King Creosote

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King Creosote

Background information
Birth name Kenny Anderson
Origin Fife, Scotland
Label(s) Fence Records, 679 Recordings
Associated acts Skuobhie Dubh Orchestra
Khartoum Heroes
Website kingcreosote.com

King Creosote is the name used for current solo releases of the musician Kenny Anderson. A popular misconception is that this is the name of the band featuring him and not just his stage name. Anderson was formerly lead singer of Skuobhie Dubh Orchestra and Khartoum Heroes. Anderson is a prolific songwriter, having released (at last count) 38 albums, most of these being CD-R releases on his own Fence Records label.

From the Fence Collective website [1]:

In 1994, the singer / songwriter with Skuobhie Dubh Orchestra and Khartoum Heroes realised that an increasing number of his songs were either not folky / bluegrassy enough for the Dubhs, or had too few chords for the Heroes. King Creosote crowned himself to bring to the world - "songs with relatively few chords in a non-bluegrass style", except in those cases where "this song is an over-elaborate bluegrass ditty". In 2005, KC live might, fully clothed, only sport the accordion, with some rare guitar / banjo / box-playing from Pip Dylan of Spain, naturist and ogre of beauty.

King Creosote maintains that the song is more important than the style, and that the performance outweighs recording quality. If a part can't be recorded in one take, scrap it for something simpler. No sample should be longer than four seconds, and although samples should be in tune or in time, not necessarily both. King Creosote detests noodling virtuoso, and thus has a go on whatever instrument is at hand. Anyway, duff tunes strengthen the songs on either side. A KC album starts at the beginning, and don't finish 'til the end - by design. Except where they start in the middle and grow out of control.

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[edit] Trivia

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He was one of the first artists to contribute a t-shirt design to the Yellow Bird Project to raise money for Greenpeace.

Will be the support act for the newly reformed band Squeeze on the UK leg of their 2007 tour.

He is managed by Elton John's former manager, Derek 'Ginger' Mackillop.

He recorded a cover of Jeff Buckley's "Grace" for the 2005 tribute album Dream Brother: The Songs of Tim and Jeff Buckley

[edit] Discography (CD)

[edit] Discography (CDR)

  • Queen Of Brush County (1998)
  • Rain Weekend (1998)
  • Inner Crail To Outer Space (1998)
  • Or Is It? (1998)
  • Gink Scootere (1998)
  • 1999: An Endless Round Of Balls (Parties And Social Events) (1999)
  • Wednesday (1999)
  • Jacques De Fence (1999)
  • I Am 9 (1999)
  • Planet Eggz (1999)
  • Or Was It? (2000)
  • 12 O'Clock On The Dot (2000)
  • Stinks (2000)
  • G (2001)
  • Radge Weekend Starts Here (2001)
  • King Creosote Says "Buy The Bazouki Hair Oil" (2001)
  • Disclaimer (2001)
  • Squeezebox Set (2002) - 5 album boxset containing:-
    Fair Dubhs
    Favourite Girl
    Whelk Of Arse
    More Afraid Of Plastic
    Losing It On The Gyles
  • Psalm Clerk (2003)
  • Sea Glass (2004)
  • Red On Green (2004)
  • loose tea on his wynd (2004)
  • vintage quays (2004)
  • harbour the hillfolk (2005)
  • demos (2005)
  • yellow on red (2005)
  • waltzer (2006)
  • isle of lo fi (2006)
  • dumps vol.1 (2007)
  • they flock like vulcans to see old jupiter eyes on his home craters (2008)

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