a master of spare but utterly original accompaniment:
Category Archives: video
Where klezmer went
John Zorn and the Masada Trio (thanks Daniel!):
We Can’t Make It Here
Old Blue Bus keeps offering relevant commentary on the quotidian, this time with James McMurtry’s We Can’t Make It Here
James McMurtry’s Web site… I’m impressed.
quick update: Shoulda looked at YouTube first:
Nothing exceeds
like excess. Thanks Kate!
The Sin of Pride
This has been a long time in gestation… been thinking about how to do it, what to include, what software to use, and this is the FIRST of what might be quite a few:
I have a lot to learn about what works, what doesn’t, how to produce and edit narrative, etc., but the winter is long…
self-referential metastuff
via Christopher Sessums, whose comments are well worth your time.
PCR rocks, when you need to find out who the daddy is
thanks Nick!
Voice modulation: Tom Waits
And he busts some great dance moves too
Vincent Black Lightning 1952
(from http://www.thevincent.com/)
Two readings of the same text. Me, I’ve never been a participant on motorcycle lore, though I have friends who were and did. But I know a Good Song when I hear one, played here by one of the reigning geniuses of the guitar:
(lyrics)
It’s Richard Thompson’s song (from Rumor and Sigh, 1991), one of a great many from his pen that capture humans in vulnerable moments and make their exploits live on (see an interview with RT for some background). And Del McCoury does a remarkable job of translating it to Tennessee (Knoxville replaces Box Hill):
There’s a novel, due to be published in March 2008: Vincent Black Lightning 1952: A Novel, by Al Sciarrino (“…a business and entertainment law professor at State University of New York, teaches a course on Music and the Law at the Eastman School of Music and has been an aficionado of country music and motorcycles his entire life…”), but whether it’ll cast any new light on the original James Adie remains to be seen.