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The Early Electric

About Me

The Early Electric - the singer-songwriterliness of Adam Crothers under a name taken from Paul Muldoon's 'The Electric Orchard' - plays songs that feature hummingbirds, ghosts, diamonds, pirates, horses, weathervanes and, quite often, the C chord.


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Member Since: 7/29/2007
Band Members: On the recordings, Adam Crothers does the singing and the rhythm-guitar-type bits, and Mike Boursnell does anything that sounds complicated. The current live situation is essentially Adam and whoever happens to be nearby and holding an instrument.
Influences: Cat Power, Mississippi John Hurt, Townes Van Zandt and the way you smile.
Sounds Like: Many words and not as many chords.
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

I gave my guitar to Miss Rosie (NEW SONG)

There's a new song on my profile, and it is indeed quite new (rather than just being new to the profile, you see...).  It's called 'Quit Your Selfish Ways', and the version posted is the sec...
Posted by on Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:34:00 GMT

Friend requests

I am so embarrassingly behind on the MySpace front - I just haven't had the time - and this is mainly a message to anyone who has friend-requested me in the last couple of months and hasn't ...
Posted by on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:57:00 GMT

Underwater metal

Further updating today. A slightly brighter mix of the electric 'Magpie Song' is now up, as is 'Won't Find Me Crying' (though I've omitted the first word because the MySpace player is no friend of ap...
Posted by on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 05:52:00 GMT

They all want to be Dylan

I've added four new songs. Two of them are from last week's recording session with Mike Boursnell. 'Fireflies' is actually called 'Fireflies And The Second Shot', but long titles look ugly in the My...
Posted by on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:25:00 GMT

A new haunt

Yes, well, it's all a bit bare and spooky here at the moment, and this blog post amounts to little more than noisy chattering in an attempt to ignore the strange creak of the attic floorboards and the...
Posted by on Sun, 29 Jul 2007 09:35:00 GMT