Mark Pickerel n’est pas un perdreau de l’année. Batteur des Screaming Trees à la fin des années 80, Pickerel a vécu l’hystérie médiatique du début des années 90 et a même collaboré avec Kurt Cobain le temps de l’enregistrement des chansons de The Jury, le projet (avorté) avec Mark Lanegan.
Mark Pickerel a donc de la bouteille. C’est donc assez logique que ses reprises de Townes Van Zandt et de Lucinda Williams ou de Terry Allen soient du meilleur tonneau.
Jouées avec des musiciens de la scène de Seattle, les reprises de ce disque fort sympathique ont été enregistrées avec le carré d’as de Seattle : Jack Endino, Hunter Lea, Johnny Sangster et Martin Feveyear.
Mark Pickerel and His Praying Hands - Rebel in the Rearview
Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic till I’m gathered safely in
Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Oh, let me see your beauty when the witnesses are gone
Let me feel you moving like they do in Babylon
Show me slowly what I only know the limits of
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the wedding now, dance me on and on
Dance me very tenderly and dance me very long
We’re both of us beneath our love, we’re both of us above
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the children who are asking to be born
Dance me through the curtains that our kisses have outworn
Raise a tent of shelter now, though every thread is torn
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic till I’m gathered safely in
Touch me with your naked hand or touch me with your glove
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Rebel in the Rearview de Mark Pickerel and His Praying Hands sera disponible le 22 janvier 2021 sur Bandcamp.
- Dance Me to the End of Love
- Be Here to Love Me
- Essence
- Writing on the Rocks Across the USA
- Old Brown Shoe
- Tennessee River Runs Low
- She's Got Wheels
- Rattlesnakes at Rocks
- Back Room of the Bar
- Back to Black
- House of the Rising Sun