The album was reissued by Legacy Recordings in April 2007 with bonus tracks from a KCRW session. Its songs are set against the background of post- World War II Los Angeles Penn said he chose the year because of several notable events that took place then, including the passage of the National Security Act and the invention of the transistor. Hollywood Jr., 1947 on his own Mimeograph Records label.
Penn has produced recordings for Aimee Mann, The Wallflowers and Liz Phair.
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In 2003, he was nominated for a DVDX Award for Best Original Score in a DVD Premiere Movie for Melvin Goes to Dinner. Other films scored by Penn include Alan Cumming's first two directorial efforts, The Anniversary Party and Suffering Man's Charity American Teen, Sunshine Cleaning the documentary The Comedians of Comedy and The Last Kiss. During the editing of the film, Anderson directed a music video with Penn for " Try" from Resigned (the video can be found on the Boogie Nights DVD). He scored Paul Thomas Anderson's films Hard Eight (1996) and Boogie Nights (1997) he also appears in the latter in a cameo role as a recording engineer. He has worked extensively creating original music for film. Penn collaborated with the renowned surrealist animators The Brothers Quay on "Long Way Down (Look What the Cat Drug In)", which found a home not only on MTV but in film festivals around the country. Leboff continues, "His freeform songwriting creates tracks of startling shape and originality, offering literate reflections on the human condition." In Vox magazine, critic Gary Leboff acknowledged that Penn could be "pig-headedly uncommercial," but, he conceded, "the payoff is sublime". Rolling Stone called it "stunning" and CMJ wrote that the album "exhausts any doubts" about whether March was a fluke. The album, while praised by critics, was not as successful as Penn's debut, though it had more than its share of supporters. It was with Free-for-All that Penn faced the specter of the one-hit wonder. Hollywood Jr., 1947 (2005) and Palms and Runes, Tarot and Tea (2007) weren't able to match the commercial success of March, although critics continued to praise his songcraft. Penn's follow-up albums Free-for-All (1992), Resigned (1997), MP4: Days Since a Lost Time Accident (2000), Mr. March, particularly the first single, " No Myth", brought Penn attention, as well as the 1990 MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist. Penn had also appeared as an extra on a few television series, including St. Penn was one of two musical guests, as a solo artist on Saturday Night Live October 24, 1987, with his brother Sean hosting. Prior to the release of his 1989 debut album March, Penn was a member of the Los Angeles band Doll Congress. Michael Penn is a critically acclaimed singer/songwriter and film composer. He is of Lithuanian-Jewish (paternal) and Irish– Italian (maternal) descent. He is the first son of actor and director Leo Penn and actress Eileen Ryan, and the brother of actors Sean Penn and Chris Penn. Penn was born in Greenwich Village, New York City. 4.4 With Gabriele Morgan and Doll Congress/Doll Congress.