Love this era of James Ferraro. You're right, I'd never particularly thought about him as singer-songwriter, but he does do things which are in that vein every now and then. This one soundtracked a particularly bleak hot summer when I'd just moved to NYC. A lot in common with singer-songwriter land, almost a chopped n screwed version of it.2009
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I don't know 70s folk land very well but to my mind the thing that Neil Young did well in that period was pushing the limits of that folk structure. Might be wrong but I don't know if there was much else that sounded like On The Beach (the song) in 1975. Apart from slowing things down and playing quite loose, his voice is shitty unpleasant reedy enough to qualify as an experiment for the time.
Yeah love that one too. I wish he'd start singing again. It seemed like for a while the next album would be a take on middle america in the same way the other two albums approached NYC and LA, but that might be lost now. I dreamed of a return to the plastic cowboy last american hero sound but with added autotune crooningLove this era of James Ferraro. You're right, I'd never particularly thought about him as singer-songwriter, but he does do things which are in that vein every now and then. This one soundtracked a particularly bleak hot summer when I'd just moved to NYC. A lot in common with singer-songwriter land, almost a chopped n screwed version of it.
yeah. it was only those two, the skid row one and the nyc 3am one, that i ever got into. the singing was key for me. although i never went back into the discography before that i think.Yeah love that one too. I wish he'd start singing again. It seemed like for a while the next album would be a take on middle america in the same way the other two albums approached NYC and LA, but that might be lost now. I dreamed of a return to the plastic cowboy last american hero sound but added autotune crooning