Leon Redbone
Leon Redbone
Leon Redboneis a Canadian/American singer-songwriter and guitarist specializing in interpretations of early 20th-century music, including jazz and blues standards and Tin Pan Alley classics...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth26 August 1949
CountryUnited States of America
certainly cliche consider cult history interested sort
If you're not interested in history, if you're living for the day, you need some sort of cliche hook. I certainly don't think of myself as a cult anything. It's a strange thing to even consider pursuing.
gives justify market means somebody
I think there's a preoccupation with the American market to make excuses and justify its past. If it isn't current, it means somebody has to make an excuse for it. If it's 'cult,' it gives it a sense of illegitimate legitimacy.
approach certain mood music rely stay visual
I have a visual sense for the music. It has to stay true to a certain sense of period. I rely on a sense of colors and mood in my approach to the arrangement.
bad beat business dead except guess industry involving left music producer record taste
I got out of the music industry many years ago. I had a charlatan for a producer who I wanted nothing to do with. He's dead now, so I guess I can't beat that horse any more. It left a very bad taste in my mouth, so I just went on about my business doing what I do and not involving myself with record companies, except for distribution.
history interests life music past reviewing step views
My views on music, and life in general, are completely out of step with everything that's going on. I've always been out of step. The only thing that interests me is history, reviewing the past and making something out of it.
inclined less means
I don't do anything mysterious on purpose. I'm less than forthcoming, but that doesn't necessarily mean I'm mysterious. It just means I'm not inclined to go there.
music whether
Music doesn't really require whether the person's a young person or old person for whatever kind of music it is.
gone language mastered might spanish
If I had mastered the Spanish language to any extent, I might have gone in that direction.
home
I don't have a home. I'm on the road, more or less.
christmas
There's a little Christmas in all of us, I guess. Even in me.
basically best good name people sing songs whether
Other musicians are basically personalities who want to make a name for themselves. All I do is sing old songs in the best way I can. What else is there to know? If you were a blacksmith, what would people need to know about you other than whether you can make a good horseshoe?
interested internal music people stirring
I'm not interested in stirring anybody up through music. If you're going to stir people up, it has to be a thought process that has nothing to do with music. I see music as having to do with an internal thing. Something that stirs you up is external.
collection recorded tunes version wheel
I just do a random roulette wheel version of what I've recorded or sometimes tunes I haven't recorded. It's a collection of whatever happens, happens.
anywhere music near played politics
I don't think music should be played anywhere near politics. The two don't go together.