ELVIS PERKINS - WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING

ARTIST / BAND: ELVIS PERKINS
SONG (MP3): WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING
ALBUM: Ash Wednesday
FILE UNDER: Folk
LABEL: XL Recordings

INFO: Elvis Perkins was raised in Los Angeles and New York and took to music at an early age, perhaps an inevitability if Elvis happens to be your name. He briefly learned the saxophone, before picking up the guitar in high school and taking lessons with Prescott Niles, one-time bassist for the Knack. While he played in rock bands, Perkins also developed an interest in the classical guitar, and began to compose music in both idioms. He wrote poetry too, which gradually morphed into lyrics. After a short stint at college, he began to cultivate the idiosyncratic, highly personalized style that distinguishes Ash Wednesday, a process which for Perkins was “a long journey, long in the coming”.

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