ere's a great song by LoveLikeFire called From a Tower.
It's from their EP 'An Ocean in the Air' which you can order here.
I just found them myself so you know almost as much as I do - they rock.
Hit their myspace profile and you'll know exactly as much as I do - they consistently rock.
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his is my transcription of the title track from the Trespasser's William album Different Stars (2002-2004 SR, Bella Union, Nettwerk).
I originally posted it to ultimateGuitar.com back in march of 2006 but it has since been picked up by many other sites and tabcrawlers.
To date it is, by a huge margin, the most popular transcription I've ever posted. I still get regular emails about it.
A very loved song.
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Different Stars by Trespassers William
G# 466544
E x76454
B x24442
F# 244322
G#m 466444
C#sus2 x46644
G# E B F# (2 times)
G# E B F#
so you'd sing a lul ---- laby to get me to sleep
so it's no surprise my eyes are never heavy
for i've not seen you in the flesh for so long
that i'm not sure we would know each other at all
C#sus2 /
(2 times)
G#m F# C#sus2 /
oh the weight it must be light wherever you are
and i know you don't think twice wherever you are
G# E B F# (2 times)
G# E B F#
so i will hum alone too far from you
all that i say now is nothing to you
we will lie under different stars
i am where i am when you're where you are (you are...
C#sus2 /
you are)
G#m F# C#sus2 /
oh the weight it must be light wherever you are
and i know you don't think twice wherever you are
and i'd ask if you're allright wherever you are
and do you think of me you might wherever you are
G#m F# C#sus2 / (3 times)
G#m F# C#sus2 /
la da da, da da, da da da
la da da, da da, da da da
la da da, da, da da
la da da, da da, da da da
G#m F# C#sus2 / (2 times)
The Devil by Gileah and The Ghost Train
Meter is mixed - here's the basic tick count
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Em C / / / / / / Em Am G / / / / / Em Am G /
D / / / C G / / / / / / /
For the outro use only the second line.
x (below) == Feedback drown-out. Sounds like the G
is just held an extra beat
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Em C Em Am G
When the devil comes like a good angel,
Em Am G D C G
but with a loose tongue. I can't save you now.
Em C Em Am G
When my heart breaks from all your mistakes,
Em Am G D C G
the times are changing. I can't save you now.
Em C Em Am G
When all your friends leave you broken,
Em Am G D C G
leave you to your disease, I can't save you then.
Em C Em Am G
I have longed for change, Oh to see you choose,
Em Am G D C G
Oh, you can't refuse, the Savior's hand.
x C Em Am G
I have prayed for change, Oh, to see you choose,
Em Am G D C G
Oh, you can't refuse, the Savior's hand.
D C G
Oh, you can't refuse, the Savior's hand.
D C G
I only care for you, my dearest friend.
wo years following the release of Gileah Taylor's well received album 'The Golden Planes' (2005) comes her latest project Gileah and The Ghost Train and a new self titled debut LP.
The initiate contract of producer Allen Salmon's new label The Love Library the band, fronted by Gileah Taylor (vox, keys, guitars), consists of Kevin Woerner (electric guitars) and Ava Quigley (vox, guitars, omnichord). Session players include Allen Salmon himself (bass, programming, "Odds and Ends") and Ben Phillips (drums).
While 'The Golden Planes' has a very close up and personal 'in the same room' feel to it this new album widens that space and has a larger heavier footprint. The former made use of negative space in constructs built on sparsity whereas the latter leaves almost nothing of the canvas uncolored.
This is a serpentine venture through quasi-gothic spiritualism who's stories coil and writhe around love and faith in their many shades including the inherent and the antithetical.
Lent the edge of Kevin Woerner's electric guitar and the joyous talents of Ava Quigley this album takes a much deeper reach into rock space, both in darkness and in light, than Gileah's previous efforts without sacrificing depth or any of the warmth for which she's known. In fact I find this, by no short measure, to be her most compelling and passionate work to date.
Being a long time fan of The Wilshires (myspace), Rilo Kiley (myspace) and The Cardigans (myspace) I'd say if you like any of them (or anything even remotely close) this is a shoe-in for you.
Scheduled to drop this October 23rd (2007) 'Gileah and The Ghost Train' promises to be one of the best rock/pop-rock albums released this year. It's available for pre-order right now -- see merch below.
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elow is a live video of the song 'All I Know'.
I'm quite fond of this one. It's a great performance and the audio quality of the recording is excellent by YouTube standards.
Dig that hair thing Gileah's got going there -- smokin' or what?
Kudos to Bala Boyd for capping this.
Track Listing
01.) The Devil
02.) The Emergency
03.) The Escape
04.) The Lazarus
05.) The Light Princess
06.) The Lion In Love
07.) The Satellite
08.) The Shadow
09.) The Slave
10.) The Spirit
t was the tirelessly dedicated Mark Collins of Women of the '90s radio (see links on sidebar) who guided me to Allie Fancher and her wonderful folk-rock.Allie's music can be purchased at her live performances.
Her songs flow smoothly and she's got a way with hooking you both on verse and chorus. This is the kind of music you can't help but sing along with.
She has a darling of a song called Look Good Feel Good up on her myspace profile that you can download free as of this writing. It's very catchy -- guaranteed to bring you back to her and the rest of her music.
That is my goal.
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sk yourself this: would you be able to hear the words "Mama my vein braider thousand year bone burner" pass your ears from a song without stopping everything you're doing to divert all your attention thatta-way?
Mariee Sioux instantly became one of my favorite artists for doing exactly that to me with the song 'Wild Eyes' from her debut album 'Faces in the Rocks', due to ship this October 1st, 2007.
It's a heritage-theme based folk collection that is filled with just such pros. She has a most curious and intense manner of thinking exactly like a child but articulating like an adult. I'm not sure if that's cute or spooky but it definitely provokes thought.
'Faces in the Rocks' takes you on spirit-piercing word-journeys where one minute you're soaring and the next you're 'Burried in Teeth'.
As for the music itself -- if Simon & Garfunkle had been Native American and gender-swapped I'm convinced Mariee Sioux is probably what they'd have sounded like. Listen to the flow of her finger picking and the rests and pickups in verse -- a surprising lot of common ground.
She has a sweet voice that's playful one minute and verges on angst the next. Combined with the masterful Native American flutes of Gentle Thunder and her own Father Gary Sobonya on mandolin (and a cast of a few other very talented musicians) this album truly comes to life in an intoxicating yet wisely restrained manner.
And though the engineering (Dana Gumbiner, Gentle Thunder, and Mariee Sioux herself) tops it off and really 'takes you there' these are songs of unforgettable melody and verse that are just as easily enjoyed with nothing but Mariee Sioux and her guitar.
Now that's just great folk music.
Wild Eyes by Mariee Sioux
Tiny darling ghost holder
Tiny darling ghost holder
You our soft spirit breather
You our bark skinned weaver
Remember you could weep fire
Remember you could weep fire with wild eyes
With wild eyes, ooo with those wild eyes
If you ring your cells like bells in a garden that
You plant your burdens way deep down in
And water them daily from wells of salty
Guilt for sons who pollinate the deadly
That wild eye, ooo that wild eye
Papa my pine whistler sparrow-eyed sun misser
Papa my pine whistler sparrow-eyed moon blisser
Mama my jaw clincher spirit mouthed ghost dancer
Mama my vein braider thousand year bone burner
Mama my tongue twister thousand pronged antlers
Mama my tongue twister thousant pronged antlers
Mama my vein braider thousand pronged antlers, antlers
And ooo her wild eyes, ooo her wild eyes
So I will ring my cells like bells as you
Bind your father's molecules with roots of silver
Pierce him cedars with eyes like fingers
Picking bloody flowers
His wild eyes, ooo his wild eyes
Papa my pine whistler sparrow-eyed sun misser
Papa my pine whistler sparrow-eyed moon blisser
Mama my jaw clincher spirit mouthed ghost dancer
Mama my vein braider thousand year bone burner
Mama my tongue twister thousand pronged antlers
Mama my tongue twister thousand pronged antlers
Mama my vein braider thousand pronged antlers, antlers
And ooo her wild eyes, ooo her wild eyes
Tiny green moss collector
Sweet tiny green moss collector
Remember you could catch fire
Remember you could catch fire with wild eyes
With wild eyes, ooo with those wild eyes
And once the river is rolling lower
We'll gather lichen from the boulders
We'll keep it dry inside our lockets
We'll put this town down into our pockets
We'll try...
To leave these branch arms behind
The swaying hands of pines
Their needles tugging at your skin
Trying to pull you back deep in their wooden womb
Of a hundred hearts hanging suspended, moth-eaten
Those muscles the size of your fist
All floating around your head
Not knowing who they're a loving
Not knowing how fast they're a pumping
Not knowing how hard they're a beating
Not knowing who they're a punching
Those muscles the size of your fist
All floating around your head
And throwing punches like we throw the stones to
The bottom of river beds
Who knows whose next?
To watch from under the currents
The rapids rapidly raging while rapid
While we're rapidly blinking our wild
Our wild eyes
Here's an awesome new video for Great Northern's song 'Home' from their 2007 debut LP 'Trading Twilight for Daylight'.
This group has all the key elements of an excellent and timeless band and that includes an eccentric imagination.
I've been dying to see a 'real' video from them since I first heard of 'em several months ago. Well -- it's here and as I expected it's totally whacked and very cherry.
If this doesn't get your attention I swear I'm gonna crawl right through that monitor and...
Piece by piece I've been reeling in my transcriptions from the web so that they have a home under the roof from which they sprung.Sea of Doubts by Azure Ray
Intro
C / Em / C / Em /
C / Em /
i told them all the ones i love
C / Em Dm
i'm leaving and i may not return
C / Em /
see lately i've been overcome
C / Em Dm
the feeling i fear has just begun
F C
the pain i feel deep inside
F C
that haunts us all that we will die
F C G / / /
never really knowing how it feels
C F G Em
to be alive
C F G Em
C / Em /
through mountains and over seas
C Em Dm
through misery and disease
C / Em /
a spectator i played my part
C / Em Dm
but nothing could move this heart
F C
until i held the boy's hand
F C
the little one spoke like a man
F
he showed me death and said
C G / / /
this is how you know you're alive
C F G Em
C F G Em
alive
C / Em Dm /
a kingfisher in flight
F / C /
you'll rise above this sea of doubts
F / C / (last beat silent on "yah")
into a world full of clouds - yah
C / Em /
C / Em Dm
F C F C
F C G / / /
(repeat 4 times)
C F G Em
alive
C (silent after first beat and a capella to finish)
alive
alive
If you've got a hankerin' for some splendid americana then this is an album I heartily recommend.
Alina Simone's debut LP placelessness, released this August (2007), plays partly like a disquieting recountance of people, circumstance and actions that could perhaps have been and gone better but are being related precisely because they did not and partly like endearments and yearnings that fall under the same unsettled skies.Saw Edged Grass:
You just took off running through the saw-edged grass --
we didn't even turn, we knew you would come back.
No one really knew... we tiptoed around the things that set
you off, like playing with matches in the high dry grass.
Run, run there you go, over the creek bed. Why are the
brilliant ones always so crazy? I know you love us more
than you love your demands, but something keeps you
running and only you can stop it. We let it go in silence.
It takes off the edge. Sometimes we wrap it up in silence,
cuz it's the only way to rescue the wildest friend. There
you go, running through the saw-edged grass (turn, turn,
you burn on the horizon). Hair whips round your face,
tumble through the weekend (underneath the overpass,
over the offramp). Something keeps you running and we
can only guess (digging up the things you hid under the
footbridge). Scratches from the branches will only give you
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Leah Siegel's most recent album 'Little Mule', released in 2006, is 'pick O the litter' one of the best from a year that brought us a robust population of high quality non-mainstream works.
Her music has a signature sound but beneath that it's alternative and good old rock and roll.
In the song 'Pin Down' she takes her voice deep into her throat and sings softly with much emotion along a gentle rich progression. Then she soars to skin dimpling heights through a beautiful repeating straight sequence split by arpeggios that are near wont of transformation to a song in full Spanish style -- all the while tending your ears with that beautiful throaty voice.
Leah Siegal is one of the hottest acts around and she's given us 'Little Mule' -- one of the best albums in recent years.
Thank you to the lovely wayward EA forum gushing lass's for your charm drenched words!
This is a transcription I did of the Trespassers William song 'Lie In The Sound' from their album 'Different Stars'.Lie In The Sound by Trespassers William
Intro
Cm / Bb F (3 times)
Cm / Bb F
i love you more than i should,
Cm / Bb F
so much more than is good for
Cm / Bb F
me. more than is good.
Eb / / /
Cm / Bb F
oh the timing is cruel.
Cm / Bb F
oh i need and don't want to
Cm / Bb F
need more than i should.
Eb Gm Bb F
Bb / F /
i am falling, say my name
Bb / Gm /
and i'll lie in the sound.
Bb / F /
what is love but whatever
Bb / Gm /
my heart needs around.
Cm / Bb F
la da da da
Cm / Bb F
la da da da
Cm / Bb F
oh my sheet is so thin
Cm / Bb F
so i say i can't sleep
Cm / Bb F
because it's so very cold.
Eb / / /
Cm / Bb F
but i know what i need
Cm / Bb F
and if you were just near to
Cm / Bb F
me would you go...
Eb Gm Bb F
++++ (2 times)
Bb / F /
i am falling, say my name
Bb / Gm
and i'll lie in the sound.
Bb / F /
what is love but whatever
Bb / Gm /
my heart needs around.
----
Bb / F /
and it needs you too much
Bb / / /
now.
Cm / Bb F (3 times) Eb / / /
Cm / Bb F (3 times) Eb / / /
Cm / Bb F (3 times) Eb
This is a bluesy rock music with a lot of soul and a spat of jazz that combines with Laura Azzarello's lush and somewhat deep voice to form an almost familiar 70's sound but with a 'less pedal busy' contemporary feel.
Yesterday I got the album 'Laura A and The Bad Grades' in my mailbox. I'm almost jealous of myself.
She writes and sings easy listening folk rock and pop with a mostly indie-pop flavor.Photo by Craig Thomson This is Betty. Vitriolic's anonymous voted 'most likely to fall off the wagon "...but what an amazing half gainer!"' Betty. eX 'Salon Betty'. This is Betty X. |
| She's created a type of industrial metal with a vocally punk'd edge. Quite possibly a serrated edge. This kind of flavor is usually associated with a mosh pit or disturbing movie sound track but Betty hammers it out in a way that much of the time any refined desk jockey or couch potato can listen to and enjoy. Track after eye blackening track. | Photo by Craig Thomson |
| Has she taken 'Girl Power' too far? | |
Photo by Craig Thomson Spokeswoman? | Photo by Dan Nash Chairperson? |
Gigmates Johnny Spector & Teebes |
It's been just over a year since I last wrote about The Divine Madness1. A lot has happened since then and the horizon is filling in so I think an update is long overdue. Disk 1PARADISO | Disk 2 INFERNO | ||
| 01 | Haunted | 01 | Total Addiction |
| 02 | Secrets | 02 | The Future |
| 03 | Gentle | 03 | Precious |
| 04 | Blessed | 05 | Show Me |
| 05 | If Tomorrow Comes | 05 | True Love |
| 06 | Wish | 06 | Dirty |
| 07 | Closer | 07 | Push |
| 08 | Forsaken | 08 | The Sorrow |
| 09 | Dust | 09 | Pacify |
| 10 | Wonderland | 10 | MIA |
| 11 | Redemption | 11 | Crawl |
| 12 | Until The Break of Day | ||
YouTube / Brightcove | ||
Closer | Gentle | Faith |
 | STATS
Adrina Thorpe, as with many high quality artists who don't self promote with their dorsal fin breaking water, is a highly underrated artist. She released her debut album 'elusive' in 2004 and is currently working on her next release with a drop date goal of December 2007. Along with fine vocals and a mature introspective ability to write she's also known for her keyboard skills. If you're a fan of Sixpence None The Richer's 1997 self titled album, Beth Waters or Sarah McLachlan you'll love Adrina Thorpe. |
Sample Tracks: I Recommend 'Fly' | |
(intro - rhythm)
/ / /
Am F C E F
Drink to the s-un. We write to millions
Am F C E F
You kill everyo-ne around you
C E F
Save yours-elf from...
From the ground you break
And the lives you take
C F C F Am
/ F C E F
I lock the door, spinning the dust...
/
In a room
Am F C E F
Still like the s-un around you
C E F
Don't like the sp-ace of
All our sp-ace of
And you've just bec--ome a word...
C G F Am
/ / / / / / / / / / (x5)
F E G F Fmaj7 F Fmaj7 F Fmaj7 F
Ooh----
/...
Fmaj7
