By Chris Coplan on February 13th, 2010 in
Said tracklist, which comes in at a comparatively slim 12 songs, was dwindled down from an astonishing 60 tracks. Okkervil River’s Will Sheff said the archival songs are from throughout Erickson’s life, from his beginnings in the Elevators to recordings from his time spent at an asylum for the criminally insane following a drug-related arrest in the ’70s.
“When we started out, I was given sixty unreleased songs to choose from. There were songs written during business setbacks including the Elevators’ painful breakup, songs written by Roky while he was incarcerated at Rusk, and a great deal of songs that reminded me of the sense of optimism and romanticism that I think sustained Roky through his worst years and ultimately reunited him, a few years ago, with his son Jegar and his first wife Dana,” explained Sheff in an issued press release.
True Love Cast Out All Evil is available April 20th via ANTI-.

True Love Cast Out All Evil Tracklist:
1. Devotional Number One
2. Ain’t Blues Too Sad
3. Goodbye Sweet Dreams
4. Be and Bring Me Home
5. Bring Back the Past
6. Please Judge
7. John Lawman
8. True Love Cast Out All Evil
9. Forever
10. Think Of As One
11. Birds’d Crash
12. God Is Everywhere