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Paul Kelly Talks About His Songwriting Process | All About Songwriting
Here is a two part video featuring one of Australia’s most treasured singer/songwriters Paul Kelly talking about what songwriting means to him, how he writes his songs and a little bit about his life along the way.Great interview with Andrew Denton :)
15 minutes of amazing insight into the songwriting process of Paul Kelly. For more insight, check out How to Make Gravy, which goes along with his stellar 8-disc A-Z Recordings.
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original handbill for Paul Kelly's debut album launch →
How cool is that? Years later, someone opens up their copy of his debut album, and look what falls out.
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“Palo Alto” by Radiohead
I just had a week where I lived this song. My office is in Palo Alto, so how could I not?
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Neil Gaiman on Amanda Palmer & the Dresden Dolls →
I missed this the first time ‘round, or just don’t remember it. It’s the closing that kills me:
And when it’s all over, and it’s two a.m. and we are back in the hotel and the adrenaline is fading, Amanda, who has been subdued and awkward since the gig finished, starts crying,silently, uncontrollably, and I hold her, not sure what to say.
“You saw how good it was tonight?” she asks as she cries, and I tell her that, yes. I did, and for the first time it occurs to me how bad it must have got to make her leave something that meant that much to her, that made so many people happy.
Her cheeks are black with wet eye-make-up and it’s smearing on the sheets and the pillow as she sobs and I hold her tight, and try with all my might to understand.
Cowboy Junkies - Tiny Desk Concert →
Cowboy Junkies gave a Tiny Desk Concert for the fine folks at NPR’s All Songs Considered. It’s a mix of old and new, and it’s gorgeous. Take a 15-minute breather to watch this. And then go buy their five-disc Nomad Series set, which is a steal at (as of this writing) $21.99.
Seeing that The Adventures of … is the first release on Tori Amos’s new label, Transmission Galactic, it made me do some digging into the past.
Transmission Galactic isn’t Tori’s first foray into record label management. She had signed Lisa Papineau’s Pet to her vanity label under Atlantic called Igloo Records in the mid-90s. Pet released a single album, and even got a song onto the Crow 2 soundtrack. But Pet didn’t last long, and they were the only act that ever released anything on Igloo.
In 2003, Tori launched the Bridge Entertainment Group which said that it would “assist the creative development of an artist as record labels spend more and more time dealing with how to approach the changing environment of the music industry” (source), although I can’t recall seeing anything from them after their initial press release, and today their website just has their logo.
“Waiting for a Miracle” by Leonard Cohen, recorded live in San Jose on 13 November 2009. This version made it onto his live album Songs from the Road.
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