― Al (sitcom), Thursday, 9 October 2003 14:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Thursday, 9 October 2003 14:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 9 October 2003 15:17 (twenty years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Thursday, 9 October 2003 17:53 (twenty years ago) link
― Chris O., Thursday, 9 October 2003 19:38 (twenty years ago) link
I'll be seeing them live again this saturday night, hurray!
― Blood and sparkles (bloodandsparkles), Thursday, 9 October 2003 21:39 (twenty years ago) link
― JesseFox (JesseFox), Friday, 10 October 2003 06:13 (twenty years ago) link
Willie's version is more cohesive. The songs all flow together to create the feeling that he’s telling you a story. Carla's version drifts into atmospherics and various styles, becoming more of a performance of the story. Her full-on barn dance version of "I Couldn't Believe It Was True" misses the shock and pain of Willie's acoustic rendering, which is more true to the story. But then, Carla's "Time of the Preacher" Themes are drawn out to expose the horror of the subject, while Willie’s themes just state the story as plain fact.
I felt some minor annoyances when Carla insists on calling the horse a "bay pony" instead of just a "bay" during the “Yellow Haired Lady” part of the tale, wrecking both the meter and the rhyme of the song. And her take on "Down Yonder" is tossed off like Sonic Youth's take on the Simpson's theme while Willie, or his sister Bobbie actually, makes this song a old-timey saloon piano rag that puts you in the time and place of the story. Then the stupid whistling at the end of Carla’s "Can I Sleep in Your Arms" undercuts any emotion the song has built.
But I'm being hypercritical. Carla and Nels seem to play up the mental instability of the preacher and make the story darker and creepier. And it works, it is after all the story of broken-hearted preacher going on a killing spree, and that's pretty dark. Willie offered redemption to the preacher, through the piano hymn “Just As I Am” and then through finding a new love. But Carla doesn’t seem to match Willie’s sincerity on the second halves of the albums. The duets with Willie are strained, but duets with Willie often are. He's pretty much in his own world when it comes to singing.
So, the overall effect of listening to both albums is like sitting around a campfire and having an old cowboy tell you a story with his guitar, then wandering off into the desert and seeing an Indian Shaman do an interpretive dance of the same story. You get a completely different feeling from it. The story has already been told and this time through, the emphasis is not on the words/songs themselves, but on an interpretation and performance of them.
― BrianB, Thursday, 16 October 2003 15:31 (twenty years ago) link
― geee...., Wednesday, 18 February 2004 19:15 (twenty years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 21:47 (twenty years ago) link
― george the speorge, Thursday, 19 February 2004 16:58 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.midheaven.com/labels/dichristina.html
― Al (sitcom), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 17:25 (twenty years ago) link
― ben tausig (datageneral), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 17:41 (twenty years ago) link
So, Carla Bozulich, the most amazing woman in Los Angeles. Has anyone heard Evangelista and been wowed by it?
Just can't let a good Carla Bozulich thread die.
http://www.carlabozulich.com/Evangelistasongclips.html
― humansuit, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 21:20 (sixteen years ago) link
She opened for Wilco here some weeks ago, got totally ignored by the audience and got quite pissed off about it, then irritated that she got pissed off and blamed it on a friend being ill. I can sort of understand the audience, because she played mostly stuff from evangelista, which aside from the earth-shattering cover of "Pissing" seems quite soundscape-y bland. Then after the gig she came up to the front, and I started cheering her on, but then noticed she seemed quite upset and my cheering felt out of place. Which was weird. So now I'm on a carla bozulich-binge, playing all geraldine fibbers/solo stuff and even reconsidering Evangelista (or at least steal away and prince of the world and how to survive...)
― barnaby, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 22:22 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah, even though, as this thread proves, I'm a ridiculously big fan of Bozulich/the Fibbers, I really didn't like Evangelista much and have little desire to see her perform that material live, I'm kinda waiting for her to move onto her next phase or sound. I made a megamix of my favorite Carla stuff a few months ago, I really love how it turned out:
disc 1: original works
1. The Geraldine Fibbers - "The Small Song" 2. Carla Bozulich - "Here Comes Another One" (demo) 3. Ethyl Meatplow - "Ripened Peach" 4. Scarnella - "The Most Useless Thing" 5. Carla Bozulich - "Lonesome Roads" 6. The Geraldine Fibbers - "Seven Or In 10" 7. The Geraldine Fibbers - "234" 8. The Night Porter - "Monkeys" 9. Scarnella - "Dandelions" 10. Carla Bozulich - "Blue Boys" 11. Mike Watt - "Sidemouse Advice" 12. Ches Smith/Carla Bozulich - "Elements Ascending" 13. Two Dollar Guitar - "Bozo Shoes" 14. The Geraldine Fibbers - "Richard" 15. Scarnella - "Untitled New Song" 16. Carla Bozulich with John Talaga - "1014C" 17. Carla Bozulich - "Prince Of The World" 18. The Geraldine Fibbers - "Lilybelle" 19. The Geraldine Fibbers - "The Smaller Song"
disc 2: interpretive works
1. Mike Watt - "Tuff Gnarl" (Sonic Youth) 2. Scarnella - "Hot Pants (She Got To Use What She Got To Get What She Wants)" (James Brown) 3. Ethyl Meatplow - "Close To You" (Bacharach & David) 4. Carla Bozulich - "On The Nickel" (Tom Waits) 5. Scarnella - "I Thought About You" (Johnny Mercer) 6. The Geraldine Fibbers - "Jolene" (Dolly Parton) 7. The Geraldine Fibbers - "If Drinkin' Don't Kill Me" (George Jones) 8. The Geraldine Fibbers - "He Stopped Loving Her Today" (George Jones) 9. The Geraldine Fibbers - "The Grand Tour" (George Jones) 10. The Geraldine Fibbers - "Hands On The Wheel" (Jerry Jeff/Billy Callery) 11. Carla Bozulich featuring Willie Nelson - "Can I Sleep In Your Arms?" (Jeannie Seely) 12. The Geraldine Fibbers - "Pills" (New York Dolls) 13. The Scott Amendola Band - "Masters Of War" (Bob Dylan) 14. Carla Bozulich - "Pissing" (Low) 15. The Geraldine Fibbers - "Yoo Doo Right" (Can) 16. Carla Bozulich - "Running Dry (Requiem For The Rockets)" (Neil Young) 17. Scarnella - "Times Square" (Marianne Faithful)
― Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 22:39 (sixteen years ago) link
where'd you get all those Fibbers' covers from - live stuff? bootlegs?
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 22:40 (sixteen years ago) link
That mix seems swell for my binge :) Is it up anywhere?
― barnaby, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 22:42 (sixteen years ago) link
most of them are from What Part Of Get Thee Gone Don't You Understand? (plus "Yoo Doo Right" from Butch) but "He Stopped Loving Her Today" is a live mp3 I came across years and years ago.
(xpost I posted some mp3s of on my blog last year but the links are all expired by now. if there's enough demand I might re-upload some stuff for people here, though)
― Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 22:44 (sixteen years ago) link
I would be very interested in that Alex and furthermore if you'd be willing I could send you a couple bucks and you could send me the mix provided ONE you don't come hack my family to death with an axe once you get my name and address and TWO you admit that I am the small cat.
― humansuit, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 23:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Hello, Voyager?
hello?
― fandango, Monday, 26 May 2008 18:28 (fifteen years ago) link
http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/9212/292coverko5.jpg
Red Headed Stranger is one of my favorite albums of the decade, but I've never really been able to get into Evangelista.
― Eppy, Monday, 26 May 2008 19:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Go Carla!
I saw Evangelista last month. They were great. Saw guitarist Ava Mendozza's other band Mute Socialite (featuring ex-Sleepytime Gorilla Museum drummer Moe! Staino) just a few days ago.
I've been stalking Carla for years. Ethyl Meatplow, Geraldine Fibbers (x5), Scarnella, Red Headed Stranger, in-stores. I can never get enough of her voice or charm.
I actually brought her flowers at a Fibbers show once. She did not marry me though :(
― Nate Carson, Monday, 26 May 2008 21:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Any chance you could Leonardo this?
― C0L1N B..., Wednesday, 18 June 2008 17:55 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't have all those trax on my computer right now, maybe if I have the time this weekend I'll try and rip/upload what I need to. I haven't listened to Hello Voyager much lately but the Evangelista show I saw a couple months ago was awesome, I might have to see them again when they swing back through the area in a couple months.
― some dude, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 18:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Thanks. Even just the George Jones ones and "Hands on the Wheel" (which I'm assuming is different than the solo RHS one) would be great.
― C0L1N B..., Wednesday, 18 June 2008 18:52 (fifteen years ago) link
i'll just pop in here and say that the new Evangelista record is really, really good. Intense stuff.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 18:55 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah that "Hands On The Wheel" (and most of the other Fibbers c&w covers) are from What Part Of Get Thee Gone Don't You Understand?, except "He Stopped Loving Her Today," that's a live mp3 I came across.
― some dude, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 18:59 (fifteen years ago) link
I forgot about all this!
― admrl, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 19:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Evangelista was hot at their recent pdx show. Carla has my undying love dating back to the Ethyl Meatplow show I was fortunate to catch in '94.
Also caught Evangelista guitarist Ava Mendoza's project Mute Socialite (with Moe! Staino ex-Sleepytime Gorilla Museum) not long afterwards. Their track "Killing Time" gets stuck in my head for days and days.
― Nate Carson, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 21:19 (fifteen years ago) link
I mean not long after the Evangelista show, not the Meatplow one...
― Nate Carson, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 22:09 (fifteen years ago) link
i recently heard the evangelista song 'the blue room'. can anyone recommend songs/albums/material like this in carla bozulich's discography? her output seems pretty large and varied so i don't really know where to begin....
― LaMonte, Saturday, 2 August 2008 04:12 (fifteen years ago) link
"The Blue Room" is the one song on the new album that features Nels Cline, and it's not too different from a number of previous Carla/Nels collaborations, mainly the Geraldine Fibbers' Butch, the self-titled Scarnella album and her live solo EP I'm Gonna Stop Killing. The Scarnella probably has the most stuff that's close to that particular song's vibe.
― some dude, Saturday, 2 August 2008 04:34 (fifteen years ago) link
You guys know about the new one?
http://www.cstrecords.com/releases/cst061
― Peinlich Manoeuvre (NickB), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 18:35 (fourteen years ago) link
i mentioned it in passing on the Rolling Nels Cline Thread and i saw Whiney blurb it on his twitter, but since the release date's still a few weeks off i have not heard it. excited, though, Hello Voyager was great.
― radio k3ller (some dude), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 18:40 (fourteen years ago) link
There's a track up on that linked page - The Slayer! Sounds great.
― Peinlich Manoeuvre (NickB), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 18:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Great news! Was only listening to Hello, Voyager again last night.
They were just devastating live.
― fndgo, Wednesday, 9 September 2009 21:39 (fourteen years ago) link
I just discovered this record and I love it. Can anyone recommend anything recent that has a similar feel?
― blagobu, Sunday, 8 May 2011 14:18 (twelve years ago) link
have you heard the the follow-up EP I'm Gonna Stop Killing or the Geraldine Fibbers' first album Lost Somewhere Between The Earth And My Home? those are probably the closest things Carla's done.
as for other artists, I'd recommend Eleni Mandell, probably starting with Miracle of Five (which Nels Cline also plays on)
― lilsoulbrotherlovesdubplatestyle (some dude), Sunday, 8 May 2011 14:29 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks for the suggestions. I've already been checking out Carla's other work. I'll give Eleni Mandella listen. I'm looking for more recent stuff.
― blagobu, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 10:45 (twelve years ago) link
new Evangelista is v good all around -
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61OQ029JjtL._SS500_.jpg
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Sunday, 25 September 2011 01:59 (twelve years ago) link
thanks for bumping the thread! didn't know the album even existed before this morning and now i'm listening to and enjoying it
― some dude, Sunday, 25 September 2011 15:28 (twelve years ago) link
nice!!
yeah hey everyone else, it's streaming in full at the Constellation site -
http://cstrecords.com/inanimaltongue
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Sunday, 25 September 2011 15:49 (twelve years ago) link
also on spotify, which was a pleasant surprise
― some dude, Sunday, 25 September 2011 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
haven't given this my undivided attention yet, but after a couple of plays it sounded like their best one yet
― master musicians of jamiroquai (NickB), Sunday, 25 September 2011 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
I've always had to make an effort to get into her Evangelista material, but it's usually worth it. However, the first time I put on Lost Somewhere... I fell in love immediately. God, I miss the Fibbers.
― thinveneer, Sunday, 25 September 2011 17:56 (twelve years ago) link
yeah the Fibbers were so amazing that i'll listen to anything Carla does for the rest of her life, although sometimes it's hard to not keep comparing the new stuff to that bad. i like that Evangelista is very much its own thing now, though, i kinda never thought i'd see the day when she kept with the same project for 4 albums straight. Hello Voyager is definitely my favorite but this new one is good too.
― some dude, Monday, 26 September 2011 00:59 (twelve years ago) link
Thoughts on Boy?
I think it's amazing. Her best work yet.
― Frozen_Warnings, Saturday, 8 March 2014 23:59 (ten years ago) link
oh man, I didn't know this was out, thanks for reviving this thread!
'her best work' is a really really high bar to meet for me personally, but it's definitely good, feels like it goes off in a different direction from the Evangelista stuff that's kind of exciting and unexpected. "Lazy Crossbones" sounds like the immediate standout for me.
― some dude, Sunday, 9 March 2014 12:50 (ten years ago) link
Boy probably deserves a thread of its own. People need to hear it. Drowned To the Light and Danceland are my standouts but there's really not a bad track on it.
― Frozen_Warnings, Sunday, 9 March 2014 13:10 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOkCu_hbN_A
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 08:41 (ten years ago) link
New album 'Quieter' is fabulous.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 31 July 2018 11:42 (five years ago) link
gotta hear this, big fan of evangelista etc
― transcendental headache (Ross), Wednesday, 1 August 2018 16:32 (five years ago) link
A Twitter comment the other month from Christina Carter about Evangelista and its brilliance made me realize that she really still hasn't gotten her due, has she. So for Shfl, I did this:
https://theshfl.com/guide/carla-bozulich
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 23 May 2022 17:19 (one year ago) link
yayyyy
just did a relisten of the full Fibbers catalog and god damn is that some top tier stuff, Evangelista was next on my list!
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Monday, 23 May 2022 20:04 (one year ago) link