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Mindy Smith - "My Holiday"
the everybodyfields - "Worth Keeping"
Punisher: War Zone
Album Stream: Listen to Mindy Smith's Christmas album My Holiday
[Above: Lee Ronaldo and James Joyce]We keep our ears pretty low to the ground where literate music is concerned, so news of producer James Nichols' project using James Joyce's poetry sent our wee minds a-reeling. The author of Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Finnegan's Wake has inspired popular music for years—Jefferson Airplane, Lou Reed and Van Morrison are only three of the most famous Joyce-referencers—but rarely has he received such extensive treatment this side of the high art/low art seesaw.
Continue reading Mike Watt, Lee Ranaldo, more set James Joyce to music.
