Vic Chesnutt - "Vibratile Nerves"
Like a hollowed out outtake from Genesis' The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, and therefore, obviously, like the musical equivalent of the skeleton of the John Merrick of dinosaurs. There's something very wrong with this song that goes well beyond Chesnutt's willfully bizarre lyrics. The words are merely outrageous vestments for a body as ill-formed as it is unformed, itself just a shell for an unsavoury soul.
[Available only at emusic]
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Kilby Snow - "Greenback Dollar"
Get on your horse, turn up your horse stereo, plug in your horse iPod and ride ... slowly. This autoharp ditty is dense! [Buy]
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Elsewhere, in dance craze related news: My brother's strange and hilarious brainchild.
Posted by Jordan at March 28, 2007 2:24 PMFYI-
You can see Snow as well as hear him:
Traditional Music Classics
Featuring Doc Watson, Roscoe Holcomb, Buell
Kazee and Kilby Snow
Rare Footage From the 1960s
Yazoo 516; Video; Ordering Information
"...John Kilby Snow was an outstanding autoharpist who was virtually unknown until discovered by Mike Seeger, who was responsible for bringing him to a wider audience in the 1960s. Kilby mastered an unusual signature technique of playing the autoharp, strumming left-handed below the chord bars and utilizing what he called "drag notes," which he demonstrates in this video. Accompanied by Mike Seeger, Kilby plays Ragged But right, Greenback Dollar, Pretty Polly, What A Friend We Have In Jesus and more.
© 2000 Yazoo Records..."
That first song is the most original thing I've heard in over fourth months. Thank you so much! And what an accurate description as well.
Posted by Sean at March 29, 2007 9:12 PM
and it will begin playing. All songs are also available to download: just right-click the link and choose 'Save as...'
