Why do musicians create what they do? Why do they create in that particular way? Mark Linsenmayer (aka songwriter Mark Lint, and host of The Partially Examined Life) talks to songwriters and composers about specific recordings, which are played in full. We cover lyric meanings, writing and recording techniques, arrangements, band dynamics, the stories behind the songs, and even music theory.
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NEM#5. Jeff Heiskell: Positive Vérité
Jeff was the voice of JudyBats until '94, and is now Heiskell. He sings with character, or characters, always articulate, overly introspective, with intimacy issues. We discuss his current status as happy, self-funded, free-styled, hands-off yet obsessive compulsive solo artist (with a very intuitive supporting group!), as contrasted with his high-pressure, compromise-filled time on a major label that led him to quit music altogether for a while until kind communications on the Internet showed him that he was wanted.
On this episode of the Nakedly Examined Music podcast, we discuss "Firefiles" and "Just Can't Say" off of his 2015 album Arriving and then dip back to "What We Lose" from the JudyBats's 1994 album Full-Empty. Learn more at heiskellmusic.com.
We wrap up by listening to "Our Story" from 1992's Down in the Shacks Where the Satellite Dishes Grow, which is also where the music at the beginning comes from, "Is Anything?"
The high-budget video I refer to in the interview is for "Don't Drop the Baby" (this was one of several). Here's the final lineup live, and here's that very early gig from 1987 before they had a record deal. We also brought up Tim and Susan Lee (who backed Jeff on some of the new album).
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