Hidin' me, I flee, desire dividin' me, Yes, Jesus was a cross maker. Sadly she did not manage for long; she died of a drug overdose in 1979. Tho there was somethin wrong. This cover ended up being a fun challenge because Judee's arrangement (produced by Graham Nash) is pretty fleshed out. Her voice was quiet and fragile yet powerful. And in the interim, investing time and money in native and community food & health systems that sustain us so when all the big corporations melt down we can rely on what we've been growing for ourselves. Sweet silver angels over the sea. And tho he chases him out windows, And won't give him a place to hide, He keeps his door open wide. A6 Jesus Was a Cross Maker 3:20. And had a string of arrests, including several for prostitution and armed robberies of convenience stores in Ventura, California, before she was into her early twenties. Press enter or submit to search. The Los Angeles medical examiner ruled the death a suicide, The Washington Post wrote in 2006, "but those who knew her better have always contended that the 'note' found near her body — a meditation on rapture, the hereafter and the innate mystery of life — may just have been part of a diary entry or, perhaps, another one of her haunted, haunting songs beginning to take shape. From Crayon Angel: A Tribute to the Music of Judee Sill; due 09/22/09 on American Dust]. With a pistol by His side.
One song, "Jesus Was a Cross Maker, " had its seeds in a devastating breakup with a fellow songwriter. And her lyrics are often inscrutable, or at least Dylan-esque in their complexity and depths. Judee Sill is one of the most tragic rock n roll stories. What is similar on both albums is the slightly angular, religious oriented lyrics, only this time they seem too precious for my taste. I'm not opposed to having a rifle for hunting, assuming the food system will have entirely broken down. I'm sorry for calling it momcore, I was 19 and dumb. Sill later talked openly about the abuse in her household. Judee Sill's songs will always remain impelling epiphanies, each one an invitation to brave the human experience through the bluest of eyes.
Her life thus far had given her plenty of heartbreak to sing about, but instead of focusing on her damaged childhood and prison experiences, she chose to dialogue with her faith and spirituality, with religious and occult trappings underpinning her lyrics. I will spare you the logistic details we've worked out amongst ourselves, including the debate around whether or not to arm ourselves. Judee Sill (1944-1979). "Jesus Was a Cross Maker" expressed some of the recurring themes in Sill's work, including temptation, redemption and a quest for a higher meaning, as in these lines: One time I trusted a stranger.
Writer(s): Judee Sill. But I have listened to it more than perhaps I've should've due to Heart Food's appeal to me. Het gebruik van de muziekwerken van deze site anders dan beluisteren ten eigen genoegen en/of reproduceren voor eigen oefening, studie of gebruik, is uitdrukkelijk verboden. Frida Hyvรถnen is not the first singer to reinterpret Judee Sill's debut single from 1971, but she is almost certainly the best. Judee Sill may have been fazed by her lack of commercial success, but she continued to write and perform until her death. That is, if Jesus was a cross maker- that is, he could build crosses—something antithetical to his nature as a healer and lover of people-couldn't her lover be truly different than how he appears to act? "I knew I was gonna become a junkie, and I did, " Sill told Rolling Stone.
Her experimentation with drugs led her to fall in with a thief. This batch of songs differed a bit from her first album. Judee Sill could have been a Joni Mitchell, today she is not even a Nick Drake - another fragile singer-songwriter of the era who died tragically young but is today revered. The more I think about it, the more I think of her as one of the geniuses of 20th Century music. When her father died of pneumonia in 1952, her mother moved Judee and her brother Dennis to Los Angeles, where the former Mrs. Sill took up and married an alcoholic animator named Kenneth Muse. Kind of reminds me of Susan Anway who sang on the first couple Magnetic Fields albums, the delivery is dorky in this very unpretentious way that feels natural so that's the charm. The second disc gathers some Sill rarities from different points in her career (1968 and 1973), plus a live video.
I've also been watching a lot of Alone, which is this show where they send people out in the wilderness totally alone with minimal gear and see how long they can last. She doesn't look like it but Sill was a rebel child. What are your thoughts on Judee Sill? 'cause I heard his sweet song. I hear the thunder come rumbling. We see people do these mental gymnastics to explain their shitty relationships. The Turtles recorded her tune "Lady-O, " and a short while later David Geffen came calling. Born in Southern California in 1944, and dead in '79, Judee Sill's life was brief, yet filled with enough dark drama to satisfy a lifespan twice that long.
Please come down flyin low for me. We're checking your browser, please wait... Regarding her bust years later, she acknowledged that she was so scared, she fumbled her one line: "This is a fuck-up, mothersticker! The first disc of Water's set compiles the eight tracks that were to make up Sill's third Asylum LP (as well as three demo cuts). And is Jesus the one doing all this shady stuff in the song? I see the junction git nearer. And it was gently enticin me. I bet the whole album would've been better if Nash had produced all of it. It remains to be seen just what will become of Judee Sill's legacy. Tap the video and start jamming! They each contain a wealth of bonus live and demo tracks that are miles above the standard filler. ) I will dock this two stars because it is not as assured or interesting as Heart Food consistently is. Sweet silver angels over the sea, Please come down flyin' low for me. In 1974, Sill recorded material for a third album at the studio of Michael Nesmith, best known as a member of the Monkees.
Gituru - Your Guitar Teacher. Also - there's a very good BBC4 radio doc about her - which you can listen to by clicking on above. Vote up content that is on-topic, within the rules/guidelines, and will likely stay relevant long-term. It was a chaotic, bohemian, substance-driven. And it was gently en... De muziekwerken zijn auteursrechtelijk beschermd. Sill manages to put out some very nice material.
"The Apocalypse Express" is even better, beginning simply with acoustic guitar and upright bass before skipping into a powerful chorus. It's got me thinking I could totally set a squirrel trap or two. While perhaps lacking the gravitas of some of her contemporaries and despite a completely unexplainable odd twang that creeps in occasionally (I mean she's from Oakland fer cryin' out loud! "It was unlike any letter, about prison, being a heroin addict, so I called her up, and she came up to see me, and she played me some of her demos. In the time since her death, her music slipped into obscurity, save for a few prominent fans (Shawn Colvin, Warren Zevon and Jane Siberry all covered her songs at various points in the 1990s). Now, in what's become an almost common occurrence for earnest, overlooked folkies, a string of reissues over the past couple of years have stirred up attention, and the recent release of her heretofore unknown third album will hopefully allow Sill's story and music to be heard by the wider audience she so richly deserved. Sadly, few have been exposed to this great song.
He lights a lamp inviting him. While her self-titled debut has the better individual songs, Heart Food works better as a complete album. Rhino Handmade reissued both of Sill's albums at the end of 2003, and the 4 Men with Beards label followed suit with vinyl reissues in 2004. Her childhood was pretty chaotic - her dad, Millford Sill was, variously, an importer of exotic animals for movie work, part-time bar owner and full-time drinker. She started doing LSD and promptly moved in with an acid dealer and began exploring some of the psychedelic depths that would inform her later lyrical leanings. You know, your light quarantine small talk. Lyrically, it's one of the most uplifting songs Sill ever wrote, touching on the notion of facing the end of all things with power and grace.
She and a friend rented a house from the dealer and formed a jazz trio with a third girl. While reaching a nadir in the clink, Sill had recurring fantasies of being a songwriter. Lovely songs and arranging but she doesn't have a very distinctive voice or presence. She was signed to the Asylum label in the early 1970s - the label that David Geffen would use to launch the careers of the greatest singer-songwriters of the era. Produced by Bill Plummer, these songs are vintage Sill, chock full of the types of gospel, country and folk traces that she mined admirably for her first two records. But doing so would deny the power and majesty of the two albums she released during her lifetime. Get the Android app. Her once intense relationship with David Geffen broken, which left her very bitter about the music industry. I sort of class her as one of those songwriters who could create truly heartbreaking music, along the lines of Nick Drake or Elliott Smith. Also her orchestral accompaniments are just gorgeous: Here's a BBC show on her work: About Community.