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Colton and Coyne Record Tribute to Sparklehorse

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On March 6, 2010 Mark Linkous the artist better known as Sparklehorse shot himself in the heart outside his friend’s Knoxville, Tennessee home. Mark was and remains a beloved figured in contemporary indie rock: the main force behind cult classic Good Morning Spider and milestone It’s a Wonderful Life ; a producer for Daniel Johnston; and an allstar collaborator (Tom Waits, PJ Harvey, The Flaming Lips, Danger Mouse, many more). News of the 47yearsyoung suicide sent shockwaves through the music media (http://topsy.com/www.americansongwriter.com/2010/03/marklinkous19622010/) and community, especially since it came just one week after the announcement of a longawaited official release of his last project, Dark Night of the Soul (with Danger Mouse, David Lynch (http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=Xipwwt7883w&feature=PlayList&p=DB0D0A4EB0C701F1&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1&index=59), The Flaming Lips (http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=zUvuXXbMwq8&feature=PlayList&p=62A512421B0CD465&playnext_from=PL&index=28&playnext=3), Julian Casablancas (http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=0ZfgMrhUMGU&feature=PlayList&p=FAD2910DD4C30761&playnext_from=PL&index=112&playnext=2), Gruff Rhys (http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=FyMglR2Tyw4&feature=PlayList&p=62A512421B0CD465&playnext_from=PL&index=3&playnext=2), Jason Lytle (http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=HyA88CF4YHM&feature=PlayList&p=62A512421B0CD465&playnext_from=PL&index=42&playnext=4), James Mercer (http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=ryHoku28KcE&feature=PlayList&p=62A512421B0CD465&playnext_from=PL&index=42&playnext=5) and others (http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=jqnGU_moahQ&feature=PlayList&p=62A512421B0CD465&playnext_from=PL&index=104&playnext=6)).

The Futureheads (https://twitter.com/thefutureheads) @thefutureheads R: RIP Mark Linkous - 'It's a Wonderful Life' is one hell of a song- Linkous was one hell of a visionary.

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“I was very sad to hear the news that Mark Linkous has died. He and his band toured with us in Europe, at the start of OK Computer , and they were great every night. His first two records were very important to me, and I carried his music from the tour into my life, and my friends’ lives too. He was softly spoken, with an Old South courtesy I hadn’t heard before: he introduced me to Daniel Johnston’s music, and the West Virginian writing of Pinckney Benedict. Mark wrote and played some beautiful music, and we’re lucky to have it. Rest in Peace.” Radiohead bassist Colin Greenwood on Dead Air Space

Metric (https://twitter.com/Metric) @Metric Back in nyc. Don't care about the Oscars. Thinking only of our latest loss too soon, Mark Linkous. Listening to Sparklehorse and saying ...

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Deleted tweet from Death Cab for Cutie’s Chris Walla (http://psychexfutureheart.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/chriswallatweet.jpg?tw_p=twt) (alluding to the Sparklehorse song “Someday I Will Treat You Good): “I always hoped that someday you would treat you good too. You shared so much.”

“I was crushed to hear that Mark Linkous took his own life Saturday. I had the great honor of playing with Sparklehorse on a 1999 European tour. Mark was always kind and gracious and that tour will always be a highlight of my career. His songs have a aching emotional intensity that still leave me gasping, the kind of songs that make you feel you’d been confided in, that someone has left themselves nakedly vulnerable to make you understand what they are trying to say. I love the way he sang, tuneful but free of unnecessary ornamentation. Our world is sadder and less beautiful without him.” Jesus Lizard bassist David Wm. Sims (http://davidwmsims.wordpress.com/2010/03/08/marklinkous1962 2010/)

Califone (https://twitter.com/califonemusic) @califonemusic goodbye mark l., we will miss you badly http://tumblr.com/x5t75lhbe

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“Mark Linkous gave us so many dark and beautiful songs. They were dark like coal compressed into diamonds and they sparkled in the deep night like spattering morning stars … Who can know why one leaves us by their own hand. Perhaps it is despair meshed with cold clarity. Perhaps one is merely done on earth and needs to travel elsewhere. We can only appreciate his work and imagine him sailing away on a vessel composed of the very sparrows of which he sang .” Patti Smith on a dedication page of her website (http://www.pattismith.net/souvenance.html)

Steven Drozd (https://twitter.com/stevendrozd) @stevendrozd Mark Linkous toured with us in 2003.Every night he and I would share a quiet moment with a shot of whiskey and a few laughs.A nice memory.

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“He was as open, sincere and unaffected a person as I’ve ever encountered. He was completely unguarded and enthusiastic about the things he loved, and he gave the musicians he worked with freedom to be creative and excel. Prior to seeing him at work I’d never given his music much thought, but during those sessions he impressed me tremendously and I was really looking forward to seeing him again and finishing the record .” Steve Albini

Steven Drozd (https://twitter.com/stevendrozd) @stevendrozd R.I.P. Mark Linkous. You were a kind soul...

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At the time of Mark’s death The Flaming Lips hadn’t played “Waitin’ For a Superman” since New Year’s Eve 2007. In fact, they hadn’t played any songs from The Soft Bulletin live yet in 2010, and songs from that masterpiece were few and far between for most of that year. But in honor and remembrance of Mark, they resurrected “Superman” for their next couple of shows (http://www.gigwise.com/news/55242/TheFlaming LipsPayTributeToMarkLinkousAtSXSWGig), preluded by touching banter from Wayne on their pal’s passing.

The Lips had a special relationship with Mark. His latter work was recorded with their producer, Dave Fridmann, at his Tarbox Studios – the same place every Lips album of the past 15 years was created. Sparklehorse and the Lips twice collaborated: first for the 2004 Daniel Johnston Discovered Covered tribute album they took on “Go” together; then for Sparklehorse’s aforementioned Dark Night of the Soul they wrote and recorded the much loved “Revenge.”

Wayne Coyne (https://twitter.com/waynecoyne) @waynecoyne Tooo sad.... @stevendrozd (https://twitter.com/stevendrozd) workin on a Sparklehorse tribute song.. moby.to/bzlqwp (http://t.co/4GFEW5DF)

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The Lips started working on a new, apparently original song in tribute to Mark almost two years after his passing this January. Although there haven’t been any updates on that recording lately, in late March Coyne teamed up with his friend Graham Colton – an Oklahoman singersongwriter best known for “Best Days” of American Idol fame – to record yet another Sparklehorse tribute, a cover of “Don’t Take My Sunshine Away.”

The 2006 original “Don’t Take My Sunshine Away” (above) was the opening track of the final Sparklehorse album released in his lifetime, Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain. It should be familiar to Flaming Lips fanatics: Steven Drozd drums on it in all its White Album esque glory. The new version by Graham and Wayne was recorded at Oklahoma’s Blackwatch Studios with assistance from Jarod Evans. A bittersweat beauty, see a snippet of its recording follow by the finished track in the video at the top of this page.

Graham Colton (https://twitter.com/GrahamColton) @GrahamColton Me, @oddsevans (https://twitter.com/oddsevans) @waynecoyne (https://twitter.com/waynecoyne) making music tonight. instagr.am/p/IsyxRGtm51/ (http://t.co/kBC6t7yw)

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Graham Colton (https://twitter.com/GrahamColton) @GrahamColton Working on a Sparklehorse song w/ @waynecoyne (https://twitter.com/waynecoyne) . He's playing the 'Wasp' keyboard. Weird sounds. instagr.am/p/IuUuH9Nm01/ (http://t.co/erj4WgMm)

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