Five Records with… Ed Jurdi
Posted on | October 30, 2009 | No Comments
I recently talked to the Ed Jurdi from the Band of Heathens, who recently released One Foot in the Ether, their second studio record and fourth overall. You can read a review of that record’s first single “L.A. County Blues” here. Five Records is an occasional feature of artists talking about the music that inspires them. Read more of these posts here.
“When I was 6 years old, my parents bought me a serious boom box and 2 tapes. Chicago X and Live at Leeds. That record totally blew my mind. It was so heavy and reckless, yet so melodic and dynamic, sometimes all at once. It was pure energy, I could almost put myself at that show and picture the whole scene.”
“He’s just got so many good songs and so many good albums. To do something this soulful and deep at that point in his career was just a wonder.”
“When we were recording One Foot in the Ether, I was listening to this record, Vetiver’s To Find Me Gone, and Roy Harper’s The Passions of Great Fortune Vol 1. Can you tell I have a hard time sticking to 1 album? I was listening to a bunch of folk music at the time, these were just a few of the records that kept getting rotated around.”
“A song I wish I had written – “Picture in a Frame” by Tom Waits from Mule Variations. I mean the guy is just so brilliant, what else can you say?”
“His songs have an emotional and lyric intensity that’s matched with really cool hooky memorable melodies. It’s totally timeless.”
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