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Weed (album)
''Weed'' is the tenth album by singer-songwriter and guitarist, Chris Whitley. It is his eighth studio album. The album is Whitley's acoustic re-recording of a selection of songs he wrote from 1986 to 1996 for his three recordings on Columbia / Work Records: ''Living with the Law'' (1991), ''Din of Ecstasy'' (1995), and ''Terra Incognita'' (1997). It was produced and recorded by Chris Whitley live to a two-track MD in Susann Bürger's bathroom / Sebnitzer Straße and Space House / Katharinenstraße in Dresden, Germany. Track listing All tracks written by Chris Whitley: # "Power Down" – 3:43 # "Living with the Law" – 4:05 # "Know" – 3:16 # "Phone Call from Leavenworth" – 4:22 # "Cool Wooden Crosses" – 2:44 # "Big Sky Country" – 4:26 # "New Machine" – 3:19 # "Clear Blue Sky" – 4:36 # "Bordertown" – 3:16 # "Narcotic Prayer" – 3:42 # "Kick the Stones" – 4:11 # "Weightless" – 2:37 # "I Forget You Everyday" – 4:20 # "Make the Dirt Stick" – 3:33 # "Dust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Whitley
Christopher Becker Whitley (August 31, 1960 – November 20, 2005) was an American blues/rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. During his 25-year career he released more than a dozen albums, had two songs in the top 50 of the Billboard mainstream rock charts and received two Independent Music Awards. Whitley's sound was drawn from the traditions of blues, jazz and rock and he recorded songs by artists from many genres. He died in 2005 of lung cancer at the age of 45. Early life Whitley was born in Houston, Texas and learned to play guitar when he was fifteen. His father was an art director and his mother was a sculptor. During his youth he lived in Dallas, Texas, Oklahoma, Connecticut, Mexico and Vermont. His parents "grew up on race music, race radio in Southern United States, the South" and their musical tastes—including Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix—influenced Whitley. Career During the early 1980s Whitley was busking on the streets of New York ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terra Incognita (Chris Whitley Album)
''Terra Incognita'' is the third studio album by singer-songwriter and guitarist, Chris Whitley, released in 1997. It was produced primarily by Chris Whitley, Toby Wright, and Dougie Bowne. The album was recorded primarily by Mark Howard (assisted by Wayne Lorenz) at Boulevard Teatro in Oxnard, California. It was mixed primarily by Toby Wright (assisted by John Seymour) at Electric Lady Studios in New York City. Additional recording was done by Dinky Dawson at the Best Western Highway Inn in Salem, Oregon ("As Flat as the Earth (exp)"), by Chris Whitley at the Sheffield Holiday Inn in Sheffield, Alabama ("Immortal Blues"), and by Toby Wright at Electric Lady Studios in New York City ("Alien"). Additional production and mixing on "Automatic" was done by Michael Barbiero. The album's title was inspired by ''Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell'' by Charles Simic. Critical reception ''The Washington Post'' called the album Whitley's "best work yet," writing that "it has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 Albums
4 (four) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 3 and preceding 5. It is the smallest semiprime and composite number, and is considered unlucky in many East Asian cultures. In mathematics Four is the smallest composite number, its proper divisors being and . Four is the sum and product of two with itself: 2 + 2 = 4 = 2 x 2, the only number b such that a + a = b = a x a, which also makes four the smallest squared prime number p^. In Knuth's up-arrow notation, , and so forth, for any number of up arrows. By consequence, four is the only square one more than a prime number, specifically three. The sum of the first four prime numbers two + three + five + seven is the only sum of four consecutive prime numbers that yields an odd prime number, seventeen, which is the fourth super-prime. Four lies between the first proper pair of twin primes, three and five, which are the first two Fermat primes, like seventeen, which is the third. On the other hand, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Percussion
A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Excluding zoomusicological instruments and the human voice, the percussion family is believed to include the oldest musical instruments.''The Oxford Companion to Music'', 10th edition, p.775, In spite of being a very common term to designate instruments, and to relate them to their players, the percussionists, percussion is not a systematic classificatory category of instruments, as described by the scientific field of organology. It is shown below that percussion instruments may belong to the organological classes of ideophone, membranophone, aerophone and cordophone. The percussion section of an orchestra most commonly contains instruments such as the timpani, snare drum, bass drum, tambourine, belonging to the membranophones, and cy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Instrumental
An instrumental is a recording normally without any vocals, although it might include some inarticulate vocals, such as shouted backup vocals in a big band setting. Through semantic widening, a broader sense of the word song may refer to instrumentals. The music is primarily or exclusively produced using musical instruments. An instrumental can exist in music notation, after it is written by a composer; in the mind of the composer (especially in cases where the composer themselves will perform the piece, as in the case of a blues solo guitarist or a folk music fiddle player); as a piece that is performed live by a single instrumentalist or a musical ensemble, which could range in components from a duo or trio to a large big band, concert band or orchestra. In a song that is otherwise sung, a section that is not sung but which is played by instruments can be called an instrumental interlude, or, if it occurs at the beginning of the song, before the singer starts to sing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Sky Country (song)
"Big Sky Country" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter and guitarist, Chris Whitley. It was the second single to be released from his 1991 début album, ''Living with the Law'', and became a hit single in the United States, rising to No. 35 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart in 1991. Music video The music video features Whitley singing and playing his 1931 National Triolian in a variety of indoor and outdoor ( Spanish mission / cemetery, midway, and American desert) environments. Parts of the video were filmed in stop motion animation. Bassist Alan Gevaert and a drummer appear in some scenes. Cover versions John Mayer has covered the song live. Personnel *Chris Whitley – National acoustic guitar, guitar, vocal, bass, and synth guitar *Bill Dillon – guitar, pedal steel, and guitorgan A Guitorgan is an electric guitar with electronic organ components added. Each guitar fret is separated into six segments, creating independent contact switches for each str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living With The Law (song)
"Living with the Law" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter and guitarist, Chris Whitley. It was the first single to be released from his 1991 début album, ''Living with the Law'', and became a hit single in the United States, rising to No. 28 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart in 1991. Music video The music video (directed by Rocky Schenck) features Whitley singing and playing his 1931 National Triolian in a variety of indoor and outdoor urban environments. Cover versions Michael Shrieve Michael Shrieve (born July 6, 1949) is an American drummer, percussionist, and composer. He is best known as the drummer of the rock band Santana, playing on the band's first seven albums from 1969 to 1974. At age 20, Shrieve was the second youn ... covered the song on his album, ''Fascination'' (2001). The song has also been recorded by Robert Caruso. References {{authority control 1991 singles Music videos directed by Rocky Schenck Columbia Records singles 1991 son ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dresden
Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth largest by area (after Berlin, Hamburg and Cologne), and the third most populous city in the area of former East Germany, after Berlin and Leipzig. Dresden's urban area comprises the towns of Freital, Pirna, Radebeul, Meissen, Coswig, Radeberg and Heidenau and has around 790,000 inhabitants. The Dresden metropolitan area has approximately 1.34 million inhabitants. Dresden is the second largest city on the River Elbe after Hamburg. Most of the city's population lives in the Elbe Valley, but a large, albeit very sparsely populated area of the city east of the Elbe lies in the West Lusatian Hill Country and Uplands (the westernmost part of the Sudetes) and thus in Lusatia. Many boroughs west of the Elbe lie in the foreland of the Ore Mounta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MiniDisc
MiniDisc (MD) is an erasable magneto-optical disc-based data storage format offering a capacity of 60, 74, and later, 80 minutes of digitized audio. Sony announced the MiniDisc in September 1992 and released it in November of that year for sale in Japan and in December in Europe, North America, and other countries. The music format was based on ATRAC audio data compression, Sony's own proprietary compression code. Its successor, Hi-MD, would later introduce the option of linear PCM digital recording to meet audio quality comparable to that of a compact disc. MiniDiscs were very popular in Japan and found moderate success in Europe; although it was designed to be the successor of the cassette tape, it did not manage to mass replace it globally. By March 2011 Sony had sold 22 million MD players. Sony has ceased development of MD devices, with the last of the players sold by March 2013. Market history In 1983, just a year after the introduction of the Compact Disc, Kees ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Din Of Ecstasy
''Din of Ecstasy'' is the second studio album by singer-songwriter and guitarist, Chris Whitley. It was released on Columbia Records in 1995. It was produced primarily by John Custer and Chris Whitley. The album was recorded by Steve Melton (assisted by Danny Kadar and Kent Bruce) and mixed by Toby Wright at Muscle Shoals Sound in Sheffield, Alabama as well as Baby Monster, Sony Music Studios, and Electric Lady Studios in New York City. In 2014 Danny Kadar published an alternative version of the album on SoundCloud without the additional effects in the official versio Track listing All tracks written by Chris Whitley unless otherwise noted. # "Narcotic Prayer" – 3:45 # "Never" – 2:48 # "Know" – 3:47 # "O God My Heart Is Ready" – 3:13 # "Can't Get Off" – 4:03 # "God Thing" – 4:49 # "Din" – 3:15 # "New Machine" – 3:18 # "Some Candy Talking" (Jim Reid and William Reid – The Jesus and Mary Chain) – 4:13 # "Guns & Dolls" – 3:30 # "WPL" – 3:09 # "Ultraglide" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blues
Blues is a music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the African-American culture. The blues form is ubiquitous in jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll, and is characterized by the call-and-response pattern (the blues scale and specific chord progressions) of which the twelve-bar blues is the most common. Blue notes (or "worried notes"), usually thirds, fifths or sevenths flattened in pitch, are also an essential part of the sound. Blues shuffles or walking bass reinforce the trance-like rhythm and form a repetitive effect known as the groove. Blues as a genre is also characterized by its lyrics, bass lines, and instrumentation. Early traditional blues verses consisted of a single line repeated four times. It was only in the first decades of the 20th century that the most common current str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living With The Law (album)
''Living with the Law'' is the debut album by singer-songwriter and guitarist, Chris Whitley. It was released on July 2, 1991. Malcolm Burn produced, mixed and played on the album. It was co-recorded by Burn and Mark Howard at Kingsway Studio (Daniel Lanois' home) in New Orleans. Track listing All tracks written by Chris Whitley. # "Excerpt" – 0:17 # "Living with the Law" – 3:42 # "Big Sky Country" – 4:45 # "Kick the Stones" – 4:12 # "Make the Dirt Stick" – 3:33 # "Poison Girl" – 3:27 # "Dust Radio" – 5:08 # "Phone Call from Leavenworth" – 4:47 # "I Forget You Every Day" – 4:33 # "Long Way Around" – 4:27 # "Look What Love Has Done" – 3:23 # "Bordertown" – 4:30 # '' nnamed' – 0:18 "Living with the Law", "Big Sky Country", and "Poison Girl" were released as singles. Critical reception ''Living with the Law'' was named ninth best album of 1991 in the Pazz & Jop critics poll. It is also listed in Tom Moon's 2008 book ''1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
