#Americana (music)

[kuiper-music]

GOOD OMENS PEOPLE!!!!!

i have some HUGE news.

i finally finished filming my aziracrow music video!!!!

my song is called ‘angeleyes’, and it is finally available on youtube. It’ll be on spotify soon, but for now I’m SO excited to get to share the music video with you!!!

if you like flowers, stars, and lamentations, you would DEFINITELY like my song. Crowley’s got a lot to say after the final 15, and I like to think I did it a little bit of justice.

y’all rock. Keep shining.

(More under the cut)

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(in light of the neil gaiman controversy, I am obligated to explain that the release date for this music video and for literally ALL of my promotional plans has been set in stone since WAY before anything happened. Just wanted to throw that out there and explain that I’m not gonna take any crap about that!!! Everything that is going on is really really unfortunate, but my relationship and interaction with the fandom and the story is unrelated to Neil Gaiman himself. I will continue to find community in a story that means so much to me, while being aware of the controversy as it develops so that I can respond/react appropriately.)

[crumblinggothicarchitecture]

Taylor Swift: The Lyric Thief- Evermore Edition.

Do y'all know about this?

Swift's lyric "How's one to know/ I'd meet you where the spirit meets the bone" ("Ivy" 2020).

Great, interesting lyric from Swift's own mind, right? WRONG.

Originally, it came from a poem called "Compassion" written by Miller Williams in 1997.

Here is the poem:

Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don’t want it. What seems conceit, bad manners, or cynicism is always a sign of things no ears have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone. (Williams, 1997)

It's later used as an album title "Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone" that Miller William's daughter, Lucinda Williams, published in 2014.

She also used the line, that her father ORGINALLY wrote, in a song tribute to him called "Compassion" on that same 2014 album.

Can we please stop pretending Swift is a genius? When, in fact, all of her most "intelligent" and "powerful" lyrics are lines outright taken from other works in literary, and musical, canon.

She's just a derivative fraud who wants all of her fans to think she's the one coming up with all these ideas.

She stole the line from a woman who used it as a tribute to her dying Father- the original author- who is now passed.

Not only did Swift rip the line out of a tribute album written to the original writer- but she also put the line in a dumb song that romanticizes cheating. She writes, "dare to sit a watch what we'll become/ and drink my husband's wine" ("Ivy" 2020). Clearly, the whole song is about a woman who is cheating on her husband.

The original intention of the line itself is about having compassion for other people, while taking care to have humility and resist the allure of cynicism. It's a poem about caring for your fellow man- and resisting despair in life. Arguably, it is also a poem about mental health issues and respecting those who may struggle. Swift twists the line to describe meeting a clandestine hookup and cheating on her husband.

Not only did she yank the line right out of someone else’s work, with no credit given to the original intention of the line or the original author- but she also made it about such a selfish, sick, thing to do- cheating on a spouse.

The original intention of the line was so kind and empathetic. She ruined it with her endorsement of cavalier attitudes towards moral corruption :(

[lauraepartain]

Last fall with Mr Rodney Rice | October 2022

[nonesuchrecords]

Among the 70 Best Alt-Country Albums of All Time per Paste magazine are Hurray for the Riff Raff’s LIFE ON EARTH, Yola’s Walk Through Fire, Rhiannon Giddens’ Freedom Highway, k.d. lang’s Ingénue, Billy Bragg & Wilco's Mermaid Avenue, Carolina Chocolate Drops' Genuine Negro Jig, Emmylou Harris’s Wrecking Ball, and Wilco's Being There. You can see the full list here.

[mdeanstrauss]

Regionally popular, The Gravy Boys, drew a large crowd at Bynum Front Porch the other evening... a fun show, great American roots music...

[kaysuza]

Having a normal one about the events of the Conscience of the King.

Written to go alongside the fic "Regulatory Relations"

Lyrics below the cut!

Nightmares - everybody's got one, and this one is mine

I put the devil in my crosshairs and the bullet went wide

I took my shot but he got away

I know he'll hunt me down someday

I missed my shot at the devil and there's nowhere to hide

He knows my name and he haunts my steps

He'll wear me down till there's nothing left

My soul and my sins and the devil make three

And he's coming, he's coming for me

He's in my dreams and he knows my heart

I feel him reaching from the dark

I got away, but I'll never be free

If he's coming, he's coming for me

And he's coming, he's coming for me

Hell is a pretty little place with nothing to eat

And the devil takes you by the hand and promises meat

He'll chew you up and he'll spit you out

He lifts you up till he lets you drown

You can call his bluff but the house can't be beat

He knows my name and he haunts my steps

He'll wear me down till there's nothing left

My soul and my sins and the devil make three

And he's coming, he's coming for me

He's in my dreams and he knows my heart

I feel him reaching from the dark

I got away, but I'll never be free

If he's coming, he's coming for me

And he's coming, he's coming for me

All I know is this

If you aim at the devil, you'd better not miss

All I know is this

If you aim at the devil, you'd better not miss

If you aim at the devil, you'd better not miss

If you aim at the devil, you'd better not miss

[shijepet]

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[rubenvega]

roads

[pisces-sun-aquarius-moon]

Unrequitedly ( demo 1)

Just a simple Sea Shanty I wrote about unrequited love. The song goes on and on to this day.

Lol

[theunusualbrunette]

It's Always Nerve-Wracking...

My new song 'Haunted' is about to be released. It's always nerve-wracking to release a song out to the world. What if no one likes it? What if it's not good enough? The same goes for going back to the studio in October.

In all, the question is: am I good enough?

The fact is that I don't want to have polished-sounding tracks. I'll leave that for the musician part of the dying pop industry. That said, my production is very minimal. This is because I want emotion to be the driving force behind the music and the story the lyrics are saying.

I know the sound will sound weird 'cause that's not what people are accustomed to hearing on the radio. It is more of an indie, low-budget sound. I am okay with that. Guess that's the important thing. But damn! It's still always nerve-wracking to share your art.

[ironmanrecords]

John Murry - Tour Dates 2024

“Our culture is a revolutionary culture, a revolutionary force on the planet, the seed of the new order that will come to flower with the disintegration and collapse of the obsolete social and economic forms” – John Sinclair “I am only a madman among the mad.” – Emil Cioran “Everyone must come out of his Exile in his own way.” – Martin Buber “We talk in black and white, ones and zeros and…

[nonesuchrecords]

Rhiannon Giddens has released “Yet to Be,” a new single from her forthcoming album, You’re the One, due August 18. “Yet to Be” features Jason Isbell and tells the story of a Black woman and an Irish man falling in love in America.

[boybasher]

[snoozy-red-panda]

new spotify playlist: "cause if we don't leave this town, we might never make it out"

[lauraepartain]

The work for Laurel Lewis | Aug 2023