Die bewonderde ik "uiteindelijk" meer dan Sting, Terry Callier, mooie muziek en via massive attack met Terry Callier werd een nieuw muziek universum voor me ge~opend, op de blogs terug te vinden.
Walging en weerzin over een onterecht veroordeelde vader van een tien jarige zoon die door wurging om het leven zou zijn gebracht, 12 jaar gevangenis ! De vingerafdrukken op de keel van die zoon van 10 jaar waren van een ander ! Het is zo afgrijselijk, mijn maag keert om van die godvergete krengen van het openbaar ministerie. Ik kan er met mijn nieuwe gevoeligheid en de gebeurtenissen het afgelopen jaar niet meer tegen.
I have never in my life felt more alone and lost than i do now.
Brugge 1987/88 was ook erg, 2013 was door babette ook erg, 2007 was door hypomaan in 2006 en somber in 2007 ook erg, als weinig je meer vrolijk kan maken.
Ingrid van engelshoven woonde op 200 meter van mij vandaan, zag haar nog smoezen met laurens jan brinkhorst, de omhoog gevallen,
ze verdient 220.000 eur per jaar, haar man verdient 100.000 eur per jaar als ambtenaar bij vws en dan maar oordelend kakelen over het tekort aan basisschool leerkrachten die 22.000 eur per jaar verdienen.
Mark Rutte verdient in zijn eentje 220.000 eur en heeft een mooi huis voor zich alleen in duttendel/belgisch park, de chique wijk van de haag.
Terry Callier - Sunset Boulevard Songtext
Here come(s) fine and mellow slippin' down the streetFree and easy smile for everyone she meets
Everybody's hangin' back but now the secret's out
She just came by to tell us what it's all about
There's a nation waitin' for the comin' of the Lord
With the dreamers and the schemers outon Sunset Boulevard
And sugar life is hard
Out on Sunset Boulevard
Best dressed or hard pressed no matter who you are
Dependin' on how the cards fall, anyone can be a star
But Iife is not a screenplay - it's a battle for your soul
You must be very carelul how you choose to play your role
Really ain't no tellin' what your Spirit's headin' toward
You see he rests uneasy out on Sunset Boulevard
And mama Iife is sho' 'nuff hard
Out on Sunset Boulevard
Now, Jesus, Peace be with him, said,
"The Truth will set you free"
Truth and doubt go hand-in-hand in our society
Everybody's wonderin' what the beast will have to say
From the steps of Mother Russia to the flats in East L. A.
There's an angel waitin' with Fire and the Sword
With the hipsters and the tlpsters out on Sunset Boulevard
And Ine is sho' 'nuff hard
Out on Sunset Boulevard
Terrence Orlando "Terry" Callier (May 24, 1945 – October 27, 2012) was an American soul, folk and jazz guitarist and singer-songwriter.[3]
Life and career[edit]
Callier was born in the North Side of Chicago, Illinois, and was raised in the Cabrini–Green housing area. He learned piano, was a childhood friend of Curtis Mayfield, Major Lance and Jerry Butler, and began singing in doo-wop groups in his teens. In 1962 he took an audition at Chess Records, where he recorded his debut single, "Look at Me Now".[4] At the same time as attending college, he then began performing in folk clubs and coffee houses in Chicago, becoming strongly influenced by the music of John Coltrane.[5] He met Samuel Charters of Prestige Records in 1964, and the following year they recorded his debut album. Charters then took the tapes away with him into the Mexican desert, and the album was eventually released in 1968 as The New Folk Sound of Terry Callier.[4][6] Two of Callier's songs, "Spin, Spin, Spin" and "It's About Time", were recorded by the psychedelic rock band H. P. Lovecraft in 1968, as part of their H. P. Lovecraft II album.[7] H. P. Lovecraft featured fellow Chicago folk club stalwart George Edwards, who would go on to co-produce several tracks for Callier in 1969.[7]
He continued to perform in Chicago, and in 1970 joined the Chicago Songwriters Workshop set up by Jerry Butler. He and partner Larry Wade wrote material for Chess and its subsidiary Cadet label, including The Dells' 1972 hit "The Love We Had Stays on My Mind", as a result of which he was awarded his own recording contract with Cadet as a singer-songwriter. Three critically acclaimed but commercially unsuccessful albums followed, produced by Charles Stepney: Occasional Rain (1972), What Color Is Love (1972), and I Just Can't Help Myself (1974). These demonstrated that Callier's influences included R&B, soul and jazz. Subsequently, he toured with George Benson, Gil Scott-Heron and others. Cadet and its parent label Chess were sold in 1976 and Callier was then dropped from the label. The Songwriters Workshop closed in 1976. The following year, he signed a new contract with Elektra Records, releasing the albums Fire On Ice (1977) and Turn You to Love (1978).[6][8] The opening track of the latter album, "Sign Of The Times", was used as the theme tune of radio DJ Frankie Crocker and became Callier's only US chart success, reaching # 78 on the R&B chart in 1979 and prompting his appearance at the Montreux Jazz Festival.[6][9]
Callier continued to perform and tour until 1983, when he gained custody of his daughter and retired from music to take classes in computer programming, landing a job at the University of Chicago and returning to college during the evenings to pursue a degree in sociology. He re-emerged from obscurity in the late 1980s, when British DJs discovered his old recordings and began to play his songs in clubs. Acid Jazz Records head Eddie Piller reissued a little-known Callier recording from 1983, "I Don't Want to See Myself (Without You)", and brought him to play clubs in Britain. From 1991 he began to make regular trips to play gigs during his vacation time from work.[6][10]
In 1994 Urban Species released their debut album Listen, the title track containing a sample of the bass line and guitar riff from Callier's 1973 recording "You Goin' Miss Your Candyman".[11] In the late 1990s Callier began his comeback to recorded music, collaborating with Urban Species on their 1997 EP Religion and Politics and contributed to Beth Orton's Best Bit EP in 1997 before releasing the album Timepeace in 1998, which won the United Nations' Time For Peace award for outstanding artistic achievement contributing to world peace. His colleagues at the University of Chicago did not know of Callier's life as a musician, but after the award the news of his work as a musician became widely known and subsequently led to his dismissal by the University.[4][10]
As well as touring internationally, Callier continued his recording career, releasing five albums after Timepeace, including Lifetime (1999), Alive (2001), Speak Your Peace (2002), featuring Paul Weller on the single "Brother to Brother", Golden Apples of the Sun (2003), featuring the words of W. B. Yeats' poem The Song of the Wandering Aengus, and Lookin' Out (2004). May 2009 saw his album Hidden Conversations featuring Massive Attack released on Mr Bongo records.[8][10] In 2001, Callier performed "Satin Doll" for the Red Hot Organization's compilation album Red Hot + Indigo, a tribute to Duke Ellington, which raised money for various charities devoted to increasing AIDS awareness and fighting the disease.
On June 25, 2019, The New York Times Magazine listed Terry Callier among hundreds of artists whose material was reportedly destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire.[13]
Discography[edit]
Studio albums[edit]
- The New Folk Sound of Terry Callier (Prestige, 1965)
- Occasional Rain (Cadet, 1972)
- What Color Is Love (Cadet, 1973)
- I Just Can't Help Myself (Cadet, 1974)
- Fire on Ice (Elektra, 1978)
- Turn You to Love (Elektra, 1979)
- Time Peace (Verve Forecast/Talkin' Loud/PolyGram, 1998) #92 UK
- Lifetime (Blue Thumb/Talkin' Loud, 1999) #96 UK
- Speak Your Peace (Mr Bongo, 2002) #156 UK
- The New Folk Sound of Terry Callier (Prestige/BGP, 2003) Remastered with three additional tracks including "Golden Apples of the Sun"
- Lookin' Out (Mr Bongo, 2004)
- Hidden Conversations (Mr Bongo, 2009