Paul Curreri 's latest album might take a playground punchline for its title (Q: Where do hipster houseflies socialise?) but The Big Shitty is bristling, bold and baffling; a black-and-bluesy melange of the bullish, the buckled and the broken. This shift in sound - together with Curreri's darkly lyrical imagery - makes an impact more redolent of the opening track from 20072s The Velvet Rut (titled for his former hometown's nickname) than to anything on his more recent release, California . Here, Curreri maintains the habit of placing his music but whereas [...]
American, End of the Road favourite, Charlie Parr will be heading out on a European tour starting on November 1st. Charlie will be joined by special guest and label mate Paul Curreri, who has just recently finished his own UK and Ireland headline tour. We have 2 free tickets to give away to the show of the winner's choice, all tour dates and details on how to enter are below . Read more..
There's a long tradition of singer-songwriter couples in folk music, especially in those pockets of history where you find movements and schools forming. From June Carter and Johnny Cash in the second-generation countryfolk days, Buddy and Julie Miller at the forefront of the modern Americana movement, and Jeffrey Foucault and Kris Delmhorst's marriage in the wake of their work with folk supergroup Redbird, to the doomed-but-productive pairings of James Taylor and Carly Simon in the singer-songwriter seventies and Maria and Geoff Muldaur in the Greenwich Village and Woodstock jugband era, not to mention the quirky songs of the [...]
A friend writes. The subject lines reads: "Worthy of The Velvet Rut?". Nothing more. Except the link to this video. Worthy?!!? I ask myself. It's the best thing I've posted in a long, long while! ------ Here's what you need to know. This is Paul Curreri's birthday shout-out to his wife Devon Sproule. Need further explanation? Then there's this in Paul's own words: "This is a hella serious big willie rap vid for all my boomhead posse world ova out there [...]
Singer/songwriter Paul Curreri returns to form with his new album.
A little bit of heaven from Devon Sproule.
I'm a complete sucker for bands, songs, or just about anything from/about California. So Paul Curreri's new song/album "California" was a no brainer. First of all I like Paul Curreri and second of all I like his wife Devon Sproule. Paul's music is unpredictable - it can be folksy and charming at times and then loud and rambunctious. He's a talented musician, producer and songwriter. California is out now in the US and can be picked up here through CD Baby. [...]
Husband-wife bands are rife across the music world. You don't have far to look to see spouses picking up instruments together, from Arcade Fire to Wildbirds and Peacedrums, from The Handsome Furs to The Handsome Family. But here's something a wee bit different - a husband and wife, both closely ...
Filed under: Around the World Hard not to look at the choice of 'Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood' for the lone cover on 'rivermudtwilight,' the first album by the super-trio Les Triaboliques , as coming with some subtext. After all, "misunderstood" is almost a default setting for these guys, each with histories of doing music that sometimes might have confused and confounded people. Ben Mandelson very purposefully confounded -- and delighted -- many in the guise of Hijaz Mustapha with the high jinks (and high-standards in music) in the [...]
Here's the latest video from Charlottesville's own Paul Curreri . The song "Down by The Water" is taken from Curreri's forthcoming album California (which will be his sixth full-length album). California will also serve as the follow-up to Curreri's critically-acclaimed 2007 release The Velvet Rut . California is set to hit stores in the UK on October 27th via Tin Angel Records with a U.S. release date arriving sometime in February or March of 2010. [...]
The Staples Singers Pray On, My Child --- Paul Curreri First, I'm really glad I stashed my "desert island album" in my carry-on prior to that unlikely event of a water landing. And second, I'm super-psyched that this island I decided to swim to has a record player that runs on coconut milk. I'm not an expert, but I bet the odds of that are low. If [...]
The Staples Singers Pray On, My Child --- Paul Curreri First, I'm really glad I stashed my "desert island album" in my carry-on prior to that unlikely event of a water landing. And second, I'm super-psyched that this island I decided to swim to has a record player that runs on coconut milk. I'm not an expert, but I bet the odds of that are low. If [...]
March Rosetta [aka Thomas Carter] Just recently discovered this remix of Paul Curreri's "Fat Killer at Dawn" which was done by London, England's Thomas Carter's and his solo electronic music project March Rosetta . I had to give you a chance to check it out for yourself...mainly because it kicks some serious ass! If you'd like to hear more from March Rosetta and Thomas Carter check out his most recent EP Border Lines which is available as a download [...]
My name is Paul and I usually blog over at Setting The Woods On Fire . Boyhowdy has been kind enough to let me say a few words here while he enjoys a vacation. As you might have guessed from the title of my blog, I'm a big fan of Hank Williams . I also love cover songs. Cover songs are fun because they help you separate the song from the performance. Do I love Hank because of the songs he wrote and poularized? Or do I love Hank because of the way he [...]
By the time we finally caught pregnant, we had both been teaching for a decade, and that meant the baby name books were right out. After we discarded the archaic and the merely odd, the names that were left were invariably overfamiliar -- we knew "that kid", and thus the name came with baggage we just could not accept. So we took a look at ourselves. Liberal folk, to put it politically, with a sense of adventure, and a love of the world for what it was. We wanted [...]
Ever since writing about Curreri's wife, Devon Sproule , I've felt I should redress the balance and give the guy his own post. Just as some other, more real Reverend, has joined them together I too always think of them as a couple. Yet both enjoy successful careers independently. Perhaps if he hadn't named his second album 'Songs For Devon Sproule ' it would be easier to seperate the two of them. Recorded in 2003 with the aid of Kelly Joe Phelps it's Curreri at his simplest. The couple later married and have recorded [...]
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