JENNY OWEN YOUNGS

donjonsaddiction:

Day 3

Photo by Noah Segan

HUNKTOWN USA

tonythaxton:

Set #2 @TheBamboozle. Thanks for the photo, @jimwlester. (Taken with instagram)

All of my favorite things in one photograph: Tony Thaxton… New Jersey… a Ferris wheel.

The acoustic version of “Sleep Machine” is now available to the universe HERE.

It sounds fairly creepy, I think. Which is something I really like about it.

Read about the lyrical backstory of this song over HERE.

Guess I have a new favorite tumblr.

(Source: cashcats)

chiveta:

HOT WATER MUSIC (by CHRISSY PIPER)

ITEMS OF NOTE: -Chrissy Piper makes excellent photographs
-Hot Water Music fucking destroyed Gramercy Theatre last night 
-George Rebelo plays drums like Thor swings a hammer 

SLEEP MACHINE is the seventh song on AN UNWAVERING BAND OF LIGHT. Back in June 2010, I spent a week in California, playing shows and making memories, accompanied more often than not by my dear friend Molly Green. Road trip! Girls’ night out! Et cetera! For reference, this is what Molly looks like in her natural habitat:

Yup, just icing her face with a bottle of midrange champagne. So! Molly booked a room for us in the spookiest, The Shining-iest hotel that San Francisco had to offer. After a great show at Bottom of the Hill, we headed back to Chez Creepytown with a bottle of white wine courtesy of the venue, only to discover the hotel had left us a bottle of red as well. In one of my proudest moments to date, I decided that we had to “make rosé” and proceeded to pour two glasses of total failure. I tried a sip and then promptly fell to sleep. Molly, who was raised to be polite in a specifically southern way, drank her entire glass before bed, even though I wasn’t awake to be insulted. It is our collective belief that what happened next is the direct result of “rosé” consumption.

She bolted awake at 5:45am and, not having brought anything to read, searched the collection of novels in the room. (Yes. In this hotel, the rooms come with books… and there is a Vox Continental organ in the lobby. But also THE LOOMING SPECTRE OF CERTAIN DEATH.) She began reading The Bell Jar and didn’t stop until I woke up across the room four or five hours later. For those of you who have never read this book, let me tell you: it will fuck you up. And Molly Green is no exception to that rule! She spent the rest of the day acting all manner of distant and weird… and also repeatedly driving the wrong way for a thirty minute stretch before realizing something wasn’t right. 

As a teenager, I spent my fair share of hours poring over Sylvia Plath’s writing, but I always favored her poetry over her prose and The Bell Jar was foggy in my memory. Seeing someone so obviously and so directly affected by it made me revisit the novel. And I’ll say, I am also no exception to the rule: it fucked me up good and proper. It consumed me so thoroughly that when Dan Romer and I started writing what would become “Sleep Machine,” I knew there was only one idea the lyrics could explore. So what we have here is a song in which I try to explore the experience of moving from darkness into light and back again, via the power, and ultimately the impermanence, of electroconvulsive therapy treatment.

BONUS: Click through for a picture of Molly with bloody hands.

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Hear/buy the album version: iTunes / bandcamp / CD & **NEW 2XLP VINYL**

Hear/buy the acoustic version: bandcamp

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Once a week (or less than once a week, but never more than once a week) I will share a story about a song from the new album AN UNWAVERING BAND OF LIGHT here on Tumblr, until I run out of songs. Math suggests this will go on for a total of eleven weeks… but remember that time has no meaning here.  

go-and-catch-a-falling-star:

Minimalist Book Covers

TONIGHT TONIGHT I’ll be playing a show upon the internet via StageIt at 8pm Eastern.

Some of y’all voted on the songs you want to hear. These are the songs that received the most votes, in descending order: 

Untitled, unreleased song in 3/4
Already Gone 
Drinking Song
Pirates 
Your Apartment 
Thanks, Mesopotamia! 
Fuck Was I 
Last Person 
Coyote 
Great Big Plans 
Love For Long 

I’m going to play AS MANY OF THEM AS POSSIBLE, in order. 

Get thee to StageIt.com for info/remaining tickets.

ljm:

is this photo even legal?

(Source: the-low-cal-calzone-zone)

countryandwestern:

“If anyone asks how old I am, tell them it’s none of their business!”

- Loretta Lynn on fibbing about her age for the last 60+ years.

Because a 13 year old mother is more scandalous than 16 - even for a hillbilly.

Oh man, you guys aren’t even TRYING.