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r caruso

About Me

songs inspired by mortality, mountains, myth, politics, religion, philosophy, literature, and the destruction of nature. i have about twenty or so original songs recorded, all in various stages of completion. more to come...

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Member Since: 24/02/2007
Band Members: r caruso: guitar, banjo, bass, mandolin, harmonica, vocals, rickenbacker, random animal sounds, and a little kung fu...
Influences: good people, living and not. might as well add: my family, grandfather stalking wolf and the spirit of wild nature herself. j.d. salinger and edward abbey. and, last but not least, henry david thoreau...
Sounds Like: one hand, clapping.
Record Label: r caruso
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

roads

For a time I remain at my hermitage, and then am off again.   The spirits of the road beckoned, and I could do no work at all.             &n...
Posted by on Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:10:00 GMT

spider-man

sooo... if peter parker was bitten by a radioactive spider and, thus, became "spider-man", would it not almost logically follow suit that if peter parker randomly bit people, they would also gain...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:59:00 GMT

weather

The autumn moon-- I roamed around the pond all night long.                          --Basho ...
Posted by on Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:13:00 GMT

brave cowboy

There is a valley in the west where phantoms come to brood and mourn, pale phantoms, dying of nostalgia and bitterness.  You can hear them shivering, chattering, amoung the leaves of the old dry ...
Posted by on Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:42:00 GMT

the progress of the seasons...

I am like a sick man tired of people, or someone weary of the world.  What is there to say? A morning glory on the fence of my gate, shut all day.         ...
Posted by on Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:15:00 GMT

crows.

on a withered branch a crow has settled- autumn nightfall.                          &nb...
Posted by on Sun, 19 Oct 2008 18:15:00 GMT

holiday

sooooooo..... i am on holiday.  ten days with no plans, no distractions.  intentions are as follows: -climb a mountain -see the ocean -and whatever else happens...   p.s.- regardless of...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Sep 2008 02:22:00 GMT

ed abbey

"Song from the City" (from the journals of edward abbey)   There is a columbine that blooms by a natural spring; it has the brave, heartbreaking beauty of any wild and lovely thing. Under a desol...
Posted by on Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:30:00 GMT

Leaves of Grass

"THIS IS WHAT YOU SHALL DO" [Walt Whitman]: Love the earth and sun and the animals.  Stand up for the stupid and crazy.  Take off your hat to no man." Beautiful...
Posted by on Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:34:00 GMT

strange bird done flown away...

kevin, the errant crow, has flown the coup.  he will be missed... "Underneath the surface appearance, everything is not only connected with everything else, but also with the Source of life out o...
Posted by on Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:31:00 GMT