November 2024: The album is out and her Black Friday deal means free shipping until December 1st. Just go to https://lenneklingaman.bandcamp.com/album/phoenix and score! There’s nothing like vinyl when it comes to gifts–for yourself or someone you love. This album is exclusively at Bandcamp. So order now and get it in…
“Know You Rider†is about as trad as you can get. It’s been done innumerable ways by a host of artists with varying lyrics. Its origins are shrouded in mystery. But it’s always been about “(I) know you rider, gonna miss me when I’m gone.†In high school I played the…
“Lucky’s Café” is a barroom lament about looking for love in all the wrong places.
“The Illustrated Man†was written across decades. I think I wrote the lyrics in the late 70s. At the time I tried repeatedly to write the music for it but nothing clicked, so I just set it aside, neatly typed, for nearly 30 years. Finally, in the early-aughts, it came…
True crime, outlaws and antiheroes. You can’t get much more American than that. Some of my songs arrive in the form of a first-person narrative by an unexpected character. An outlaw or antihero works for me. I like the grittiness of Steve Earle’s “Copperhead Road.†I like a TV series…
Here’s a link for on-demand Mixcloud playback of the Lenne Klingaman Radio Nowhere interview with Joe Pszonek of WMSC in New Jersey. Lenne’s interview starts at about 16:00. See the previous blog post for more info about the interview. (Click on title to view full page.)
