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About Me

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drawler &copy is the new dark folk &copydrawler = songs of loss drawler = songs of longing drawler = recorded raw. recorded wreckedALL MATERIAL HERE IS COPYRIGHT. THAT INCLUDES SONG LYRICS, MUSIC AND PHOTOGRAPHY.photography &copy francis macneil ************************************************************ *****SONGS OF drawler ON MYSPACE***********************this page**************************** NEW relax back to none NEW a gentle demo sketch for a song about overcoming things...or not. may become a brawth song(?).all kinds of never autoharp time again! its been too long. based on the conceit of things never being or getting any better than they are (whether things are good or bad).if we were to go to bed now a little ditty pondering the possibilities of change once a relationship is on the brink of becoming more than just friendship.crystals form finally i took the time to think up some guitar for crytals form. also featuring my first public airing of alto melodica, a truly beautiful instrument (when in the right hands ...and mouth). a song about self-realisation, and how even when acknowledging your faults it can still be difficult to change them.cool fire in your eyes another song inspired by beautiful eyes (remember 'eyes deep'?). a different pair of eyes this time. the german line in it means 'what is the best way to your heart?' anyone who claims this is about my own eyes is lying.you can...
for those who thought the ramones were showing off by using a THIRD chord; this one keeps things simple. about how you can let somebody close to you do just about anything. apart from......*******************other drawler page*********************i've decided to make the second drawler page for holding collaborations for the time being. some complete, some works in progress, but generally giving a fuller sound than just me on my own. drawler collaborations************************************************************ ********
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/21/2006
Band Website: to be announced
Band Members: acoustic guitar, autoharp, electric guitar, voice, percussive 'things', occasional melodica, guest piano (by sandy cormie)
Influences: heartache, loneliness, unattainable beauty, things 'not working out', dreams lost and dreams recovered, the unfiner things in life.johnny cash , led zeppelin , frank black , grant hart , ramones , ian mcnabb , young gods , handsome family , swans , nick cave , beautiful south , fields of the nephilim , willard grant conspiracy , counting crows , micah p hinson , my morning jacket , jayhawks , wilco
and brawth, of course...
Sounds Like: aiming for somewhere between frank black and johnny cash (knowing full well thats asking a lot, but hopefully hitting other targets on the way)....... or leonard cohen doing alt-country?......here's what others have said.......
johnny cash
syd barrett
swans
lou reed
the handsome family
mercury rev
good noise
nick cave
roky erickson
beck
leonard cohen
silver jews
tindersticks
daniel johnston
god
micah p hinson
"your stuff is great. genuinely. sorry is pretty much fucking genius, isnt it" andy, dead beat club"very raw, very lost and very endearing" j."i love your songs and your voice (gorgeous)" margaret stewart"very intriguing dark voice and mood" alessia, spins"songs of loss and longing, dark lyrically and stripped raw musically, leonard cohen would sound like this if he came from glasgow! love the dark reality of these songs" djay buddha"you're one of my fave finds on my space so far. loved every song on your page. loving this sound. really like the spontaneous feel. sounds like how all music should" dhrupick"nice tunes. moody, dark, brittle. " joshua, f.b. site"you my boy are fuckin brilliant" mick coyle"i also appreciate the happiness and reality that lies just below the surface in these tooons" steve adams

Record Label: to be announced
Type of Label: None

My Blog

relax back to none

new sloppy demo up today called relax back to none.its kind of about how perceptions can change after getting over stuff. of how sometimes there isnt much there once the shit is out of the way. or so...
Posted by drawler on Sat, 07 Jun 2008 06:57:00 PST

all kinds of never

i dont get my autoharp out of the box as often as i should. i did last night, however, and composed and recorded this simple ditty.its a play on the idea of it not getting any better and how that can...
Posted by drawler on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 01:01:00 PST

if we were to go to bed now

been spending so much time doin brawth that ive rather let drawler music slide recently. anyway i fully intend to keep churning out the darker stuff too. so....heres a tune i was working on a while ag...
Posted by drawler on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 02:23:00 PST

by the clanging in your mind

as well as being an online buddy and musician i much admire i was lucky enough to meet and hang out with earl alamos one day last summer. we put our mutual interests to good use that evening and came ...
Posted by drawler on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 01:41:00 PST

crystals form

an old lyric that once exist as a simple song backed by keyboards by sandy. i thought it was about time to try and write some music for it myself.so here it be. this is my first public outing of my si...
Posted by drawler on Sat, 22 Dec 2007 06:57:00 PST

this is christmas, so

i wrote and recorded this while ridiculously wrecked last year. i should have redone if for this year but havent. so its till shambolic and virtually unlistenable.lyrics.....so this is christmaswhat a...
Posted by drawler on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:07:00 PST

promotional pop music videos

i have been doin some dabbling in cobbling together some videos for three of my songs. here is the one for burn in the sun, a track that started off as an instrumental by ardisalis, until i did my thi...
Posted by drawler on Sat, 01 Dec 2007 03:24:00 PST

are you working today?

well? are you working today? stuck in an office from oh god o clock til quarter past never?do not fear this will help the hours fly by. watch closely all the way through.whistle while you work...
Posted by drawler on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 03:20:00 PST

time will tell (extended)

there was a demo of this sitting quietly over on my other page for a while. here's a new version; a very stripped down demo with a new end section.it's a song about an elderly couple looking back on l...
Posted by drawler on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 04:43:00 PST

trancendental meditation, donovan and a bag of spanners

i saw a bizarre show last night in edinburgh. david lynch and donovan double header to promote lynch's new book on transcendental meditation.anyway after all the guff was out of the way donovan perfor...
Posted by drawler on Sat, 27 Oct 2007 09:22:00 PST