Notes
2010 collaboration between piano-playing songwriter Ben Folds and author, Oscar-nominated screenwriter and lyricist Nick Hornby. The London-based Hornby supplied the words for Lonely Avenue, a project sparked by the long-distance friendship that developed after Hornby published Songbook. Nashville resident Folds then set Hornby's lyrics to music in the vintage, orchestra-sized studio he'd rescued from oblivion and has been working in for the last 10 years. Folds recorded everything live in analog to two-inch tape, finally mastering the disc at Abbey Road. Joining Folds in the studio at various points were his own band, a string section, and legendary arranger Paul Buckmaster, who, as Folds describes him, is "the person who makes you feel the goose bumps at the chorus and you don't know why."
