Word: troubadour
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...depressed pony,” and a “girl from the special economic zone.” Their relative obscurity is particularly frustrating because the Jews are more “authentic” than Adams (who is more of a pastiche artist than a true country troubadour) and they never belabor listeners with ponderous sonic experiments a la Wilco (see the last ten minutes of their 11-minute long krautwank epic “Spiders (Kidsmoke)”). If any album were to break through to the other side of popularity, this...
...moments came after the band had left the stage, only to return for the increasingly requisite encore performance (the second encore is the new encore, after all). The finale was begun with a cover of “Inside of You,” by the similarly outlandish countryish troubadour named Tom Jans. The song reflected a lot of Oldham’s own tendencies, including his bizarrely overt and yet endearing tendency to inject sexual references into otherwise Platonic enough songs of love lost and found (well, mostly lost). The group followed this cover with a beautiful, shuffling version...
After abandoning the Palace name, Oldham retains his role as acoustic country-folk troubadour, relaying hushed, honest music that makes you trust him, while whispering absurdist lyrics that make you question his motivations. Confusing, but worth...
...living room features several impressive neo-Metaphysical pieces from the 1960s and '70s, including Orpheus the Wearied Troubadour (1970, pictured). During this period, De Chirico reworked the haunting depictions of piazzas and faceless troubadours from the canvases of the 1910s and '20s that made him famous. There are also neo-Baroque portraits of De Chirico and his wife, Isabella, in regal 17th century attire, which display his masterly brushwork and ironic eye for melodrama...
...during De Chirico's life and displays dozens of his works. "He lived in his own museum," notes Victoria Noel-Johnson, project coordinator for the Giorgio and Isa de Chirico Foundation. The living room features several impressive neo-Metaphysical pieces from the 1960s and '70s, including Orpheus the Wearied Troubadour (1970). During this period, De Chirico reworked the haunting depictions of piazzas and faceless troubadours from the canvases of the 1910s and '20s that made him famous. There are also neo-Baroque portraits of De Chirico and his wife, Isabella, in regal 17th century attire, which display his masterly brushwork...