--- - |- Tom Waits is touring!!!Actual post about one of favorite records of the year to follow the following rant.But first, we're gonna start off today's post with a word of caution...which will lead, roundabout, into today's musical guest.'Spect some of y'all have heard the long-simmering news that formerly interesting actress Scarlett Johansson was making an album of Tom Waits songs. Yep, ...
For writers and musicians, it's notoriously difficult to get a mention on NPR's Fresh Air . And few country artists would ever even dream of having their name uttered by host Terri Gross. He's not likely to land a coveted studio interview just yet, but Hayes Carll got a boost today with a 6-minute review of Trouble in Mind by rock critic Ken Tucker.For the most part, Tucker likes what he he...
Out in the Heartland some of America's very best songwriters ply their troubador trade in relative obscurity. Folks like **Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, Ray Wiley Hubbard, Ron Ely,** & a host of others I cannot recall off the top of my headbone.Add **Hayes Carll** to the list. He's a songwriter with a wry, charming wit, and a way with words that has drawn comparisons to all the usual suspects....
I was to become a musican, based soley on personal potential. I'd probably end up being Hayes Carll. Since moving back to Virginia, I've started to get a bit of a Dixie Accent, especially when speaking to natives...or drinking.If I could become a musician, that is is my personal shortcomings were sidelined for the sake of fantasy, I'd probably want to be Fyfe Dangerfield from the Guillemots. Bu...