From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V13 #176 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Sunday, December 6 2009 Volume 13 : Number 176 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [AVALON] Devendra Banhart [Simon Galloway Subject: Re: [AVALON] Devendra Banhart Ah! That'll be the song that sounds like Love Is The Drug in the first minute or so. http://www.indieshuffle.com/?p=2281 Simon > ------------------------------ > > Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:40:27 -0500 > From: ameyersld@aol.com > Subject: [AVALON] Devendra Banhart > > Hey All! > Sorry to interrupt the bickering, but I have a curious bit of news for you > all. > > Devendra Banhart, noted Freak-Folk singer, has put out a song called "16th > and > Valencia Roxy Music." > > Now, I have never really liked Devendra Banhart. > Too self-obsessed, too whiny, too much resemblance to Mike Myers in "The > Love > Guru." > But this is a great song. > > It sounds like he's been listening to "Country Life" and "Stranded". > (Plus, it doesn't sound like Devendra Banhart!) > > Usually, when an artist has been listening to Roxy Music, they end up > imitating the less endearing features of the Mr Ferry's vocals. > But DB seems to have been channeling Mssr's Manzanera and Thompson. > Check it out. > > Cheers from Chicago, where it has started to snow.... > - --Andrew In Chicago > > > Andrew Meyers, Lighting Designer > P.O.Box 6069 > Evanston, Illinois 60204 > (773) 412-0893 > AMeyersLD@aol.com > > Chicago * Milwaukee * The World ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V13 #176 ***************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest