Listen to "Dawning on Me." I had the pleasure of recently interviewing Ken Stringfellow, best known for his band The Posies, but also a touring member of R.E.M. and part of the revived (1993–2010) line-up of Big Star, and this song is really about the latter band. It's stylistically influenced by their acoustic ballads (like "Thirteen," thus the wording of the second line of Continue Reading …
NEM #39: Ken Stringfellow: Posies, Big Star, etc.
Ken put out five sparkly/grungy albums with the Posies from '88 to '98 (and three more recently), played in the live version of Big Star starting in '93, played in the touring band for R.E.M., released several solo records and collaborations including two with a band called The Disciplines, toured as a singer for Marky Ramone, has acted as producer and engineer for many Continue Reading …
Partially Naked Self-Examination Music Blog, Week 13
In honor of the death of one of my biggest musical influences, Alex Chilton, here's me from the summer of '94 performing his Big Star song "The Ballad of El Goodo" in an Ann Arbor coffee house. I've digitized it and done my best here with a heap of processing to mitigate the fact that the guitar was recorded too loud as compared to the vocal. I discovered Big Star some time Continue Reading …