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Wrong-Eyed Jesus (The Mysterious Tale Of How I Shouted)
''The Mysterious Tale of How I Shouted "Wrong-Eyed Jesus"'' is an album by Jim White, released in 1997. The album was the inspiration for the 2003 documentary film, '' Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus''. Track list #"Book of Angels" – 4:55 #"Burn the River Dry" – 5:00 #"Still Waters" – 6:36 #"When Jesus Gets a Brand New Name " – 5:17 #"Sleepy-Town" – 5:38 #"A Perfect Day to Chase Tornados" – 6:07 #"Wordmule" – 4:28 #"Stabbed in the Heart" – 4:26 #"Angel-Land" – 5:26 #"Heaven of My Heart" – 4:35 #"The Road That Leads to Heaven" – 9:05 Personnel * Julia Albert – vocals, background vocals * Eddie Baytos – accordion * Ralph Carney – clarinet, harmonica, musical saw, saxophone, slide clarinet, trombone * Pam Corkey – background vocals * Bill Elm – guitar, pedal steel * Danny Frankel – drums, percussion * Joe Henry – guitar, background vocals * James Kreig – background vocals * David Piltch – bass * Paul Rabjohns – guitar, keyboards, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim White (guitarist)
Michael Davis Pratt (born March 9, 1957), known professionally as Jim White, is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, visual artist and author. Early life White was born in California but moved to Pensacola, Florida at the age of 5. He was deeply influenced in his childhood by the spectacle of Pentecostal religion and gospel music. According to various sources, he has been a ditch digger, a suntan oil salesman, a landscaper, a dishwasher, a fry cook, a fashion model, a fashion photographer, a professional surfer and a New York City cab driver. Before embarking on a music career, White attended film school at New York University. Soon after finishing his lengthy thesis at the university, White entered a self-described "deep hole of sickness and depression and poverty". It was during this period that White began writing songs again after a long hiatus, many of which would appear on his debut album ''Wrong Eyed Jesus'', released by David Byrne's boutique label Luaka Bop. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Henry
Joseph Lee Henry (born December 2, 1960) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer. He has released 15 studio albums and produced multiple recordings for other artists, including three Grammy Award-winning albums. Early life Henry was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, the state where his parents, whom he described as devout Christians, were also from. He grew up in Oakland Township, Michigan, and attended Rochester Community Schools. He graduated from Rochester Adams High School, then graduated from the University of Michigan. Career 1985 to 2005 Henry moved to Brooklyn, New York in 1985 and began performing in local music venues. He released his first album ''Talk of Heaven'' in 1986. The album earned him a recording contract with A&M, which subsequently released the albums ''Murder of Crows'' in 1989 and ''Shuffletown'' in 1990. ''Shuffletown,'' produced by T Bone Burnett, represented a shift in musical direction towards the " alt country" genre. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Breaking Bad
''Breaking Bad'' is an American crime drama television series created and produced by Vince Gilligan for AMC (TV channel), AMC. Set and filmed in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the series follows Walter White (Breaking Bad), Walter White (Bryan Cranston), an over-qualified, dispirited high-school chemistry teacher struggling with a recent diagnosis of Cancer staging, stage-three lung cancer. White turns to a life of crime and partners with a former student, Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), to produce and distribute methamphetamine to secure his family's financial future before he dies, while navigating the dangers of the criminal underworld. The series also stars Anna Gunn, Dean Norris, RJ Mitte, Betsy Brandt, Giancarlo Esposito, Jonathan Banks, and Bob Odenkirk. ''Breaking Bad'' Pilot (Breaking Bad), premiered on AMC on January 20, 2008, and Felina (Breaking Bad), concluded on September 29, 2013, after List of Breaking Bad episodes, five seasons consisting of 62 episodes. ''Breaking Bad' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blood Money (Breaking Bad)
"Blood Money" is the ninth episode of the fifth season of the American television drama series ''Breaking Bad'', and the 55th overall episode of the series. Written by Peter Gould and directed by Bryan Cranston, it aired on AMC in the United States and Canada on August 11, 2013, as the midseason premiere. For his performance in the episode, Dean Norris was called "Performer of the Week" by ''TVLine''. Plot In a flashforward, a disheveled Walter White arrives at his abandoned, dilapidated, and fenced-off house. He enters and sees "HEISENBERG" spray-painted on the living room wall. He witnesses teenagers skateboarding in his empty pool in the backyard, and retrieves the hidden vial of ricin from his bedroom. As he leaves, he greets his former neighbor, Carol, who is shocked by his presence. In the present, Hank Schrader reels from finding Gale Boetticher's handwritten dedication in Walt's copy of ''Leaves of Grass''. Realizing that his brother-in-law was Heisenberg all along ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Jam
''Blue Jam'' was an ambient, surreal dark comedy and horror radio programme created and directed by Chris Morris. It was broadcast on BBC Radio 1 in the early hours of the morning, for three series from 1997 to 1999. The programme gained cult status due to its unique mix of surreal monologue, ambient soundtrack, synthesised voices, heavily edited broadcasts and recurring sketches. It featured vocal performances of Kevin Eldon, Julia Davis, Mark Heap, David Cann and Amelia Bullmore, with Morris himself delivering disturbing monologues, one of which was revamped and made into the BAFTA-winning short film '' My Wrongs #8245–8249 & 117''. Writers who contributed to the programme included Graham Linehan, Arthur Mathews, Peter Baynham, David Quantick, Jane Bussmann, Robert Katz and the cast. The programme was adapted into the TV series ''Jam'', which aired in 2000. Production On his inspiration for making the show, Morris commented: "It was so singular, and it came from a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria Williams
Victoria Williams (born December 23, 1958) is an American singer, songwriter and musician, originally from Shreveport, Louisiana, United States, although she has resided in Southern California throughout her musical career. Diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in the early 1990s, Williams was the catalyst for the Sweet Relief Musicians Fund. Biography Williams was born in Shreveport, Louisiana. In 1986, she worked with then-husband Peter Case on his debut album, following a year later with her own debut, '' Happy Come Home'', produced by Anton Fier, with an accompanying 28 minute documentary by D. A. Pennebaker. In 1990, she released ''Swing the Statue''. She also often appeared onstage and on record with the band Giant Sand. In 1993, she acted in Gus Van Sant's '' Even Cowgirls Get the Blues'', Van Sant also made the video for "Tarbelly and Featherfoot". In early 1992, as Williams' career was beginning to take off, she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Because she did not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Tillman
Martin Tillman (born 6 November 1964) is a Swiss cellist and composer. Biography Tillman was born in Zürich, Switzerland, in 1964. He arrived in the US in 1988. He has since performed/composed on numerous films, television shows, commercials and international tours. While receiving a master's degree in performance from the University of Southern California in 1989, he studied with Lynn Harrell. Tillman lives in Los Angeles. Tillman wrote the score to the next Morgan Freeman-Clive Owen film ''Last Knights'' together with Satnam Ramgotra. He also scored the smartphone app movie ''Haunting Melissa 2: Dark Hearts'' and currently doing the score for ''A Bell For Ursli''. For his previous solo composition, "A Year in Zurich" he performed both cello and piano. Preceding collaborative albums include: ''Eastern Twin'' (Rounders) and ''Cinematic Volunteer'' composed and produced by both Tillman and Tom Vedvik. ''The Poet'', which was composed by Michael Hoppe, cello solos performed by T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Piltch
David Piltch (born January 29, 1960) is a Canadian bassist and session musician. Biography Piltch grew up in an artistic family. His father Bernie Piltch was a noted studio and stage saxophonist, clarinetist and flutist in Toronto from the late '40s to the early '80s. His older brother Robert is a recording guitarist, and his sister Susan plays flute and piano. Beginning at age 17, Piltch supported jazz musicians performing at Toronto's Bourbon Street club, including Chet Baker, Art Pepper, Zoot Sims, and Mose Allison. He also accompanied his brother or father at recording sessions and gigs. In 1979, Piltch recorded and toured with Blood, Sweat & Tears. In 1983, Piltch formed the trio Strangeness Beauty with Ron Allen (saxophone) and Mike Sloski (drums). Before Piltch left the trio in 1983, they recorded one album: ''Back to Nowhere''. In the 1980s, Piltch toured and/or recorded with Mary Margaret O'Hara, Holly Cole, and k.d. lang. Piltch moved to southern California in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Carney
Ralph Carney (January 23, 1956 – December 17, 2017) was an American multi-instrumentalist, singer and composer. While his primary instruments were various saxophones and clarinets, Carney also collected and played many instruments, often unusual or obscure ones. He is best known for his long association with Tom Waits and for his collaboration on the theme song for ''BoJack Horseman'', along with his nephew Patrick Carney. Early years Carney was born and grew up in Akron, Ohio, and listened to music on a windup record player. He was the youngest of three siblings. His father, William Carney, worked in polyester research for Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., headquartered in Akron. Ralph Carney showed an early interest in art, but turned to music in the eighth grade. He started learning five string banjo, violin, and harmonica and played bluegrass and country blues. His father, as well as his mother, Madge Carney, encouraged his interest in music. At age 15 he started to play sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Americana (music)
Americana (also known as American roots music) is an amalgam of Music of the United States, American music formed by the confluence of the shared and varied traditions that make up the musical ethos of the United States of America, with particular emphasis on music historically developed in the Southern United States, American South. Definition The term "Americana music" was defined by the Americana Music Association (AMA) in 2020 as "…the rich threads of Country music, country, Folk music, folk, blues, Soul music, soul, Bluegrass music, bluegrass, Gospel music, gospel, and Rock and roll, rock in our tapestry." A previous 2016 AMA definition of the genre included rhythm and blues, with additional comments that Americana music results "in a distinctive roots-oriented sound that lives in a world apart from the pure forms of the genres upon which it may draw. While acoustic instruments are often present and vital, Americana also often uses a full electric band." History Prehi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Variety (magazine)
''Variety'' is an American trade magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation. It was founded by Sime Silverman in New York City in 1905 as a weekly newspaper reporting on theater and vaudeville. In 1933, ''Daily Variety'' was launched, based in Los Angeles, to cover the film industry, motion-picture industry. ''Variety'' website features entertainment news, reviews, box office results, plus a credits database, production charts and film calendar. History Founding ''Variety'' has been published since December 16, 1905, when it was launched by Sime Silverman as a weekly periodical covering theater and vaudeville, with its headquarters in New York City. Silverman had been fired by ''The Morning Telegraph'' in 1905 for panning an act which had taken out an advert for $50. He subsequently decided to start his own publication that, he said, would "not be influenced by advertising." With a loan of $1,500 from his father-in-law, he launched ''Variety'' as publisher and editor. In additi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Searching For The Wrong-Eyed Jesus
''Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus'' is a 2003 documentary film about the American South starring Jim White. Commissioned by the BBC, it documents the intersection of country music and Christianity in the United States. It was inspired by White's similarly titled album '' The Mysterious Tale of How I Shouted Wrong-Eyed Jesus''. The film was directed and photographed by Andrew Douglas, written by Steve Haisman, and edited by Michael Elliot. It was executive-produced by Steve Golin and Anthony Wall, and features the music of Jim White, Johnny Dowd, The Handsome Family, David Eugene Edwards of 16 Horsepower, Rev. Gary Howlington, The Singing Hall Sisters, David Johansen, Melissa Swingle and Lee Sexton. It also features the author Harry Crews. Music Jim White Presents: Music from ''Searching For the Wrong-Eyed Jesus'' In 2005, an official soundtrack to the film was released, containing the following songs. ;Wrong Eyed Jesus Official Soundtrack See also *Southern Gothic *Ameri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
