isaacmingo's Channel

127 subscribers

115,085 video views

Play All

Uploaded videos

1-10 of 54

Isaac Mingo Live @ The Riptide isaacmingo 38 views Isaac Mingo performing original songs "July," "Liar," and "Rails" at The Riptide in the Outer Sunset area of San Francisco, California.
if i am a stranger/// a cover by isaac mingo isaacmingo 24 views isaac mingo covering ryan adams' "if i am a stranger" from the album "cold roses."
do i wait/// a ryan adams cover isaacmingo 257 views isaac mingo covering "do i wait" by ryan adams.
green eyes/// a cover by isaac mingo isaacmingo 62 views isaac mingo covering wavves' "green eyes"
always like this/// a cover by isaac mingo isaacmingo 26 views isaac mingo covering bombay bicycle club's "always like this"
to meet you/// a cover by isaac mingo isaacmingo 58 views isaac mingo covering teitur's "to meet you"
elizabeth, you were born to play that part/// isaacmingo 73 views a cover by Isaac Mingo
1979/// a cover by Isaac Mingo isaacmingo 51 views Isaac Mingo covering Smashing Pumpkins' 1979
blah isaacmingo 13 views This video was uploaded from an Android phone.
Stop/// a cover by Isaac Mingo isaacmingo 43 views Isaac Mingo covering Stop by Ryan Adams

About Isaac Mingo

facebook.com/themingo

Created by

isaacmingo

Latest Activity

Dec 27, 2011

Date Joined

May 23, 2006

About this user

Isaac Mingos main claim to fame in Louisville right now is probably from his role in helping establish the monthly Thursday singer-songwriter showcase at Uncle Pleasants. But Mingo also is a musician. One listen to a selection of his songs reveals that his biggest influence is Ryan Adams, specifically the acoustic guitar-and-vocals Adams of Suicide Handbook fame, although Mingo does have one Love Is Hell-esque piano ballad, Solitude. In no way does this influence come through in a negative way. Musicians cant help but borrow and steal from their idols. The trick is just to pick the best influences and steal the best parts of their work. In this, Mingo is a success. In one of his strongest numbers, Dallas, Mingo explores the place-as-a-person motif that Adams and many artists before him have employed, and Mingo uses it just as brilliantly as Adams does with Oh My Sweet Carolina or Dear Chicago. And although the influence is fairly clear and unlikely to be denied, Mingos music is hardly derivative. He simply finds himself a part of a large body of young singer-songwriters paying tribute to the greats, while working to find a unique perspective, and — slowly but surely — he is succeeding.

Age

Hometown

Lexington, KY

Country

United States

less

Featured Playlists

54 videos Play all(54) Uploaded videos by Isaac Mingo

12 videos Play all(12) Covers by Isaac Mingo

9 videos Play all(9) Originals by Isaac Mingo

6 videos Play all(6) ryan adams, 3/16/09 by Isaac Mingo

4 videos Play all(4) the everglow by Isaac Mingo

7 videos Play all(7) app by Isaac Mingo