Alternative Folk Rock with songs, melodies, sparing production and organic instrumentation.
In a gist, we love our family, friends, and supporters (the Dailies) as much as we love music. We make our music for them whilst writing about experiences of life, love, frustrations, hopes, desires, fears, and so on. Though, I should say, we attempt to portray all these ideas in such a manner as to create different perspectives individually from each person who hears the music so that hopefully you will interpret your meanings of the music and words however you see fit and be it for better or worse, we get you through a rough day, a good day, a long or short night, an uncertain moment in time, or your inspired towards certainty. Whatever we can do to help the only way we know how....with our music!
Thank you very much for your time, to us, it means the most!
Sincerely,
Charlie Vaughn & the Daily Routine
“It’s good and it’s also good and it’s good sometimes and sometimes not, no, no, wait, all the times it’s good, don’t do the, don’t do the it’s not thingy, don’t do the it’s not thingy, oh, my god, um, I think it’s good and this is my opinion, this is my opinion, I think it’s good also and I like the guitar solos and I’m a, and my dad is the, and my dad is the drummer for, drummer for the band, hey, where’d the pretzel go?”
- Rowdy Lennon
| POSTED BY: EricLawrence | POSTED ON: 21 Sep 2008 03:00 PM | ||
 “A Bucket of Joy” is a great college rock album with elements of alt-country, folk, blues, and pop rock from Charlie Vaughn & the Daily Routine. This group is fully capable of jumping from genre to genre without losing the fullness and solidity of their sound, delivering great melodic arrangements with nice guitar work in an experimental gem with “Where the Hell is Frank?” Charlie Vaughn's vocals are clean with a great range, and he sounds like a mix between Ryan Adams and John Mayer. The lyrics are great from the beginning when Vaughn sings “Tom left town like a broken jaw,” and the rest of the album is filled with excellent storytelling and imagery through Vaughn's intelligent and socially aware song writing. The production quality for “A Bucket of Joy” is great for the sound the band is trying to create, in that it nicely combines a clean recording with their raw sound. “Bad Habits” is a nice blues rock track with a catchy hook, a great arrangement featuring solid guitar work and hand claps, clean vocals, and a catchy chorus. “I Hope My Mother Wasn't Wrong” is an antiwar track that begins with a stripped down acoustic guitar and drum sound, then moves into a great alt-country arrangement, and features thought-provoking lyrics throughout. Overall, “A Bucket of Joy” is, well, a bucket of joy that should be given a whirl by any college rock fan. -Chris & the RadioIndy.com Reviewer Team Check out Charlie Vaughn & the Daily Routine's music on RadioIndy.com with link to purchase and links to popular sites |
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| POSTED BY: Charlie Vaughn | POSTED ON: 04 Sep 2008 02:32 PM | ||
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Try to Love Someone About: Restlessness and trying to love someone even when you’re stuck in horrible traffic on the 101. If you don’t try, you’ll never find out.
The Cruel, Cruel Joke About: The cruel, cruel joke of life. Be able to laugh, maybe not right away if something serious or frustrating happens, but if one can’t laugh the turmoil’s away, the days will get very tumultuous.
Bad Habits About: A girl that induces bad habits.
The Dive About: A falling out between friends and, conversely, wishing you could be doing what you’re doing now with them still.
Where the Hell is Frank? About: My friends and I growing up in San Diego, playing music on a sea side patio, eating a (stolen) watermelon on a long summer night’s walk, bottle tuned beer bottles on a sea side patio, and Frank usually showing up late to the sea side patio due to work. Oh, and, ooooo, how do I say this if kids read this…..influential paraphernalia.
The Ballad of Enoch Foster About: A fire breathing puppeteer friend of mine. No joke. He’s really good – his real name is Eli Presser and you can find him on myspace as one of our friends. Make him yours!
Simple Life About: The simple life can be very bittersweet, unexpected, sad, and yes, brilliant too, but don’t get trapped in the simple life. Something that is constantly changing by definition can not be that simple. This also pertains to the loss of a loved one.
Live it Up About: Never giving up on your aspirations and dreams when knowing it’s going to be a difficult journey.
To Go About: Why does everything have to be a quick fix these days? The ADD America.
I Hope My Mother Wasn’t Wrong About: Anti War (not political per say) just anti war.
Ghosts in the Walls About: The lyric/words, “Some say that we were kids once back then but God Damn, it sure feels like I am,” really sums up this one, to me. |
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