I called Long Lost Brad and made him listen to a few bars of his mysterious Track 04s and he subsequently set me straight. Google didn't pick up on the lyrics because the artist is more unknown than I realized. The credit goes to Ryan Morse (like the code) from Logan, UT, and the song is called "Father," dedicated to a friend of his whose father had committed suicide. The pain in the song is more poignant to me now. I'll see if I can upload the track here soon. And Ryan Morse, if you are Googling your name and found this page: hey, man...I'm a big fan of yours. Thank your friend Bradley Gibbons for introducing me to your music.And the instrumental track was Elliott. I should have known. Two more Track 04s have names and homes now. I feel so accomplished.
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Elliot Smith? Or just Elliot?
I love the groovy picture of all the tapes, by the way. I wish I could say we're into the same music, but we're not, dude. But it makes me like you even more. I mean, if all your track 4's were from Cake and Sondre Lerche and Rooney and The Jayhawks, then what new music would I have to check out?
Are you still gonna teach at BYU-I? Love that place . . . a little bit jealous . . .
So have you played with any Joni Mitchell, Rigina Spektor, The Weepies, Mercy Me, Guster, or David Gray?
I mean really. If you want to fit in socially you've got to conform conform conform!
No more independent artists! I mean really, next you'll run across Allison Crowe, Amy Campbell, Brian Biehle, the Morgan Town Rounders, Cherie Call, Jon Schmidt, and Kirby Heyborne.
Really girl, you've got no taste at all....
:-)
Elliott the band. Not Elliott the Smith. Though I do really like him quite a lot.
And yes, on my way to Rexburg. Be jealous. I will take plenty pictures of all the red dirt on my pant legs.
Roecker: Yes, I know of your little bands. One time I liked Spektor. That time has expired. Mitchell and Gray I appreciate. Guster as occasion permits. Quit making fun of me.
Hey Gillz,
I hope you don't mind I'm checkin' out your blogs. I don't know you except through my wife Becca with whom you had some kind of humor wranglings, where, If I recall, my wife gave you a good thrashing. HA!!#%^@*! (that wasn't cussing that was expletive laughter). And anyway, I'm a fan (Cochlea Plunder Guild... nice).
But, so... you like Elliot Smith, and Bowie, and Tom Waits and some of the folky Dylan stuff and classic blues from the likes of Lightnin' Hopkins? I agree. It's all cool stuff. If you've never tried Pandora radio (on the World Wide Web) I recommend it. Look me up on there under user profile: allen.renfroe. See some stuff I'm listening to and let me know some more of your favorites.
You might like, if you haven't already heard of them:
Blues - Big Bill Broonzy
Jazz - Dave Brubeck, Bill Evans
Rock - Spoon, Wilco, The Thrills, Big Star, Super Grass, Mathew Sweet
Folk: Josh Ritter
-Allen
"Red dirt on your pant legs" . . . that is FUNNY. I'm not jealous of Rexburg, per se, just BYU-I.
You and Al do have very similar musical taste. I can't listen to more than one Tom Waits song at a time, but I do like Josh Ritter, Wilco, and Matthew Sweet.
And My Side of the Mountain was my favorite book for, like, three years. I think Hatchet is better, but MSotM still has a soft spot in my heart.
Haha, yeah, funny you would mention Ritter.....but yes, I have heard a little of him in passing....
Al, I'm proud of you for loving Waits. Have you ever watched him perform? I've only youtubed him but he makes me ache. I am a big Spoon and Wilco fan, as well. Thanks for visiting here!
And let the records show that kicked Becca's TRASH in our free-for-all momma-bashing cage fight! (Okay, okay, she kicked my trash right back.)
I welcome you both here anytime. And Becca, you are right about Hatchet. I am also a huge Gary Paulsen fan and would love to jump on the young adult fiction survivalist literature bandwagon sometime soon. I have something in the works. As we speak. But My Side definitely has stuck with me long enough that when people ask me where I want to live someday, I admit there is a highly unrealistic part of me that still thinks, "Inside the trunk of a large tree, eating off the fruit of the land.........." Dirty hippies.
Um, I sense I'm missing an inside joke here about Ritter. I mean, I know he's from Moscow . . . so what's the scoop? I need your email address. Mine is becca underscore renfroe at hotmail dot com.
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