Lee Bains III And The Glory Fires
"The title of LEE BAINS III AND THE GLORY FIRES’ debut album comes from Bains mishearing an old hymn as a child. In the soft accents of his elders around Birmingham, Alabama, “There is a balm in Gilead” sounded a lot like “There is a bomb.” It fits, really. The Glory Fires learned to construct music in the churches of their childhoods, and learned to destroy it in the punk clubs of their youths… In 2008, shortly after returning to Birmingham from college in New York, Lee Bains fell in with the Dexateens, a Tuscaloosa institution whose raggedy union of cock-eyed rebel pride and forward-thinking fury proved to be the perfect apprenticeship for a confused Southern boy, raised on Skynyrd and schooled in Faulkner. After Bains had played with the band for a couple or three years, a couple or t
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Catalogue & Listenership
Tracks
21
Albums
3
Total audio
1h 38m 54s
FMA listens
14,174
Favourites
23
Avg bitrate
277 kbps
Genre & Licence Profile
| Genre | Tracks |
|---|---|
| Rock | 13 |
- Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative — 8
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerci — 7
- Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives — 6
Top Tracks by Listens
| Track | Album | Year | Duration | Listens |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chat With Joe Belock | Live at WFMU on the Three Chord Monte with Joe Belock April 10, 2012 | 2012 | 15m 16s | 2,259 |
| The Red, Red Dint of Home | Live at WFMU on the Three Chord Monte with Joe Belock April 10, 2012 | 2012 | 4m 10s | 1,651 |
| Choctaw Summer | Live at WFMU on the Three Chord Monte with Joe Belock April 10, 2012 | 2012 | 3m 05s | 1,537 |
| Ain't No Stranger | Live at WFMU on the Three Chord Monte with Joe Belock April 10, 2012 | 2012 | 4m 35s | 1,238 |
| Centerville | Live at WFMU on the Three Chord Monte with Joe Belock April 10, 2012 | 2012 | 3m 10s | 1,013 |
| There Is A Bomb in Gilead | Live at WFMU on the Three Chord Monte with Joe Belock April 10, 2012 | 2012 | 4m 11s | 999 |
| Righteous, Ragged Songs | Live at WFMU on the Three Chord Monte with Joe Belock April 10, 2012 | 2012 | 2m 58s | 797 |
| Dirt Track | Live on WFMU's Three Chord Monte with Joe Belock – February 05, 2013 | 2013 | 5m 10s | 776 |
| Opelika | Live at WFMU on the Three Chord Monte with Joe Belock April 10, 2012 | 2012 | 5m 15s | 761 |
| We Ain't Country | Live on WFMU's Three Chord Monte with Joe Belock – February 05, 2013 | 2013 | 3m 01s | 516 |
Track Length Distribution
| Length | Tracks | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1–3 min | 2 | 9.5% |
| 3–6 min | 16 | 76.2% |
| Over 6 min | 3 | 14.3% |
Release Timeline
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Track Catalogue
21 tracks shown
| Track | Album | Genre | Duration | Listens | Licence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Company Man/ Dereconstructed [12] | Live on WFMU's Three Chord Monte with Joe Belock – November 4, 2014 2016 | Rock | 5m 31s | 347 | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerci |
| Burnpiles and Swimming Holes [12] | Live on WFMU's Three Chord Monte with Joe Belock – November 4, 2014 2016 | Rock | 2m 33s | 394 | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerci |
| The Kudzu and the Concrete [12] | Live on WFMU's Three Chord Monte with Joe Belock – November 4, 2014 2016 | Rock | 3m 08s | 149 | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerci |
| The Weeds Downtown [12] | Live on WFMU's Three Chord Monte with Joe Belock – November 4, 2014 2016 | Rock | 3m 58s | 124 | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerci |
| Mississippi Bottomland [12] | Live on WFMU's Three Chord Monte with Joe Belock – November 4, 2014 2016 | Rock | 5m 09s | 118 | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerci |
| The Red, Red Dirt of Home/ Centerville [12] | Live on WFMU's Three Chord Monte with Joe Belock – November 4, 2014 2016 | Rock | 6m 24s | 125 | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerci |
| Dirt Track [12] | Live on WFMU's Three Chord Monte with Joe Belock – November 4, 2014 2016 | Rock | 6m 46s | 226 | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerci |
| Company Man [12] | Live on WFMU's Three Chord Monte with Joe Belock – February 05, 2013 2013 | Rock | 3m 38s | 251 | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives |
| Dereconstructed [12] | Live on WFMU's Three Chord Monte with Joe Belock – February 05, 2013 2013 | Rock | 3m 26s | 232 | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives |
| Weeds Downtown [12] | Live on WFMU's Three Chord Monte with Joe Belock – February 05, 2013 2013 | Rock | 4m 04s | 324 | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives |
| We Ain't Country [12] | Live on WFMU's Three Chord Monte with Joe Belock – February 05, 2013 2013 | Rock | 3m 01s | 516 | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives |
| We Dare Defend Our Rights [12] | Live on WFMU's Three Chord Monte with Joe Belock – February 05, 2013 2013 | Rock | 3m 26s | 337 | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives |
| Dirt Track [12] | Live on WFMU's Three Chord Monte with Joe Belock – February 05, 2013 2013 | Rock | 5m 10s | 776 | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives |
| Choctaw Summer [12, 137] | Live at WFMU on the Three Chord Monte with Joe Belock April 10, 2012 2012 | 3m 05s | 1,537 | Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative | |
| Righteous, Ragged Songs [12, 137] | Live at WFMU on the Three Chord Monte with Joe Belock April 10, 2012 2012 | 2m 58s | 797 | Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative |