myself to get lost in it. It was
sweet, intriguing and confusing
only b/c I wasn’t sure if there
was a way I was supposed to
react. But there is no wrong or
right way, I just let it go.
Though razor blades and skin
carvings aren’t everyone’s
idea of romance, it’s just as
erotic in minds of a select few
and simply opening your mind to that understanding is the epitome of
acceptance.
By far my favorite track on this album is ‘Bad Driver’, the acoustic surfer
beat entrance wrapped up in lyrics like “cause that hole will say no to a
"butt-fucking-fairy" and an open ended and abrupt finale. ‘Take Me Back
Home Again’, more of those masculine electric strums. Intense lyrics of
the passion behind lust at first sight and the longing that ensues keeps it
burning, I find this fresh, overt and fun!, “you’re the only rider on the
highway of my bones”, Great to dance to, very sexy. The awkwardness
and extremity of adolescence is revisited, after listening to the track
“Seventeen”. I especially connected with the distance that had come
to fruition with my father during those years. Other somewhat moody
tracks include “Bina’s Radio” and “The Wild Men”, equally powerful
however didn’t speak to me nearly as personally as the others. The
incredible thing about musical expression is that it speaks to us all on
many levels so take a listen. Number nine on the album is “The Winding
sweet, intriguing and confusing
only b/c I wasn’t sure if there
was a way I was supposed to
react. But there is no wrong or
right way, I just let it go.
Though razor blades and skin
carvings aren’t everyone’s
idea of romance, it’s just as
erotic in minds of a select few
and simply opening your mind to that understanding is the epitome of
acceptance.
By far my favorite track on this album is ‘Bad Driver’, the acoustic surfer
beat entrance wrapped up in lyrics like “cause that hole will say no to a
"butt-fucking-fairy" and an open ended and abrupt finale. ‘Take Me Back
Home Again’, more of those masculine electric strums. Intense lyrics of
the passion behind lust at first sight and the longing that ensues keeps it
burning, I find this fresh, overt and fun!, “you’re the only rider on the
highway of my bones”, Great to dance to, very sexy. The awkwardness
and extremity of adolescence is revisited, after listening to the track
“Seventeen”. I especially connected with the distance that had come
to fruition with my father during those years. Other somewhat moody
tracks include “Bina’s Radio” and “The Wild Men”, equally powerful
however didn’t speak to me nearly as personally as the others. The
incredible thing about musical expression is that it speaks to us all on
many levels so take a listen. Number nine on the album is “The Winding
Sheet”, which the artist himself discusses with me (read below). The final track on
the album “The Wagoner’s Lad” is an acoustic testament of the melodic power
and crisp nature of Dudley’s voice. This track again has an ending that seems
sudden and unfulfilled, however your heart knows the story and song continue.
Because the Wagoner’s lad is “a slave to the highway for the rest of his life”.
Through Markus Payne Entertainment, I had the pleasure recently of asking Dudley
a few questions.
Armando | Your music has the imagery in my mind going everywhere, how do you
tap into songs like "The Winding Sheet", what you're inspiration?
Dudley | That song is a good example of how I work: it’s a mix of things
I’ve personally experienced, things from other people’s lives and things
I’ve imagined to fill in the spaces. As a kid in Kentucky, I lived by the railroad
tracks where the coal trains ran. And every time they passed, we would go down
with a pail to pick up the little pieces of coal that had fallen off. When I brought
them home and burned them in the fireplace, they looked to me like the
vertebrae of coal miners, melting away. So that’s something personal that
haunted me. But then we also travelled through coal country when I was a kid, so
I had vivid memories of people we met there. And finally I’m old enough now to
have experienced death and what it’s like to be trapped with no good choices.
So the room in that song was very vivid to me, and every detail made me feel
something intensely: “the dirty light, the missing cough”. Just repeating those
words does it to me now. The song has to have power over my emotions first.
Then it has a chance to
mean something to you.
Armando | If you were stuck on a deserted island what (3) things would you want
with you forever?
Dudley | A guitar, something to write with, and my lover. Is that boring?
the album “The Wagoner’s Lad” is an acoustic testament of the melodic power
and crisp nature of Dudley’s voice. This track again has an ending that seems
sudden and unfulfilled, however your heart knows the story and song continue.
Because the Wagoner’s lad is “a slave to the highway for the rest of his life”.
Through Markus Payne Entertainment, I had the pleasure recently of asking Dudley
a few questions.
Armando | Your music has the imagery in my mind going everywhere, how do you
tap into songs like "The Winding Sheet", what you're inspiration?
Dudley | That song is a good example of how I work: it’s a mix of things
I’ve personally experienced, things from other people’s lives and things
I’ve imagined to fill in the spaces. As a kid in Kentucky, I lived by the railroad
tracks where the coal trains ran. And every time they passed, we would go down
with a pail to pick up the little pieces of coal that had fallen off. When I brought
them home and burned them in the fireplace, they looked to me like the
vertebrae of coal miners, melting away. So that’s something personal that
haunted me. But then we also travelled through coal country when I was a kid, so
I had vivid memories of people we met there. And finally I’m old enough now to
have experienced death and what it’s like to be trapped with no good choices.
So the room in that song was very vivid to me, and every detail made me feel
something intensely: “the dirty light, the missing cough”. Just repeating those
words does it to me now. The song has to have power over my emotions first.
Then it has a chance to
mean something to you.
Armando | If you were stuck on a deserted island what (3) things would you want
with you forever?
Dudley | A guitar, something to write with, and my lover. Is that boring?
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T-Cells and T-Birds |A Review of Dudley Saunders’ Hit Album
‘The Emergency Lane’
By Armando Diaz, Jr.
I’m a real bad driver but he was so skinny,
that wind filled his skin up just like a balloon.
He looked like muscles to each passing car,
And they said hey that’s a fag / can lift up weights on a bar
And the emergency lane, that’s my middle of the road.
The traffic jams curse me to hell in code…
- Lyrics from the track “Bad Driver”
Welcome to the ‘dark side of the rainbow’, as one reviewer had put it. I
actually prefer to think of this as a thorny strawberry patch. At any rate
welcome to the third studio album by captivating singer/songwriter Dudley
Saunders, released in 2007.
The glistening vocals held me in a trance as I realized I’m being drawn in and I
know it, and I liked it. What can I equate this to dear readers? I am not a fan of
spiders, yes they have their purpose but it’s just too many legs, too many eyes,
and hairy and just not a pleasant situation for me. And then suddenly, I smell the
delicious aroma of baked goods, cookies, tarts, berries, creams and a powdered
sugar heaven (being diabetic I can dream of this). Now where is this wonderful
scent coming from? It’s coming from Mr. Tarantula’s house over there, the one
T-Cells and T-Birds |A Review of Dudley Saunders’ Hit Album
‘The Emergency Lane’
By Armando Diaz, Jr.
I’m a real bad driver but he was so skinny,
that wind filled his skin up just like a balloon.
He looked like muscles to each passing car,
And they said hey that’s a fag / can lift up weights on a bar
And the emergency lane, that’s my middle of the road.
The traffic jams curse me to hell in code…
- Lyrics from the track “Bad Driver”
Welcome to the ‘dark side of the rainbow’, as one reviewer had put it. I
actually prefer to think of this as a thorny strawberry patch. At any rate
welcome to the third studio album by captivating singer/songwriter Dudley
Saunders, released in 2007.
The glistening vocals held me in a trance as I realized I’m being drawn in and I
know it, and I liked it. What can I equate this to dear readers? I am not a fan of
spiders, yes they have their purpose but it’s just too many legs, too many eyes,
and hairy and just not a pleasant situation for me. And then suddenly, I smell the
delicious aroma of baked goods, cookies, tarts, berries, creams and a powdered
sugar heaven (being diabetic I can dream of this). Now where is this wonderful
scent coming from? It’s coming from Mr. Tarantula’s house over there, the one
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covered in all the web. But I just
have to get closer because it just
smells so good! An uncomfortable
fear that suddenly becomes
masked and enticing, that’s what
the experience of listening to this
album was.
A hypnotic voice reminiscent of
the kind of twang I would typically
dismiss. Some pretty ill lyrics,
combined with sweeping acoustics
and electric shocks, an
overwhelming feeling of
trespassing and forbidden fruit and
barbed wire, it was intoxicating!
Right away of course I took note of
the second track ‘Love Song for
Jeffrey Dahmer’’, I didn’t react I
suppose the way the average
person would with any ghast or
disgust or a simple “what the F***”,
rather I found myself curious again
and after listening to it I wasn’t sure
what I was feeling? Guilt at
enjoying the song, and allowing
have to get closer because it just
smells so good! An uncomfortable
fear that suddenly becomes
masked and enticing, that’s what
the experience of listening to this
album was.
A hypnotic voice reminiscent of
the kind of twang I would typically
dismiss. Some pretty ill lyrics,
combined with sweeping acoustics
and electric shocks, an
overwhelming feeling of
trespassing and forbidden fruit and
barbed wire, it was intoxicating!
Right away of course I took note of
the second track ‘Love Song for
Jeffrey Dahmer’’, I didn’t react I
suppose the way the average
person would with any ghast or
disgust or a simple “what the F***”,
rather I found myself curious again
and after listening to it I wasn’t sure
what I was feeling? Guilt at
enjoying the song, and allowing
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Armando | Explain to me the eroticism of “soiled skin and blood.”
Dudley | Hmm…Well, the best I can say is that we all feel alone inside our own
skin, and in sex, we secretly long to have someone break
through to find us, or we long to break through to someone else. We want
someone to go too far with us, cross our boundaries, break through to us. There’s
a little violence in all good sex. Polite sex makes us feel more horribly alone. We
need passion, we need to be dirty and thereby feel fully alive. If you aren’t losing
control with me, I don’t know why you’re in bed with me.
Armando | What are your favorite kinds of kisses?
Dudley |I like full contact kisses: open mouthed, yes, but full rolling contact with
tongues and inner lips. The worst thing is when you stick your tongue in a man’s
mouth and it just sits there in the open air, untouched. Come on, guys, make
contact!
Well said dear Mr. Saunders, I don’t think I expected his passion to be anything
less. “The Emergency Lane” won "Outstanding Album of 2009" at the Out Music
Awards in New York, December 11, 2009
Dudley Saunders’ album “The Emergency Lane” is available for download on
iTunes and Amazon.
For more information on Dudley Saunders please visit:
www.dudleysaunders.com
www.fangrecords.com
Markus Payne Management
www.referbnation/label?markuspaynemanagement
and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IncLGwXsTrc
CLICK HERE for more Armando Diaz, Jr. photos by Paula Himel
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Dudley | Hmm…Well, the best I can say is that we all feel alone inside our own
skin, and in sex, we secretly long to have someone break
through to find us, or we long to break through to someone else. We want
someone to go too far with us, cross our boundaries, break through to us. There’s
a little violence in all good sex. Polite sex makes us feel more horribly alone. We
need passion, we need to be dirty and thereby feel fully alive. If you aren’t losing
control with me, I don’t know why you’re in bed with me.
Armando | What are your favorite kinds of kisses?
Dudley |I like full contact kisses: open mouthed, yes, but full rolling contact with
tongues and inner lips. The worst thing is when you stick your tongue in a man’s
mouth and it just sits there in the open air, untouched. Come on, guys, make
contact!
Well said dear Mr. Saunders, I don’t think I expected his passion to be anything
less. “The Emergency Lane” won "Outstanding Album of 2009" at the Out Music
Awards in New York, December 11, 2009
Dudley Saunders’ album “The Emergency Lane” is available for download on
iTunes and Amazon.
For more information on Dudley Saunders please visit:
www.dudleysaunders.com
www.fangrecords.com
Markus Payne Management
www.referbnation/label?markuspaynemanagement
and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IncLGwXsTrc
CLICK HERE for more Armando Diaz, Jr. photos by Paula Himel
Copyright © MBIENTE MAGAZINE. Do not reproduce without citing this source