Masked and Anonymous, Kris Kristofferson, Mark Strand, Yeah, Me Too, Iris Dement, Leonard Cohen, pretzels, Michael J. Fox, Vince Matthews, Shel Silverstein, Reverand Louis Overstreet, tacos, Eric Andersen, black licorice, Bert Jansch, Henry Flynt, Steve Forbert, Mickey Rourke, Donnie Fritts, Jeff Bridges, Love, Jesse Winchester, vanilla soy milk, Bossman, Morgan Freeman, Daniel Lanois, rubber rats, Greg Brown, Michael Hurley, sweet potato pie, Townes Van Zandt, Steve Van Zandt, Tim Hardin, Ali Farka Toure, Richard Yates, The Bicycle Thief, pizza, Groundhog Day, Jackson Browne, Mickey Newbury, Paul Siebel, Warren Zevon, Five Easy Pieces, Jim Galvin, Monte Hellman, Mary Robison, ice cream, Roscoe Holcomb, monkeys (all kinds), Joe Tex, Spooner Oldham, and the Ford Taurus!
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Here is more than you might want to know about The Black Swans:
Who Will Walk in the Darkness with You?, is the debut album released by Delmore Recording Society in 2004 to lots of really good and really bad reviews. It dives deep into a pond of existential doubt and functions as a collection of musical vignettes where characters negotiate how to get along in the world with and without the person to whom they feel closest. Rarely acknowledging gender, the lyrics have a purposeful drift, playing out strained, washed-out moments similar to early Kris Kristofferson or the confessional fragments of Robert Creeley. Guilt and doubt run through the songs, but they are ultimately ethereal and elegiac. The songs are dialogues, existential and gray, spoken when the clock ticks slow; their subjects are companionship, intimacy and resigned acceptance.
Someone once described it as "walking through quicksand." This was suppose to be a bad review, but it is pretty right-on.
The Sex Brain E.P. was released March of 2006 on Bwatue Records, our own little fake-label named after the B-side of the Phil Ochs 45 on A&M that he recorded in Kenya. It means “Canoe” in Swahili. The E.P. is a high concept, five-song cycle which examines the tragi-comic throes of intimacy concerning the deep and dark psychological-sexual tug-of-war between our superego and id without Freud’s referee, the ego, anywhere in sight.
It's not for everyone, especially if your name is "Mom".
Change! is the newest album, released by La Société Expéditionnaire in fall 2007. A dozen slow burning songs about the reconciliation and reconstruction of the spirit and self, wow.
As in the past, The Black Swans feature the broken broodings of songwriter/singer/guitarist Jerry DeCicca, and the classical, Appalachian swoop of Noel Sayre’s violin. Canaan Faulkner is the beautiful bass player. The record's got a big band, but the 3 of us perform most shows.
We travel in a ’95 Ford Taurus wagon. R.I.P. '94 Ford Taurus: New radiator, new transmission, new battery, new starter, new used tires, 140,000 miles, never say die, but now we say, "goodbye." Hello, wagon! Though recently, since we're making so much money, we went with a rental.
In late June 2007, DeCicca co-produced the first new recordings by 1970's Monument recording artist, Larry Jon Wilson. Too, it features Black Swan Noel Sayre on violin. Wilson was featured in the 70s documentary Heartworn Highways that also includes early portraits of Guy Clark and Townes Van Zandt. These new recordings took place in Perdido Key, Florida. It will be released in JUNE 2008 on UK label 1965 Records/Sony and Hacktone Records in the U.S.
If you want to read Black Swans reviews, please hunt the Internets or look left.
The Black Swans live in the wondrous Columbus, Ohio.
really?? wow. i cannot say i've ever met anyone who's said that to me before. i saw the obituary in the columbus dispatch, and well.. had the weirdest feeling that i'd seen you guys perform. still unsure, i ordered change! and.. well, i'm impressed. but i've yet to figure out this connection.. i know. i sound like a weirdo. but i'm really sorry that happened. i know he must have meant alot to you.
nice to meet you, though! :) it's nice when artists respond back. that happens so rarely that sometimes i forget there are people behind them.
I cannot tell you how sorry I am. My heart sunk when I read your bulletin, chum. Though I have never met him, he was one of the finer parts of this world to you, as seen in your beautiful words.
i was listening to kris kristofferson's first album for months,thinking it was the album equivalent of how i felt. Then i realized i just wanted to feel like that and i was really living in CHANGE. It helped me through a lot of simple shit and a lot of complicated muck and a bit of good and bad ideas...
