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Every time I listen to the pile of music stuffed onto my hard drive, I am constantly reminded of the difficulty of good storytelling. In music, as in writing, it’s not only the story, but how the story is told. Below I’ve posted a few videos of those artists I hold in high esteem and that color my world.
James McMurtry
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7gteFbbARg]
Bruce Springsteen
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuMqkzHql0E]
Townes Van Zandt
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtExSE2oOZs]
Gillian Welch
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nugXkgd_-84]
Tom Waits
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFxGM-semhQ]
Enjoy! If you’ve got any faves that inspire your writing or just make your jaw drop, include ’em in the comments.
Jeff Buckley-Hallelujah
ES Posthumus-Nara
Evanescence-My Immortal/Going Under/Bring Me To Life
Seether/Amy Lee-Broken
(Can you tell I kinda have a girl crush on Amy Lee? ha)
Nice! I dig the ES Posthumus sound. I’m a huge fan of soundtrack-type stuff when I write, though I’ve been coming around on more vocal stuff recently. Tom Waits is the default for dystopic steampunk city writing. Thanks for commenting!
I’ve an article in the works about this very thing, so you’ve caught me at just the right time to consider what music I find sets the tone for my writing. Lots of soundtrack stuff is what I most often have queued up: Clint Mansell, John Murphy and so on.
Murder by Death have been a recent find – they aren’t nearly as noisy as their name might have you thinking. In fact they recorded the soundtrack to Jeff Vandermeer’s last novel, Finch. Well worth checking out.
I have to confess, I’ve listened to the Finch soundtrack whilst writing. Love it. I need to purchase the soundtrack so I can put it in my writing mix. For soundtracks, I’ve got a playlist with Hans Zimmer (Gladiator and Black Hawk Down), Howard Shore (LoTR), and some others thrown in for good measure. I wrote this post thinking about musicians that I think tell great stories in their music, but I like where it has gone. Thanks so much for commenting!
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