Talking to Walls @ Bowery Poetry Club
Photos & words by Rozlyn Smith
On Friday May 28th 2010 I made my way to the Bowery Poetry Café to see Connecticut's Talking to Walls, Abe Marder, and Skye Claire and The High Society. To start the night off was Abe Marder. What really got me interested in this singer/songwriter was how he came up with some of his songs. Marder has his own blog titled “Abe Marder’s Song of the Day” where he asks his fans to submit a word and he writes a song based off the definition of that word. His songs “Cozen,” “Panacea,” and “Wrangle” were all words that were submitted to his blog and were made into songs. He revealed that “Panacea” was a word his mother submitted in hopes that her son would write a happier song, but unfortunately “Panacea” wasn’t that song. Marder also took us back to his childhood with a song he wrote at the age of seven titled “Cows.” Marder then went on to admit that while growing up, he had a dark obsession with animals. The animal theme moooooooooooved, I’m sorry, moved right along into a song about an unfriendly toad. In between songs, Marder kept the crowd laughing with his banter and stories about how the songs came about.
On Friday May 28th 2010 I made my way to the Bowery Poetry Café to see Connecticut's Talking to Walls, Abe Marder, and Skye Claire and The High Society. To start the night off was Abe Marder. What really got me interested in this singer/songwriter was how he came up with some of his songs. Marder has his own blog titled “Abe Marder’s Song of the Day” where he asks his fans to submit a word and he writes a song based off the definition of that word. His songs “Cozen,” “Panacea,” and “Wrangle” were all words that were submitted to his blog and were made into songs. He revealed that “Panacea” was a word his mother submitted in hopes that her son would write a happier song, but unfortunately “Panacea” wasn’t that song. Marder also took us back to his childhood with a song he wrote at the age of seven titled “Cows.” Marder then went on to admit that while growing up, he had a dark obsession with animals. The animal theme moooooooooooved, I’m sorry, moved right along into a song about an unfriendly toad. In between songs, Marder kept the crowd laughing with his banter and stories about how the songs came about.
