Toledo Free Press (Free subscription) | yesterday
Four years, four discs. From 2004 to 2007, Graham Parker released three studio records and one live ...
Soccer Insider (Free subscription) | 17/08/2008
Greetings from Toyota Park and Brian McBride's likely debut for the Fire. Today's opponent-appropriate tunes are courtesy of Graham Parker. Unlike our last visit, there are no tornado sirens wailing. In fact, nothing but a few puffy clouds and blue skies. As usual, an immaculate playing surface. Read my match preview. Read about the Fire supporters/security issues. No standard TV coverage in the Washington...
Wendy Knits (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
I just love creating a slipstitch heel, particularly in handpainted yarn. Perhaps I am simple, but I love watching the color variations emerge as the heel flap grows. Yep, I am turning the heel on the first Halcyon sock. Excitement abounds! By the way, I sent a whole scad of patterns to Sheri last week, so (as I [...]
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 14/07/2008
in post The Post Weekend Mixtape from Some Velvet Blog .
PSoTD (Free subscription) | 28/06/2008
My Seattle-area brother and his wife have now twice sent us salmon as a Christmas gift. This is not a complaint, but a declaration of ignorance....
Kiko's House (Free subscription) | 13/06/2008
BACK IN TIME By Graham Parker You stop in the old cafe where you used to play pinball And look for the air-raid shelter but it’s gone and the cafe seems so Small and all the gardens that had trees and stolen apples Now have small businesses flourishing in cinder blocks Then they will call your name and hand you a gold watch Then they will call your name but it doesn’t sound like much And you’ll never...
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
in post they got the talk from Armagideon Time .
Comments for edroso - HaloScan.com (Free subscription) | 21/05/2008
I hadn't seen Parker since Squeezing Out Sparks days, when he played with the Rumour in a cruddy rock theatre in Long Island. Calderone Concert Hall on Franklin Avenue in Hempstead, ca. 1979? If so, I have that concert on cassette (yes, I'm that old) from good ol' WLIR. Breathtaking does not come close to describing it. CCH was quite the place back then: saw Elvis Costello, Talking
Comments for edroso - HaloScan.com (Free subscription) | 20/05/2008
This post made me pull out the Parker Anthology from 76 to 91, Passion is No Ordinary Word, which is missing a couple of goodies ("Nobody Hurts You") but does have his cover of I Want You Back and also Mercury Poisoning. Saw him in Boston in the 80s with the Rumour and will never forget how he flipped over the microphone at the end and held it way above his head to sing the final notes--we all fe
Comments for edroso - HaloScan.com (Free subscription) | 19/05/2008
Saying Graham Parker is not quite like Marshall Crenshaw is like saying -- um, it's Monday morning here, so i'm a bit slow -- but be assured, it would be some comparison that would slam your precious little Crenshaw right in his mouth! Anyway, Parker's stuff that he recorded with Providence RI's the Figgs -- particularly 1997's live Last Rock and Roll Tour is vital, bracing stuff, a diamond amo...
Comments for edroso - HaloScan.com (Free subscription) | 19/05/2008
I hope this means that you and your guitar are on speaking terms! Me & mine have been mostly avoiding each other since my solo show at Eschacon in Philadelphia. So much so that when asked to be a part of a Townes Van Zandt tribute show last weekend, and told that the song I wanted to do (that I play well) was already taken, I sang this song
Comments for edroso - HaloScan.com (Free subscription) | 19/05/2008
Jesus, Roy, I might have known you were a Graham Parker fan. Excellent post about one of the best singers and songwriters out there. I've caught GP the last four or five times he's been to Cleveland so I was surely at that sparsely-attended show of which your friend spoke. The crowds at his shows may be small but they're loyal and knowledgeable, and each time I've seen him GP played and sung
Comments for edroso - HaloScan.com (Free subscription) | 19/05/2008
Parker's recorded career has remained amazing for those of us who've continued to follow it (I'm especially fond of his Bloodshot release, Your Country). Glad to see you rediscovering him . . .
Comments for edroso - HaloScan.com (Free subscription) | 19/05/2008
Isn't that the most wonderful thing about singing, though, how it elevates stuff that on the page looks pretty weak tea? Read a lot of lyrics and you come away thinking, "wow, whatever happened to that ol' time songwriting?" a la Lileks, but hear the delivery and it's like a punch in the mouth. For me at least.
Steven Rubio's Online Life (Free subscription) | 16/05/2008
1. Patti Smith, " Ask the Angels ." Lots of New York Punk on this list, each track different. Patti was the poet laureate, a great live performer, and a bit crazy. Her band was learning how to play, and in their case, the move was useful. 2. Ramones, " Judy Is a Punk ." Speaking of learning how to play, the video link here is astounding. 3. Joan Armatrading, " Love and Affection ." ...
