Music:
Member Since: 11/29/2005
Band Website: cdbaby.com/cd/cdepp
Band Members: C. Depp (words/music/voice/banjer), Andrew Malenda (producer, guitar & keys, ebow, vocal pitch correction), lispector (keys & singing on "Don't Talk to Strangers" & "Trés trop triste"), Aubierge Desalme (words/singing on "Central parc"), Greg Lisi (live guitar), James Mason (live guitar on "I Fall to Pieces"), Janet Do (Jersey City years cello), Kristen Girard (sometime drummer), Matt Depp (voice & keys on "Best Friends Forever"), Shadow (cat voice), Kaitlyn & Brannen Depp (children voice on "Two Red Eyes" & "Scary Monster House"), Chloe Danger McCall (singing on "Christmas in Elgin," "O'Jesus" and the 'Discovery School' sessions), Meesie (cat shoulder backups), Mattie Holmes (keys on "Raised in Barns"); Ability to use good judgment and follow through independently within the boundaries of one's own authority.
Influences: The Carter Family, Billie Holiday, Cat Power, Robert Pollard, George Jones, Hank Williams, Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Louis Armstrong, Townes Van Zandt, John Lennon, Willie Nelson, Guided by Voices, Chet Baker, Ernest Tubb, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, New Order, Beat Happening, M. Ward, Nina Simone, Andrew Malenda, lispector, Supremes, Joy Division, Police, Ono, Gainsbourg, Keren Ann, Smiths, Cure, B-52s, Aretha, Jimmy Scott, Sade, Smashing Pumpkins, R.E.M., Elliott Smith, Faye Wong (Wong Fei), Teddy Wilson, Stereolab, Sonic Youth, Cocteau Twins, Radiohead, Dinah Washington, early Sarah Vaughan, Cole Porter, Miles Davis, Angelo Badalamenti, Philip Glass, Jesus, black Spider-man, 1st album by le Tigre, Beatles, Tom Waits, Daniel Johnston, Danny & the Nightmares, Groucho Marx, George Strait, Gene Autry, Fiddlin' John Carson, Matt Kinman, Charlie Poole, Earl Scruggs, the great Bill Monroe, Smokey Robinson, Ray Charles, Johnny Cash, Make-Up, Beck, Piaf, Maurice Chevalier, Coltrane, Calvin Johnson, Interpol, Aaron Neville, early Liz Phair, Coldplay, Dale Watson, Tori Amos' "Boys for Pele," Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Gerald Jay King, Lisa Ekdahl, the Need, Cibo Matto, Jonny McGovern, MetalMags, Eno, Roulette Sisters, les Chauds Lapins, Anilore, late Invisible Friend, Morrissey, Sinead O'Connor, Pulp's "Separations," Hal Hartley, James Taylor, Patsy Cline, JLo's "This is Me... Then," Billy Joel, Aeron & Alejandra, Tchaikovsky, Debussy, George Winston, Kraftwerk, Marvin Gaye, Francoiz Breut, Jonathan Richman, some Daho, Doors, Henri Salvador, late Smog/Bill Callahan, Bill Monroe, Dolly Parton, George Strait, solo Bruce Springsteen, Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom, scary Richard Marx songs, Elizabeth Cotten, Highwaymen 1st album, Bob Seger's "Against the Wind," Woody Allen, Julie Doucet, Lynda Barry, Nan Goldin, Kids in the Hall, Kurt Vonnegut, Judy Blume, Thurston Moore, Violent Femmes, Temptations, Twin Peaks, My So-Called Life, Thirtysomething, red red wine, Stefan Johansson, Diane Barcelowsky, most Pixies, late Nirvana, McGolrick Park, cats, novena candles, bike rides, street lamps, babysitting, drawing monsters, heineken, lone star light, karaoke, glasses, libraries, walking, pine trees, platanes (american sycamores), questions, Langston Hughes, Amos Tutuola, early & late Robert Wilson, Christopher Knowles, Saint Mark's Place, Saint Sulpice, Ginny's Little Longhorn Saloon, Carousel Lounge (Austin), rollerskating, the old Ole Homestead bar on 1st ave & 6th st, grackles, Jing Yu paintings, Unsolved Mysteries, Cobra Commander, Dark Heart, Oychir, Hong Kong, Shanghai, irish people, crayola magic markers, ciggies, fabric markers, ouija, letterpress, showcards, Greenpoint, steak tartar, Coronas with lime, Marquise Dance Hall record shop, wranglers, pizza parties, chipotle salsa, patches on jeans, coming-of-age fiction, Encyclopedia Brown, coffee, tea, digital photography, new york city (mostly), dead people, gossiping, wondering, dreaming, singing...
Sounds Like: A.P. Carter watching "The Kids in the Hall" alone drunk on Lone Star beers; Townes Van Zandt riding his bike in Greenpoint at night past McGolrick parc; Cat Power & Robert Pollard filtered thru nights spent listening to Billie Holiday one step ahead of the police report; Daniel Johnston & Christopher Knowles heard as ghosts singing through a ouija planchette shaped like a banjo head; Gerald Jay King when he was in high school; Brannen Thomas McBabjerk as an adult-ed musicologist; Amos Tutuola as read by Langston Hughes in the late 1980s Long Island, an episode of "G.I. Joe" featuring Cobra Commander on the background teevee set playing low...
Record Label: Wrangler / Lone Star Light
Type of Label: Major
