#graham sharp

[krispyweiss]

Song Review: Steep Canyon Rangers - “Stuck in the Middle with You” (Live Under a Tree)

With fiddler Nicky Sanders on guitar and lead vocals and drummer Mike Ashworth on Dobro and handclaps, Steep Canyon Rangers gathered under a tree to play “Stuck in the Middle with You.”

They recorded it on a cell phone and, presumably after hearing how wonderfully it turned out, put it on YouTube.

Sticking close to Stealers Wheel’s original template, the band recreates the music and harmonies expertly while adding just a touch of SCR-styled bluegrass to underpin Sanders’ uncanny Gerry Rafferty-soundalike vocal delivery.

This is the type of recording - informal, homemade with various Rangers taking on different roles - that reinforces the band’s prowess and underscores its appeal. Fans already know, but newcomers might ask themselves: If the Steeps are so well-oiled in this setting, with insects chirping in the background, how might they come across on stage and on vinyl?

The answer is - or should be - obvious.

Grade card: Steep Canyon Rangers - “Stuck in the Middle with You” (Live Under a Tree) - A

5/28/25

[rainkays]

shoutout to the bitches that kin them (me)

[moonlittowl]

[honeygrahambitch]

Random thought but I just know Hannibal would be very turned on if Will opened oysters in front of him

[bebx]

“oh this little guy is your blorbo? name every crime he’s committed and the tragic backstory behind those sad pretty eyes of his then”

[cathalbravecog]

the fast guy

[d3v0t10n]

the big 3

[authorafterhours]

A Crimson Peak-inspired Hannigram au would be ✨️amazing.✨️

[krispyweiss]

Song Review: Graham Sharp - “A Good Year”

Graham Sharp is taking the optimistic route on “A Good Year,” as he faces what looks to be a brutal 2025 with hope and good cheer.

’Cause it’s a year for wakin’ up/and makin’ up for a little lost time/it’s a good year to leave last year behind, Sharp sings in the baritone that anchors Steep Canyon Rangers.

With fiddle and mandolin in the foreground, the loping acoustic track announces Sharp’s forthcoming (April 18) second solo LP, How Did We Do It, which the multi-instrumentalist terms “a return to my bluegrass roots.”

As he sings of going somewhere warm enough to put a worm on a hook and cold enough to avoid snakes - while making a coy allusion to Molly Tuttle - that assertion is wholly believable.

Read Sound Bites’ review of Sharp’s decidedly not-bluegrass 2021 debut, Truer Picture, here.

Grade card: Graham Sharp - “A Good Year” - A-

2/11/25

[rainkays]

in eternity, where there is no time, nothing can grow.

sharp objects// hannibal // true detective

[orchidized]

[gladiatorcunt]

rewatching hannibal

[chibishortdeath]

Ya know, I’m looking at Simon’s hair right now and I’ve just realized that I have absolutely no idea when or why I started drawing him with more three-pieced bangs rather than the original straight cut ones lol.

He even has them like that in the manual doodles too. (Shout out to the shadows in this doodle making part of his hair look like it has raccoon stripes)

I’m thinking I probably saw how his hair angles towards one side and exaggerated it exponentially over time. But regardless, it realllyyyy ended up wildly different 💀💀💀.

I’ve been having a bit of an art crisis about it because while I think how I draw his hair right now is fun, sometimes it ends up so complicated and exaggerated that I can’t tell what to even do with it at most angles. Like it just kinda ends up this absolute mess of sharp lines and augh idk.

But at the same time I also have this really weird thing when I’m drawing characters where if for some reason I’ve drawn a character differently than before sometimes it’ll like not register to me as the same character and then feel super uncanny??? If that makes sense??? It’s funnily enough like the only reason why I don’t draw or post much art of Richter cause whenever I draw him it always just doesn’t look like him to me in the face especially idk it’s weird 💀💀💀

I tried to make is hair a bit more similar to the original, and the first one is nice but something feels kinda off about it to me, and the second one I combined aspects of how I usually draw him, but now he’s starting to look way more like Leon than intended so uhhhh idk, I’ll figure it out tho d(- - ;)

[switchbackhyperloop]

Me, looking at femme versions of my male blorbos:

[sandwichtribunal]

Fall River's Physics-Defying Hot Cheese Sandwich

"It was soft, the mouthfeel was cheeselike, it had the sharpness of cheddar punctuated by the savory Coney sauce and the pungent bites of pickle, onion, and mustard. It shouldn't have worked but it did." Fall River's Physics-Defying Hot Cheese Sandwich

I can’t always track when I learned about a sandwich down to a specific day or time or occasion or source. Some are easy–many of the sandwiches in the oft-mentioned 2003 documentary Sandwiches That You Will Like, for example. The St. Paul sandwich. The Hot Brown. Chipped chopped ham. But there are plenty of sandwiches mentioned in that documentary that I clearly already knew about, well-known…

[krispyweiss]

Song Review: Steep Canyon Rangers - “That’s All” (Live, Rehearsal)

There’s an undeniable groove to Steep Canyon Rangers’ take on “That’s All,” which comes out in a knotted ball of banjo, mandolin and fiddle driven by brushes on a percussion kit.

And while the groove cannot be denied, there’s another intangible that holds back the Genesis cover. Perhaps it’s the song itself. Maybe it’s that the band was working out the kinks in an empty Red Rocks Amphitheater. Or perhaps it’s something else. But something is missing.

There’s a germ of an SCR tune in that rhythm track. But “That’s All” ain’t all that.

Grade card: Steep Canyon Rangers - “That’s All” (Live, Rehearsal) - C+

7/16/24