Saturday, March 7, 2009

'Escape from the Dragon House' the title song for True Blood Season One Episode Four

I recently did a Season 2 Spoiler show for my Blogtalk radio show, where we looked at what we might know about the upcoming episode by examining the title song for that episode.

I can't tell you how many emails I received from folks saying they felt so stupid for not realizing that the True Blood episodes were named for songs. It's OK but I thought it might be a good idea to look back at the song, the artist and the lyrics for each of last season's episode title songs.


So let's look back to Season 1, Ep 4: Escape From Dragon House Aired: 9/28/2008.

Escape from the Dragon House is a song featured on an album of the same name by the band, Dengue Fever.

Dengue Fever is a six-member band from Los Angeles who combine Cambodian pop music and lyrics with psychedelic rock. They were formed in 2001 by Ethan Holtzman and his brother Zac after Ethan was inspired by a trip to Cambodia. As Ethan and Zac were searching for a vocalist to sing in Khmer, lead singer Chhom Nimol was discovered in a nightclub in Little Phnom Penh area of Long Beach. She was already a well-known karaoke singer from Cambodia, but decided to move to US after visiting her sister, and thought it was a good chance to make more money to send to her family back home. [1] Zac performs vocals and guitar, while Ethan plays the Farfisa organ. Rounding out the band are bassist Senon Williams (who also plays in Radar Bros), drummer Paul Smith, and David Ralicke on brass.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dengue_Fever_(band)

http://www.myspace.com/denguefevermusic

The scene from True Blood where we hear Dengue Fever

Pretty cool to see them performing live another song from the same album “ Escape from the Dragon house”



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