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Jolie Holland

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over 3 years ago

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Books I've Dug While Touring

  • In The City Of Shy Hunters, Tom Spanbauer
  • The Man Who Fell In Love With The Moon, Tom Spanbauer
  • Divine Horsemen, Maya Deren
  • The Body Never Lies, Alice Miller
  • Creating True Peace, Thicht Naht Hahn

Current Faves

  • The Pogues, Lorca's Novena
  • Dave Dondero, Rothko Chapel
  • Dave Dondero, The Real Tina Turner
  • Dave Dondero, The Waiter
  • The Pogues, And the Band Played Waltzing Mathilda
  • Lucinda Williams, The Rogue's Gallery, "Bonny Portmore"
  • Mary Margret O'Hara, The Rogue's Gallery, "The Cry of Man"
  • Baby Gramps, The Rogue's Gallery, "Cape Cod Girls"
  • The Brotherhood of the Orange Cone, Live in Oslo, 1973 (that's Stefan Jecusco aka the Rank Stranger aka lead singer of the Moravian Muleskinners, out of Portland, OR)
  • Ween, 12 Country Classics
  • The Rank Stranger's Inferno Record
  • Freakwater, Thinking of You
  • "After I Made Love to You," Will Oldham
  • "Coney Island Baby," Tom Waits
  • Ara Anderson's band, Boostamonte
  • "Same God," Sean Hayes
  • Townes Van Zandt, Live at the Old Quarter
  • "The Briar and the Rose," Tom Waits
  • The ballad 'The Demon Lover' to the tune of 'Willie Moore' (as performed by no one in particular, but more like in my head)
  • The Kitchen Syncopators' live set
  • David Dondero's live set
  • Colin Stetson on the saxophones
  • Blue Roots' live set
  • One Man Banjo's live set
  • Bobby Dangerously playing jaw harp by the woodstove
  • The As-Is Brass Band (Freddi Price's band)
  • Entrance

Things I Currently Care About

  • Chris Drury, filmmaker
  • Beverly, the Oracle of California
  • Sara's Bread Company out of Cheyenne, Wyoming
  • Eden Batki, photographer
  • Timothy Freeman, mystical therapist of Houston, Texas
  • My friends
  • My liver
  • theicarusproject.net
  • Germantown Community Farm
  • Milking the poison out of the world
  • Learning how to play music better, especially the piano, box fiddle and guitar
  • Learning how to write songs collaboratively with the people I love
  • Learning how to produce records
  • Learning about African Religion/African-American Religion

List Of Favorite Crazy Dreams

  • The world will not self-implode
  • I will learn how to play the cornet
  • I will stop hating myself
  • I will remember how to make art again
  • Culture and Love save the day like magical superheroes only we wake up and realize we are all the superheroes
  • New Orleans will Detoxify
  • America will make Peace with The Mississippi River
  • The haters will kiss and make up
  • We get what we want without it killing us
  • Universal Health Care

Vital Signs

  • Mogger Since

    March 01, 2006

  • Status

    On the road

  • Whereabouts

    Traveling from town to town

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The Gorgeous Sounds of Los Lobos & the Latin Playboys
over 2 years ago

The sound of the Latin Playboys is just purely stunning - I don't know what else to say. I'm a great admirer of Los Lobos – “La Pistola y El Corazon” is one of my favorite songs, and the album with the same name is one of my favorite records. Cover art for Los Lobos' La Pistola y El Corazon."..La luna me dice una cosa-las estrellas me dicen otra-La luz del dia me canta esta triste cancion,

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Inspired By Townes Van Zandt
over 2 years ago

I just watched the Townes documentary in SF with a bunch of friends, "be here to love me" - it was so sad. Two of my best friends cried all the way through because he reminds us of a friend of ours, a great songwriter/alcoholic.The first song I wrote after hearing Townes for the first time was "I Wanna Die" - I guess Townes set me free to write more hopeless songs, because I could feel how hea...

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My Favorite Places
over 2 years ago

My favorite places this last tour...I really enjoyed the End of the Road Festival in England. I got to make friends with Howe Gelb and Ryan Adams. Lovely people. I have an awesome fan in England, Charlie, who gets me copies of my favorite out-of-print records. Charlie got me a vinyl of that Karen Dalton record, In My Own Time, which has her cover of "Katie Cruel" and "Same Old Man" - beauti...

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Current Artist Influences

  • Townes Van Zandt
  • Shane MacGowan
  • Willie Nelson
  • Roger Miller
  • Catherine Irwin
  • Janet Bean
  • Samantha Parton
  • Daniel Johnston
  • Jan Bell
  • Stefan Jecusco
  • Riley Pucket
  • Jimmy Rogers
  • Bill Dooley
  • Blind Willie McTell
  • The Georgia Sea Island Singers

Artists I've Become A Fan Of While Touring

Where to See Me Play

Last Song Played

  • "This Ain't My First Rodeo," Jason Ecklund

Recently Added To My Collection

  • Tom Waits, Mule Variations
  • Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Party, Body and Soul
  • Angels in the Mirror, Music of Voudoun
  • Ali Farka Toure, Savani
  • Los Lobos, La Pistola y El Corazon
  • Latin Playboys, Dose
  • Latin Playboys, Latin Playboys
  • Freakwater, Is Thinking of You
  • Jan Bell, No Country
  • The Maybelles, Snow Plough Johnny
  • The Roulette Sisters, Nerve Medicine
  • Konono No1, Congotronics
  • Tropicalia, A Brazilian Revolution in Sound
  • Bush Taxi Mali
  • Sean Hayes, Big Black Hole and the Little Baby Star
  • Radio Sumatra, The Indonesian FM Experience
  • Michael Hurley, Boppin' at the Top
  • David Dondero, South of the South
  • Doris Duke, I'm A Loser
  • Ging Gang, The Twentieth Century Zodiac

Favorite Books

  • All About Love--Bell Hooks
  • The Man Who Fell in Love With the Moon, Tom Spanbauer
  • Archie and Mehitabel, Don Marquis
  • Taoist I Ching, translated by Cleary
  • Anais Nin's output
  • The Oblivion Seekers, Isabelle Eberhardt
  • Zora Neale Hurston's output
  • Bend Sinister, Nabokov
  • Zen Wave, Robert Aitken
  • The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, translation and commentary by Sri Swami Satchidananda
  • Power Vs. Force, David R. Hawkins
  • The Tao of Health Sex and Longevity, Daniel P. Reid
  • The Rose and the Briar, edited by Sean Wilentz and Geil Marcus
  • The Gambler, Dostoevsky
  • The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov (translation by Pevear and Volokhonsky)
  • Healing With Whole Foods, Paul Pitchford

Best Nightspots

  • Chinese Pilot Zhoa-De, Moscow, Russia (Kitai-Gorod)
  • Dom, Moscow, Russia
  • Purga, Saint Petersburg, Russia (11 Fontanka)
  • ABC NO RIO, NYC (Lower East Side)
  • Superfine, NYC (Dumbo)
  • The Hemlock, San Francisco, CA
  • The Make Out Room, San Francisco, CA
  • The Argus, San Francisco, CA
  • Doc's Clock, San Francisco, CA
  • The Rite Spot, San Francisco, CA
  • The Abbey Tavern, New Orleans, LA
  • Hotel Congress, Tucson AZ

Favorite Artists Of All Time

  • Michael Hurley
  • Mississippi Fred MacDowell
  • Blind Willie McTell
  • Townes Van Zandt
  • Willie Nelson
  • Thelonious Monk
  • Freakwater
  • Daniel Johnston
  • Nina Simone
  • Stefan Jecusco
  • Oum Kalsoum
  • Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan
  • Ara Anderson
  • David Mihaly
  • Brian Miller
  • Shane MacGowan
  • Will Oldham
  • Washingtom Phillips
  • Sean Hayes
  • Freddi Price

Songs You Should Listen To

  • Raindrop Prelude, Chopin
  • Victims of the Pleasures of the Sense of Hearing, The Lights
  • Rothko Chapel, Dave Dondero
  • James Alley Blues, The Kitchen Syncopators
  • Star Girl, Jake Fussel
  • Right To Love, Jan Bell
  • She Came And She Touched Me, Townes Van Zandt
  • Like A Monkey In A Zoo, Daniel Johnson
  • Chief Joseph Days '95, the Rank Stranger (Stefan Jecusco)
  • Grande Mamou--the Creole Belles (unrecorded), I keep bugging them to record)
  • Right To Be Wrong, as performed by Catherine Irwin (by Roger Miller)
  • Return of the Greivious Angel, as performed by Lucinda Williams and David Nash (by Gram Parsons)
  • Lost Souls, Garth Steel Klippert
  • We All Gotta Be A Prostitute Sometimes, Geoff Berner
  • Take Your Burden To The Lord and Leave It There, Washington Phillips
  • Opportunity To Cry, Willie Nelson

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