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Heartbroke, Drunk and Restless
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Released: Jan 1, 2009
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  • Genre: Americana / Folk / Roots Music

    Location Los Angeles, California, Un

    Profile Views: 22142

    Last Login: 12/11/2012

    Member Since 3/26/2006

    Website cdbaby.com/cd/lockettchristopher

    Record Label Gritbiscuit Records

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    Most of the music I like was lucky to make it off of someone's front porch. My music isn't much different.

  • Members

    It varies by the night and who is available, but on the album the band is: Christopher Lockett - guitar, vocal, harmonica, jaw harp, Appalachian dulcimer, tablas, djembe and mbira. The late great and sorely missed Amy Farris - fiddle, mandolin and backing vocals. Mona Tavakoli - percussion. Voyce McGinley III - percussion. Craig Ferguson - lap steel and dobro. Skip Heller - lead guitar. Irina Bjorklund - saw. Trevi Fligg - backing vocals. Natalie Myers - vocals.

  • Influences

    Townes Van Zandt, Johnny Cash, Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, Hank Williams, Leonard Cohen, Billy Bragg, Dick Gaughan, Guy Clark, Steve Earle, Bill Monroe, Joe Ely, Butch Hancock, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Bill Morrissey, Utah Phillips, Warren Zevon, Woody Guthrie, Doc Watson, Jimmy Martin, Dave Alvin, Bruce Springsteen, Ben Harper, M.Ward, David Dondero, Tony Tidwell, Frank Sinatra, Buster Keaton, Joe Maphis, Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant, Wilco, Tinariwen, Issa Bagayogo, Ali Farka Toure, Johann Buis, Julien Dembele, Toots and the Mayals, Bob Marley, Horace Andy, Jacob Miller, The Meditations, Si Kahn, Robert Johnson, Snooky Pryor, Johnny Shines, Patti Smith, Ralph Stanley, Kris Kristofferson, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley, The Band, Los Lobos, Quetzal, John Lee Hooker, Roy Buchanan, Little Richard, The Replacements, John Prine, Neil Young, Greg Brown, The Carter Family, Lucinda Willians, Vic Chesnutt, Emmylou Harris, Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers, Velvet Underground, Richard Buckner, Alfred Hitchcock, Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Anna Akhmatova, Boris Slutsky, Andre Tarkovsky, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Shibari, Henry Miller, Arthur Rimbaud, Antoine De Saint-Exupery, Wilton Barnhardt, James Dickey, Thomas Wolfe, William Least Heat-Moon, Richard Ford, Charles Bukowski, The Louvin Brothers, Ted Hawkins, Jack Logan, Son Volt, Uncle Tupelo, Elder Roma Wilson, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Steve Forbert, Don Walser, Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, The Mavericks, Robert Earl Keen, Elvis Costello, The Pogues, Richard Thompson, Gram Parsons, Nick Drake, Bill Kirchen, Danny Gatton, Skip Heller, Jeff Buckley, David Bowie, Lightning Hopkins, Junior Kimbrough, Hank Garland, Junior Brown, Clarence Gatemouth Brown, Johnny Horton, War, Lenny Bruce, Bill Hicks, Billy Joe Shaver, Nick Cave, Henry Rollins, Jimmy Scott, Patsy Cline, Boozoo Chavis, Billie Holiday, John Coltrane, Minor Threat, Charlie Pride, Chet Baker, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Michael Shermer, Julia Sweeney's "Letting Go Of God", Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, Bart Ehrmann, Susan Jacoby, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ernest Tubb, Phil Ochs, Joe Hill, Honeyboy Edwards, Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch, Iris Dement, Serge Gainsbourg, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Fela Kuti, Taj Mahal, Charlie Parker, The Fairfield Four, Nina Simone, Ildefonso Ramirez, Henri Cartier-Bresson, O.Winston Link, Andre Kertesz, Weegee, Diane Arbus, Nan Goldin, Garry Winogrand, Jeff Brouws, Robert Frank, Edward Hopper, Walker Evans, Harry Callahan, Horace Bristol, Andy Goldworthy, Lewis Hine, Brassai, Tseng Kwong Chi, Harry Crews, Mark Twain, Eric Bogosian, Ilia Varcev, motorcycles (got first one for my 9th birthday - go Dad!), empty roads, experience and the places I've been, the things I've heard, tasted, touched, smelled, seen, remembered, forgotten and anyone who's ever had something to say that grabbed me by the collar and made me pay attention.

  • Sounds Like

    This is what the reviews say: ***** "Deceptively simple songs that take a snapshot of a complex world and refines it down to a parable like those tunes in the Carter Family Archive. ***** A serious rambler with an intelligent heart and a point of view in every song. The better poets seem to step back a little and take things in from a big point of view. Chris has seen the world and shook it's hand in Mali or Cote D'Ivoire West Africa, Haiti, Guatemala, Mexico. He learned his folk and country in Virginia, and somehow manages to focus that down home flavor on a borderless brotherhood of humanity. ***** I could listen to a whole album of Christopher Lockett playing mbira. These are good songs that can walk by themselves. That's all they need to be. That's plenty." ***** Billy Sheppard Billysbunker.com ***** "These songs sound very American. Sublime jaw harp and harmonica playing. ***** African and Eastern influences, but the storytelling Americana songs come out on top here... great and swinging. *****Lockett succeeds here in getting our attention and raising our curiosity about what comes next." ***** Rootstime.be

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