In case you can't tell, this is just me recording songs on a laptop computer in my apartment. I'm now going with the harmonica holder rather than a coffee mug as a microphone stand. I think it's an improvement.
Influences
Dylan, Robert Johnson, Leonard Cohen, Hank Williams, Sr., Lucinda Williams, Elvis Costello, Tom Waits, Joni Mitchell.... plus all the people I've met and continue to meet.
Current songs:
-"Almost You" That was always one of my alltime favorite lines-- Elvis Costello or otherwise: "there's a girl here and she's almost you." This is basically that line stretched into a whole song.
-"My Heart is A Word-Fist" started with an image from the movie Closer about the human heart resembling a fist... somehow it became what it is: an exploration of how someone with such a boring life can right songs.
-Somewhat like 'Almost You', "Beggar" develops from a line in Luigi Pirandello's play Enrico IV.
-"Till it goes away"-- I don't know where this came from... but it isn't any good.
Old songs:
-"Break, Break, Break" (no longer posted) slowly mutated out of a Tennyson poem I set to music.
-"Silvia" is an adaptation of a poem by Giacomo Leopardi.
-"Evil-Hearted Woman" is a Robert Johnson pastiche.
-"Lucy" uses a musical figures taken from Elvis Costello and Tom Waits. It is also very unconsciously Joni Mitchell-like.
Sounds Like
Bob Dylan, Hank Williams, Leonard Cohen, Ryan Adams, Lucinda Williams, Robert Johnson, Joni Mitchell, early Tom Waits.
Well, you saw my picture in the Corpus Christi Tribune
underneath it it said "A Man With No Alibi"
You went out on a limb to testify for me you said I was with you
And when I saw you break down in front of the judge and cry real tears
It was the best acting I saw anybody do.
Just wanted to drop by say hi and ask if you would please vote for me. I am currently 2nd place. Go to
www.americanahighway.blogspot.com
Look for...Favorite Future Female Artist in the right column.
It's down towards the bottom of the page on the right. CLICK...Tresa Jordan... scroll down some and CLICK> VOTE
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Tresa Jordan
Nashville, TN
Singer/Musician/Writer
Country/Acoustic/BG
Thanks so much. You are awesome!
Voting results...Sept 22
i am not that internet popular. my friends include the Fremont Troll, two generic army dolls, and coffee. not even a specific kind or cup, just the form of coffee. being friends with concepts or categories makes me feel good.
i can't wait to see you too. mom does not get mitch hedberg jokes.
i just cannot imagine a situation in which i would have to prove that I bought a donut.
john, you have a lovely voice. i regret not being a better student of yours before you moved away. now i have a very dusty left handed electric guitar. someday (after thesis) i will pick it up and later thrill you with my poetic rendition of the practice scales. next time you come home for a visit let me know and we will go play pool, drink too much, and ridicule eachothers taste in music.
JOHN WELSH!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT THE HECK IS UP?!?!?!? Dude this is awesome music my friend!!!!!! And what are you up to in Virginia???? Thats where I was born for sure! YAY Man you gotta fill me in! Hope all is well with ya and I will talk to you laterrrrrrr.
