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¤ 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 […]
¤ The Chieftains
The Irish band, which hasn’t stopped playing music since 1962, holds the record for being the artists who have toured the world more extensively: they’ve played countries which few people bother to visit. They also have the record for being the band which has played with the largest number of […]
¤ Lisa Hannigan
Lisa Margaret Hannigan (born 12 February 1981) is an Irish singer, songwriter, and musician. She began her musical career as a member of Damien Rice‘s band. Since beginning her solo career in 2007 she has released two albums: Sea Sew (2008) and Passenger (2011).
↓ ‘What’ll I […]
¤ Massive Attack The pioneering force behind the rise of trip-hop, Massive Attack were among the most innovative and influential groups of their generation; their hypnotic sound — a darkly sensual and cinematic fusion of hip-hop rhythms, soulful melodies, dub grooves, and choice samples — set the pace for much of the dance music to […]
pjharvey•→http://genius.com/search?q=pj+harvey⇐[lyrics]
♥ ‘This Is Love’ ↓
I can’t believe life’s so complex When I just wanna’ sit here and watch you undress This is love that I’m feeling Does it have to be a life full of dread? I wanna’ chase you round the table, I wanna’ touch […]
¤ Howard Devoto Interviewed ⇐(vid)
◊ A promo of their album ↓ «Not Thyself» [2011]
◊ ‘A Song From Under The Floors’ ↓
I am angry, I am ill and I’m as ugly as sin I don’t know what keeps me alive and kicking I know the meaning of life, […]
Oracle
Here’s an extract from Brian Eno‘s explanation of this random collection of maxims or aphorisms aimed at helping artists approach their work.
⇐ «These cards evolved from our separate working procedures. It was one of the many cases during the friendship that he [Peter […]
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