I'm a fan of both of these artists. They're americana mainstays, Austin luminaries and now a married couple. Their new record together is called Cheater's Game . The Bruce and Kelly Show will be playing SXSW at KDHX's Twangfest along with acts like Kelly Hogan, Mount Moriah, Pokey Lafarge and Dale Watson. Along with the Bloodshot party this is one of the must see parties. Here'a song of the new record that features Kelly Willis as a wounded participant in the game of love. Ordinary Fool
Austin singer/songwriters Bruce Robison and Kelly Willis have been husband and wife for a while and have popped up on each others' records, but only now they are officially putting out a full album of collaborations. Cheater’s Game, the first in their careers credited to Kelly Willis & Bruce Robison, is a nice mix of originals and well-chosen covers. Here's one of them - "Border Radio," originally done by the Blasters. Bruce and Kelly Show official web site
Not all the tracks on Cheater's Game have to do with deceitful behavior or being wronged by a loved one. However, most of them are and several of them were penned by Robison. Kelly Willis and Bruce Robison have been married for years, but they have rarely recorded together. They have staked out their own careers in a similar musical field by following separate tracks. That's why it seems so strange that the lovingest couple in Austin, Texas joined together to release an album of cheating songs. Not all the tracks on Cheater's Game have to do [...]
Chris and Eleanor Masterson. I first saw Chris Masterson in the late 1980s at a place called Blythe Spirits in Houston. His dad would bring him and his guitar to the open mic night on Sundays because he was too young to get in. He had loads of talent and you tell by watching him that college and a 9-to-5 job was not in his future. His wife, Eleanor, also started playing at a very young age. She picked up the fiddle at age 4 and hasn't put it down since. I had a chance to [...]
Richard & Mimi Fariña : Pack Up Your Sorrows [ purchase ] Johnny Cash & June Carter : Pack Up Your Sorrows [ purchase ] Bruce Robison & Kelly Willis : Pack Up Your Sorrows [ purchase ] "Pack Up Your Sorrows" is a lucky charm song for musical couples. Richard Fariña's best -- and best-known -- composition, "Pack Up Your Sorrows" has been recorded by three sets of musical spouses: Richard and Mimi Fariña; [...]
Can't think of anything funny or witty to say... So here's some Breeders lyrics: Saints alive you're saying Walk in ... squares The hid are out, out for the year It's a lot of face A lot of crank air Eroding around here Summer's ready Summer is ready when you are Thursday, June 16 Slow [...]
Punk rock grandfather Iggy Pop turns 64 today and to celebrate we post a collection of covers of his tunes.
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , The Hit List Nearly every musical genre under the sun will be represented in Austin for the annual SXSW festival, but the number of cowboy hats per capita [...]
Bloggers love Big Star . So much so, in fact, that mere mention of their names to a certain sort of audiophile is like a secret handshake, a wink and a nod that marks the listener as a well-informed, well-cultured aesthete of a particular underground substream which defined the modern musical map. And deservedly so. Led by highly conflicted and conflicting personalities Alex Chilton & Chris Bell in the early seventies, the original incarnation of Big Star never had much mainstream success, perhaps because they were way [...]
J'avais envie de revenir sur cet album qui ne me lâche pas depuis le début de l'année. Eric Brace et Peter Cooper ont manifestemment pris un plaisir fou à enregistrer ces chansons qu'ils aiment en tant que fans et connaisseurs. Pour nous c'est l'occasion de ressortir de nos étagères certains originaux comme le Just The Other Side of Nowhere de Kris Kristofferson, I Know Better Now de Jim
Paul Kelly and the Messengers , You Can't Take It With You [ purchase ] A study in tracktiming and popular song: this 2:42 original from iconic Australian singer-songwriter Paul Kelly was never released as a single, but thanks to a nice direct lyric, a poppy country and rock-fueled pace, and a simple yet political sentiment, the song helped make So Much Water So Close To Home Kelly's first album to hit the Australian top ten. A decade later, Kelly rerecorded You Can't [...]
I figured it would be fitting to end our contest week with a theme that would help us transition back from the countrified edge of folk. Thus: folk singers covering cowboy songs. Enjoy! Continuing our discussion from earlier this week: back when the world was acoustic, a guitar and a voice could travel a long way, from back porch to prairie campfire, and be different only by context, and the tone it lends. Since then, of course, our sense of genre has [...]
As promised, we begin more Best of 2007 counting down. Every Friday from now until the end of the year (expect next Friday as I’ll be on vacation), I will focus on a list of TEN best of’s. We start with a look back at this year’s Guiltiest Pleasures . Kelly Willis ( original post ) Alt-country blond babe: Kelly Willis ~ Nobody Wants To Go [...]
Coming off a five-year hiatus (spent raising four children, so not much of a break), Kelly Willis returns with Translated From Love, a country record with influence of rock, punk (Willis covers Iggy Pop's "Success" on the album), and pop. Translated From Love is full of charm, spark, melancholy, bubble and honky-tonk. The lead single, "Sweet Little One", is full of cross-over potential, as is the aforementioned Iggy Pop cover, which Willis re-interprets into a country rock dance cut full of electric piano and a meaty bass groove which is destined for jukeboxes everywhere. [...]
Coming off a five-year hiatus (spent raising four children, so not much of a break), Kelly Willis returns with Translated From Love , a country record with influence of rock, punk (Willis covers Iggy Pop 's "Success" on the album), and pop. Translated From Love is full of charm, spark, melancholy, bubble and honky-tonk. The lead single, "Sweet Little One", is full of cross-over potential, as is the aforementioned Iggy Pop cover, which Willis re-interprets into a country rock dance cut full of electric piano and a meaty bass groove which is [...]
Lots to share from the inbox, so let's get started... In 2007 Flyleaf have toured with Three Days Grace and throughout Australia with the Australian Soundwave Festival, and have also toured Europe with Stone Sour and Forever Never. In the spring of 2007, Flyleaf headlined their Justice & Mercy Tour which first featured Skillet and Dropping Daylight. Later on they did a second leg of the tour which featured Sick Puppies, Kill Hannah and Resident Hero. Flyleaf will again join the Family Values Tour [...]
Sometimes a song will make you do foolish things. Over the years I've driven many American roads making photographs. Partially inspired by Robert Frank's The Americans and partially by Jack Kerouac's On The Road , which I'm currently re-reading for the first time since I was a teenager in its "restored" single paragraph scroll version. On all of these drives, music has been central to my relationship to wherever I am - sometimes by accident and sometimes quite deliberately. One of my favorites for California has always [...]
The blogsphere might not think so, but there are other females out there who haven’t played with Broken Social Scene. I’m not hating on Feist; just trying to turn y’all onto to some other femmes that have released tracks this year. Over The Rhine ~ If A Song Could Be President Colbie Caillat ~ Bubbly Jessica Hoop ~ Intelligentactile 101 Kelly Willis ~ Success Mieka Pauley ~ All The Same Mistakes Shannon [...]
You’ve heard country-esque ladies before on Wednesday here at The Late Greats. Kelly fits into that niche. Her voice is one-of-a-kind. Oh, and she was featured in a Claritin commercial. She’s got a new album out. These deep cuts come from her 1999 release, What I Deserve. What I Deserve Cradle of Love Wrapped RIYL: Charlotte Kendrick (see post below) [...]
Seems like lotsa stuff going on in my life lately, which means less time to blog... and it seems a lot these distractions from the web seem to take place uh... anywhere... in bars & clubs... [...]
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