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Smoke & Steel

Rotten Tomatoes & Cheap Socks

Record Details

Artist
Julia Crowe
Release
2009
Genre
Instrumental Rock

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  1. Rotten Tomatoes & Cheap Socks -:-- / 02:05

This track was conjured from blues lessons learned firsthand from cutting class to go hang out on Maxwell Street in Chicago before the marketplace was torn down. For anyone who picks up a guitar in Chicago, there is nothing but the blues–the longing to escape the grind, of being short on cash, aching from all that love done wrong amid battery-powered amps and burning oil drum garbage cans. I’d come home with a sack of cheap socks & beautifully ripe tomatoes, which seemed to be perfectly calibrated to turn rotten by the time I walked through the front door.

About

Julia is a fingerstyle-playing electric guitar soloist and film composer whose music has been featured on National Public Radio in the U.S. and on the Universidade FM Rádio in São Luís, Brasil. She also works in diverse mediums (photography, painting and animation) to enhance the expression of her music. She is the author of My First Guitar: Tales of True Love and Lost Chords from 70 Legendary Musicians, published by Souvenir Press, Ltd in London.

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Julia’s Artwork

 

Painted Dresser
Painted Dresser
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Painted radiator detail
Painted radiator detail
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Fireworks on New York harbor illustration
Fireworks on New York harbor illustration
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Faux wood, trompe l’oeil
Faux wood, trompe l’oeil
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Sunset – Manhattan Harbor illustration
Sunset – Manhattan Harbor illustration
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Cityscape Illustration
Cityscape Illustration
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Vaux’s Swifts video
Vaux’s Swifts video
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Painted fireplace
Painted fireplace
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Moth video
Moth video
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Roses in October video
Roses in October video
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Gilded peacocks
Gilded peacocks
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Blue Wall Mural
Blue Wall Mural
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My First Guitar: Tales of True Love & Lost Chords

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