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Anna Trodglen & Anthony Owsley on Little Red Riding Hood
Posted by admin in Literature, Music on May 2, 2012
Little Red Riding Hood
Next Friday, May 11, Anna Trodglen, creator of the online comic strip Biscuits & Bellyrubs, will unveil her translation and illustration of Little Red Riding Hood, the classic children’s story, from the original German. The book celebration is set to be held at the Young Blood Gallery (636 N Highland Ave. Atlanta, GA 30306/404-254-4127), from 6 to 9 PM. As befits a children’s book, kids are encouraged to attend (bring the parents of course) the gathering, where snacks and sodas will be served. As an added bonus, Anna’s musical collaboration with husband Dugan Trodglen and John Armstrong (aka the legendary band, DQE) will perform a set. In anticipation of the event, Anna and the book’s designer/letterer Anthony Owsley allowed me to email interview them. (Eagle eye readers will note this marks the second time I have gotten to interview Anna [the first time being in 2010]) My thanks to Trodglen & Owsley for the interview.
Tim O’Shea: What inspired you to tackle Little Red Riding Hood, rather than translating one of the myriad other German folklore tales?
Anna Trodglen: I wanted to do Little Red Riding Hood because I was really drawn to the Wolf. He seemed very interesting and as a dog relative he was appealing to me. I also liked the limited number of cast in the story and that there were three distinct female characters.
Ah 1980s Music: The Rainmakers’ Let My People Go-Go
Posted by admin in Music, streaming video on May 1, 2012
Always loved how this song started: “Father, son, holy cow.”
Tributes to Levon Helm
I love the amount of coverage that’s been devoted to Levon Helm’s death. First up, KARK Channel 4 (a Central Arkansas NBC affiliate) notes:
Flags will be lowered across the state Friday in honor of Arkansas native and celebrated musician Levon Helm…
Then there’s the A.P. reporter Mary Esch covered the wake, which included the following quote from Al Caron:
He was an icon, but also the guy next door…
Paying Tribute to Levon Helm As He Enters Final Cancer Stages
Posted by admin in Music, Uncategorized on April 17, 2012
Today, Levon Helm’s daughter and wife (Amy and Sandy) posted the following message on his website:
Dear Friends,
Levon is in the final stages of his battle with cancer. Please send your prayers and love to him as he makes his way through this part of his journey.Thank you fans and music lovers who have made his life so filled with joy and celebration… he has loved nothing more than to play, to fill the room up with music, lay down the back beat, and make the people dance! He did it every time he took the stage…
We appreciate all the love and support and concern.
To celebrate him as he is still with us, I share a couple of things.
Speaking of Paul Buchanan
Here’s a way to download one of the songs from Paul Buchanan’s new upcoming album, Mid Air. The name of the song is My True Country.
Unreleased Blue Nile: Meanwhile
It’s unlikely we’ll ever see another Blue Nile album. I am looking forward to Paul Buchanan’s solo release–in May. Here’s an unreleased Blue Nile tune, Meanwhile, from a live gig in the mid-2000s.
Tumblr Fun: Charlie Watts is Bored
Posted by admin in Music, streaming video on March 24, 2012
Tumblr is another form of social media that educates me. The Carousel is a tumblr site that does not just post music videos, but also points out nuances to the videos. Take for example, this post on the Rolling Stone’s Angie.
I love that the author advises viewers to check out the 50-second mark on this video (for Charlie Watts’ reaction while playing in a song that he has very little to perform).
Then there is this video, at the 2-minute mark, where Charlie clearly does not want the documentary maker filming him as he is seeemingly disengaged.
Please check out the whole Tumblr site, if for nothing else this Rick Moranis as Michael McDonald bit.
1982 Atlanta: T.V. Dinner
So Atlanta history never fails to surprise me. I remember hearing about the Agora Ballroom, the Stein Club was actually still in existence when I started going to bars, I think I set foot in the Cotton Club at least once. But back in 1982, I was either graduating from grade school or starting high school (depending on what part of the year it was). So I knew nothing about T.V. Dinner, a little club [located at 1028 Peachtree Street in Midtown Atlanta], founded by Finnean Jones and Rosa Phillips (as noted by this 1982 GSU Signal article by Glen Thrasher at a Facebook T.V. Dinner fan page) in 1982.
What recently garnered my interest about this seemingly obscure club of the early 1980s? Well I stumbled across a YouTube video of Allen Ginsberg appearing at the club. I am hoping to find out more about the club in the coming weeks (looking at the folks on the fan page, it appears that many of the folks are friends with many of my Atlanta art scene fans–so I am hoping to mine their collective knowledge). But for today, I offer the video (plus a link to the second part). Enjoy.
What really surprises me about my ignorance of this club? Less than 10 years later in the early 1990s, my then girlfriend and I rented an apartment less than a mile from the club’s former location.
Musician J.D. McPherson on Signs & Signifiers
Article first published as Musician J.D. McPherson on Signs & Signifiers on Technorati.
These are busy times for musician J.D. McPherson, seeing as this week he will be making the rounds at SXSW, then next month will see Rounder Records re-release his album, Signs & Signifiers (initially released by his bass player Jimmy Sutton’s HiStyle Records in 2010). McPherson is a singer/songwriter who clearly has an affinity for music’s history, but with a distinctive voice that defies any comparison and that is garnering him an increasing amount of attention. Last week he learned that his music had been nominated in the rock/hard rock category by the Independent Music Awards. This was on the heels of learning last month that Decca Records will be releasing his Signs & Signifiers in the United Kingdom, news that pleased him so much that he tweeted “This is more special than gold to me”. McPherson was recently kind enough to answer a few of my questions about the making of his album in this email interview. After reading the interview, be sure to check his tour page to see if he’s playing near you.
How important was it to you to be able to record Signs & Signifiers in 100% analog?
It was my first experience recording in this way, and I can promise you that I have no interest in recording in any other environment from here on out. It was a completely exciting and rewarding process.
Live Rosanne Cash…From Her Living Room
Posted by admin in Music, social media, streaming video on March 5, 2012
Rosanne Cash is a songwriter/musician/writer and (as far as I am concerned) an overall genius. She loves Twitter and loves to interact with her followers. So it was in this case, where she took musical requests via Twitter for a few songs to record in her living room with husband/producer John Leventhal, in a series called “Live From Zone C” for AOL’s The Boot. Below watch one of the videos, Black Cadillac.
Man, the audio production on the video is just exquisite.
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