Cary speaking here: Interests include yoga (vinyassa, flow, anusara), health and fitness, progressive politics, collecting 45 and 78 RPM records, midcentury modern architecture, contemporary art, the big city, the desert, the South, juke joints and the chitlin circuit (including the cool posters, black cat bones, mojos too, and John the Conqueroos), indie films, and all the music below...
To all who work in this business we call music, please come in and make yourself at home. Just be sure to wipe your feet.
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Heroes: Muddy Waters, Bob Dylan, Hank Williams Sr./III, Cheap Trick, Magic Sam, Miles Davis, Jonathan Richman, Ray Davies/The Kinks, PJ Harvey, Bobby Fuller, Bob Marley, Dan Hicks, Mott the Hoople, Roxy Music, Nirvana, James Brown, Jerry Lee Lewis, Pere Ubu, Jim White, NRBQ, Blind Arvella Gray, Arthur Lee/Love, Al Green, The Byrds, Billy Joe Shaver, Curtis Mayfield, Loudon Wainwright III, New York Dolls, Solomon Burke, Dave Alvin, Marshall Crenshaw, R.E.M. (the I.R.S. years), the dB's/Sneakers, R.L. Burnside, Alejandro Escovedo, Howlin' Wolf, Wilco, Johnny Cash, Shoes, James McMurtry, Sun Ra, Jim Lauderdale, Big Star, Steve Earle, Booker T & the MGs, The Shins, Leonard Cohen, Robert Johnson, MC5, Randy Newman, Lowell Fulson, Rodney Crowell, X/John Doe, Otis Rush, Neil Young, Charlie Rich, Lou Reed, Cat Power, Townes Van Zandt, Otis Redding, Tom Waits, Son House, The Fleshtones, Little Milton, Frank Zappa, The White Stripes, Bobby Rush, The Bangles, Isaac Hayes, Son Volt, Daniel Johnston, Sarah Borges, Thee Midniters, Jimmy Reed, Thelonious Monk, The Strokes, Dandy Warhols, Amos Milburn, New Colony Six, A Band of Bees, Television, Bobby Womack, Big Bill Broonzy, Paula Frazer, English Beat, Lou Reed, ELO/The Move, Esquerita, Delbert McClinton, Elmore James, The Monkees, T-Bone Walker, Zero 7, Lucinda Williams, Richard Thompson, Sloane, Lightnin'; Hopkins, Michelle Shocked, Ric Menck, Moby, Leroy Carr, the Allman Brothers, Charley Patton, Dave Alvin, Amy Winehouse, Steve Goodman, Aerosmith, Hasil Adkins, The Ramones, The Move/ELO, William Bell, Robbie Fulks, Bud Powell, Allen Toussaint, Dan Penn, Matthew Sweet, Peter Case/The Nerves, James Jamerson, The Beastie Boys, Nick Lowe, Syl Johnson, Steve Wynn, Roy Head, Junior Wells, Guyville-era Liz Phair, Wazmo Nariz, the Del-Vetts, everybody on 'Nuggets,' and most anything on the Chess, Vee-Jay, Bea & Baby, Cobra, Sun, Sundazed, Stax, Excello, Dunwich, Bomp, I.R.S., Slash or Norton labels.
Music-related films that struck an autobiographical and/or otherwise emotional chord: "High Fidelity," "Almost Famous", "Ghost World," "This Is Spinal Tap," "Deep Blues," "Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus." Also: "The Slipping Down Life," "Mystery Train," "New York Doll," "The Mayor of Sunset Strip" and "Devil and Daniel Johnston" (now on DVD -- rent this!)
"Real Time with Bill Maher," "The Daily Show," "Colbert Report," "Countdown with Keith Olbermann," "Curb Your Enthusiasm," "Flight of the Conchords" almost anything on HGTV.
At work on two of them now.
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My hero: Blind Arvella Gray on Maxwell Street, Chicago, circa 1970.