Showing posts with label songwriter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label songwriter. Show all posts

17 June 2009

Market Research - Data That Matters

On 24 July 2008, Last.fm showed the following figures:

Uncle Tupelo
  • Listeners: 76,728
  • Plays: 1,105,499
Son Volt
  • Listeners: 46,355
  • Plays: 648,940
Wilco
  • Listeners: 492,169
  • Plays: 17,326,297
Jayhawks
  • Listeners: 52,068
  • Plays: 792,006
Whiskeytown
  • Listeners: 59,864
  • Plays: 1,297,201
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Jay Farrar
  • Listeners: 18,467
  • Plays: 148,837
Jeff Tweedy
  • Listeners: 34,192
  • Plays: 527,717
Ryan Adams
  • Listeners: 329,524
  • Plays: 12,038,710
Billy Bragg & Wilco
  • Listeners: 90,978
  • Plays: 1,334,270

02 January 2007

Great Tom Waits Quotes

Tom Waits is no ordinary songwriter. He's probably one of the greatest American writers in American history - and partly because he has soaked up so much of it. The guy doesn't just reinterpret all things Americana, he's basically a walking Smithsonian. Here are a few of my favorite lines from his music, as well as another quote or two from interviews:

"Money's just something you throw off the back of a train"

"You'll be buried in the clothes that you never wore"

"My daddy told me, lookin back, the best friend you'll have is a railroad track"

"You can put all my possessions in Jesus' name"

"How do the angels get to sleep when the devil leaves the porch light on?"

"You know there ain't no devil, there's just God when he's drunk"

"Come down off the cross, we could use the wood"

"
She's my black market baby, she's a diamond who wants to stay coal"

"I'll bet she's still a virgin, but it's only twenty-five to nine"

"
The piano has been drinking, my necktie is asleep... And the combo went back to New York, the jukebox has to take a leak... And the carpet needs a haircut, and the spotlight looks like a prison break... Cause the telephone's out of cigarettes, and the balcony is on the make... And the piano has been drinking..."

"Disneyland is Vegas for children" (interview in Playboy, March 1988)

16 November 2006

New Jeff Tweedy Film Trailer

Jeff Tweedy, the mastermind behind the bands Wilco and Loose Fur, as well as contributor to such musical projects as Golden Smog and Uncle Tupelo, is one of my favorite living songwriters (along with Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, and JJ Cale). Here's a trailer for a new film about a solo tour in the Pacific NW that I had the pleasure of seeing with my friend Brennan Ehret at the Crystal Ballroom in Portland, Oregon:



Buy the DVD:
Jeff Tweedy - Sunken Treasure - Live in the Pacific Northwest