Adulé par Beck, John Peel, John Darnielle et Conor Oberst, 20 ans de carrière et douze chefs d'oeuvre au compteur, Simon Joyner n'en reste pas moins le secret le mieux gardé de l'indie-rock américain. Le songwriter d'Omaha revient avec un double LP et il a aujourd'hui besoin de vous pour participer au financement de sa sortie. Parce que des gens comme lui sont trop rares et précieux, parce qu'on a très envie d'entendre ce que peut donner du « psyché-noise avant-gardiste flirtant avec les fantômes d'Alex Chilton, de Skip Spence et de Jackson C. Frank « , et parce que [...]
Het blijft een lastig te volgen muzikant, die Richard Youngs . Maar voor een verzamelaar als ik zorgt hij ook voor een heerlijke uitdaging. Drie verschillende releases binnen een maand tijd is namelijk geen uitzondering, zo is afgelopen maand gebleken. Eerder dit jaar prees ik op site al Atlas Of Hearts en een split 10" met Annelies Monseré . Jagjaguwar is een beetje het thuislabel geworden van Youngs, waarop we minstens één keer per jaar een release mogen [...]
Wild Weekend is back with issue 65, and all is well with the world. Business as usual then so. Some hippy dippy folk, some wild garage rock, some classic flamenco, some outtake Bob. Let the games begin, and have a wild one. Let's get the show on the road with Peter Perrett's Only Ones, an old fave from hazy postpunk days. I played my vinyl copy of their dark '79 masterpiece Even Serpents Shine so often its grooves were all but worn out, so [...]
From the late 1960s through the early '70s, Mickey Newbury released a string of classic albums that helped to redefine the definitions of/blur the boundaries between country, folk, and the burgeoning singer/songwriter movement. The word "seminal" gets thrown around pretty loosely these days, but to give you an idea of Newbury's importance in the aforementioned context, both Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark made their initial move to Nashville because their fellow Texan Newbury was there, and Kris Kristofferson, another Lone Star export to Music City, once said "I learned more about songwriting from Mickey than I did any other [...]
Kurt Vile - Baby's Arms New song from Vile's latest album. Sounds mistakenly like Simon Joyner.
Not even X-mas yet and I´m thoroughly sick of the white stuff already. As Jesse Winchester sings: "I was tuning in the six o'clock newscast, and the weather man mentioned snow, as soon as I heard that four-letter word, I was making my plans to go..." Snow, be gone. A cold cold six pack. Jesse Winchester - Snow (demo version) MP3 Little Feat - Six Feet Of Snow MP3 Galaxie 500 - Snowstorm MP3 Simon Joyner - Out Into The [...]
photography by Lindsey Best Simon Joyner is a songwriter from Omaha, NE who is credited with being one of the most influential driving forces behind many of the bands and musicians that have come out of the Omaha music scene. Playing a series of house shows in support of his most recent release, Out Into [...]
In addition to reunion sets from Desaparecidos and Lullaby for the Working Class, as well as previously reported performances by Cursive and Bright Eyes, next week's Concert for Equality — a benefit concert in support of the ACLU's fight against a controversial immigration law recently passed in Fremont, Nebraska — will host sets by Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, David Dondero, Simon Joyner, and more. Per an updated event listing for the sold-out Omaha show, one relatively new band that caught [...]
Omaha folk legend Simon Joyner is travelling around the country on his Living Rooms & Discrete Spaces Tour—turning regular folks' houses into makeshift theatres to support his new album, Out Into the Snow —and next week, he's coming to play a living room in Portland. Joyner plays bittersweet country-tinged ballads that sound a bit like a drunken Conor Oberst (or rather, Conor Oberst sounds like a sober Simon Joyner—the Bright Eyes singer regularly cites him as his biggest influence). He'll be playing at a house in Southeast [...]
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While Conor Oberst has been busy crossing the country as a solo artist and with the Monsters of Folk for a few years, the moniker that brought him into the limelight has been put on the back shelf a bit (save for alleged plans to record a final Bright Eyes album before retiring the moniker, of course). Well, Oberst, producer/Monster of Folker Mike Mogis, and company are back in their hometown of Omaha, NE this week possibly recording said album(?) and, more importantly, to play a benefit concert for Haiti relief. Omaha's Slowdown (a [...]
So here we are at Day 2 of the "Best of 20093 Blogger Crew and today is a monster post from E. over at Das Klienicum . It's a monster because he is posting on his top 50 albums of the year and he even has ratings broken out by number of stars (ranked out of 5 as best)....ummm, top 50 people!! There isn't gushing, there isn't microscopic dissection of each album in order to create some sort of reasoning, there is simply that feeling when you just know that this album is good and [...]
Simon Joyner "The Drunken Boat" from Out Into the Snow ( Team Love ) Buy at iTunes Buy at Amazon
Hello Slowcousticals, I bring you a weekend playlist because I don't have a feature post (let's just be honest here). There isn't even a compromise though because there is some really great music included. If you are a regular reader or are a member of the Last.fm group, you know I am a bit of a playlist fiend. So enough with the blather and let's get to your weekend soundtrack! Slowcoustic Saturday Playlist (November Edition) ~ Wonder Stranger [...]
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3hive
Hopefully this 3some will become a regular feature here. That's the plan. The idea is to share more music more often and to do so in fun party packs, organized and gathered around some similarity, theme, sound, or anything else our pea-brains might dream up. First up, three takes on flames, fire and heating up, which the weather in L.A. threatens to do again this week, just as the Station fire is about to be contained. Inevitably, and regrettably, such weather brings out murderous kooks and their matches. Burn It Down [MP3, 4.4MB, 160kbps] by [...]
This week, Simon Joyner does, makes, says, and thinks.Simon Joyner is a heckuva songwriter, and he's still sounding like a champ on his 12th album, Out In the Snow. We've got tracks from that, plus, new cuts from Washed Out, the Black Hollies, and Kurt Vile.It's a troublesome podcast.The Needle Drop: 09-19-09Subscribe via iTunesPlaylist:A Place to Bury Strangers- "In Your Heart"The Black Hollies-
Every Friday we bring you our weekly batch of uploads. Download all the songs that went up the week of 9/14-9/18 right here, right now. You can download the following mp3s individually OR play them all in a row. Click on the artists at the right under Related Downloads to learn more about each band and see similar music suggestions. [RICH MEDIA, CLICK TO VIEW ON SITE] Play All [RICH MEDIA, CLICK TO VIEW ON SITE] [ [...]
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I may get railed on for making a Dylan comparison here, but Simon Joyner and the master himself share a few points. There's the minimal acoustic guitar and equally minimal accompaniment in songs like "The Drunken Boat" and "Sunday Morning Song For Sara". There's the traditional folk element rampant throughout each of his songs. And there's a slight vocal similarity as well. Sure, Joyner may not be the songwriter Bob is, as that feat would truly be amazing, but his songs have that same timeless folk quality that dabbles in Americana. [...]
While this is a less exciting week for new releases, a box set of gems from Big Star certainly helps bring up the average. Elsewhere there's new releases from Grand Archives, The Dodos ( profiled last month ), Muse, a live album from a reunited Shudder to Think, and long lost album from Q-Tip finally sees the light of day. Playlist: New Releases 09.15.09 Big Star - Keep an Eye on the Sky [...]
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