Jeffrey Lewis (Part 1) - a podcast by George Bessett, Patrick "Sully" Sullivan, Ryan Black, REB Records

Sully discovers Jeffrey Lewis' song Complete History Of Punk Rock  sending him down the rabbit hole of listening to all of Jeffrey's music from the album The Last Time I Did Acid I Went Insane to his new release Bad Wiring.  Enthralled by Jeffrey's musical and lyrical sensibilities, as well as his underground comic book FUFF, Sully reaches out to talk about the origins of the punk ethos from 1960's folk revival and psychedelic / freak-folk groups  through the 1970's scene on both sides of the Atlantic and his work as an artist.  The two songwriters talk about creative process, touring, and what it means to be an independent artist these days.  Jeffrey references the Anti Folk bands Prewar Yardsale, The Moldy Peaches, indie rock band Cornershop, and his musical heroes Daniel Johnston and David Berman from the Silver Jews.  As always Sully packs this episode with mostly full length songs, "because songs were made to be listened to from beginning to end and not in little snippets".  Sully references the documentary Dylan: Roads Rapidly Changing, and the book Please Kill Me by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain in this two part episode as he does in past and future ones.  It is the definitive book in Sully' s opinion, "an essential read for all music enthusiasts".  

List of songs in these two episodes:

something good, kill the ghoul, anthem, I know what I want, don't play cards with satan,  what went wrong,  downloading porn with davo, sleep on the left side,  avenue a shanghai hollywood, no lsd tonight, I saw a hippie girl on 8th avenue, came here looking, sad screaming old man, mosquito mass-murderist, whistle past the graveyard, cult boyfriend, babe I'm gonna leave you, I shit my pants, new amphetamine shriek, bodies, punk is dead, just like Dresden '45

 

 

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