Yes, that is the name of the band, The Prayers and Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers... some like it, some love it.... and some wonder why? As for me... I wondered why I hadn't listened to this band before? Perhaps it was the name, but aside from sounding like the 3rd title in a series of boys novels, it's not that bad and would be great on a bill with Clap Your Hands Say Yeah.
Led by Perry Wright, a young man of strong faith and steeped in the creative brew of a musical family, The Prayers and Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers tread the grainy wooden floor boards of mid-western folk/alt-country. A Mid-Western ochre melancholy that is pressed hard and flat in a book of experimental indie rock. This is TPATOADS music.
from The Mother Of Love Emulates The Shapes Of Cynthia - 2005
+ concerning lessons learned from the aliens
+ cannot eat better not sleep
from psalterie -2003
+ on the occasion of a departure
+ the sun fell on you
BONUS MP3s
against pollution (mountain goats cover, live on wknc)
makeout city (live on wknc)
on the occasion of a departure (live on wknc)
i am morris townsend (live on wxyc)
another rock star laments (acoustic version)
billie jean (drunken bombast one take)
an unexpected song
Rotation Of Crops - Rehearsal
your reccs have been fantastic. very prolific too, I can hardly keep up!
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i really like "concerning lessons..."
ReplyDeleteoh, and thank heavens for correctly-tagged mp3s.
Arthur Digby Sellers-
ReplyDeleteOld guy in iron lung in The Big Lebowski
BRANDED, the television show that Arthur Digby Sellers is credited with writing in the film (The Big Lebowski), was a TV Western series that starred Chuck Connors; the Dude thinks it starred Mike Connors, of MANNIX fame.
ReplyDeleteBranded? I remember an old show called The Rifleman that starred Chuck Connors, but not a show called Branded. Connors also played in the fifties for the Montreal Royals, a minor league baseball team. Or so my dad told me (i was born in Montreal).
ReplyDeleteYou see what happens when you F a stranger in the A? Do ya Larry?
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