Vampire Girl: Essential Recordings (CD)

• Category:  Music  »  Rock & Pop  »  General Rock & Pop
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• Release Date: September 22, 2009
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rounder Records
• UPC: 011661909229
• WAPI (Tower ID): 113760502
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #38101 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #12731 in Rock & Pop (See Top 100 Rock & Pop Bestsellers)
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Recording information: JG Sounds, Grass Valley, CA; The Bennett House, Grass Valley, CA; Column One Recording, Springfield, MO.

Notorious New York cult singer-songwriter David Roter was once called "an unholy confluence of Woody Allen and Lou Reed." Though Jonathan Richman is a well-known devotee of Reed and the Velvet Underground himself, he might best be termed "an unholy confluence of Pee Wee Herman and Sha Na Na." Starting with his band the Modern Lovers, Richman developed a musical persona that seemed eternally youthful and na‹ve; a trapped-in-the-late `50s teenager who still lived in an imaginary world of sock hops, bongo drums, and nascent lust. Like Herman, however, he acknowledged the passage of time, yet seemingly remained, as a middle-aged man, just as surprised and bemused by the crazy scene in "I Was Dancing in a Lesbian Bar," or the fact that friends would begrudge his favored mode of transportation in "You're Crazy for Taking the Bus," as when he was a high school freshman. Musically, the Boston native played a stripped-down, shambling, beach-party take on old-time rock & roll and pop, and was heavily influenced by doo-wop, occasionally even detouring into country and Latin music (represented here by the full-on Nashville Sound track "Since She Started to Ride" and the Spanish-language "Harpo En Su Harpa"). Overall, VAMPIRE GIRL: ESSENTIAL RECORDINGS is a good overview of Richman's classic Rounder Records material which, despite its brief ten-track length, gives the casual listener an effective tour through the artist's strange, childlike, oft-hilarious, and always perceptive mind.

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