Hat tip to T. Ballard Lesseman and Brooklyn Brewery, without whom I would not have known these exciting things about the amazingly prolific poet Vic Chesnutt because I have been under a rock sleeping for the past year: THE VIC CHESNUTT RECORD AND WHY ME AND TOMMY WANTED TO DO IT JONATHAN: "My drummer Tommy Larkins and I were driving in the van across the United States as we do two or three...
... in a sleeper for the die-hard folk fans. Yes, he also released Skitter To Take-Off. Produced by JonathanRichman and Tommy Larkin, Skitter To Take-Off is Chesnutt as his most soul-bearing. You can hear it in his voice on high points “Feast In The Time Of Plague”, “Rips In The Fabric” and “Society Sue”. The only accompaniment here is Richman...
MPSHOWS.COM PRESENTS ART BRUT ART BRUT They’re an eccentric, motley bunch who have more in common with Half Man Half Biscuit and Pulp than they do with their oft-compared influences The Fall. Vocalist Eddie Argos (an ex-goth obsessed with JonathanRichman and Vincent Van Gogh) had previously been in a band, The Art Goblins, in his hometown of [...]
I scan menus for keywords (fig, parsnips, salmon…) and it turns out I scan Twitter the same way, looking for anyone who is talking about my favorite topics (data, consumers, information quality…) So when I saw Jonathan Richman’s tweet the other night, I couldn’t resist it: Anyone ever seen data on the overall accuracy of medical information [...]
