THE JOE (AND CHENELLE) MILFORD POETRY SHOW

My friends Joe and Chenelle Milford run a wonderful internet radio show called "The Joe Milford Poetry Show" where the best of the well-known and emerging poets read  and chat about their work. I had the honor of doing one of the broadcasts, and here is a direct link to that:


http://www.facebook.com/l/b66d7;www.blogtalkradio.com/joe-milford-show/2009/12/07/joe-milford-hosts-david-callan


And you can download that and all the other shows here:


http://www.facebook.com/l/b66d7;www.blogtalkradio.com/joe-milford-show


Don't let the college zines and anthologies fool you, there's a world of writing out there, a lot of it that doesn't make it to FENCE or THE NEW YORKER and "The Joe Milford Poetry Show" is a great place to start looking. Joe, by the way, is a hell of a poet in his own right: "his collected works, Cracked Altimeter, Volumes I, II, and III: Collected and Selected Poems, 1990 - 2005, have recently been published by BlazeVox Press, and he is working on a current manuscript about the surreal South. When Joe is not busy being a college professor, hosting an international radio show, and being a loving husband and father, he rock out on his bass, cooks gourmet meals, and studies anthropic principles.
Joe Milford is available to do readings at your college, bookstore, or other institution. Send an email to jmilford2005@hotmail.com for more information."


Here is a profile of him done a couple years ago:


http://orangesandsardines.blogspot.com/2008/07/interview-with-poet-joseph-milford.html

DAVID JAMES CALLAN [VERSION TWO]

Another version of the DAVID JAMES CALLAN demo. The song "Uncle Bunny's Hoedown" was written by me and Keith Grady, now DJ Fancy of the rap-group Fannypack. It was originally a cheesy country song with a walking bass line, but I can't play it that way. The lyrics are the PC version; originally, the word "conscience" was "titties." I guess that was a dishonest version of the song, though.


01 _ The Drinking Well
02 _ Tearing the Shirt
03 _ Resume
04 _ Johnny (Callan/Summers)
05 _ Pillow
06 _ Seven Wolves
07 _ Matchbox
08 _ OK
09 _ Drowning Boy
10 _ Leaves Fall
11 _ Wild Mountain Thyme (Traditional; Arranged and Adapted by David James Callan)
12 _ Uncle Bunny's Hoedown (Grady/Callan)


All songs by David James Callan Except Where Indicated. Copyright c. 1997 Loki Sings. All Rights Reserved. "Pillow" was the first song I wrote completely on my own...hundreds of lyrics and a capella songs and collaborations later. "OK" was written in Atlanta, GA when I was hanging out with Matt Lord, on my first guitar which was given to me by my brother Scott. I wrote about sixty songs on that guitar, it got left behind in Iowa City when I skedaddled out of there in February or March 2000. The bridge to the song "Matchbox" came years after I wrote the rest of the song, when I asked my Gen Lit students to write down all the profanities that they knew. That's where "wigger" comes from. It's not a word I use in everyday life, but I use vulgarities and curses more in my songs than I do in the everyday. A well placed obscenity can accomplish beautiful things. I wrote "Seven Wolves" mainly to counteract the nonsensical idea that gay dudes are the same as pedophiles. There's a line in "Tearing the Shirt" about getting drunk in an alley--that refers to my twenty-first birthday when my buddy Christian Meyers took me to Boston and I had no ID so we drank expensive imported beer in the alley behind somewhere, maybe a Chinese restaurant.


http://www.mediafire.com/?y2jnjmona3x

DAVID JAMES CALLAN ALTERNATE VERSION

01 _ The Drinking Well
02 _ Tearing the Shirt
03 _ Resume
04 _ Johnny (Written with Wade Summers)
05 _ OK
06 _ Crocodile (Written with Genevieve Haag)
07 _ Matchbox
08 _ The Child That Gypsies Stole
09 _ Pillow
10 _ Leaves Fall
11 _ Drowning Boy
12 _ Jacques' Song
13 _ Wild Mountain Thyme (Traditional; Arrangement and New Lyrics by David James Callan)


All songs by David James Callan Except Where Indicated. Copyright c. 1997 Loki Sings. All Rights Reserved.


This is the album I set out to create when I first began to write and perform in Portland, ME in 1994. Helped by Sol Sender, Kate Schrock, Jen Haag, Russ Werner, Tony Lauritano, Tim Follo, Jay Wills, John Burke, Suzannah Gries, Chandler Klose, Meghan Rush, Brynlyyn Lewis, CAR aka LINCOLNVILLE, The Elvis Room, Raffles' Cafe Bookstore, Raoul's Roadside Attraction, Jason Wilkins, Anni Clark and especially Jacques Schickel and Thurber. Sad songs about drinking, basically. Originally, there was supposed to be a cover of Maggie Roche's "Hammond Song."


"Tearing the Shirt" was written by me with the help of Wade Summers--I'd hum the notes and he'd show me the chords. We'd been in a band together in high school, The Little Baby Sponges, and "Johnny," who had a sex change from his original "Jacquie," was the first song we wrote together, orginally on piano. It was played with a really bad band called The Nudie Kazoos, whose one hit was called "The Silver Turtle (Is Watching You)." We also had a song called "Burning Down the Orphanage" but Dolly Parton wrote a song called that in the 60's.  "Crocodile" was a song from a brief project called The Delicate Blossoms, and probably survived to The Gentle Friendly Moisturizer Orchestra, and was a solo spot for Jen Haag, along with a song called "Paper Airplanes" which does not survive.


"Wild Mountain Thyme" is based on two versions: Judy Collins and Joan Baez, and I think they learned it from The MacPeacke Family. It's a traditional melody. I wrote the last stanza based on the extra verse Joan Baez sings in her version. Judy Collins' versions is best though. She's a very under-rated singer, and her mid to late sixties early seventies albums are gorgeous. She's as Ur-Alternative as The Velvet Underground.


http://www.mediafire.com/?gw2tzydom0d

AUSTIN/SONGS BY DAVID JAMES CALLAN

01 _ Austin
02 _ Crickets
03 _ Puddlejumper
04 _ Blackbird Boy
05 _ Face
06 _ Garbage
07 _ Feverfew Hills
08 _ Shine
09 _ Judas
10 _ John Train
11 _ Rise Above This Heart
12 _ Broke
13 _ Like Father, Like Son
14 _ Nick's Song


All words & Music by David James Callan. Copyright c. 2010 Loki Sings Music. All Rights Reserved.


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NUMBERS FROM THE SYSTEM/SONGS BY DAVID JAMES CALLAN

01 _ Adam's Ale
02 _ Ezra
03 _ Falling Down (Written with Jeff Clark)
04 _ Timothy Tiddlewicz
05 _ The Table (Written with Jeff Clark)
06 _ Flight (Written with Jeff Clark)
07 _ Trains Are
08 _ Puddlejumper
09 _ Seven Wolves
10 _ Coot
11 _ Crickets
12 _ I Know Love
13 _ Boxing Day
14 _ Garbage
15 _ Face
16 _ Shine


http://www.mediafire.com/file/dmimjjtnzjj




All songs by David James Callan except where noted; all lyrics by David James Callan. Copyright c. 2010 Loki Sings Music. All Rights Reserved.


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WELCOME TO LOKI SINGS

This is the introduction of my new blog, where I hope I will be able to share my music and writing,  Links to other music have been taken down.  Check out the titles on some of these puppies!