The first guitar that Arthur Lee (best known as the mastermind behind sixties cult-legends Love) touched when he got out of jail belonged to Nashville-based songwriter Diana Darby. Such an endorsement is fitting, as Darby illumines the darker corners of folk-rock in a way not dissimilar to the third Velvet Underground album, or Forever Changes. Recorded in her home (and replete with cameos from domestic life's soundtrack), her new album Fantasia Ball feels like the confessional you were never meant...
KeithD... (Lemonkid provides a terse formal Japanese style bow)
I must commend you for the excellent Diana Darby interview, as well as others you've done for the site.
I was previously unfamiliar with the work of D. Darby, but thanks to your interview checked out her site and really dug her music. Not only is this a help for me (and I thank you, as I thank anyone who turns me on to great new stuff), but it will be a help for her as I'm the Music Director for my radio station, as well as a music writer who can probably get her up on our charts.
Much appreciated.
By the by do you know which label/distributor she's with?
ps. an explication of the Arthur Lee guitar touching line would be appreciated as I still can't quite make sense of it.
pps. anyone reading this who doesn't know Love's "Forever Changes" album should whip out and get it asap. After reading the interview I pulled it out of my cd shelf and I've been listening to it all of yesterday and today. Great stuff.
Well, like she says in the interview, her publicist, Mark, was previously Arthur Lee's manager before he went to jail. When Lee was released from jail Mark was among the first people he called, and he [Mark] brought Diana along with him to meet Arthur.
Sean
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Los Angeles, CA
JUN 23, 2003 05:00 PM