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Article: Elvis Perkins: how loss on top of loss made for a debut that tells it like it is.(InterMAN)(Brief article)
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- Interview
- Article date:
- March 1, 2007
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Elvis Perkins is a singer-songwriter who can speak from both head and heart in equal measure. That fusion, as well as some seriously beautiful melodies, is on display in Perkins's new album, Ash Wednesday (XL). The title refers to the difficult fates of his parents, the actor Anthony Perkins and the photographer Berry Berenson, who got together the day Berenson did a piece on her high school movie-star crush for Interview in 1972. On September 11, 2001, almost nine years to the day after his father's death, his mother was onboard American Airlines Flight 11.
Though he's got his father's spiky brilliance and his mother's bighearted spirit, Perkins is ...