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Grant Carrington : Songs Without Wisdom
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Schizophrenic--runs from very basic folk (from BEFORE Bob Dylan) to almost hard rock, with a couple of side excursions that touch on jazz, country/western, and God knows what else.
Genre: Folk: Traditional Folk
Release Date: 2001
Songs Without Wisdom Record Label: Grant Carrington
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Preview Song Name Time Format Price Select
Topanga 3:43 Album Only
A Gentle Thing/It Don't Matter Any More 4:12 Album Only
Islands of Light 2:47 Album Only
The Gandy Dancer 5:37 Album Only
Wild Birds 2:21 Album Only
When the Sun Is on the Field 1:51 Album Only
Something Furtive in the Night 4:28 Album Only
The Graveyard Shift 2:47 Album Only
Four O'Clock on the Highway 4:29 Album Only
Carrion Crow 3:30 Album Only
The Belle of Bourbon Street 5:26 Album Only
Where Are Those Days? 3:07 Album Only
U.F.O. 2:57 Album Only
Children Riding the Night (The Ballad of Dean Anschultz) 5:32 Album Only
Goin' Home (Walkin') 2:40 Album Only
So Long John 3:21 Album Only
Walk in Balance 5:34 Album Only
Going Going Gone 1:26 Album Only
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Like his music, Grant Carrington is all over the lot, with degrees in math, computing jobs for NASA, a library, the Navy, a biological research station, and the US Treasury. He has performed as a Shakespearean actor, in musicals, and behind the scenes as a lighting technician. Five of his plays have been produced in Baltimore. He has published over 50 short stories, most of them science fiction, and one sf novel (TIME'S FOOL). He prefers hiking to doing anything else. His musical influences include Woody Guthrie, Peter LaFarge, Richard Thompson, Patrick Sky, Herbie Mann, Bud Shank, Kimio Eto, Ravi and Ananda Shankar, classical composers Georges Enescu, Camille Saint Saens, and Modeste Mussorgsky, and the Holy Modal Rounders. And that's just for starters. Give me 5 minutes and I'll come up with 20 more. His music career began at Washington DC's Dupont Circle as half of the hungry 2, and continued solo at The Bent Card in Gainesville Florida, the Blue Unicorn in San Francisco, Andy's in New Orleans, The Exit in New Haven, and the Gaslight in New York City. Currently he performs regularly at The Year of the Rabbit in Bowie, Maryland.

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