To celebrate the publication of the first section of my second novel, “Run Chicken Run,” at storySouth, here are some of the songs that inspired it: Link Wray’s “Vendetta,” “The Fuzz,” “Pancho Villa” and Link’s best vocal track, “Hidden Charms.” Like so many things in my creative life, Link provided the drive and soundtrack to this project, which is still ongoing. Now that there’s an excerpt published, though, I should probably get back to work on this novel; it can’t be the forever forthcoming novel forever. Endless thanks to editors Terry L. Kennedy and Drew Perry for taking a chance on it and for their careful reading and edits. Time for some fuzz:
Archive for September, 2011
my Link Wray-inspired novel
Posted in Music, Writing, tagged dude, fuzzy guitars, instrumental rock and roll, Link Wray, literary magazines, music, music writing, novel-in-progress, reverb, Run Chicken Run, storySouth, surf music, wicked awesome on September 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Fuzz guitars
Posted in Music, tagged Australian music, grunge, music, Pacific Northwest, The Scientists, wicked awesome on September 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
To celebrate the release of Mark Yarm‘s epic book, Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge, and my review of it for Paste magazine, here’s The Scientists’ epic swamp dirge blues, a taste of the Australian sound that fueled Mudhoney’s and so many more after:
