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''Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot'' is the debut studio album by Sparklehorse. The album was largely recorded with musicians from Cracker, for which Mark Linkous worked at the time as guitar tech, roadie and sometimes-collaborator. Most of the album was produced and recorded with Cracker's David Lowery, under the pseudonym David Charles. == Background == The story of ''Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot'' began in the late 1980s, when Mark Linkous, the guitarist and singer for a Los Angeles band called the Dancing Hoods, relocated to Richmond, Virginia in an attempt to kick his drug addiction and make a fresh start. At the time, Linkous had all but given up on a career in music: "I was fed up with the music scene. It was so nasty (Los Angeles ). That was the height of glam rock. Bands like Poison were supposed to be important." Upon arriving in Richmond, Linkous began playing music with his brother Matt, who lived in the city,〔 and other local musicians, including a traditional Irish group. He found himself drawn to the pure sounds of old-time music, and was inspired enough by its honesty to begin a concerted effort to reinvent his songwriting. As he told ''Rolling Stone'' in 1999, "That period was about abandoning a lot of things and just starting from scratch and learning how to write again – learning how to make art out of pain or clay." 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 "sort of saved me when I had given up (music )." At his Richmond practice space – located inside an old music club called the Mosque – Linkous met ex-Camper Van Beethoven frontman David Lowery. Like Linkous, Lowery had also recently moved to Richmond. Lowery was in the process of forming a new band called Cracker, and opening up his Sound of Music recording studio, where production for ''Vivadixie'' would later take place.〔 The unusual title of the album came from a dream that Linkous had - he described it as being "about General Lee having a crude submarine back in the Civil War, and (the dream ) I could hear an old-time band playing inside, all distorted by the water". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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