Join Shawn Lee and I as well as the band and other friends and music lovers next Wednesday, August 31st for the listening party celebration for “Celestial Electric” at Verdugo bar as part of the monthly Rendezvous series. We’ll have an advance test pressing of the record so it’ll be played start to finish on vinyl! Guest DJ’s spinning your favorite OST’s and vintage grooves. It’s free!
1. My foray into “turkish psych-folk”.
2. My favorite Valle record thus far.
3. A modern classic.
1. One of many groovy Morricone comps…but keyword here is “acid.”
2. The introductory record into “awesome soundtracks…ok films.”
3. One of Morricone’s “understudies”.
1. Uh…well.
2. Super obscure Jorge Ben record…thanks Chris.
3. This record is magic.
1. Breezy Surf-Psych.
2. One of Jorge’s meanest and dirtiest sounding records. Can’t get enough.
3. A favorite of mine for many years.
1. So bad ass. Carol Kaye plays bass on these tracks. My bass player Mark Getten is now taking lessons from Carol. So surreal.
2. Another LA artist and someone I’ve had the privilege to hang with a time or three.
3. A great compilation I picked up in Seattle while on tour a couple of years ago. I wish I could remember the name of the place as the guy who owned the joint was super cool and turned me on to a few nuggets.
Some other guitars used on “FS&D”…namely the vintage burst 1960′s Silvertone in front (courtesy of Steven Stern). That guitar was used on several tunes…namely the electric guitar parts in “Darker Days”.
I used this 1966 Gibson ES 330 (on lend from friend Seven Stern) on a few tracks on “FS&D”. I believe this was taken during the recording of “When the Dust Settles”…the haunting, twangy part in the chorus. Run this through the Silvertone 1485 and the Fender Reverb and you’re in bizness.
An original 60′s Fender Reverb through a Sears Silvertone 1485. Pure and raw.
1. Miike Snow – Miike Snow
2. Papercuts – You Can Have What You Want
3. Richard Swift – The Atlantic Ocean
4. Shawn Lee – Soul in the Hole
5. Kenny Chesney – Greatest Hits II (just kidding…or am I?)
AM just started selling music on AmieStreet.com, and to kick
things off they are giving you $5 for free to download AM’s music.
All you have to do is click on the link below to get $5 to download tunes like “Gone Away,” “Troubled Times,” and “Endings Are Beginnings.”
Just click the link below and you’ll be all set!
http://amiestreet.com/_l/cdbaby
Once you receive your free $5, find AM’s music here: http://amiestreet.com/artist/48609
Ventura Country Reporter chose AM as their music “Pick of the Week.”
http://www.vcreporter.com/cms/story/detail/picks_of_the_week/5993/
05/29/2008
For an artist whose career is just beginning its upward trajectory, singer-songwriter AM already has the whole myth-making thing down. He doesn’t like revealing exact dates about certain events in his life, and don’t even bother inquiring about his government name — he is not about to give it up. What we do know is that he was born in Tulsa, Okla., grew up a self-described “rock’n'roll kid,” was working in a music store and playing bar gigs with cover bands by the time he was 15, was influenced to become a songwriter by the likes of Bob Dylan, Beck and Jeff Tweedy, left New Orleans for Los Angeles and fell in with the Hotel Café scene, released his first album, Troubled Times, in 2006, and with its spare, mostly acoustic arrangements and simple-but-cryptic lyrics, caught a buzz in the L.A. neo-folk community, which carried over to his second album, last year’s Soul Variations. Oh, and one other thing: He is playing Zoey’s on May 30.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O1YTlsfGGY
Here is the second episode of Tina Dico’s tour diary– we are on tour in Germany and having way too much fun. Enjoy.
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