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Artist: Dan Cray
From: Boston
Captured: April 5, 2003 (seen April 5, 2003 to April 5, 2003, 1 capture)

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From :

• Boston

Musical Style :

• Tom Waits and Leonard Cohen get loaded and go to see The Kinks. The Archers of Loaf show up, and words are exchanged. Some guy with a drum machine is in the wrong place at the wrong time. A fight breaks out, and in the ensuing melee Dan Cray dies trying to defend the now decrepit Neil Diamond. Upon leaving the theater Yo La Tengo and Fivehead, refuse to comment on the incedent. Nick Drake is still being sought for questioning.

Musical Influences :

• Sebadoh, Pink Floyd, Tom Waits, Archers of Loaf, Neil Diamond, The Kinks, Superchunk, AC/DC, Leonard Cohen, Dinosaur Jr, The Pixies, Buffalo Tom, Gordon's Vodka, Canadian Mist, Charles Bukowski, Sam Beckett, and the occaisional toke.

Brief Description :

• Cray's been called a prophet and an asshole, with drunken as a preface in both cases. His winston-light, whiskey voice and corroded guitars spew dark comedic soliloquy about about drinking, loveless sex, sexless love, and all of life's little murders

Artist History :

• You got a guitar to punish your ma.

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I've been listening to it so much my wife is starting to yell at me. Dark, brooding, brilliant. -Rowland from One Left.

Good things people say about Dan Cray

I could fill this review with Cray quotes and still not convey Cray's gift. He's a lyric surgeon, effortlessly excising our stinking viscera and laying them on the coffee table. And oh, the guitars! Majestic and jaundiced, they slither like pretty pink lizards and rise like cranes from a burning lake. Peter Gabriel trod these boards once upon a foxtrot. Now it's Cray's turn to take the stage. Here's your chance for a front-row seat. Don't miss out. -Jim Santo (demouniverse.com)

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A song for the inevitably, philosophically, and randomly, locker stuffed.

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