John Murry / SOUTHERN SKY / Official Video

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Southern Sky appears on the album The Graceless Age

Out now on Rubyworks in Europe.

The Graceless Age is also available on Spunk Records in Australia and NZ.

Southern Sky was directed by legendary cult filmmaker John Micheal McCarthy and filmed in various locations in Tupelo, MS and Memphis, TN. John and Mike were both born and raised in Tupelo and cut their artistic teeth in underground Memphis. Mike offers his Director's comments below:

"Hello, This is JMM from Memphis! My Movies are for the Incredible Shrinking Middle Class that keeps evolving after Punk, after the Death of Elvis, after the Underground, My Comics are for the two most beautiful men born on Earth (and his twin is born dead). My Rock and Roll is 'Something Alien In The Park'. I am an Escapism Artist. I am Many Last Names. I am JMM, the Redneck with a Thousand Faces, The Man Without A Drive-In. Hope you dig my John Murry video.

John said he met me when he was a Memphis teen-ager. He drunkenly staggered into the business where I worked and I told him "to get the fuck out". Well now he's come back, this time to haunt me. John Murry the artist has chosen me to write and direct his new video "Southern Sky" and so I do this, I suppose, as a way of apology to him. John and I have the same initials (JMM), we both hail from Tupelo, we are both adopted children, and our mothers (individually) attended the 1956 Homecoming Show in Tupelo when Elvis played. Murry's wife insisted I use starlets in the video but other than that, I had free reign, and what you are watching is the "directors cut". If you don't like that, then you need "to get the fuck out."

Director Bio:
Mike McCarthy combines arcane rock-and-roll trivia, and B-Movie myths to craft his uniquely southern take on post-modern America. He is alternately dubbed "the godfather of independent cinema" and "an exploitation auteur". McCarthy has created a pseudo-futuristic world that renders hippie-versus-rocker battles (THE SORE LOSERS) and saucy burlesque dancers (BROAD DAYLIGHT) in day-glo colored scenes inspired by the pages of a circa-1950's comic book. An integral part of the Memphis underground, McCarthy is revered as a cult hero in Europe and Japan. His newest full-length feature, CIGARETTE GIRL, which premiered in Australia in July 2009, segregates nicotine addicts in a glamorous social commentary populated with babes and bad boys galore. ---- Andria Lisle in Memphis Spoon
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This song is the best song I've heard in years.  Relentless.  Harrowing.  
"cheated by misfortune" = f' ing genius  
"the devils paintbrush holds just one color "  - f'ing genius

esmith
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Wow! Just beautiful. Chuck Prophet sent me, they could be brothers. John🖖

thesecretspaceship
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I love it you would just have to know john. He always said his music was the way he wanted it and never would be a, sell out. He achieved it in his way. This is by far my favorite!

lauriegross
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I'm not saying it's the best song ever, but it's probably the best song ever.

baphomick
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Playing workmans club in dublin on May 9th, cant wait. Amazing song, ive had it on endless repeat all morning

irishmike
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So great. This one give me the chills and tears every time.

baphomick
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Amazing! TY WXPN for choosing this as song of the week! I would never have 'met' John.

kunoichi
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Superb. Buy the album! Great gig at the Bush Hall London 8th May. This career has to flourish, buy John's record, now!

caton
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I have XPN to thank for this too. Such a beautiful song!

esp
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Really really powerful stuff. As much as i love the album i expect i will understand it better and still be listening in 20

andymcbride
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John, you are doing very, very good. Thanks!

eugenslavik
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reminds me of Father John Misty - Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings.

scottysols
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awesome....love this song...and great video to accompany

skinnylickingood
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I wrote a song back in the 90's that sounds just like this, the opening line was 'Cry, show your eyes, light your tears up, with southern skies' SPOOKY

SiecoVideo
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Linda canção!!!! Será que ainda existem pessoas que faz algo valer a pena?! Enquanto isso, músicas dessa qualidade, me faz refletir!!!

lahishelena
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Playing Kilkenny Roots Festival, Ireland on 4th and 5th May.

cleerethinking
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I'd love to be able to read the lyrics to this!

Oldmurphyaccout
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Then buy the album, support the artist and you can.

tynebar
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Dude doesn't know how to spell his last name. That is forgiveable. Great song.

scottysols
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I really hate to say it, but they should've made it in grainy B&W.

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