if you liked Talk Engine, you will LOVE SheelerBirth -- check out some tracks at www.reverbnation.com/sheelerbirth.
new album will be out in the fall.
in the meantime we'd like to thank our fans by offering all the Talk Engine songs on this player as free downloads. enjoy!
and please do stop by our new home on reverbnation / sheelerbirth.
peace out.
OLD NEWS:
Talk Engine, an east coast band formed in 2003, is fronted by Jackie Sheeler, an award-winning songwriter and activist who has recently been named the Poet Laureate of Rikers Island due to her volunteer work with young prisoners in NYC. The band has one single and one full-length CD that you can still buy on CDbaby, iTunes, and Amazon.
Jackie and the band have headlined at major east coast venues and performed live on national radio stations such as NPR and WBAI. The band was once characterized in this way: "if Lou Reed & Patti Smith had coupled, the result might be something like the rocking and raw Jackie Sheeler." We've also been compared to Cake, the Doors, and Marianne Faithfull.
After a recent performance, NYC club impresario Bob Holman said Talk Engine cooks, burns and blistersa riot of words and music and sheer sound energy. If you ain't dancing by the end of a set, it's cause you're flying.
Congratulations to Larissa Shmailo and to Bobby Perfect for winning the prestigious New Century Music Award in the "Spoken Word Poetry with Music" category for 2009 !
from all your friends, fellow-directors and colleagues @ TWiN Poetry.
SINGER SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR MELISSA COX Friday, December 19 Bar Saints & Sinners 205 First St. , Hoboken -- minutes from NYC! $8 cover | 21+ Sexy & smart folk rock / contemporary Irish music!
I'd like to tell you about a Tim Buckley Song Session in Bath UK. Ash mandrake and James Hoolingsworth will be performing some of his songs with their bands as part of The Fringe Festival.
A cover of Tim Buckley's timeless "Song To The Siren" sung from inside a suburban conch
Sundown Lounge is a laid back (and often explicit, you bet your ass...) weekly podzine of music, spoken word, progressive politics, weird science, and occasional vignettes from the west coast open mic scene, etc. Physically, I'm in rapidly gentrifying downtown Los Angeles, but metaphysically, my toes are in the sand and the sun is ablaze with deep hues, and a few poets and musicians and scientists have dropped by my beach house to hang out and jam, as the surf whispers nearby...The Open Mic Stage accepts spoken word and music files for play. : Hear "A True Liberator" on Friday's Archived Podcast:
Other news and goings on: 10K is accpeting submissions from poets to feature in our BLOG. If this is of interest to you, please send your poem in as a comment, in the form, with title, author, etc. We will do the rest.
Whether you believe that the sky has been invaded by umpalumpas, or that there is a more rational explanation for the appearance of snow, I hope you enjoy the poetry and opera in "FLAKE'S THEME".
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Well it has been way too damn long. One of us has got to travel... As for Talk Engine...yeah...I would expect no less and you deliver like Gene Vincent.
you are so beautiful! where is your photo on this blog. I want to see your beautiful eyes. You are the real deal Jackie Sheeler. I'm listening to your album as I write xxx
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