Say something illuminating about Robin Holcomb...

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... or link to an existing thread. But I didn't find one with a keyword search on "Holcomb".

I'm totally unfamiliar with her work (although I guess I once saw a dance performance with a score by her, I just can't remember anything about the music). But I'm involved in a little project* now that deals with artists with crossover success between pop music and experimental/classical music, and maybe she's done this in an interesting way?

*Consulting on repertoire and doing some arranging for a voice/piano recital. So stuff for voice and piano, or stuff that would translate well to that medium, is key.

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Friday, 7 May 2004 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Bump?

Or does the lack of responses constitute the only answer I really need on this one?

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Friday, 7 May 2004 22:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm guessing so.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 May 2004 23:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I liked the first, self-titled singer-songwriter record she did on Elektra Musician. Rustic, jazzy, kinda off-kilter all at once.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 7 May 2004 23:24 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

Robin Holcomb is one of my favorite songwriters. Didn't like The Big Time as much as her first three LPs. "Graveyard Song" on Little Three and "Deliver Me" on Robin Holcomb two I love, two of my favorite songs anywhere.

Here is "Widowmaker" from Robin Holcomb:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=0lLgFo02TE0

― Eazy, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 06:08 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

Still crazy about her music. You Mary Margaret O'Hara fans should listen to this if you haven't already.

― Squash weather (Eazy), Friday, 18 September 2009 18:47 (fifteen years ago)

I liked the first, self-titled singer-songwriter record she did on Elektra Musician. Rustic, jazzy, kinda off-kilter all at once.

Surprised I wasn't the one who posted this, since this is almost exactly what I would have said. Also surprising I have never investigated any of the followups, considering how much I love the debut. Yeah, "Deliver Me" is gorgeous.

― Such A Hilbily (Dan Peterson), Friday, 18 September 2009 18:54 (fifteen years ago)

three years pass...

An Alanis thread got me free associating.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGvrmFrfjgA

― blues bras (Eazy), Thursday, 6 December 2012 22:57 (twelve years ago)

eleven years pass...

"Nine Lives" just came up on a pre-Big Ears playlist and surprised me because I love this song but I can't remember at all how I know it or where from. Was it ever a song on the radio? Or in a movie or something? I don't know, it's very familiar but I don't know why.

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 15 March 2024 02:19 (one year ago)

Not that anyone probably much cares, given the lack of activity on this thread over the years, but I figured out where I knew the song from — it was on Musician magazine’s first freebie CD in 1991: https://www.discogs.com/release/6612622-Various-Musician-Magazines-A-Little-On-The-CD-Side-Volume-1

I had that disc, and actually listened to it a fair amount for a little while. It was the first time I ever heard Blues Traveler, and there is a decent pre-Friends Rembrandts song. But the Robin Holcomb one really stood out then. I guess not enough for me to ever go and track her down though. Funny that I will have an opportunity to see her at Big Ears next week after all these years if I want to. Have to see who else is playing during that slot.

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 15 March 2024 19:34 (one year ago)

This was an unexpected find - she and Wayne Horvitz recorded the scores for the Criterion release of Mikio Naruse's silent films.

― savetherobot, Friday, 15 March 2024 21:28 (one year ago)

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