Picaresque

I feel like we've been threatening to make the 'barn record' ever since the 2005 album 'Picaresque' -- this idea of trying to do something a little more stripped-down, a little more simple, keep the songs a little more economical.

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If you’re an iTunes a-la carte type, “Sixteen Military Wives” off Picaresque is an especially infectiously catchy and brilliant bit of dark poetry.

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To Spain we seem to owe the interminable Romances of Chivalry, series within series; and to Spain also are we indebted for the humorous narratives of knavery, which are known as the Picaresque Romances.

Introduction 1907

Spain, of that class called Picaresque, or those devoted to the adventures of notorious scoundrels, the father of which, as also of all others of the same kind, in whatever language, is Lazarillo de

The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula George Henry Borrow 1842

Spain, of that class called Picaresque, or those devoted to the adventures of notorious scoundrels, the father of which, as also of all others of the same kind, in whatever language, is Lazarillo de

The Bible in Spain 1712

A. The Decemberists 'Picaresque'Make sure you have a dictionary handy: lead singer Colin Meloy rhymes' folderol 'with' chaparral 'on rollicking opener' The Infanta '-- and he never makes it any easier.

SNAP JUDGMENT: MUSIC 2007

Song" (from "The Hazards of Love"); the dynamic storytelling - from lone acoustic guitar to crashing full band - of "The Bagman's Gambit" (from the 2005 album "Picaresque"); and to the changeable, episodic, multitheme scene setting of a string of songs from the band's 2006

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Song" (from "The Hazards of Love"); the dynamic storytelling - from lone acoustic guitar to crashing full band - of "The Bagman's Gambit" (from the 2005 album "Picaresque"); and to the changeable, episodic, multitheme scene setting of a string of songs from the band's 2006

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In his mind he was composing a memoir, in the mode of a Picaresque.

Eddie's Story TimChambers 2011

In his mind he was composing a memoir, in the mode of a Picaresque.

Eddie's Story TimChambers 2011