The past week I have been revisiting some of my earlier DBAWIS columns and am shocked at how few people (as far as I can tell) know about them, even now. When I write about musicians, it is usually personal, both the person or people and the music, and I feel that sometimes they are more water under the bridge than anything. No one sends notes asking about someone I wrote about in 2012 unless something has happened since and there are so many truly talented people who deserve recognition. So this week, I am going to point toward artists you may have missed whom I think are above the norm in terms of talent and/or personality. And maybe I owe a few of them money, but that is neither here nor there.
Archive for Joseph LeMay
Frank Gutch Jr: These Are People I’ve Known (But Who Try to Keep It a Secret); Plus Notes
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags 54.40, Angharad Drake, Arlon Bennett, Bow Thayer, C-Leb & The Kettle Black, Corner Lounge, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Frank Gutch Jr., Indie Artists, Indie Music, John John Brown, Joseph LeMay, King Wilkie, Lighthouse, Louder Than Words, michael fennelly, Mick Hornbuckle, Mist & Mast, music, music videos, Nylon Union, OAMI, Powder Blues, radio, Randy Burns & The Morning, Records, Sarah White, segarini, Shayne Thomas Byrne, Skip Prokop, Skyboys, Son of Man, Sweet Home Oregon, Ted Pitney, The Fugs, The Heatley, The Life, The Living Sisters, The Paupers, Trees Organic Coffee & Roasting House on June 6, 2017 by segariniFrank Gutch Jr: The Forgotten Past, Recent and Otherwise; Plus a Few (Very Few) Notes
Posted in Opinion with tags Cowboy, crooked numbers, Dan Phelps, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Frank Gutch Jr., Greg Laswell, Heartsfield, hymn for her, Indie Artists, Indie Music, jess Pillmore, Jim Greenwood, Joseph LeMay, Keith Morris, King Wilkie, Lavacado, licorice pizza, Love Wounds & Mars, music videos, randy burns, Records, Research Turtles, segarini, Seventeen Acres, Son of Man, Ted Pitney, Teddy & The Roosevelts, Waylo9n Jennings on August 5, 2014 by segarini
Joseph LeMay‘s album Seventeen Acres has been out how long? Three months? I wrote about it in an earlier DBAWIS column and have barely mentioned it since. I have to wonder why. I love some of the songs on that album and like everything about it. It is beautifully recorded, masterfully produced and mastered and, even more important, made up of outstanding songs. And yet I push it into the past. So I started thinking— how does that happen?
Frank Gutch Jr: The Rain, The Park And Other Things I Didn’t Know About The Cowsills But Wish I Had; Top Albums of 2014, Thus Far; and Notes
Posted in Opinion with tags Bill Cowsill, Bob Segarini, Burning River Ramblers, Chris and Gileah, Claire Holley, Dan Phelps, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Frank Gutch Jr., Howie Wahlen, Indie Artists, Indie Music, Joseph LeMay, music, No Small Children, radio, Records, Sage Run, The Blue Shadows, The Cowsills, Waddy Wachtel, Zoe Muth on June 10, 2014 by segariniIt is time to eat some words and I do so with remorse. Those words, spoken when I was young and somewhat foolish and also feeling a bit immortal, I suppose, were tossed at The Cowsills and other groups and artists I found somewhat wanting in terms of musical output. They were pointed at a string of what I would call “manufactured” bands— those whose music supposedly came from the hit makers— I called it Hollywood music back then. The Monkees took a big hit, the band put together not really for music but for TV.
Frank Gutch Jr: New Albums: Lost Leaders, Zoe Muth, Chris & Gileah, Joseph LeMay, and Others; and Voluminarious Notes (there will be a quiz)!!!
Posted in Opinion with tags Beth Wimmer, Byron Isaacs, Chris and Gileah, DBAWIS, Devon Sproule, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Emily Gary, Frank Gutch Jr., FriendSlashLover, glass harp, Goodnight Songs, Harry Marte & Big Pit, Indie Artists, Indie Music, Jennifer Hall, Jonah Tolchin, Joseph LeMay, Jubal Lee Young, Klaatu, Lost Leaders, Margaret Wise Brown, music videos, Paul Curreri, Peter Cole, Records, Sam Morrow, Shaun Cromwell, Steve Young, Terrye Newkirk, The Carpenters, The Sidewalk Scene, The Soundcarriers, Tom Proutt, Yep Roc Records, Zoe Muth on April 29, 2014 by segariniIf this was a real job, I would have been fired long ago. I spent a whole day and night piecing together the research for this weeks column which was intended to be fun and games with radio charts because, man, when you get into them (especially the ones from the fifties and sixties), they are fun as hell and, boy, the tricks you have to know to understand them, but once again things came along to kick the idea to the curb. It happens every week, swear to God, so I took a little trip down computer lane and counted the columns and column ideas I have started and not finished and it came to 27. The good thing is that I still have 27 ideas set aside for future columns. The bad news is that I haven’t worked on any one of them since. Sigh.