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General Information
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Blues
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Bob Dylan, Randy Newman, Dave Von Ronk, Paul Simon. Woody Guthrie, Arlo Guthrie, Joseph Campbell.
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Biography
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Ed Schwartz is the lyricist. Has writes books and poetry, as well as song lyrics. Phiolophical influences include Joseph Campbell, Krishnamurti, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, The Quaker religion, and Budhism. Literary influences include James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, and Alan Ginsberg. Tom Brill writes and performs the music. He plays guitar and sings. Musical influences include Bob Dylan, Dave Von Ronk, Buddy Guy, Johnny Winter, the Beatles, Robert Johnson, Buddy Holly and a wide variety of musicians and singers categorized within blues, roots music, folk and rock genres. The musicians who have influenced Tom's musical development, however, are neither imitated, nor readily evident in his music. Basically, he has developed his own style in singing as well is in his approach to the guitar. The music tends to float between rock, folk and blues, with an occassional hint of the broadway musical tradition, pre-rock and roll popular music of the 1950's, and jazz. The music included here attempts, for the most part, to evoke places, activies, and people of the American landscape much in the way a visual artist might try to do so. We believe that the American experience is primarily a series of myths propagated and maintained by the citizenry of the U.S. We hope that, in our music, the feeling of myth emerges, despite the relatively prosaic nature of the content presented. Themes covered include love, ambition, despair, poverty, and war. They provide a backdrop for the prosaic mythology of the United States and its history.
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