Tuesday, August 10, 2004
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glisten: Acap' CD 11
Adam - More on the continuing death theme we go… Hmmm. I thought the last one was stark, but this one overtakes it. What's a word for "more stark"? www.thesaurus.com says bleak. Sure. It's bleak.
Spencer - Can't understand a word but I'm sure if she sang Burger King's menu in that tender warble it would be just as beautiful. I'll have to pretend I didn't here that hawking sound at the end though.
Kevin - Sinewy and surprising melody, using parts of the voice that we don't hear often in western music. I like it.
It's spooky, is what it is; a sweet wind in the graveyard.
Remix, please.
Buy "World Library of Folk and Primitive Music, Vol. 2: Ireland" from Rounder Records
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Read this interview with tangentially related Irish doom metal band Mourning Beloveth.
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Explore this folk music repository
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GRIEF on the death, it has blackened my heart:
It has snatched my low and left me desolate,
Without friend or companion under the roof of my house
But this sorrow in the midst of me, and I keening.
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Adam - Leadbelly without accompaniment is like a day without sunshine. Though it does rain a lot, and that's a day without sunshine. Maybe I should listen to this track then. I do like how he goes back and forth with the parts of the song. I can say that.
Spencer - Second track from this mix that appears on Nick Cave's Kicking Against the Pricks.
Totally accidental. I like Nick Cave but I've never owned that album. Anybody wanna drop the pertinent tracks on me?
I don't like much Leadbelly but Huddie trumps Cave on this one. Another good one to sing along with.
Kevin - Not a lot can be said about Leadbelly that hasn't been said already so I'll hyperfocus on a particularly appealing detail: I really really like where he places the handclap in the "black betty" portion!
Yeah, really puts the off in "off beat," don't it?
Young people, know your history: THIS is your original gangsta.
Old people, know your future: Fiddy has a richer history than you think.
Buy "In the Shadow of the Gallows Pole" from Amazon.
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Visit the grave of Huddie Ledbetter.
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Play the music of Leadbelly with these tabs and songsheets via The Leadbelly Songbook.
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Explore Leadbelly Web; offering a brief bio, a comprehensive discography and a bunch of audio samples.
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Read this excerpt from The Life and Legend of Leadbelly by family friends Kip Lornell and Charles Wolfe.
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Rent (if you can find it) the obscure '76 "Leadbelly" movie. The film's tagline is killing me and the poster is a super hoot!
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much spiffy to come. For now, just go check out the completed interview via Morning News over here. I think it's pretty good.
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New CD on the way soon, with a numbers theme. Keep an eye out.
