A-sides and B-sides/A-sides and Besides: Adrianne Lenker and Buck Meek (2014)
A-sides And Besides (2014/2018) A-Sides and B-sides is a curious set of releases. When I first saw the title, I took the titles at face value and assumed that they were literally a collection of early singles, split into two EPs for some reason. But of course they are not -- or if they were, they were self-released CD-R singles that don't have any record of ever having actually existed. But then I thought that they were being clever and A- meant Adrianne while B- meant Buck. But since over the two EPs only three songs are actually Buck's and, indeed, he doesn't seem to play on four or five songs at all, I'd say they are rather misnamed, if that is the case. And while I totally get that Adrianne and Buck were "hanging as a unit" and that Buck's presence is very real on these EPs, it seems clear that Adrianne is the star here. In 2018, the A-sides and Besides compilation compiled the two EPs onto one al...