ROADIO ROSE / Ed Askew

from: The Ageless Poetry of Ed Askew
by David Shirley

"Paint the night snowy white
And the day winter rose
The black rider will break
Silver chains

Over a gradual layering of harpsichord arpeggios and swelling electronic keyboards, singer/composer Ed Askew repeats the vivid chorus gently and deliberately, like a painter methodically applying brushstrokes to a canvas, until the image hovers stubbornly in the fading keyboard drone. Like much of Askews homemade recordings of the past ten years, the song (the opening track of 1986s Little Houses) unfolds with a loveliness, delicacy, and measured restraint rarely heard in contemporary popular music.... "
this is a version of R R that i made in 1997 and sent out to friends on a collection called LITTLE HOUSES. ..then a cassette recording. and earlier version,for tiple and voice, appears on LITTLE EYES.. released after the above was written. i made the video last year.

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Music

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• ed askew
• singer-songwriter
• psych-folk
• indie folk-pop

[beatlesmusikerin]

Do you have the complete lyrics or the original recording? I love this song!