Thanks to all who came to shows, read the books, and listened to the albums. It's been a wild ride, and I hope to continue writing and playing well into the future. There will be no more records, but a few stories are in the works. Your interest in this trilogy of books and records has kept me going, and I am forever grateful. Hope to see you down the road, it hardly matters where, when, or why.
Saludos, Dan Stuart
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International: Chris Metzler: chris@decorrecords.com
North America: marlowebillings@gmail.com
Marlowe's Revenge
The final novel of the Marlowe Billings trilogy.
Read the blurbs in Prensa, they all can't be lying.
A 2023 Southwest Book of the Year award winner.
You can buy it on Amazon.
A cool clip can be viewed here.
The book that started it all. Equal parts Roman a clef, prose poem, and punch in the gut.
Available now on Kindle.
For the album of the same name, buy it here, or try Cadiz Music.
Perhaps how one leaves a party is more important than one’s entrance. Dan Stuart has chosen to make his final record with producer/guitarist Danny Amis: a founder of Los Straitjackets and former member of The Raybeats. The album is a companion piece to a novel by the same name. Both are a sort of travelogue through foreign landscapes real and imagined, and question whether love can survive in a world of violence and betrayal. The record features players from Mexico, Italy, New York & San Francisco, while the novel bounces between Oaxaca, NYC and CDMX. Stuart's alter ego Marlowe Billings is our musical and fictional tour guide, indeed one could listen while reading and double the pleasure.
Last anyone heard, Green on Red's Dan Stuart had moved to Oaxaca from NYC after a mental collapse. Crawling his way back to sanity, he released LP and book, The Deliverance of Marlowe Billings, through Cadiz Music UK, and .Fluff & Gravy Records, USA. Marlowe's Revenge started in a concrete bunker studio in Oaxaca, where Stuart wandered in one day with a dozen songs written on an old cracked Martin. The songs were about love and loss, murder and revenge, Stuart's usual laments but with a new spark burning somewhere deep. Pleased with the results, Stuart became curious and wondered if he could find a band to play some of these songs, a Mexican rock 'n' roll band. Their name was Twin Tones, and they came from CDMX. Stuart dropped by the lads studio in gritty Ecatepec, and started the second half of Marlowe's Revenge. Pleased, Stuart sent Twin Tones' leader Gabriel Lopez some of the Oaxacan tapes and told him to overdub what he wanted. The results blew Stuart away, so he smuggled it all up north to JD Foster to mix and the rest is, well not history exactly, but something worth listening to if you give a shit about stuff like this.
Twin Tones slumming with Marlowe.