Some hot Coco (Love Alcorn, that is)
Coco Love Alcorn is a hard woman to pigeonhole. Her music is a gumbo of jazz-inflected chords and idioms and hip-hop performed on her parlour guitar, simmering together with songs about topics as diverse as social justice, the advantages of a bicycle in the city, and the sexual appeal of Intellectual Boys.
The what of the who? Watch this:
Now that you have a sense of the riddle wrapped inside an enigma that is Coco Love Alcorn, lemme throw something else at you. She’s the only folk singer I know of who shows up for gigs with racks of hand-silkscreened clothing and posters along with CDs and more conventional merch.
Coco makes the clothes with her husband, graphic artist Simon Farla.
Here’s a brief interview with Coco, interspersed with bits of her song “Stranger”, which can be found on her last album Joyful.
Info on Coco can be found here; the Black Sheep is here; Simon Farla’s site here, and you can find Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway’s version of “For All We Know” on their eponymous 1972 album. It’s available on iTunes too.
Tags: Coco Love Alcorn, female folk singer, hand silk-screened clothing, Simon Farla, The Blacksheep Inn
March 22nd, 2010 at 6:07 pm
Well, that was delightful – thank you! If you asked ME who’s voice I’d like to have it would be Coco’s!! I sincerely think she’s one of the greatest talents going – and adorable to boot. She’s probably the ONLY artist I will go hear time and time again whenever I have the opportunity.
March 23rd, 2010 at 1:10 pm
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