Valerie June

Posted on August 9, 2013 by Fred Stiening

NPR’s All Things Considered is thinking you want to hear the music of Valerie June. She hears voices and writes down what they say

http://www.valeriejune.com/

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9 Responses to Valerie June

  1. CC1s121LrBGT says:
    August 9, 2013 at 9:07 pm

    I still like my Pancakes by Marvin Pontiac

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k7tfvvgsSc

    • CC1s121LrBGT says:
      August 9, 2013 at 9:10 pm

      BTW, In case you are not familiar with Mr Pontiac, here is a brief summary from http://www.strangeandbeautiful.com/marvin/ ( Note the last paragraph and the Detroit connection )

      “Reportedly Marvin’s music was the only music that Jackson Pollack would ever listen to while he painted, this respect was not reciprocated. In 1970 Marvin believed that he was abducted by aliens. He felt his mother had had a similar unsettling experience, which had led to her breakdown. He stopped playing music and dedicated all of his time and energy to amicably contacting these creatures who had previously probed his body so brutally.

      When he was arrested for riding a bicycle naked down the side streets of Slidell, La, it provided a sad but clear view of Marvin’s coming years.

      Marvin held the tribal belief that having a photograph taken of yourself could steal your soul, thus these candid shots are the only ones known to exist.

      In 1971 he moved back to Detroit where he drifted forever and permanently into insanity. “

      • Art Stone says:
        August 10, 2013 at 5:53 pm

        Given the similarity of his background with Barack Obama Chevrolet, if things had been slightly different, he might have been the first Black President

      • briand75 says:
        August 12, 2013 at 7:01 am

        If you crave the edgy stuff – check out anything on YouTube by Larry “Wild Man” Fischer. I remember “Merry Go Round” from my high school years (couldn’t find it on you tube).

        Larry even made the Tonight Show with Jimmy Kimmel.

    • CC1s121LrBGT says:
      August 9, 2013 at 9:15 pm

      Had to add these quotes, just in case a recommendation from CC is not enough for streamingradioduide readers. … from the same link as my previous post:

      WHAT OTHER GREAT ARTISTS HAVE SAID ABOUT MARVIN PONTIAC…..

      “In my formative years, as an aspiring bass player, there was nothing I listened to more than Marvin Pontiac.” -Flea

      “A dazzling collection! It strikes me that Pontiac was so uncontainably prescient that one might think that these tracks had been assembled today.” – David Bowie

      “A Revelation.” -Leonard Cohen

      “This record has changed my life.” -John Lurie

      “Marvin would kick your ass for nothing. A true genius, Marvin was a pure original.” -Iggy Pop

      “The innovation and possibility in this music leaves me speechless.” -Beck

      “Marvin is good.” -Angelique Kidjo

      “…beds of eerie, hypnotic, textural rhythm with that tragic voice of the American male floating on top, or actually below.” – Mike Gordon, Phish

      “I’ve always been a fan of Mr. Pontiac’s — my housekeeper Cubby really loves it.”
      – Michael Stipe

    • Nidster says:
      August 10, 2013 at 12:46 am

      Nice sing-song type music but it leaves me wondering, what does it all come down to these days?

      Answer: nothing much, mon!

      • Art Stone says:
        August 10, 2013 at 3:06 am

        At least the stuff I heard on NPR, it sounded like she was singing from across the room – like how they deliberately blur the faces of older women on TV – then again, at this point I don’t trust my hearing

    • Art Stone says:
      August 10, 2013 at 5:45 pm

      Is it possible I might have met him on a subway car on the CTA at 2 AM? He sounds familiar

  2. Nidster says:
    August 10, 2013 at 12:50 am

    And what is said about so many mass murderers these days?

    ‘They’ say, I heard voices (perhaps it was God’s voice but I dunno), all I did is write down what the ‘voice’ said, and I killed ’em.

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