A few months ago my friend singer/songwriter John Darnielle, leader of the Mountain Goats, challenged me on Facebook to a meme where you had to name the ten songs you couldn’t bear to be without, and explain why. Here’s my list (with links to the songs, where possible, from my blip.fm playlist):
….but now you have. If you like artists like Tom Petty, Springsteen, Dylan, Neil Young, The Byrds and early R.E.M., you will like this music. I am not steering you wrong here.
Bill Mallonee/Vigilantes of Love Bio Quotes:
Athens, Ga.
Americana/Folk-Rock/Rock/Folk
-Review Quotes-
Bill Mallonee: #65 in Paste Magazine’s “100 Greatest Living Songwriter’s” Poll
“The poetry and intelligence of Bill Mallonee’s [...]
This must be why mystics and poets record /
The slender incursions of splintered light, /
Echoes, fragments, odd words and phrases /
Like flashes through darkened hallways. - Rod Jellema