Casey James Brooks                                   www.caseyjamesbrooks.com

Simple catchy 4 chord songs with revealing and honest lyrics written on an acoustic guitar

Daughters of Fission

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Hashknife Outfit

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“There are songwriters that I know now that are so incredible and can write songs that can just make me cry. Willie Tea Taylor, Tom VandenAvond, Soda, Konrad, These guys write songs that I can’t even…it’s like Townes Van Zandt. To where they can get to the bare bones of something and write this song that even though it can be very personal to them, it becomes very personal to you. So all this does is try to make me grow as a songwriter. And so I’m challenged constantly. Every time I run into those guys and I hear a new song, I’m like, ‘fuck!’ I got to step it up a notch.  …Also, musically I’m a huge Butthole Surfers fan. Lyrically, understanding vocal patterns, the use of continent sounds and how each word sounds differently. It has its own music of tonalities with words so you can say a word and it sounds different then if you said a verb. Everything sounds different – and then being able to put that into song structure and being able to use that. Like, I got a new one and I use the word ‘wedding ring quilt’ which is a quilt pattern.  …Which, I don’t know why the hell I know that, but the thing about that is all of a sudden you’re thinking about more things then just a quilt. You’re thinking about marriage, you’re thinking about whatever. And being able to use phrases like that, I actually learned from Beck, believe it or not. If you get One Foot in the Grave, it’s incredible. Then there’s all the others: Hank Williams, Townes Van Zandt, the Minute Men, I could just list and list forever. The Ramones are incredible. The decedents….”

Cultures

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