Jay Farrar

Ask why after why
Pretty soon you come up dry
It don't take long you come up dry

http://www.thelyricarchive.com/img/pic/18501-19000/18681/main Ellen McIlwaine, slide guitar and harmonica Used to see her each year when she came to Cleveland in the mid-70s Hard to believe she's in her mid-60s, doesn't seem right Instead of a train, she'd make her harmonica sound like tug boats an...

Up all night chasin girlies
Get to work late
And go home early

My working theory... Mr Louris woke up with a horse's head in his bed.

Saw Linda Ronstadt's band go with double pedal steel in the mid-70s, but never before or since - it was apocalyptic.

Saw Wilco on ACL last weekend, hadn't been too familiar with their stuff, really liked the whole thing, melodic songs that went beyond the obvious, mostly good lyrics, great arrangements and playing. What they did on Via Chicago was original - as least to me Starts out as a quiet rhythmic ballad - b...

Stumbled across "Kath and Kim", last night. A few minutes was all I could take.
It reminded me of the Seinfeld scene where George is trying to impress a woman by telling her he's a writer...of a sitcom, and she says, "How can you write that CRAP"?

If I was on the jury for this, or the My Sweet Lord case, I'd go with the defendent. -Rock is a 50+ year old genre with rules for chord usage/chord progressions/rhythms/lyrical themes etc that apply to most of the songs -Melodies suggest themselves from the chords and rhythms -There have been so man...

True, a good performer learns to manipulate the audience, the audience are willing participants (cause they paid and want to have a good time), and sometimes the performance transcends all that, and becomes Real (like the Velveteen Rabbit) and Meaningful. For whatever biological reason, music is one...

On the No Depression site, a CD review and a seven minute video interview on the making of, including duets with Jim Boquist (who looks better than he did on the mid-90s ACL SV DVD). http://www.nodepression.com/articles.aspx?.id=4964 Also there's an interview with Chris Hillman (Features section) on...

Saw Odetta at the Smilin Dog West Side Cleveland ca 1975. The main thing I remember is that she got everybody to sing Home on the Range a capella. Maybe it was the beer or the way she asked, but everybody sang. Soon the women started singing the harmony parts. Then Odetta added a soulful, spiritual ...

i hope he'll sign my sanitary napkin tomorrow!!!

half-n-half 9/13/03

Did She Jump - Shoot Out the Lights - R&L Thompson Fascinating progression for verse and instrumental leading to singalong chorus and the last chord (unresolved) that (along with the last verse) leaves the whole thing up in the air. Myself, I think she just fell, but (like JFK) people can't accept t...

Where the Devil Don't Stay "Before black and white went and chose up sides and gave a little bit of both away"
Carl Perkins Cadillac "Dammit Elvis, I swear son. I think its time you came around, Makin money you can't spend ain't what bein dead's about"
Just for two.

..if anybody hasn't listened to this yet, well you should.
Thanks for hooking us up.
Always seems to be room in this world for another sincere ballad - that tells an old story from a direction you haven't heard.