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eve
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my mother gave me two of his albums!!!!!!!!!  |
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nope
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| Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 8:38 am Post subject: |
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hmm, I heard the two bootlegs posted on the Papaiti website, a few days after Jeff had left New Zealand...when i listened to them I knew I had missed out on something special...
I downloaded (illegally  ) a few of his albums, but loved them so much i ended up buying them!
and now I'm here...a pretty big fan, still trying to make my way through Jeff's discography!
did I mention I'm only 14? getting into good music young
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Jose
Joined: 25 Sep 2011
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Location: Colombia
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| Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2011 9:58 am Post subject: |
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| It was thanks to Laura Marling and Johnny Flynn's cover of Travel Light by Jeff and Diane Cluck. It was so cool, I searched for the original version, and then I ended up listening to a lot of Jeff's songs! |
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vidusi
Joined: 26 Jun 2012
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Location: India
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| Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2011 12:22 am Post subject: |
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I've discovered Jeff just before "Em Are I". I've been reading a forum by a portuguese music magazine called "Blitz" and some awesome guy just posted an article about Jeff. He said how Jeffrey Lewis was usually called a kind of Woody Allen of songwriting so I was pretty curious.
I listened to "Williamsburg Will Oldham Horror"and I was just impressed not only for the fact that the guy could sing so many words and so fast but also because I've never heard of Allen Ginsberg and Albert Camus in a song before.
I went from there to listening to all of Jeff's albums. What at first seemed pretty strange and new became a kind of addiction. I was just amazed by the lyrical qualities of his songs, how he could join "non" and "common" sense and also presented a really fun, neurotic and sometimes very nihilistic approach to life, love, death, art all those things that we care about but on a common day basis. Besides as a big lyrics fan I didn't care to much about the low-fi because what I was really enjoying was the lyrics and the way Jeff sings them in his peculiar voice. Most of of the times I couldn't agree more with that lyrics and I felt like smiling but they also have a wonderful quality that you find in all the great art, they make you think.
It's really true that "you don't have to act crazy to do something amazing" and I've been a fan since then |
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