Author: Shan

Artist, writer, music freak. www.sistersdissonance.com www.shanspykerauthor.com

Two Sisters review posted on FrankiesGun website

In tandem with the photos I posted yesterday, here is my review (written under the name of Ady’s and my Two Sisters and a Show entity) of the Rochester, New York show for our friends over at Frankiesgun.com, a great site dedicated to The Felice Brothers. Check it out, it’s loaded with the photos and two videos I shot at the show, as well as the sole video to have popped up so far—taken by another audience member/fan,—of the epic “River Jordan,” aka the one where “the Guild was killed.” Thanks again to Sean, who is over there at the controls of Frankiesgun.com, for sharing my review on his site.

By the way, if you’re not yet familiar with The Felice Brothers, you should poke around the rest of Sean’s site, it’s a great way to get your feet wet with their music, loads of other videos, photos and information about the band. Then go catch them live, they’re currently adding dates in the US (including Cleveland and Philadelphia and points in between and down south) through early November and in the UK through December. You’ll thank me if you do you know . . . ’cause without a doubt it’s the greatest show on earth!

Two Sisters and a Tavern finished

Inspired by a walk we took through town while exploring on a recent trip to Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, on a Two Sisters sojourn to see The Felice Brothers (we now arrive toting Ady’s new camera and my sketchbook to document our trips together), this is the completed version of the drawing that I’ve been working on for the past several weeks. It’s a bit of a mash up of the architecture and building placement in town, so it is not geographically accurate. Nor did I see the ghost of Nomadi roaming the streets, but I did imagine it. The illustration started as a pencil drawing and moved to india ink pen for this final image.

THE FELICE BROTHERS – Goddamn You, Jim (live Rochester, NY 7/16/2011)

For today I’ve uploaded “Goddamn You, Jim” a seemingly impromptu performance during which time bassist Xmas was repairing his bass . . . haunting and lovely:

another video from the Two Sisters ever-growing vaults…this time taken by me this past weekend in Rochester, New York. The other half of Two Sisters couldn’t make it, nor could another dear member of our posse, but as it would happen at the last moment, yet another longtime-should-be-another-sister friend was able to go with me on the fly and supported my need to be at this show. Turns out it was quite a show to be at for many reasons, one of which includes being there to see the last moments of the existence of Ian Felice’s beautiful Guild guitar during “River Jordan” at the end of the show…honestly the most emotionally charged, heart wrenching performance I’ve ever been witness to. I’ll be sharing some of my photos and video and some words about the (somewhat controversial) show with another site, Frankiesgun.com as well sometime within the week.

 

Two Sisters and a Tavern

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I’ve been working on this drawing, the result of a recent outing (Ady takes her camera and I’ve begun taking my sketchbook) every day for almost a week now and have been posting it’s evolution to Twitter in real time, but wanted to document it more here. I’ve finally made the transition from pencil to india ink and the image above is where I stopped this evening.  The images below are some of my stopping points over the last several days.  I’ll continue to post these until the piece is finished. Plans are to have some gicleé prints made available when I finish.

Finished illustration