KEVIN ORTON-lead vocals, guitar, banjo SUZANNE KAISER-dulcimer, lap steel, midget accordion, vocals JOHN RUBIN-drums, percussion, vocals MR. LOU-bass BERNARD GANN-guitar CARLA MATERO, ERIN MOON-vocals
Also:
Andy Prosky-rhythm & lead guitar Andy Townsend-rhythm & lead guitar, piano Andrew Thornton-bass guitar
Also Served:Mark Anderson, Cole Wheeler, Francine Lobis, Darryl Gregory, Andre Fratto, Dan Batchelor, Paul Sousa, Richard Thorne & Jason Atkinson
影響
An All-Star lineup of literary and musical heroes and villains: Hank Williams Sr., William Faulkner, Johnny Cash, Edgar Allen Poe, Howlin' Wolf, Townes Van Zandt, Tom Waits, Raymond Chandler, John Lee Hooker,The Velvet Underground, The Stooges, Leonard Cohen, Nina Simone, The Only Ones, Deke, Gordon, David Francis & Winter Hours.
風格近似
"Think if you will Leonard Cohen being backed by The Mysterians or any other majorly great Garage Psych band. Sparse yet powerful...Looking forward to the next release." - Subterranean Records
"Call it Gothic Americana storytelling"- Radio Mike Online Radio
"Nick Cave meets Johnny Cash..." -THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER
"With Their Appalachian echoes & imaginative new lyrics, The Malediction's songs reach straight for the audience" -ST. LOUS POST DISPATCH
"Jars you to the strangeness of this American landscape...Deserted fairgrounds, unlit country roads, sawdust floored barrooms, vandalized cemeteries and overstayed debutante balls...Born of inner necessity" -AMAZON.com
"A dark, original slice of Gothic Americana" -iTUNES
"The moods & textures of Leonard Cohen, Johnny Cash, Tom Waits and Nick Cave" -ST. LOUIS MAGAZINE
Dark, brooding, yet perversely optimistic---The Malediction's sound has affectionately been described as, "Country Noir" or "Gothic Americana".
"It's all just Folk Music," according to bandleader Kevin Orton, "Maybe aggressive Folk but Folk music at heart...I tend to write songs about people who are un-insured".
The Maledictions have their roots in Orton's 2003 solo album, FEMME NOIR, which featured a number of guest artists including The Violent Femmes' Gordon Gano. Soon after, Orton formed The Maledictions and 2005 saw the release of IDLE HANDS.
Most recently they are among the contributing artists to "A Few Uneven Rhymes: A Tribute to Winter Hours" out now on Main Man Records. All proceeds go to www.roadrecovery.org
Preview their upcoming new EP, "BACK PORCH ELEGIES" below on the Reverbnation player widget.
MALEDICTION (mal-e-dik-shen): "curse, excecration" -Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary
DICTIONARY (dik-shen-air-ee):"A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic"
-The Devil's Dictionary
For VIDEO Link: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=hickorywind77
IDLE HANDS & FEMME NOIR are available at iTunes, amazon.com, cdbaby.com & in NYC exclusively at Subterranean Records (5 Cornelia Street at West 4th St.)
Hey, Im posting new videos today! New pictures too!
And TUESDAY July 14, the band will be filming a performance for the tv show at SAXON PUB! Be in the audience for the tv show 4:30 to 6!!!!!!!! Ruby Jane
Hello, it's me, Ruby Jane. I am a 14 year old fiddler, songwriter. I have some songs posted that are fresh out of the studio...be one of the first to hear, even before they are released! Let me know what you think!!! Thanks! Ruby Jane
Many thanks for the add. Hope you enjoy the music and message behind it. My mission in life is to fight Human Trafficking. understanding the individual pain of others is sometimes to painful for an other individual to touch and that is frightening ...what i mean is that someone whose life is not traumatized and brutalized as a regular sequence of every day events unconsciously seeks the camouflage and shelter of apathy and banality from the reality of such devastating anguish and terror ...but the spirit of young people who are used as sex slaves in the systematized global industry of human trafficking is now reaching out to the human fellowship in hope and desperation and through technology ...it is scary when humanity turns a blind eye to this horror ...its like ignoring genocide whilst it is happening ...what i am asking is that if you hear the cry of these young people who are existing in an environment of torture and brutality each and every day that you then please do not turn away from them ...please reach deeply into your heart and soul and please in 2009 join a movement or become a part of an event that challenges modern slavery in the 21st century ...
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