Best New Bands » Charlene Kaye https://www.bestnewbands.com News, Reviews and Interviews Wed, 07 Feb 2018 02:08:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 BackStory: Charlene Kaye & the Brilliant Eyes’ “Mad Tom of Bedlam” https://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/backstory-charlene-kayes-mad-tom-of-bedlam/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/backstory-charlene-kayes-mad-tom-of-bedlam/#comments Tue, 01 Feb 2011 15:00:00 +0000 In this week’s episode of BackStory, songstress Charlene Kaye tells us the story behind her song “Mad Tom of Bedlam.” Mad Tom of Bedlam is the name of an anonymous English poem that was written in the 1600s about people who feigned mental illness as a guise to beg for money, such as Shakespeare’s King

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