Feb 29th, 2004 at 12:47 am by Susan
WHAT I’M LISTENING TO: “Asshole,” Julian Coryell, “Rock Star” - Heaven knows it?s a sin/ To fuck around and stay out all night/ With someone else while she?s home/ Heaven knows I?m a cheat/ God that girl?s so sweet to me/ Why does she/ Why does she stick around/ When I?m such an asshole/ I?m only going to break her heart again/ God knows I’m an asshole/ But she loves me anyway/ She still needs me everyday/ And I?ll never know/ I’ll never, ever know/ I?ll never know why she does/ She sees the pretty parts of me/ She sees the things I don?t want anyone to see/ She finds the tender spots within/ She works her way around my sin/ To the part of me/ To the part of me that no one sees.
Tonight I saw Julian Coryell open for Nanci Griffith (who was in fine form, by the way). Wow. What a talent. It runs in the family - dad is jazz guitar virtuoso Larry Coryell.
Julian’s more obvious influences are Todd Rundgren, Rufus Wainwright, Darryl Hall and Freddy Mercury. (Elliott Smith and Ben Folds, too.) Do check him out; he’ll be touring as the opener for Richard Thompson the next few months.
