What Is Free to a Good Home?

Infobox Album | Name = What Is Free to a Good Home?
Type = EP
Artist = Emily Haines

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Released = July 24, 2007
Recorded = 2006
Genre = Indie rock
Length = 17:54
Label = Last Gang Records
Reviews =
* "The A.V. Club" (C+) [http://www.avclub.com/content/music/emily_haines_amp_the_soft link]
* Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://wm04.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:jnfexzu5ldhe link]
* music-critic.ca (3.5/5) [http://www.music-critic.ca/wp/2007/emily-haines-and-the-soft-skeleton-what-is-free-to-a-good-home/ link]
* Pitchfork Media (7.5/10) [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/44346-what-is-free-to-a-good-home-ep link]
Last album = "Knives Don't Have Your Back"
(2006)
This album = "What Is Free to a Good Home?"
(2007)
Next album = |

"What Is Free to a Good Home?" is an EP by Emily Haines and the Soft Skeleton. The EP consists of five new songs and a remix. including previously unreleased tracks from the sessions of "Knives Don't Have Your Back". It was released July 24, 2007 in Canada and the United States on Last Gang Records. It is currently available on iTunes.

From the jacket (Verbatim except some links to preserve browsablility):

"This E.P. is a companion piece to the album "Knives Don't Have Your Back". These songs were recorded and mixed at Studio Plateau in Montreal, Phase One & International Chemical Workers Union in Toronto. Everything was produced by Jimmy Shaw (Musician) except "Sprig", which was recorded, produced and mixed by Dave Newfeld at his place in Toronto. String arrangement and recording of Rafael Hoekman (cello) by Todor Kobakov on "Bottom of the World". Chrysalis Music Ltd. (SOCAN / ASCAP).Guided by John O'Mahony. Mastered by Andy VanDette. Photo by Wendy Lynch. Artwork by Josh Hassin.

The Soft Skeleton is a few of my favourite musicians. Justing Peroff played drums on "The Bank". The horns on "Rowboat", "Telethon", "The Bank" & "Mostly Waving" were played by Jimmy Shaw (Musician) (trumpet), Evan Cranley (trombone) & Chris Seligman (french horn). Jimmy also played harmonium on "The Bank". Featured guest vocalist on "Mostly Waving", Lance Barrington.I wrote the songs and played them on piano while singing, "Sprig" is a poem by Paul Haines that I set to music. The lyrics in my version differ slightly from the original.

"What Is Free to a Good Home? is the title of a poem Paul Haines wrote for Robert Wyatt sometime in the 1980's. It was later set to music by Curlew (band) in their 1993 release " [A Beautiful Western Saddle [ (Cuneiform Records). Before his sudden death in January 2003, many of Paul's poems were set to music by the experimental musicians he admired most. You can find "Sprig" and "What Is Free to a Good Home? in the first collection of his work ever published. The book is called "Secret Carnival Workers: The Paul Haines Reader" (H.Pal Productions, 2007). We're hoping it won't be hard to find.

What Is Free to a Good Home? is dedicated to Stony Minor, Dirty Dillon & Tall Firs. And listeners like you. x"

Track listing

# "Rowboat"
# "The Bank"
# "Telethon"
# "Bottom of the World"
# "Sprig"
# "Mostly Waving" (todorK remix)