical songwriters, Mr. Beckmann has gotten his house so much in order that, upon any release but this one especially, it’s fair to expect a string of classics resounding through its hallways no matter from which stylistic room any particular track may originate. To wit:

With its initial swirl of dusty acoustic and dark effects and the drone of a uniquely American dread hanging over it, the atmospheric, cinematic and wholly evocative opener “Bury Them Deep” has one imagining Morricone lost in a new bad dream of sad American heroism even as the track is as head-nodding addictive as anything Beckmann has produced. “Sleeping in My Bed,” with its sultry, soulful blues vamp soaked in saxophone and menace creating a vibe that places it midway between a bar on Bourbon St at 6AM and a tent revival, simply drips with an incantatory fever, Beckmann’s vocal, against an arrangement of horn and lowing organ, leaving no doubt as to the narrator’s intention. “Tom Waits in Drag” not only speaks for itself but, coming on the (likely high) heels of that title track, proves the perfect segue as it actually takes place on Bourbon Street before “Hell or High Water” continues down this EP’s sublimely dissipated path, yearning and obsession laid bare for all to hear and then there’s three more past that but let’s leave those for your discovery as you surely have the idea.

As a piece of work, Sleeping in My Bed, as is true of any and all Mortal Prophets work, suggests a reimagining of Tin Pan Alley after years of neglect and abuse, brought back to stunning life with all its wounds and scars and shattered glass right out there in the open yet no less inspiring and swoon-worthy for all that. This is a modern pop music that on the one hand is fearless in its conjuring of a broken world while on the other clinging with great faith to the precepts of classic American songwriting. No one else is attempting this with quite the verve and fearlessness as the Mortal Prophets nor is anyone succeeding to a level heard here on the new EP. A great artist doing great work is usually more than enough, but when that work also speaks to the national psyche and the wounded human heart beating inside it, that’s everything that could possibly be asked for from any songwriter. John Beckmann delivers just that.

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