it's mostly me, but with lots of help on the cd. i'll get to listing them all later. patience.
OK, here's who played on the record.
Drew McKnight - guitars, acoustic and electric. cool riffs, brilliant help and strong coffee.
Granger Helvey and Kirby Yarbrough - the backbone and heartbeat; bass and drums, percussion and foundation, yin and yang
Ralph Gordon - cello
Lori Kelley - country harmonies
Dana Connor - soulful harmonies, grits
and others - I'll get to that too. . . .patience!
Influences
first, definitely apples. macoun apples, from those two weeks in October when they become quite possibly the most perfect food ever created by any god or goddess. from south glastonbury connecticut. that's where we start. then?
oh, golly.
chuck berry and the drifters. patsy cline and hank. the beatles and the byrds and the three kings - albert, freddie and bb. ian and sylvia and old judy collins, joni and ani and karla bonoff. everyone who has ever picked up a flattop or plugged in a plank. or stomped on the floor.
the wind, the rain, the seasons in those places that still have them.
shakespeare's folk songs and bob dylan's sonnets and woody and bruce, of course. woodsmoke and cut grass.
a perfect tomato. wordsworth. fresh sweet corn. the language of the king james version. swimming at cotton hollow on the first warm enough day and cutting broadleaf tobacco til my hands bled. single a ball.
thomas edison and thomas jefferson and thomas' english muffins. splitting wood as the first snow falls.
those are my influences.
who are YOUR influences?
oh, yeah, I almost forgot. Lucinda Williams too. Definitely Lucinda Williams.
Sounds Like
i've been told a lot of things. some of the old folk dudes from the early 60s. gordon lightfoot. or newer ones - david wilcox f'rinstance. Someone who just heard the CD said dylan, mark knopfler and tom petty. i don't buy it but i'll take any one of them. a strange amalgamation of folk, rock, countryish alt americana like gram parsons meets the beatles, maybe. three minute songs is what i grew up with, it's hard for me to write anything longer with a such a short attention span.
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grew up in connecticut on the hard side of a soft town, on the river, among tobacco and corn fields, and orchards. learned to play a guitar in college late at night when everyone else was trying to sleep and i couldn't.
wrote what i knew, now i write what i wonder. or what i thought i knew. or what i want to know.
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