TK Major
TK Major is a veteran singer, guitarist and songwriter, and the main writer and only permanent member of mutant outsider roots pop veteranos, one blue nine.
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Forget About the Moon Forget About the Moon
This version was produced by Reggie Ashley, who also played Nashville-tuned guitar, triangle, tambourine, and mandolin.
Broken, Too Broken, Too
acoustic guitar, vocals; A song about troubled people. (AYoS 2008-03-27)
If They Could Put You in Jail for Dreaming If They Could Put You in Jail for Dreaming
As lazy as a jailhouse nap... as wistful as a parting kiss on visiting day. And just about as pathetic...
Dog Catching Flying Saucer Dog Catching Flying Saucer
INSTRUMENTAL. A naive romp through another perfect day, a long, long time ago. Driven by a trio of acoustic guitars, this folk rock instrumental was originally released by OBN mastermind TK Major.
Pretty Little Head Pretty Little Head
Vocal and guitar; the guitar part is a sort of an unconscious tribute to Brit folk guitar great John Renbourn. (Best known as one of the two guitarists in UK jazz-folk outfit, Pentangle.) (AYoS 2006-10-29)
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is a veteran songwriter, singer, and guitarist from Long Beach, California. With deep roots in country, blues, and folk, Major is, nonetheless, probably best known (if at all) for what he calls , since his band, have always subverted the electronic and postmodern impulses of that band.. Believe it or not.Band/artist history
TK Major started playing guitar during college, horrifying the patrons at the open mic in his student union's basement not long after. Sensing one of the important lessons of music -- timing -- he took his 18 dollar plywood axe and woodshedded for a few years, learning how to write songs with short words, action verbs, and comprehensible metaphors instead of packing every line with references to indic literature, obscure contemporary philosophers and the kind of lexical mashups that made him justly famous among his long-suffering college instructors....Have you performed in front of an audience?Major: "Seldom. Sometimes. Sure."
Your musical influences
Marty Robbins and Spade Cooley were big influences on Major when he was growing up. He loved the Sons of the Pioneers, too. He also had a soft spot for the Everlies, the Coasters, Gene Chandler. In junior high he discovered folk, jazz and bossa nova while his contemporaries were going gaga for the Brit invasion. Finally relenting to the cultural juggernaut of the mid-60s, Major plunged into hippie music, acid rock, jazz rock and back around to country with Gram Parsons and the rest of the hippie country crowd. In '75, Major was introduced to Reggae, seeing Bob Marley and the Wailers for the first time in July of '76. The nihilistic boredom of the mid-70s pushed Major to the cultural extremes embodied by the early punk/no wave movement for a few heady years. In the 80s, Major's taste grew even more eclectic, expanding to African and world music and ever deeper into synths and electronica. Veering suddenly at the end of the 80s, Major plunged back into folk. When dub and psychedelic neo-folk collided in the trip hop scene of the mid-90s, Major found himself hypnotized by bands like Portishead. Major found himself among the next generation of post-modern outsider pop bands when he stopped recording on tape and began recording on the computer in 1996. The ability to chop up his performances into tiny pieces and scatter them willy nilly on the timeline appealed to Major's primal artisitc impulses. But the pendulum swings and Major has spend the last few years catching up on all the great roots and country music that managed to sneak past him, people like Gillian Welch, who, he will rush to tell you, knocks him out.What equipment do you use?
"What I got."Contact
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Comments (5)
Awesome tunage man!! I've been a fan of your music since 10,000 Years.
Dude, you got some great songs here!
Great song TK, reminds me of Steve Earle. I like your vocal delivery here. I like the folksy style your doin on this song.
Like it...nice stuff...got some Lou Reed...a little Dylan...not in a rip off way, though. Very nice...I'd like to use some of your music for part of the soundtrack to my movie (if I ever get it up and running). Just a little indie film...but your music fits the mood very nicely.
Anyways...good tracks...very well recorded...also liked the One Blue Nine stuff...keep it up!
you make some nice folk songs :)
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