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Before forming Sparklehorse, Linkous fronted local bands Johnson Family and Salt Chunk Mary. Only one song, "Someday I Will Treat You Good", survived from these earlier bands to be played by Sparklehorse. Linkous said he chose the name Sparklehorse because the two words sounded good together and could be a loose metaphor for a motorcycle.
Frederick Mark Linkous / ˈ l ɪ ŋ k ə s / (September 9, 1962 – March 6, 2010) was an American singer, songwriter and musician, best known as leader of Sparklehorse.He was also known for his collaborations with such artists as Tom Waits, PJ Harvey, Daniel Johnston, Cracker, Radiohead, Black Francis, Julian Casablancas, Nina Persson, David Lynch, Fennesz, Danger Mouse, and Sage Francis.
Linkous experimented with songs and sounds on the album; the song "Chaos of the Galaxy/Happy Man" is notable for its middle section, which consists of nothing but radio static. This was done intentionally by Linkous, who not only wanted the recording to sound like an AM radio station broadcast [ 9 ] but also feared that the song was too catchy ...
Sparklehorse fans had long since given up hope. They knew Mark Linkous, the haunted and brilliant leader of the Virginia-based indie-rock project, had been working on a new Sparklehorse record at ...
"Sick of Goodbyes" was co-written with Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse, and was later re-recorded and released as a single from that band's album, Good Morning Spider. [26] [27] The final song on the album proper, "Loser," is a Grateful Dead cover. Jerry Garcia once told Lowery and Hickman that he approved of their version of the song. [28]
As a result, It’s a Wonderful Life was the first Sparklehorse outing in which Linkous did not perform alone in his private studio. “I didn't want to play every instrument on every song,” said the songwriter. “I didn't want to be behind the control console the whole time. I wanted to have other people's brains and input involved.”
The album features a hand-numbered 100-plus-page book of photos taken by David Lynch, said to be a visual narrative for the music. [7] This book was limited to 5,000 copies. This was the final album that Sparklehorse leader Mark Linkous completed before his suicide on March 6, 2010, although In the Fishtank 15 —recorded in 2007—was released ...
Linkous' passion for making music was also rekindled by listening to the music of Tom Waits; he once called Waits' albums Swordfishtrombones, Rain Dogs and Bone Machine the "road map" for Vivadixie. And in a 2006 interview, he even singled out a recording of Waits singing Gavin Bryars ' " Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet " as the one song that ...