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Great Quotations: Lou Reed
“I think this thing [Reed's much-derided album with Metallica, Lulu] needs a champion. This is for people who are literate. This isn’t ‘I cry in my beer cos you f—-ed him and ran your truck through my bar. You can write 30 of those and move to Nashville. These words — every time I see [...]
Lou Reed and Metallica: Lulu
Lou Reed and Metallica Lulu (Warner Bros.) Rating: How you engage with the Lou Reed/Metallica collaboration, Lulu , may depend on how much of the backstory you know. If you come to it blind, it might seem like strange, macabre fun, starting with the first rhyme of “Brandenburg Gate,” “I would cut my legs and [...]
The Velvet Underground And Nico, “Femme Fatale”
Finding the roots of LouTallica’s “Lulu” in an early Velvets classic When downtown rock and roll legend Lou Reed and heavy metal gods Metallica shocked music fans everywhere with the announcement that they were collaborating on a project, we thought it’d be a good time to dig into the American Songwriter archives. We featured Lou [...]
Tom Waits, Bob Seger, Elvis Costello Lead Songwriters Hall of Fame Nominees
The Songwriters Hall of Fame has announced the nominees for the 2012 class. It’s an all-star list — Tom Waits, Lou Reed, Pete Townshend, Elvis Costello, George Michael, Dion DeMucci, Deborah Harry and Chris Stein of Blondie, Bob Seger, Eurythmics’ Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart, and Gordon Lightfoot have all been nominated as performing songwriters. [...]
Rob Wasserman Talks Woody Guthrie, Note of Hope
On September 27, 429 Records will release Note Of Hope, an album of Woody Guthrie’s writings set to music by artists like Lou Reed, Jackson Browne, Tom Morello and Pete Seeger, and spearheaded by Grammy-winning bassist Rob Wasserman. We spoke with bassist Wasserman about the ten years he spent working on the project, collaborating with [...]
Nora Guthrie Discusses Note Of Hope, Woody’s Legacy
On September 27, 429 Records will release Note Of Hope, an album of Woody Guthrie’s writings set to music by artists like Lou Reed, Jackson Browne, Tom Morello and Pete Seeger, and spearheaded by Grammy-winning bassist Rob Wasserman. We spoke with Woody’s daughter, archivist, and album co-producer Nora Guthrie about assembling the record, Woody’s legacy, [...]
New Woody Guthrie Tribute Disc Features Lou Reed, Jackson Browne, Ani DiFranco
In the same vein as Wilco and Billy Bragg’s Mermaid Avenue albums, bassist Rob Wasserman will release Note Of Hope on September 27 via 429 Records, an album of collaborations made up of songs inspired by unpublished Woody Guthrie material. Wasserman and Nora Guthrie, Woody’s daughter, recruited over a dozen A-list artists including Pete Seeger, [...]
Lou Reed And Metallica Team Up For New Album
On Wednesday, Metallica posted a news article and photos on their website under the title “Secret Recording Project?” Under this mysterious header, the band revealed that they’ve been working in their San Francisco studio over the last few months on a new record of ten songs with OG rock and roller Lou Reed. The partnership [...]
Preview the All-Star Buddy Holly Tribute: The Black Keys, “Dearest”
On June 28, Fantasy/Concord will release Rave On Buddy Holly, a tribute to the late ’50s rock icon who wrote “Peggy Sue,” That’ll Be The Day,” “Every Day” and more. It turns out Weezer aren’t the only band obsessed with the bespectacled rocker. An eclectic cast of artists have banded together to toast Holly, including [...]
Booker T. Drafts The Roots, The National, Lou Reed, My Morning Jacket For New Album
Rock legend and three-time Grammy winner Booker T. Jones will release his latest album, The Road From Memphis on May 10 via Anti- Records. The new disc will feature guest vocals Matt Berninger from The National, The Roots, Sharon Jones, Yim Yames from My Morning Jacket and Lou Reed, and was produced by the Roots’ [...]
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