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Cameron McGill & What Army |
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| Location: | CHICAGO, ILLINOIS |
| Country: |  United States |
| Last Login: | Jun 27, 2008 (554 days back) |
About Me |
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| Born in 1877 in Calw, on the edge of the Black Forest, Cameron McGill was brought up in a missionary household where it was assumed that he would study for the ministry. McGill's religious crisis (which is often recorded in his songs) led to his fleeing from the Maulbronn seminary in 1891, an unsuccessful cure by a well-known theologian and faith healer, and an attempted suicide. After being expelled from high school, he worked in bookshops for several years--a usual occupation for budding Chicago songwriters.His first album, Stories of The Knife and The Back (2004), describes a youth who leaves his mountain village to become a poet. The lush instrumentation and beautifully crafted melodies, belie its dark nature. Mostly focusing on personal admissions of guilt and failure, the album's characters struggle with coming to terms with mortality. All throughout, they simply try to find a friend and fall in love.This was followed by Street Ballads & Murderesques (2006), the tale of a schoolboy totally out of touch with his contemporaries, who flees through different cities after his escape from home. The collection of songs on Streets Ballads...takes pop music to the dark libraries of your old house, inhabits a stark and desperate corner of the mind, and simply tells a good story. The wildly vibrant characters offer their most honest interpretations of their understanding of life. They travel time, they fall in and out of love, they miss and are missed. These are songs of imminent regret, class IV rapids, European gypsies, pre-renaissance Germany, cities with chips on their shoulder, veterans of domestic war, handwritten letters and handmade harmony, foreign wines and local girls, break-ups and breakdowns, and post-war divorcees.World War I came as a terrific shock, and McGill joined the pacifist Romain Rolland in antiwar activities--not only writing antiwar songs, but editing two newspapers for prisoners of war. During this period, McGill's first marriage broke up (reflected in "It's Not Right" off of Street Ballads & Murderesques ), he studied the works of Freud, eventually underwent analysis with Jung, and was for a time a patient in a sanatorium.In 1919 he moved permanently to Switzerland, and brought out Cameron McGill and What Army, which reflects his preoccupation with the workings of the subconscious and with battles against depression...but mostly focuses on learning how to have fun. His forthcoming works, two full-length LPs, will be released in the fall of 2007 and spring 2008 respectively. He never won the Nobel Prize, but his mother always loved him. Until his death in 2056, he lived in seclusion in Illinois.
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My Interests |
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Music:Member Since: 9/21/2004Band Website: cameronmcgill.com Band Members: Darren Garvey- pots & pans, Bill Lowman-upright, Rodrigo Palma-bass, Daniel McMahon-guitar, dobro, accordian Jeff Kmieciak- gitbox, Noah Harris-ivories, vox, Nate Swanson-cello, violin Andra Durham-viola Kevin Davis-cello Kristina Dutton-violin Katie Bracken-vocals Charlie Koltak- pots & pans Influences: bob dylan, sweet sweet regret, the beatles, the idea of the beatles watching bob dylan solo at the royal albert hall in 1965 and having their minds blown, neil young recording tonight's the night at SIR in LA with monitors in the live room and a tape machine parked in a van on sunset blvd, david bowie writing quicksand, leonard cohen's sexiness and those suits, the beach boys, brian wilson asking to bring a horse into the studio, willie nelson's voice, simon & garfunkel's new york, johnny cash, matt hopper's melodic genius, the kinks, jeff buckley, woody guthrie, the cure, wilco, david mead, josh rouse, whiskeytown, ryan adams, frank o'hara, jack kerouac, charles simic, erin smolinski, the boss, my ma, jellyfish, jon brion, teenage fanclub, aimee mann, elliot smith, sparklehorse, menthol, the decemberists, neutral milk hotel, uncle tupelo, badly drawn boy, gram parsons, stephen foster, nick drake, kings of convenience, ron sexsmith, mercury rev, son volt, the replacements, sigur ros, great lake swimmers, the webb brothers, the shins, will oldham and all his various personas, the afghan whigs, twilight singers, nick cave, rufus wainwright, serge gainsbourg, clem snide, tom waits, and the hope of a grand unifed theory that includes gravity.... Sounds Like: somebody needs a hug Record Label: my own Type of Label: Indie |
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My Background and Lifestyle |
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| Occupation: | Music Artist (Indie / Folk / Psychedelic) |
My Pictures |
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My Blog |
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nashville times |
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| for some reason it took longer to get everywhere the last few days. in champaign now, playing tonight with noah and danny.was good to be back at the basement. noah and dan and i were joined by our fri... Posted by Cameron McGill on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:02:00 PST |
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| hi. nate and i have been working on the string record again. a slow process, but its coming along. i have pretty much got our september tour booked. we will be returning to the same cities from the to... Posted by Cameron McGill on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:54:00 PST |
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Old-Fashioned New Human Revolution! Live in Provo 5/19/08 |
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| ... Posted by Cameron McGill on Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:52:00 PST |
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Next Weeks Shows |
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| Noah Harris and I will be playing a few solo shows next week. Hoping you can join us. Wed. 6/25 @ The Basement--Nashville, TN 8pm Frid. 6/27 @ Mike n Molly's--Champaign, IL 9pm Sat. 6/28 @ The Star L... Posted by Cameron McGill on Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:08:00 PST |
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Poets Fall Like Pillars Live in Provo 5/19/08 |
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| ... Posted by Cameron McGill on Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:54:00 PST |
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summer festivales and other dates to hold |
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| hoping you can join us in july. am in the process of booking the band our september tour. we will be hitting all of the cities we hit in may. you know who you are. since our getting home from the may ... Posted by Cameron McGill on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:11:00 PST |
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down in the flood |
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| we were newsworthy last night. stuck in WI on the streets of Oshkosh pushing Adam's dead car in the rain. the kind people on the jefferson block, running out from their porches and living rooms to hel... Posted by Cameron McGill on Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:45:00 PST |
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on reading Ginsberg |
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| evening. just got home from work. capping off a full few months of mostly traveling, sleepless nights. i have two days off, tomorrow and the next. at least the bar was slow, so i had time to read toni... Posted by Cameron McGill on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:53:00 PST |
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MI...noah and i are coming to see you |
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| hoping you can join us... Fri. June 6 @ Mac's Bar Lansing, MI 8pm Sat.June 7 @ The Loft Flint, MI 8pm The full band will be back in Mt. Pleasant, MI on July 25th @ Rubbles for Midwest Fe... Posted by Cameron McGill on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 01:06:00 PST |
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rockford, WI, rockford, chicago, some train, glen ellyn, rockford... |
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| many things...back in rockford today at the studio and the mellotron has made its appearance, which means many hours. am going to do some singing the next few days on the tunes from last week. we have... Posted by Cameron McGill on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 01:25:00 PST |
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My Friends |
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Erin, Margot & the Nuclear So and So's, Noah Harris, dan mcmahon, Cory Chisel & The Wandering Sons, Matt Hopper & The Roman Candles, Mike Felten, I.V. Lab Studios, Lisa Blackthorne, Stan Le Chinois, Scott, Tim Easton, Ladybird indeed, maureen, Scott from BLUEBIRD/OGDEN/AEG 720.931.8708, Rue Royale, Escapist, Oliver Mampel, backpack, Rose Rose, ZACK G THE LONELY RAMBLER, Charlie Koltak, Lightning Buck, Marquee Magazine, dallas jones, Matchstick Wonders, Les Boyko, brad knapp, cara, Ingrid, Kyle Henderson, :r:i:t:a:, Sweet n Lola, TheLocalTourist.com, Julie, Jess, calico queen, Miles Nielsen, jenamarie, French Canadian, Erin little, Lydia, Jessa, Laura, Jacqueline, Gabriel Reed ! Ellestel, Jamie Lynn, Andra, STEGER, Elliott McGill, Jason Knauf, Ronny and The Caretakers, Ånkhvenaris
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