Here's the latest new Stan Ridgway dope folks. Straight from his latest press release today. He's also got dates in Texas starting mid April.
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http://www.stanridgway.com
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<a href="http://www.stanridgway.com/tour"><img src="http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j320/drywall2006/A_NewSpringTour.jpg" border="0" alt="New spring tour"></a>
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“Desert Of Dreams: A Sandstorm of Song,” an all inclusive show highlighting Ridgway's musical journey from past to present. Ridgway and his band will be performing key songs and music from his entire career in an intimate acoustic format with Pietra Wexstun (keys, melodica, vocals) and Rick King guitar, bass, vocals). New songs will be played as well from his soon-to-be-released solo CD. A celebration in song, story and spoken word.
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Stan Ridgway Tour Page:
http://www.stanridgway.com/tour
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Ridgway MySpace: (with 2 new songs posted for preview)
http://www.myspace.com/officialstanridgway
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STAN RIDGWAY “Desert of Dreams” ~ A Sandstorm of Song ~
“Music is more than just chords and notes to me, it has the ability to make pictures in the mind My records are designed to be seen as well as heard.”—Stan Ridgway
When it comes to writing strange tunes about ghostly marines, strippers with broken arms, and “robbers and bandits and bastards and thieves,” songwriter/guitarist Stan Ridgway is an incomparable noir troubadour. Making musical pictures for 30 years now, from his early days with L.A.’s Wall of Voodoo, this sound alchemist has emerged as a singular voice in contemporary song. And he has developed no small number of friends, fans and followers: he’s produced Pixies front man Frank Black, written songs for film with Police drummer Stewart Copeland, shaped soundtracks as well as writing and orchestrating music for the surrealist paintings of Mark Ryden, and both recorded and performed for uber-producer Hal Willner. Truly modern, 21st century folk music, Ridgway’s dark, tall tales often take place in the microcosmic miasma of L.A. and its outer desert, where his characters try to wrest meaning from the beautiful catastrophe of their lives.
As he takes to the road, Ridgway is staging a series of retrospective shows titled “Desert of Dreams” in honor of over 25 years of musical mystery from the House of Ridgway. He’ll be screening his vivid stories starring his classic cast of anti-heroes, dreamers and schemers lost in the darkened drive-in theater of America. The jungle-bound soldier from “Camouflage” (a surprise Top 5 Hit in Europe from Ridgway’s 1986 solo debut The Big Heat), the runaway driver of “King for a Day” (from his most recent offering Snakebite: Blacktop Ballads and Fugitive Songs), and the frustrated outsider in “Don’t Box Me In” (written with Stewart Copeland of the Police for the Francis Ford Coppola film Rumblefish) are but three of Ridgway’s creations that persist, long after the song is over and the curtain has dropped.
Ridgway’s inimitable vocal style carries listeners to the edge of their seats, while perfectly balancing his sometimes-untrustworthy narrator’s voice from the twilight zone. Ridgway is a rare performer and songmaker whose enduring sketches nail the human condition down cold while his characterizations of life remain absolutely fresh and alive.
Ridgway’s latest releases are Snakebite, Drywall -BBQ Babylon ( with Pietra Wexstun) and Silly Songs For Kids Vol. 1. ( with Pietra Wexstun, Rick KIng and Ralph Carney)
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Stan Ridgway onYoutube.com:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_q ... rch=Search
Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 1:55 am