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Mind Your Head
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A dylanesque psychedelic ride through modern life. Lovely guitar break and rhythms.
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Carl Cape plays acoustic folk that spills wonderfully into alt. folk, rock and the blues. Soulful harmonica and acoustic guitar, thoughtful lyrics, and catchy h
Carl Cape. Artist biography: November 2007, Chevstar Records. Carl Cape writes homespun folk-blues with an acoustic guitar and a velvet case of harmonicas. His sound has echoes of Woody Guthrie, Roger Waters, Neil Young and Damien Rice and, at times, Carl’s soulful style evokes memories of 1920’s blues harmonica player Noah Lewis. Carl Cape’s songs tell stories. His first album ‘Reborn’ draws upon tales from the traveller’s road from the English/Scottish Borders to India. The album includes vocals by a Minister of the Dalai Lama’s governmentin-exile on: ‘Superhighway’. That song, written in a tumbledown cottage in the middle of the Northumberland moors reflects Carl’s philosophical writing. ‘Superhighway’ was inspired by the writings of Native American shaman, Lame Deer: ‘it’s a quick comfortable superhighway, but I know where it leads to’ (Lame Deer, Erodes, 1980, p.18). Carl and the Electrons’ trip takes us from authentic spiritual blues to the new rock n roll of ‘Elvis is not dead!’ Audiences connect with Carl. Perhaps it’s the Indian gurus wandering alongside him, or the screech of owls, the sound of the sea, or the eco-messages of ‘Medicine Stick’- a song about farmers in drought-hit Australia. Maybe it’s the lyrics that trigger your own memories of a walk on a purple heather moor. You can expect a beautiful journey at a Carl Cape gig. His folk-blues is highly recommended.
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Genre
Rock • Psychedelic Rock
Charts
#1,078 in subgenre Peak #18
Charts
Peak #220
Author
Carl Cape
Rights
Chevstar Records
Uploaded
November 20, 2007
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MP3 3.4 MB • 128 kbps • 3:43
Story behind the song
Well you know when you're in a rush in the morning to get to work, and there's an appeal to 'save the whale' on your cereal box, and you're just trying to eat, wash, run, drive... and the News is warning us of this and that... why is it like this? The lyrics here are 'serious' but they're sung in a certain way - they make me smile.
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Mind your head Mind your head another forecaster, temperature's changing, climatical nightmares, sea swell's screaming, everyone's dreaming, about cornflakes, and catching their train. You'd better watch out you’d better mind your head, you'd better watch out you’d better mind your head, you'd better watch out you’d better mind your head, mind your head. Mind your head a politician talking, pass me a scratched ‘78’, take it out the wrapper, put it on the player, turn it on, turn it off, it always gets stuck! Mind your head a new television show, a round of applause and that means now, adverts, buy things, use more plastic, what happens when we fall off the edge of the world? Mind your head a dead pink elephant, it got no tusks, it got no eyes, you read it on your cornflakes, thought it wouldn't happen, but you were in a hurry, to catch that train. Carl Stiansen: acoustic guitar, vocals, harmonica. Ally Lee, electric guitar and sampling. Harry Fox, percussion. Simon Stiansen, bass. Helen Whitworth, saxophone.
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