Haiodee and Other Stories
Combining my two majors in English Literature and Music Composition, HAIODEE is the product of a year-long focused study of Southern folk music and the novels of William Faulkner.
Haiodee is a concept album; the songs are fashioned to tell the story of a Memphis gambler named Isaac Shaw, who builds a gambling house in a Mississippi cave. The songs that tell this story claim different forms—Memphis blues, Delta blues, gospel blues, blues ballads, jug band music, dance tunes, Dixieland, ragtime, vaudeville, Civil War marching songs, Tin Pan Alley songs, Appalachian ballads, among others—and many different narrators.
Running for 73 minutes, nearly an hour of which is music, this narrative experiments with the boundaries of storytelling by blurring the lines between two media—the album and the novel. Using the fictional suburb of Gershom as a stage upon which Faulknerian themes of family, Southern history, ambition and demise, and the struggle of the human heart, Haiodee and Other Stories contains a world all its own.
The full playlist of songs can be found on @GershomProductions Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ-Qc-wtqIO8F8I747rGTVtOx02KzLNMH
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