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A few extracts from Laurie Anderson‘s Stories form the Nerve Bible.
•→ On The Way To Jerusalem ⇐
There was a devout nun in the XVth century who decided to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem; and she belonged to an order that wore bags over their heads. And the mother superior […]
«I had just learned to smoke (cigarettes and grass), and I was excited about it. I had always had asthma and couldn’t smoke. One day I was walking down the street and someone blew a puff in my face from a passing cigarette on a fall day, which is always the worst season. […]
The first track from the album City Of Light, by Bill Laswell. It was released Jun 17, 1997 on the Sub Rosa label. In conjunction with the spiritually-infused spoken lines of Lori Carson, Laswell and his crew unearth rhythms seared from volcanic chasms, old tongues, and primitive civilizations.
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¤ Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra ⇐
♦ ‘Want It Back’ ↓
Hearts on a stringLike an older fashioned phone canBang, ringy-ring and you think you’re gonna get someThing you can bring to a party at your wake notThinking of the thing that you pay back when […]
¤ Alison Krauss ◊ ‘Lay My Burden Down’ ↓
Gonna lay my burden down – lay my body in the groundCold clay against my skin but I don’t care at all
Can’t seem to find my piece of mind so with the earth I’ll lay entwinedSix feet underground – my feet are warm and […]
Award-winning musician, songwriter, and poet DiFranco ⇑ chronicles her rise to fame with engaging candor. Fending for herself by age 15, she survived each unusual day with ingenuity and perseverance while pursuing her education and musical passion. She performed whenever possible in coffee houses, clubs, and other venues, developing an eclectic sound […]
¤ TOM WAITS ⇐ •→Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame⇐ / •→http://genius.com⇐
•→ ‘BETTER OFF WITHOUT A WIFE’ ⇐
♥→‘Heart Attack & Wine’ ⇓ ♠ ‘Xmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis’ ⇓
hey charlie i’m pregnant and living on the 9th street right above a dirty bookstore off euclid avenue and i stopped takin’ dope […]
¤ Tony Joe White [1943-2018] a.k.a. the Swamp Fox
Some people talk just to hear their lips rattle Got to high positions – Same old ship but with a different paddler Told me that I had to get commercialized if I was gonna fit in with the […]
•→http://genius.com/search?q=bob+dylan⇐ «I’ve always been a fan of Dylan’s paintings and drawings. I love his hockey player painting, used by the Band on their LP cover for Music from Big Pink. I also love Dylan’s painting for his own album Self Portrait. Before we parted, I asked Bob if he could do a charcoal drawing for […]
Originally a troubled youngster who served time in San Quentin prison (from 1957 through 1960), California native Merle Haggard [1937-2016] grew to become a country music legend. With 38 number one hits and 250 original songs, he remains one of the best-known and most covered artists in country music.
♦ ‘Branded Man’ […]
¤ The Flaming Lips
The Flaming Lips are Wayne Coyne, Steven Drozd, Michael Ivins, Kliph Scurlock, and Derek Brown with Phantogram and Liz Allen.
The band is best known for its associations with 1960s and 1970s psychedelic subculture, with elements of this culture permeating the group’s instrumentation, effects, […]
¤ The Rush ⇔ Alex Lifeson, Geddy Lee & Neil Peart
Story … ⇒[Part 1] ⇔ [Part 2] ⇔ [Part 3] ⇔ [Part 4] ⇔ [Part 5]⇐
◊→ ‘Xanadu‘ ⇓
In SM Coleridge’s poem, Xanadu is the fictional name of the land where Khubla […]
•→http://www.leonardcohenfiles.com/poem.html←• [1934-2016]
∇ ‘You Want It Darker’ ⇓ [2016]
◊ Chelsea Hotel #1 ↓ [1972]
«Here’s a new song that we… just wrote off a couple of weeks ago – takes place in the Chelsea Hotel, in New York City, and it’s for a brave woman who.. er… […]
[1943-2023]
She walks alone down a sleazy backstreet, around a corner, up an alley to a dead endThere under a small blue light, she enters an unmarked doorwayA low heartbeat, a low pounding escapes into the night
This is a place she goes to fulfill a very basic needSomething people have […]
Formed in 1973 in Sydney, Australia, AC/DC found their earliest success in their native country. After releasing their albums in the U.S. and touring outside of Australia in the late 1970s, the band began to receive international recognition. Their breakthrough was «Highway to Hell», but this success was marred by the death of […]
Mick Harvey (born 29 August 1958) is an Australian rock musician, singer-songwriter, composer, arranger and record producer. A multi-instrumentalist, he is best known for his long-term collaborations with Nick Cave, with whom he formed The Boys Next Door, The Birthday Party and Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds.
◊ A cover […]
La Naissance De l’Amour →
“I would go home to Wales for Christmas and the summer when the school term wasn’t on. I used to get a kick out of trying to surprise Mum by showing up unexpectedly, but I could never do it. Every time I’d come she’d turn to […]
For almost 40 years the Whistlebinkies have toured the world with their own brand of authentic Scottish traditional music. The quirky name is derived from the old Scots word for a bench: a ‘bink’. A whistlebinkie was someone who played the whistle whilst sitting on the bink. Other musicians who joined became known […]
•→ Emily Smith introducing «TRAIVELLER’S JOY» (released on Jan. 24th, 2011)
Husband-and-wife duo Emily Smith and Jamie McClennan have a musical partnership which has developed over almost 20 years. The couple met when McClennan moved from NZ to Scotland, his fiddle playing soon became an integral part of Emily’s sound, later taking on […]
«My voice has gotten a lot better over the last 10 years, especially when it comes to ballads. … I had thyroid cancer a few years back and had a very serious operation, but I was lucky: I was in and out of the hospital in two or three days. And that […]
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