The Singleman Affair Top Ten

26/06/06

The Singleman Affair - under the influence!  Wanna know what influences the Singleman Affair?  Wonder no more as you check out his top ten below.  And remember the

1. Roscoe Holcomb An Untamed Sense of Control
This man is pure fucking genius, some of the most eerie arrangements and thought provoking lyrics ever created. I would love to have seen this man perform live somewhere in the backwoods singing “I wish I was a single gal again…”. Most of his records are really hard to come by, but if you can buy, download, steal anything ever made by this man do it and keep running.

2. Bill Fay Time of the last persecution
Imagine taking the nuances and atmospherics of Dylan’s John Wesley Harding and having a man split in half with one being John Cale and the other being Leonard Cohen and then this is what this record sound like to me.

3. Feather Feathers
Best new record I have heard in a really long time.

4. Josephine Foster A Diadem
This is a four song handmade recording Josephine has release that she gave me the last time we played together. It has by far one of my all time favorite songs by her called “Wonderous Love” and reminds me of an aged dust bowl ballad sung during Gone with the Wind by some sort of mystical fairy.

5. Cat Stevens Mona Bone Jakon
I haven’t been able to stop listening to this album for the 6 months or so and have really been amazed by the way he mixes the different instrumental arrangements along with his guitar and still preserves a sense of intimacy. The way it was mixed and recorded has definitely influenced some of my new recordings.

6. Donny Hathaway Donny Hathaway Live
Recorded on the south side of Chicago in 1972, this is one of my all time favorite live recordings and has him doing dirty funk covers of artists like Carole King(You’ve got a Friend) and John Lennon(Jealous Guy) Also featured is the 12 minute classic “The Ghetto” of his own that will blow your fucking mind.

7. Silkie You’ve got to Hide Your Love away
A beautiful folk quartet from the early 60’s that features lush dreamy male/female vocal harmonies.  They do an excellent cover of “You’ve Got to Hide your Love Away that reminds me a ton of Lyme and Cybelle.

8. Jorma Kaukonen Quah
I have been obsessed with the way this man has made his guitar sound during those early Jefferson airplane records ever since I got my first copy of Surrealistic Pillow. I even was able to get a hold of him via email to find out what guitars and amps he used during those albums to see if I could mimic some of these guitar tonalities for my recordings but couldn’t afford any of the vintage equipment. This was his first solo album and is much darker and melancholy compared to his stuff with a full band but there still is some weird psychedelic hints intertwined with the and the combination of the two is in large part what I was going for in recording Let’s Kill the Summer.

9. The Sun City Girls Torch of the mystics
If you do not own this record you need to, this would again go under the “buy, download, steal, anything you can” to get this record. Playing some show with Sir Richard bishop were also some top live moments of my life.

10. Glen Campbell Gentle on My Mind
Glen Campbell? What the fuck? Trust me this guy made some amazing records early in his career and this is one of my favorite as he takes his stab at the whole freak/folk revival just like everyone else these days, only he did it when it happened the first time around way back in 1967.

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