Skin & Bones - Mellin, Jeff
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Skin & Bones is the first-ever collection of lyrics by songwriter / artist Jeff Mellin. Named for a lyric from his "tour de force"* album Jeff Mellin Saves the World (Stereorrific, 1999), the book covers songs from Mellin's bare-bones coffeehouse days to his later, more fleshed-out power-pop material. "While it's often difficult to gauge the worth of pop lyrics printed on the page without musical accompaniment, it's remarkable how well Skin and Bones reads, as lyrics in the poetic sense," says critic and poet Garrett Caples. "Jeff's lyrics considered as poetry at their best evoke the only-just…mehr

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Skin & Bones is the first-ever collection of lyrics by songwriter / artist Jeff Mellin. Named for a lyric from his "tour de force"* album Jeff Mellin Saves the World (Stereorrific, 1999), the book covers songs from Mellin's bare-bones coffeehouse days to his later, more fleshed-out power-pop material. "While it's often difficult to gauge the worth of pop lyrics printed on the page without musical accompaniment, it's remarkable how well Skin and Bones reads, as lyrics in the poetic sense," says critic and poet Garrett Caples. "Jeff's lyrics considered as poetry at their best evoke the only-just stylistically-belated, yet entirely individual and intense poems of Weldon Kees; even at their least effective, they have the readable lightness of Edward Arlington Robinson, and everyone knows Paul Simon made 'Richard Corey' a better song than it ever was a poem, which illustrates my point nicely." Also features photographs by the award-winning photographer John Soares.
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Jeff Mellin has written, sung, and played, performed and produced, recorded and released. He's art directed, illustrated, designed and collaborated. He's videoed, photographed, installed, and exhibited. He's been awarded and recognized. He founded, and he lost it. He laid low and he haikued. Lately, he's mostly occupied with fatherhood, and he's always looking forward. *** Also by the author: Jeff Mell!n Saves the World, Parts 1ne & 2we (Double EP Album, Stereorrific Recordings, 1999); Good for a Gander, w/ the Midnight Cowboys (Album, Stereorrific Recordings, 2001); Come Apart & Other Minor Disasters: Best Recordings, 1994-97, w/ The Eddies (Album, Stereorrific Recordings, 2006); Skin & Bones: Song Lyrics (Book, Kolourmeim Press, 2008); Love is Made of Sky; (EP, dPulse/Stereorrific Recordings, 2010); Three On A Match (Album/Lyric Book, Stereorrific Recordings, 2011); Driveway Chalk Stars of Pajama Astronomers: A Year of Haiku (Book, Pennyring Press, 2020) *** Notes on the Decorations: Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (August 28, 1833 - June 17, 1898) was an idealistic British painter, designer, craftsman, and illustrator. A key figure in the Pre-Raphaelite, Arts & Crafts, and Aesthetic movements, he championed traditional, anti-industrial, and decorative arts. His Le Chant d'Amour, a serendipitous match for this lyric, was actually inspired by an old Breton folk lyric: Alas, I know a love song, / Sad or happy, each in turn. He painted several versions - the earliest, oddly enough, on the inside lid of his upright piano. The nature illustrations, initials, cover, and paper are adapted from the Book of Flower Studies, a 16th-century illuminated catalog, likely a model for works for Queen Claude de France. Though the images were painted in witness to their inherent beauty, not gathered merely for their symbolism, they can, as in dreams, have meaning, if you like. Both pieces appear courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Open Access Artworks Collection, a literal treasure trove of art and artifacts from ancient to modern, generously made available for public use, exploration, and inspiration.