Mon, 9 March 2009  Podcast 14
of the Featured Band: American Zen "I Want You To Love Me"Recorded and completed during his eviction from Tujunga, Coyote had no time to wait for bandmates on this 3rd album of American Zen, so he recorded all the instruments and vocals by himself. This is Coyote's first album as a drummer. No longer battling the Utah Mormons, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Coyote has been free to pursue love again. So he did--and failed. Since love never has a happy ending, this album is a love story--a quickie love story. Without enough time to write his normal amount of Coyote bitter ballads and lusty love letters, unreleased songs from the past fill in the spaces of this untold love story. This romance inspired Coyote's newest form of poetry, "Bass Poetry." All the poetry on LEVEL 3 has at least one bass guitar in the background. The first poem, "My Lesbian Neighbors," has Coyote mimicking his spoken words on his 1959 Rickenbacker bass as if it were a commercial or movie soundtrack. All the poetry bass tracks were recorded in the order they sit on the album, so an evolution can be heard as Coyote wrote and performed the songs on the album in their album order, all in one night. The poem, "1,000 Sorrows For A Love," is an especially unique poem. It isn't even a poem. It's a love letter. Actually, a love email. While searching through his journals and floppy disks. Yes, floppy disks. 1.1MB floppies--the biggest! We had to pull our floppy drive out of the attic to download these emails which contained romantic poems from Coyote to Lara. All the songs on this album had been performed for audiences except for, "I Just Want To Be With You." This song has a driving rhythm similar to songs by Eddie Cochran, who wrote, "Summertime Blues." But this had been written to a prior girlfriend and Coyote wanted to change the words to really "get into it." So, when it came time to record the song, Coyote rewrote all the lyrics, taped them up on the wall in his Tujunga living room recording studio and sung them for the first time. What we end up with is a "Shopping List for Coyote's Next Girlfriend." This may not be the girl you're looking for, but Coyote specifies exactly what he wants--in one song, "I Just Want To Be With You." FEATURED SONGS:"I Just Want To Be With You" "House Of Rejection" "1,000 Sorrows For A Love" bass poem INTRO & OUTRO MUSIC:"Thank You" BACKGROUND MUSIC SCORE:"Thank You" "In Dreams" "Patience" All American Zen songs are written by The Hippy Coyote. FEATURED LINKS:SonicBids Website: SonicBids.com/americanzenfeaturingthehippycoyote Podcast ARCHIVES: http://folkrockpodcast.libsyn.com Comments[3] |
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