Franz Ferdinand’s Nick “Bored By All Guitar Music”

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- Brett Dennen: giving hope to music fans with CD
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Franz Ferdinand’s Nick “Bored By All Guitar Music”
AngryApe UK 
The band have spent the last 3 years working on the follow-up to 'You Could Have It So Much Better' and worked with several producers including Erol Alkan and. "I'm really bored by all the guitar music" McCarthy told The Times. "It's gone. It's finished. It's all over. There has to be something new again now.

Music biopics try to keep it real
Los Angeles Times CA 
For that reason and also because they themselves are drawn in by pop’s rich archive actors and directors are creating music in films that eerily echo the original recordings. In “Cadillac Records” Darnell Martin’s film about Chicago’s Chess Records Jeffrey Wright gives a dazzling performance as the late bluesman Muddy Waters. He brings the same nuance to scenes of Waters playing guitar and singing as to the ones in which he’s interacting with his wife or close friends. Wright said he pored over photographs and film clips of Waters to develop his stance. “He had a very specific way of moving” said Wright by phone from New York. “He held his body with a sort of coiled rigidity. In some ways he vibrated from within.

Defining rock ‘n’ roll
Louisville Courier-Journal KY 
“For a Washington D. music scholar it’s “what occurred when the electric guitar was invented. A rudimentary form consisting of four basic chords and several vowel sounds.

Franz Ferdinand ‘bored’ by guitar music
Digital Spy UK 
Band member Nick McCarthy said that the disc will provide a contrast to their self-titled 2004 debut and its 2005 follow-up You Could Have It So Much Better. “I’m really bored by all the guitar music” McCarthy told The Times. There has to be something new again now.
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Brett Dennen: giving hope to music fans with CD
Daily News Tribune MA 
Dennen: We had this really special tradition at this camp I went to and every night some of the counselors would lead us in songs around a camp fire. Just the stars and the skies and the raging fires and all your new friends – (it was) just really nostalgic. And being there as a kid I idolized my counselors especially the ones who played guitar and I thought if there’s anything I wanted to be it’s a camp counselor specifically one who played the guitar. And that’s also what sort of developed my love for the folk singers because we played Neil Young songs and Paul Simon songs. AP: How would you describe your sound?Dennen: I would start by saying it’s in the folk singer-songwriter genre. Some of the other things you might hear in there are some world music specifically and I’m just a really big fan of African music a big fan of Brazilian music and so I think I let a little bit of those influences get in. As well as some rock and some other Western music but I think it’s rooted in the singer-songwriter storytelling folk music.

Bruce Springsteen’s ‘The Rising’: How Does It Fit With American …
MTV.com 
“He’s one of the great rock-and-roll players of our time” Winick said. At the same time “I think he’s very conscious of the roots of working-class folk music. Springsteen’s sense of history has been evident “not only since his beginnings as a guitar troubadour along the lines of Woody Guthrie but also his work with Pete Seeger” Winick said referring to the rocker’s 2006 album We Shall vercome: The Seeger Sessions a collection of traditional folk songs associated with the legendary ’60s protest singer. “And the rumor is that he will play with Pete Seeger today.

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