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I'm Gonna Free Her - Roky Erickson 3:03
Starry Eyes - Roky Erickson 3:38
You Don't Love Me Yet - Roky Erickson 4:24
Please Judge - Roky Erickson 4:28
Don't Slander Me - Roky Erickson 4:15
We Are Never Talking - Roky Erickson 3:46
For You (I'd Do Anything) - Roky Erickson 2:16
For You - Roky Erickson 3:01
Clear Night For Love - Roky Erickson 2:47
Haunt - Roky Erickson 3:40
Starry Eyes - Roky Erickson (Alternate Version) 3:10
We Sell Soul - The Spades 3:14
Roger Kynard "Roky" Erickson (born July 15, 1947) is an American singer-songwriter, harmonica player, and guitarist from Texas. He was a founding member of The 13th Floor Elevators and a pioneer of the psychedelic rock genre
In 1995, Erickson released All That May Do My Rhyme on Butthole Surfers drummer King Coffey's label Trance Syndicate Records. Produced by Texas Tornados bassist Speedy Sparks, Austin recording legend Stuart Sullivan, and Texas Music Office director Casey Monahan, the release coincided with the publication of Openers II, a complete collection of Erickson's lyrics. Published by Henry Rollins's 2.13.61 Publications, it was compiled and edited by Casey Monahan with assistance from Rollins and Erickson's youngest brother Sumner Erickson, a classical tuba player.
Sumner was granted legal custody of Roky in 2001, and established a legal trust to aid his brother. As a result, Roky received some of the most effective medical and legal aid of his life, the latter useful in helping sort out the complicated tangle of contracts that had reduced royalty payments to all but nothing for his recorded works. He also started taking medication to control his schizophrenia.
A documentary film on the life of Roky Erickson titled You're Gonna Miss Me was made by director Keven McAlester and screened at the 2005 SXSW film festival. In September of the same year, Erickson performed his first full-length concert in 20 years at the annual Austin City Limits Music Festival with The Explosives with special guest and longtime associate Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top.
In the December 30, 2005 issue of the Austin Chronicle, an alternative weekly newspaper in Austin, Texas, Margaret Moser chronicled Erickson's recovery, saying Erickson had weaned himself off his medication, played at 11 gigs in Austin that year, obtained a driver's license, bought a car (a Volvo), and voted.
In 2007, Erickson played his first ever gigs in New York City at Southpaw in Brooklyn, NY, as well as California's Coachella Festival and made a debut performance in England to a capacity audience at the Royal Festival Hall, London. Roky continued to play in Europe, performing for the first time in Finland at Ruisrock festival. According to the article in Helsingin Sanomat June 8, 2007, the performance was widely considered the highlight of the festival day.
On September 8, 2008, Scottish post-rock band Mogwai released the Batcat EP. Erickson is featured on one of the tracks, "Devil Rides". Erickson performed alongside Austin-based indie rock band Okkervil River at the Austin Music Awards in 2008 and then again at the 2009 South by Southwest music festival.
Erickson returned to the stage in 2008 to perform songs from the 13th Floor Elevators catalog that had not been performed in decades with fellow Austinites The Black Angels as his backing band. After months of practices and time recording in an Austin studio, they performed a show in Dallas followed by a West Coast tour. The Black Angels played a regular set and then backed Erickson as his rhythm section, playing 13th Floor Elevators songs as well as songs from Erickson's solo albums.
On April 20, 2010, Erickson released True Love Cast Out All Evil, his first album of new material in 14 years. Okkervil River serves as Erickson's backing band on the album.
In March 2012 Roky Toured New Zealand and Australia for the first time headlining Golden Plains Sixxx Festival in Meredeth as well as playing soldout side shows in Sydney and Melbourne.
On May 10, 2015, Roky performed with the reunited 13th Floor Elevators at LEVITATION (formerly Austin Psych Fest, the event was renamed "Levitation" after the song of the same title). The band consisted of original band members Erickson, Tommy Hall, John Ike Walton, and Ronnie Leatherman, joined by Roky's son Jegar Erickson, and guitarist Fred Mitchim.
’m an illegal alien
Charles Bukowski couldn’t see the logic in outlawing LSD on the basis that it could render a man permanently insane. Marriage, work and the bus service were all capable of driving us quite, quite mad. What politician would campaign to make those illegal?
Still, spare a thought for those acid explorers who after tuning in and dropping out were left in a psychologically sorry state. Brian Wilson slumped in his bed for years hearing voices and overeating. Syd was sacked from the Floyd and sent back to his mother. The 13th Floor Elevators’ Roky Erickson endured schizophrenia, institutionalisation, electroshock therapy and harboured the belief that he was a Martian invader.
Butthole Surfers may have been involved in this reissued 90s effort from Erickson’s wilderness years but don’t expect full-bore noise-rock, nor even the far-out psychedelia pioneered by the Elevators. A couple of edgier, volatile rockabilly numbers aside, these are mostly tightly-written, folk-tinged pop tunes, including some re-recordings of older Erickson compositions.
Roky’s dishevelled yowl elevates them into the otherworldly realm, spookily channelling both his fractured mind and convincingly extra-terrestrial soul. Perhaps it was waiting for the bus service back to Mars that drove him loopy after all |
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