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Excerpt from a Chrissie Hynde interview w/ The Scotsman that I posted recently…
As she began to work on new songs, she found her direction changing. “Spending more time in Akron, I was getting more of an American feel in my sensibility,” she says. In addition, the Pretenders toured last year with ZZ Top, and Hynde participated in a tribute concert to Jerry Lee Lewis. When she went to Joshua Tree National Park in California and found where the ashes of the alternative-country pioneer Gram Parsons had been scattered, “I sort of had my epiphany there and I thought, Wow, I think I know how this thing is going to go now.”oh chrissie is just great. she’s really embraced the americana thing. she showed up at the mccabe’s 50 year anniversary last week, here’s a blurb about it:
It was also a kick to hear Peter Rowan lead the house band (which included Michael Jerome on drums, Debra Dobkin on percussion and Taras Prodaniuk on bass) in a Bill Monroe tune, the Ditty Bops dance and sing beside Hicks, and special guest Chrissie Hynde, looking lean and sexy, admitted she never actually played McCabe’s, but was so jazzed by the line-up she “blagged” her way into the show. Using an acoustic guitar, she performed two motor-mouthed, Dylanesque songs from the Pretenders’ new album “Break Up The Concrete” that would have sounded right at home on McCabe’s stage.
http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117938604.html?categoryid=34&cs=1
thanks lefty, that made me smile! they’ve sandblasted my “hearts on fire” from cap rock, but i’ll put it back on my next trip out there.
http://www.laweekly.com/slideshow/view/147562/3?play=true
whoo hoo……elvis costello name dropped gram parson’s last night………..see why i love elvis?
(still want doug or steve for jailhouse tears tho) 😈there’s a new john einarson book out
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