Lowery + Brezny + Pynchon

[Dave Monroe]

Artist:  Cracker

NEW RECORD GREENLAND (COOKCD377) - 5th JUNE 2006

[...]

Greenland was one of the most difficult albums to
write for Cracker singer/songwriter and co-founder,
David Lowery. In the studio, his core band surrounded
Lowery: Johnny Hickman on guitar, vocals,
co-writer/co-founder; Frank Funaro on drums and Kenny
Margolis on keyboards and accordian. Lowery sang lead
vocals and played guitar, keys and bass. Also joining
them in the recording process was David Immergluck
from the Counting Crows as well as Mark Linkous from
Sparklehorse and John Morand, among other guest
players and musician friends of the band.

A palpable sense of darkness amongst seemingly
carefree environs permeates Greenland. Lowery takes
the listener on a ride across vast spaces, from an
autumnal high school dance to standing alone on a
mountain top in  I'm So Glad She Ain't Never Coming
Back. We find him sitting in a Mendicino County bar
where "... I saw Thomas Pynchon at the end of the bar,
no that's just Rob Brezny writing his 'Free Will
Astrology' column," and then evoking his inner
Hemingway with images of Spain and the African sea,
drinking wine and pondering forgotten loves in "Sidi
Ifni". "
we drank wine and toasted to the day when she
was the queen before the long decay, we drank wine
slept off hangovers lethargy decay and forgotten
loves." ...

http://www.codaagency.com/cracker.html

http://www.codaagency.com/Greenland%20release2.pdf

HARP: What was the last book you read?

DL: Neil Stephenson’s Quicksilver. It’s a fun, easy
read. It’s like a Pynchon for our generation. (In what
has to be some kinda record Lowery has read Thomas
Pynchon’s 1973 classic Gravity’s Rainbow 14 times.) We
always wanted Camper to make music like Gravity’s
Rainbow or Fellini’s 8 1/2.

http://harpmagazine.com/articles/detail.cfm?article_id=2412

They've failed miserably in that regard, but ...


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