Sunday, July 11, 2004 ... 3:21 AM
From an e-mail I wrote to the friend who suggested I pick up Grey Delisle's CD, The Graceful Ghost
Got it yesterday. Really really fucking good. It gave me shivers about ten different times. Favorite tracks:
Walking In A Line
Sawyer
Pretty Little Dreamer
You gotta know, though. She's not authentic at all, there's nothing old-timey or traditional about her. It's pure postmodernism. She is a suburban Gen-X chick creating music that gives her that creepy ghostly feeling she imagined she'd get listen to old-timey music, but didn't quite get. It's that sound of far off diesel engines we heard when visiting our grandparents in small towns -- not as it really is but as we remember it, not on its own but posed against our life of suburbia high school university office building marriage daycare tax returns. She took that fucking music right out of our consciousness and our dreamed-up rural authenticity. It's authentic Generation X yearning, the Generation X version of the Golden Age myth that in the Baby Boomer generation is what got Reagan elected. She's the newest crop of the second generation of Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music initiates, their archetypes filtered through punk music rather than the LSD flowery bullshit of their parents; the generation starting with the No Depression guys (Uncle Tupelo, Whiskeytown, Freakwater, Grant Lee Buffalo), moving on down through Gillian Welch, Tim Easton, White Stripes (I guess), Old Crow Medicine Show, and now this chick.
Brendan
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Making Notes: Music of the Carolinas
(Novello Festival Press, April 2008)
includes my essay, "Link Wray"
MUSIC
Flop Eared Mule
The Celestial Monochord
HickoryWind.org
Modern Acoustic Magazine / Blog
Faking It
Honey, Where You Been So Long?
whiskey-girl
Porchlight
Charlotte-related
Emily A. Benton
Laurie Koster's Charlotte & Area Events
Evening Muse
Neighborhood Theatre
OTHER THAN MUSIC
Rusty Barnes
Mixed Animal
Cans and Jars
Night Train
Cat and Girl
Tom Drury
Ian Frazier
Film Freak Central
November 9, 2007
Eilen Jewell
The Evening Muse, Charlotte, NC
***review!***
June 16, 2007:
Carrie Rodriguez w/ Tim Easton
The Evening Muse, Charlotte, NC
***review!***
June 2, 2007:
Mt. Airy Fiddlers Convention
***review!***
July 10, 2005:
Chris Scruggs
The Evening Muse, Charlotte, NC
***review!***
July 8, 2005:
Tim Easton
The Evening Muse, Charlotte, NC
***review!***
February 19, 2005:
Neko Case and The Sadies w/ Visqueen
Variety Playhouse, Atlanta, GA
***review!***
September 17, 2004:
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings w/ Old Crow Medicine Show
Theater At Lime Kiln, Lexington, VA
***review!***
August 17, 2004:
Sweet Harmony Traveling Revue
Wolf Trap, Vienna, VA
***review!***
August 7 & 8, 2004:
Newport Folk Festival
Newport, R.I.
***review!***
July 11, 2004:
Cowboy Junkies
Wolf Trap, Vienna, VA
***review!***
Various Artists:
Friends of Old Time Music: the folks arrival 1961-1965 (at HickoryWind.org)
Neko Case:
Live From Austin TX DVD (at HickoryWing.org)
Old Crow Medicine Show:
Big Iron World
Sampson Pittman:
"Highway 61 Blues"
Baby Boy Warren:
"Stop Breakin Down"
Nina Nastasia:
The Blackened Air
Ryan Adams:
Jacksonville City Nights
Robert Wilkins:
"Rolling Stone"
Neko Case:
Furnace Room Lullaby
Etta Baker:
One Dime Blues
Steve Earle:
The Revolution Starts Now
Grey DeLisle:
The Graceful Ghost
