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Re: literate music
Wow! Mancy A'lan Kane... definately obscure! I got her album a couple
years ago and loved the music etc. but couldn't for the life of me stand her
voice! (Isn't that terrible?!) Do you know what I'm talking about when some
artists are really pretty good but you just can't listen to them very long?
It makes you feel really bad!
To answer my own question, I'd have to say that "If Nothing Else" has been
my saving grace! As an aspiring singer/songwriter some days go great and
some days go bad (musically.) Either I'm stuck at a dead end, have no
inspiration to write or find my dreams slowly fading away... at these times
I always put in "If Nothing Else," turn it up extremely loud in my car and
drive around aimlessley singing "If nothing else, I can dream, I can
dream..." till I can't sing anymore (repeating it over & over), and it just
makes me smile and thank God for just being able to live another day!
(Poughkeepsie comes to mind...)
It seems as if every song by L & K represents a different corner of my life
that I frequently seek shelter within and keeps me sane for yet another day
at least!
A blessing-- I found two October Project CD's today at a used CD place for
under 6 bucks! Sweet!!!!
Keisha
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bethany Keeley" <blk4 at calvin_edu>
To: <over-the-rhine at actwin_com>
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 9:25 PM
Subject: re: literate music
> Hi
>
>
> > So, my question to this list is this- who or what are the most
> literate
> > performers you can think of, and what works do they reference?
>
> Good question. I hate to use superlatives because I will always come up
> with
> something better later. But Elvis Costello does some literary
> referencing.
> Juliet Letters has several R&J references. "Poor Fractured Atlas", I'm
> assuming
> is supposed to conjure the guy from greek myth.
> Mancy A'lan Kane (speaking of obscure christian artists... paper moon
> was
> fabulous. I don't know what happened to her after that) had that song
> "Camelot"
> which references either Camelot or Anne of Green Gables or both. I
> don't know.
> I love recognizing literary references in other art. That was part of
> the fun
> of reading Brave New World (although that was a little cheezy, the whole
>
> shakespeare thing. What really got me about that book, though, was the
> way
> Huxley played so fast and loose with style and pacing. It was crazy.
> Wrote a
> paper about it, I think... but I digress...)
> Literature is cool. Music is cool.
> Bethany
>
> --
> ~*~*~*~
> "and the stories in my pockets are the best I've ever lived" -Sarah
> Masen
>
>
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