Hard to beat The Rev, Dylan. Have you got his latest?(Not really the walk on the wild side you're looking for, but nice nonetheless.)

Tina Johnson is right! Especially about Buckner's Since, a wonderful album.

I don't know what to recommend to you, dw. My music listening today:

• Eric Matthews - Six Kinds of Passion Looking for an Exit (2005), which is orchestral-folk with an indie-rock bent. Major influences: Nick Drake, Game Theory, Burt Bacharach.
• Richard Davies - Barbarians (2000), which is psych-folk-indie rock from Matthews' former bandmate. Major influences: Syd Barrett, Flaming Lips (actually, they're more like admirers and acted as Davies' backing band on his 1995 tour), um, The Clean or early psychedelic Bee Gees, maybe?
• Go-Betweens - Oceans Apart (2005), which is pitch-perfect indie pop. You're probably familiar with these guys, but if not, this album (their latest in 27 years of recording) isn't a bad start. Major influences: well, going the other way, the G-Bs influenced Belle & Sebastian and any number of Dylanesque, post-New Wave guitar-pop bands.
• Six Organs of Admittance - School of the Flower (2005), which is mostly instrumental folk guitar with avant-weirdness flourishes, like mixing all of John Fahey's different periods together at once. Trancey! I luff it.
• Gary Higgins - Red Hash (1973), which is early damaged-hippie folkiness. Six Organs covered one of these songs on the album above, causing Drag City to secure the rights and re-release this album. It's lovely and rather Donovan-ish, if Donovan had been a bit more depressed and listened to Beefheart for a couple of days straight. Higgins apparently recorded the album in a two or three days immediately before beginning to serve a long drug sentence.

Absolutely. Thanks!

Sure! I'll put some songs up when I get home tonight.

Oh, I put some Jandek covers (and their originals if I had 'em) on buffistarawk last night. Covering artists were Mountain Goats, Six Organs of Admittance, Okkervil River, and Jeff Tweedy.

Tina Johnson is right!

Rarin'!

"Can't you see that's the last act of a desperate man?" "We don't care if it's the first act of Henry V, we're leaving."

Richard Davies - Barbarians (2000)

I think that's the one my friend George played on. Allmusic's credits are no help.

Bass, vocals: George Rush.

Does your friend know Davies? I'd like to interview him for the High Hat.

George was in his touring band for a while. I'll email you his contact info. He's the bass player for the Raymond Scott Orchestrette & was EDO's bassist during the glory years (successwise I'm being a smartass, but musicwise they really were a great band). He's playing with Hem these days, who apparently had a song prominently used in one of Tim's unaired Inside episodes. As Tim confirmed that in Minearverse I'd say the info is reliable. George & his wife were big Buffy & Angel fans but haven't followed into Firefly/Wonderfalls/Inside territory.

Ah, the ever-important Richard Davies-Raymond Scott Orchestrette-EDO axis. 'Cause all those bands have a lot in common.

Thanks for the contact info!

'Cause all those bands have a lot in common.

The letter E and George Rush. George is also responsible for getting Hec his David Jo-autographed copy of Bubblegum Music Is the Naked Truth.

George is also responsible for getting Hec his David Jo-autographed copy of Bubblegum Music Is the Naked Truth.

::pumps fist in rock geek triumph::