Llyn foulkes biography of rory

While her 13-year-old school friends were listening to Alanis Morissette, Katie Foulkes was discovering music from an altogether different era. On holiday with her family in Ireland, she discovered country blues artist Rory Block's Best Blues and Originals and the album never came off the stereo. "She kick-started it for me. I remember getting a feeling that I would love to be able to do this for a living," says Foulkes, brightly. "That was the first time I felt that. It was the first time I heard the real Delta blues stuff and I went on that journey and discovered all the old blues players and my love for blues country itself." She started dabbling in song-writing and would later name herself Delta Maid.

After hearing her sweet homespun country-blues album and its finger-picked guitar, and on seeing her today, dressed in a red plaid shirt, black jeans and chunky boots, her long blonde hair tied back, I am expecting Foulkes to sound like she's just stepped off a plane from Mississippi. But the fact that she's just stepped off the train from her home in Liverpool is instantly given away by her broad Scouse accent.

This weekend, the 26-year-old will play at Wychwood Festival, hot on the heels of her very first headline show

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“Love in the Ruins”

To most people, Los Angeles is a city of perpetual sunshine and eternal optimism. Historically, artists and the art business have stuck to the East Coast and West Coast art has always enjoyed a strangely tangential relationship to this “center” of the art world. Embracing a refreshing sense of the absurd that contrasts with the high-seriousness of the New York art world, and framed by a culture of unreality (the film business), art in California has often seemed like an antidote to the high-art ideals of the mainstream art world.

Artists like Edward Ruscha, John Baldessari, Alexis Smith, Llyn Foulkes and, more recently, Mike Kelley and Jim Shaw, have all, at one time or another, been victims of this idea of the West Coast art world as marginal. With a somewhat jokey, self-parodying attitude that contrasts with the rigorous intellectualism of the international mainstream, these artists have also been key figures in making this marginality center stage.

After a year of violent earthquakes, debilitating floods, and uncontrollable forest fires, Los Angeles seems to be a culture in crisis, on the verge of collapse. Informed by this sense of an impending crisis, “Love in the Ruins: Art and the Inspiration of L.A.,” poses a

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Author: Tamar Halpern

Tamar Halpern

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