Tanya Donelly (Belly, Throwing Muses), The Jayhawks, The Dandy Warhols, Soul Asylum, The Ocean Blue with former TSOOL frontman Ebbot Lundberg, Motion City Soundtrack, John P Strohm (Blake Babies), SAVAK, Les Big Byrd, and many more artists have contributed songs to a new compilation paying tribute to Minneapolis musician and producer Ed Ackerson who died in October 2019. They've offered up interpretations of Ed's music from throughout his career, including songs by The Dig, The 27 Various, Polara, solo work and BNLX.
There are 30 songs total and you can stream the whole thing below.
Rest in peace, Ed.
Closer To Heaven: A Tribute To Ed Ackerson tracklist: 01 The Ocean Blue feat. Ebbot Lundberg - Closer to Heaven 02 Motion City Soundtrack - Wired Weird 03 The Jayhawks - Got Your Message 04 Soul Asylum - Transformation 05 The Dandy Warhols - A Brighter Day 06 Kraig Johnson & The Program - Light the Fuse and Run 07 Two Harbors - Turn On and On 08 Justin Courtney Pierre - Idle Hands 09 Tanya Donelly & Melissa Gibbs - Like the Poison 10 John P. Strohm - a+b=y 11 Holy Ship - Blue and Gold 12 APZOO (Asalto Al Parque Zoológico) - Can’t Get Over You 13 Les Big Byrd - Light It Up 14 Fairchord & Fixer - Wig On 15 Mark Mallman - Counting Down 16 Porcupine - Swoop Factor: 9000 17 David Poe - Jetpack Blues 18 Magic Castles - So Long 19 Pete International Airport - Song For Mire 20 SAVAK - Send It Through The Post 21 The Lilacs - Problem With Mary 22 The Melismatics - Source of Light 23 Escape From Minneapolis - Burn the Boats 24 Runtom Knuten - a+b=y 25 Jerry Leftowitz - Granny Smith 26 Chatham Rise - Down the Line 27 The Boen Arrows - Do Without 28 The People Between - BNLX Today 29 The Stress of Her Regard - Sort it Out 30 d*mchild - 1929
