Birthed in the Great Lakes and taken root in the Carolina Piedmont, Sound of Singles performs songs of desolation and lonliness on broken down instruments.Buy "Dead Dog on the Road" @ CD Baby
Member Since: 10/11/2005
Band Website: sevenandt.com
Band Members: Gerald John -- voice & instruments with help from various friends
Influences: Old Time Country, Scandinavian Folk, Puerto Rican Heavy Metal, Bob Seger, Tom Waits, and...Calexico, Seu Jorge, Kris Kristofferson, Alan Stivell, Swans, Bauhaus, Bascom Lamar Lunsford, Junior Kimbrough, Cabaret Voltaire, Waylon Jennings, In the Year of the Pig, Alejandro Escovedo, Martin Carthy, Joy Division, Cat Power, Palace Music, Steeleye Span, Harry Partch, Kelly Hogan, Son Volt, Billy Joe Shaver, Einsturzende Neubauten, Nick Cave, Ale Moller, The Cure, Hunting Lodge (MI), Willard Grant Conspiracy, Mum, Iron & Wine, Brian Eno, Test Dept., Velvet Underground, Papa Cairo, Charlie Poole, Let's Active, Ryan Adams, William S. Burroughs, Emmylou Harris, Sparklehorse, Califone, The Virgin Prunes, Fred Eaglesmith, Iron Maiden, Explosions in the Sky, Elton John, Daniel Lanois, Butthole Surfers, Buddy Miller, Aaron Smithers, SPK, Arthur Alexander, Akron/Family, Milton Brown, Martin Carthy, TapeOp, Celia Cruz
Sounds Like: Dusted Magazine says "Plodding and Morose"
The Indy says "Go Christian Marclay on your country 45s, splicing fragments of drone and noise like intercalary abstraction into rustic old grooves. Melt it together, and let the sun warp it into a crisp: Only then would the sound of singles approximate Chapel Hill's country-cleaving Sound of Singles"
Screaming Bloody Mess says "Gerald J. Schoenherr gives two Bob Seger songs a crack. There ain’t no Silver Bullet Band involvement but he does a good job particularly on the B side ‘Beautiful Loser’, the title song from Seger’s more reflective 1975 record. I’ve heard that the original concept of this song came from a Leonard Cohen line, and like Cohen, Schoenherr has the vocals that bring a sense of loneliness and despair that the original was all about. Just his voice and a slight harmonica with guitar makes for a sparse and sullen feel. It’s good."I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V3.6 !
Record Label: 7 inches and the Truth
Type of Label: Indie