![]() “He’d be hanging around at the sessions and after about a month, he told me ‘You know I play bass.’ He never said anything to me before!” Turner says. One of them, Michael Trakhtenberg, showed up with a guitar. Soon, the pair began kicking around song ideas and having jam sessions with friends. But while in Houston, he reconnected with a female friend from high school whose boyfriend, Troy Tabner, was a drummer with some skill in home recording. Photo by Hilary Schumacher At first, Turner envisioned himself as a solo act. “But as long as I can strum and sing at the same time, I’m good!” And then I’d very slowly add more!” Turner laughs. My stepbrother-in-law would show me the G, C, and D chords, and I’d find 10 songs to play that only used those chords. “I learned really from just listening to songs and playing them. Playing harmonica was an easy way for Turner to join in, but he was soon asking for a mandolin (figuring it was easier to learn than a guitar) before quickly graduating to that latter instrument and figuring out what to do with it. “My was really into Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark and all these Texas songwriters, and we’d sit out on the back porch in the Hill Country and play guitars and sing songs,” he says. The extended family would often gather at a home in the Fredericksburg, where impromptu and informal concerts were frequent occurrences. His introduction to instruments came via his stepfather’s family, specifically a step brother-in-law who played guitar and gifted young Sam with a set of harmonicas. Turner was raised in Sugar Land and went to Dulles High School (“Well,” he offers, “I went sometimes!”) before moving to Houston at the age of 18. A lot of George Strait, but also the Beatles and Otis Redding. “What I Iistened to growing up is kind of reflected in our set list. They certainly are, right there on the set list amidst more familiar country fare (though with a bit of a deeper cut) by Dwight Yoakam, Freddy Fender, Rosanne Cash, Charlie Rich, John Anderson, Jeanne Pruett and Billy Joe Shaver.įor lead singer/rhythm guitarist Sam Turner, the sonic potpourri is right in step with his mindset. That’s enough things to be trapped by,” he said of his spartan lifestyle.Record cover But aren’t they doing tunes by Otis Redding (“Pain in My Heart”)? The Band (“The Weight”)? And the Beatles (“Don’t Let Me Down”) albeit a bit more…twangy? “I don’t like being beholden to things like that, you know? As humans, we got to have water, you got to have shelter, you got to have food. He has cut out caffeine and alcohol, regularly sees an acupuncturist and quit smoking a year ago while on his “Five Easy Hot Dogs” road trip. You have it in there for about a week.”Īlthough his irreverent attitude is still very much intact, the Canadian musician appears to have matured and mellowed with age. “It doesn’t matter how much shampoo you use. “It was fun at first, but then, especially the longer my hair is, the worse it is getting the Vaseline off,” he recalled. Or one might come across his “ Advanced Studio Recording Techniques,” a series of insightful but mostly absurd videos, during which his face is inexplicably doused in Vaseline. There’s the time he was beaten and tied up on “The Eric Andre Show,” or the time he brought Nathan Fielder on stage at his Los Angeles concert and the pair kissed, something DeMarco didn’t remember. ![]() The album arrived roughly three months after “Five Easy Hot Dogs,” a collection of instrumental songs he recorded during a road trip and is particularly proud of.īut more than just a way to get unreleased and some seemingly unfinished songs off his chest, the 33-year-old saw “One Wayne G” as an opportunity to subvert expectations of what releasing an album nowadays should look like. And that’s essentially what ‘One Wayne G’ is, you know, five years of me,” he said. He drew the cover art himself as a finishing touch to the personal project. ![]() The album is a window into DeMarco’s creative process, as well as his extensive range as an artist. I might as well just give it all at the same time.” “If I’m going to write something, I need to move forward,” he said in a recent interview, his first since his opus, “One Wayne G,” was released. But for DeMarco, it was a way to reach his next creative phase. ![]() His latest release - a nine-hour, 199-song album - has confounded and stunned fans and critics alike. LOS ANGELES (AP) - Often dubbed the prince of indie music, Mac DeMarco has built a devoted fanbase through his mix of distinct slacker rock and being unafraid to show off his endearingly offbeat personality.
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