Josh Pearson. Lift To Experience. What else do you need? Just click, for heaven’s sake!

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If you head over the newly-redesigned Bella Union website (which looks much nicer than before), than you might see this little-yet-epic headline—“The return of Lift to Experience mainman Josh Pearson”.

Why is this so epic? Well, then you’ve obviously never heard the saga of Lift To Experience, the greatest prophetic rock group to ever emerge from the land of Texas. They released one album—The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads—built up a devoted following, set venues on fire with their apocalyptic live shows, and then promptly disappeared. Questions inundated Bella Union and rumors began a-flowing, with folks like myself fearing we’d never hear from the band again.

Well, the clouds have begun to lift (npi) it seems. While it appears, sadly, that Lift To Experience is no more, Josh Pearson is playing a series of solo shows in the UK right now and is currently planning to release two albums. The first is a collection of covers dealing with the topic of “loneliness”. The second is his long-awaiting solo debut, which is composed of songs that he wrote after burning out while trying to write a proper follow-up to The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads.

Interestingly enough, while doing a search for reviews of Pearson’s latest concerts, I came across this review, in which Pearson claims that Lift To Experience is still alive and planning several albums. So the mystery continues…

All I know is that I just want to hear some new Pearson-penned songs, all drenched in apocalyptic imagery and full of tales of sin, redemption, heaven, hell, Gods, demons—all that stuff—as soon as possible. In the meantime, I might just pick up a Josh Pearson t-shirt to help spread the good word.

Thanks to Todd for the skinny.

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Oct 23, 2005, 2:18pm

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Comments

Mike
October 27, 2005 12:45am

Josh Pearson has said on more than one occasion recently that there are two more Lift albums written. He said it to me. So I don’t know why the Bella Union site would be stating something to the contrary. Even if things are not patched up with the drummer, it’s not as though there is only one drummer on Earth…
Jason
October 27, 2005 8:58am

Yeah, I do find that pretty odd myself. Maybe it’s all an elaborate ruse by Josh to keep everyone guessing until the new stuff comes out… which is *soon*, hopefully.
James Neilson
December 7, 2005 12:11pm

I spoke to Josh whilst he was in the UK and he seemed very uncertain about his future direction in music- I got a demo of him covering Hank William’s “Im so lonesome I could cry” which would support the comment about a possible loneliness album but he said he would see how the shows were received re any future recording/ releases. I reckoned he should do a record of gentle acoustic stuff because, lets be honest he has such a heavenly singing voice. Who can say. i just wished him luck.