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Venice, Los Angeles CA, United States

Of Ellyn Maybe’s new poetry/music CD, Rodeo for the Sheepish, the legendary rock critic Greil Marcus wrote, “I heard half of the long, quietly mesmerizing “City Streets” on the radio—what was this? A woman with a poem, with music and a sung chorus not behind her but circling her, and the poem neither exactly recited nor sung, but spoken with such a lilt, in a voice so full of miserabilist pride—at forty, a woman is still getting high-school insults tossed at her (“Hey Mars girl,” a man shouts on the street, “get off the Earth”)—that it’s music in and of itself. There is no bottom to Maybe’s inventiveness, to her adoption of Nirvana’s Oh well whatever never mind as an artistic tool, to a confidence that allows her to toss off a bedrock statement on the American character (“There are people / who know the cuckoo is the state bird / of most states of mind”) in a throwaway voice so that its humor hits you not as a joke but as an echo. There is nothing like this album except for the real life it maps.”

Author of eight books of poetry but even better known for her engagaging personality and performances, Ellyn was convinced by fans from the music world to adapt her spoken-word prowress to a musical format. Their delight at the results can be seen from a few typical reactions: ● Jackson Browne – “I have started to write something about you…several times, and each time I am struck by my inability to describe what you do in terms beautiful enough, original enough to do you justice. … Who has ever been able to say in other words what a song says? Maybe it’s why I like your poems so much; they say what can only be said in exactly the way you say it.
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  • PowerTarcisio

    what the hell did i just step in to

    10 Oct 2010 Reply

  • mintonmedia

    Thinking about your poems while listening to David Sanborn play "Christo Redemptor" and realizing how well your reading would blend with very, very, very moody sax. Try a session with just Denny...

    10 Sep 2010 Reply

  • mintonmedia

    Yay! Similar artists AND Ellyn Maybe Radio! Boo! Now, if Ellyn Maybe Radio would only LOAD!

    9 Sep 2010 Reply

  • mintonmedia

    Well, I guess better late than never. Now how about some Similar Artists and, dare we hope, Ellyn Maybe Radio?

    3 Sep 2010 Reply

  • mintonmedia

    Come ON, last.fm. I've listened to some of these tracks more than the single play you give any and all of them. Records keeping. Ever hear of it?

    26 Aug 2010 Reply

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