Word: soul
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...understand Soul Coughing, one must start at the beginning--the Soul Coughing Web Page. Here, you can take the first step to being a stalker and get a little personal information about the band. Eventually, you start hanging around the site long enough to start posting on their little bulletin board (visited by some guy named Dave Matthews...or maybe it's just another stupid Internet psuedonym thing). And then you decide to attend one of their concerts, you twenty-something white person who can do that Blues-Traveler-concert-goer undulating thing that you're supposed to do with...
...only experience with Soul Coughing comes from a brief encounter after they opened up for The Dave at the FleetCenter earlier this month--a venue unsuited for their musical style and their crowd, too. That combined with the heavily rotated "Soundtrack to Mary" (which one sometimes will hear after "Missing" on Kiss 108 and before any Mariah song) sums up what I was expecting...
Most riveting, though, is the keyboard and sampling of Mark De Gli Antoni. Moving from swing music to random movie quotes (the prevailing fad of alternative music today), he contributes to the measured chaos of Soul Coughing. This is a sound that won't create a Dead following, or break into the mainstream a la Hootie (and who would want to?), but it will captivate club audiences and generate some fine bootleg tapes to exchange for that DMB at UVA concert...
...Duritz's vocals are more anguished and torn than ever; he's as emotionally naked as a daytime talk-show guest, baring his soul and searching for empathy. You hear his need. In fact, it comes as something of a surprise to find that in person, the 31-year-old Duritz is sturdier looking than he sounds. North of 6 ft. and bearish in his build, he unexpectedly fills the door frame when welcoming a visitor. But when he sits down and starts to talk, in a rare interview, the vulnerability quivers in the air. "If you're a person...
...there's more to Recovering the Satellites than celebrity kiss-and-telling and post-fame grouching. The second half of the album offers more complex themes. The pop-soul track, Another Horsedreamer's Blues, draws from a surprising source for musical inspiration: the Sam Shepard play Geography of a Horse Dreamer. In the song, a little girl with the ability to foresee horse-race winners in her dreams is manipulated and used by those around her--a metaphor for the use and abuse of artistic talent...