{"id":35332,"date":"2013-09-20T13:11:24","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T11:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/?p=35332"},"modified":"2013-09-20T13:17:12","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T11:17:12","slug":"john-murry-the-graceless-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/john-murry-the-graceless-age\/","title":{"rendered":"John Murry: The Graceless Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GwECIpHlJ2c\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u00c5rets helt store positive overraskelse for mig er albummet <em>The Graceless Age<\/em>, der kom tidligere i \u00e5r og skyldes amerikanske John Murry. Han er f\u00f8dt samme \u00e5r (dvs. i 1979) som en vis Peter Doherty og ligesom han har han v\u00e6ret ude i heroinmisbrug og konflikter med familien. Men her h\u00f8rer lighederne op. John Murry har med <em>The Graceless Age <\/em>lavet en samling reflekterede og velskrevne sange om sin nedtur, og han har f\u00e5et den succes han fortjener.\u00a0 &#8220;California&#8221; ovenfor er rigtig vellykket, men den lange &#8220;Little Coloured Balloons&#8221; er vel albummets h\u00f8jdepunkt \u2013 en r\u00e5 og gribende beretning om dengang John Murry var dybest nede og l\u00e6ngst ude og var p\u00e5 nippet til at d\u00f8 af en overdosis. Det er en &#8220;gadefort\u00e6lling&#8221; med klaver i stil med f.eks. Springsteens &#8220;Jungleland&#8221;, men alligevel helt anderledes i sit perspektiv.<\/p>\n<p>John Murry er som man kan regne ud ikke nogen munter herre, men han har t\u00e6nkt over tingene og t\u00e6nker stadig videre. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncut.co.uk\/blog\/uncut-editors-diary\/interview-john-murry#oqy8VAQeuScWbIdG.99\">Se bare dette citat fra et interview med ham i Uncut:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<strong>Chuck Prophet , who plays on the Graceless Age, says you made the album \u2018in spite of yourself\u2019. What do you think he meant by that? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Oh, I know what he meant. I owe him a great deal. Chuck took me into detox the first time. I get in my own way and often wonder why. Heroin didn\u2019t help, of course. Chuck and I are friends and would be whether either of us played an instrument or not. We talk more about Herzog and Malick and David Milch and Hunter Thompson and records everybody seems to dislike for no good reason and eat lunch and pretend we have money and go shopping for random crap more than we do anything else. Chuck has made records in spite of himself, too. Still does. Don\u2019t we all, though, do anything we do that\u2019s worth anything at all in spite of ourselves, always? It seems to me that in order to create anything of value, you have to bleed a bit. You\u2019ve got to give of yourself. Not in some hippy way, but in a truly visceral way. You have to live and feel and hurt and love and hate and stop and start and give of the blood you\u2019re given. Happiness, as a constant, is fraudulent. It\u2019s delusional. Show me a happy person and I\u2019ll show you an imbecile. Insanity, in theory, is the only sane response to this modern life I can see. Graham Greene said that \u201cReality is not something to be faced\u201d. In a truly awful sense, he was lucky. He got to die before this century came clanging in like some ice cream truck from hell.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hvis man skal sammenligne John Murry med nogen, er det vel Mark Eitzel fra American Music Club eller den tidlige Tom Waits. Men han har ikke s\u00e5 ondt af sig selv om Eitzel ofte har haft, og hans sange rummer ikke den nogle gange lidt vel romantiske beskrivelse af det forhutlede mandeliv, som Tom Waits engang stod for.<\/p>\n<p>En klar anbefaling herfra \u2013 og s\u00e5 er det endda John Murrys debutalbum.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_middle\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/john-murry-the-graceless-age\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"dark\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"225px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"fb-share-button  \" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/john-murry-the-graceless-age\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"small\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c5rets helt store positive overraskelse for mig er albummet The Graceless Age, der kom tidligere i \u00e5r og skyldes amerikanske John Murry. Han er f\u00f8dt samme \u00e5r (dvs. i 1979) som en vis Peter Doherty og ligesom han har han v\u00e6ret ude i heroinmisbrug og konflikter med familien. Men her h\u00f8rer lighederne op. John Murry &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/john-murry-the-graceless-age\/\" class=\"more-link\">L\u00e6s videre <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">John Murry: The Graceless Age<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_middle\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/john-murry-the-graceless-age\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"dark\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"225px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"fb-share-button  \" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/john-murry-the-graceless-age\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"small\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,20,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-countrywestern","category-rocknroll","category-sorgelige-sange"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}