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Ian Hunter’s Shrunken Heads is worth a listen, imho. Has things to say about the current administration, Hurricane Katrina, our debtor nation, and other fun stuff. Relevant rock from a guy not far from 70!
A pleasant surprise has been “Now You Know,” Built to Spill frontman Doug Martsch’s 2002 solo effort. Sort of a country blues thing going on.
On deck: Adam Franklin’s “Bolts of Melody” and Windmill’s (aka Matthew Thomas Dillon) “Puddle City Racing Lights.”
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Dinosaur Jr – “Beyond”
Original line-up of J Mascis, Lou Barlow and Murph back together again.
Set volume at 11. Enjoy.Album of the year candidate, imho!
“Bolts of Melody” by Adam Franklin is even better than I thought it would be. “Let’s Drag Our Feet” by Boat sounds like a band having fun. Both albums deliver easy-listening music from a parallel universe… 8)
My favorite records (not including Lucinda of course) are
Patty Griffin-Children Running Through
Emmylou Harris-Red Dirt Girl (shocking, I know), Wrecking Ball
Mindy Smith-(Her first record, the name has escaped me)Sounds predictable, but actually it’s not, and I have to say it here: among the many albums released this year I’ve listened to so far, my number one favorite is… West.
All the Roadrunning-Live – Emmy lou and Mark Knofner (all of it)
Texas Angel – Honeybrowne
California Stars – Billy Bragg
Cold December – Matt Costa
There is So Much More – Brett Dennen
Johnny Appleseed – Joe Strummer
If You Only Could – Donna the Buffalo
Static on the Radio – Jim White
Deep Red Bells – Neko Case
Ballad of Bitter Honey – Eef Barzelay
Who Knows Where the Time Goes – Sandy Denney
Casmir Pulaski Days – Sufjan Stevens
17 – Cross Canadian Ragweed
The Boy With the Arab Strap – Belle & Sebastian
Tangled Up in Blue – Bob Dylan
This is in addition to all of Lucinda Williams, natch!!Kinks – “The Ultimate Collection” (44 tracks on 2 discs).
Wonderful.
As Stan here would say, “God save the Kinks!”Meat Puppets – “Rise to Your Knees”
Another successful reunion, imho, (Dinosaur Jr’s being another), with the Kirkwood brothers joined by new drummer Ted Marcus.The Travelling Wilbury’s – mainly down to my wife who loves them and the re-released package.
Ryan Adams – Easy tigerAs a new postee I have to pay my dues to Shawn Colvin. I only discovered her about a year ago and members on her site have referred to LW so much that I was bound to investigate. So over the past 2 weeks I’ve been soaking up LW’s remarkable music.
So thanx Shawn, here are assorted faves:Shotgun down the avalanche
Another plane went down
Orion in the sky
.. and too many others to mention!A Collection of Cajun and Creole Drinking Songs – “Allons Boire un Coup” (Valcour records, 2006)
from the cd:
“… Yes, Cajun and Creole musicians do get drunk. In fact, as I write this, there is a drunk cajun sitting right next to me, playing the accordion. This is not the point, however. In the songs collected on this album, we can see that cajuns and creoles do far more than just get wasted. In these songs, drunk people dream. They waltz. They get their guns and go out in the middle of the night and kill raccoons. When their bottles are empty, they stomp their feet and play furious, driving dirges on the fiddle. People all over the world get drunk on Saturday night and have hangovers on Sunday, but cajuns drink a glass of lemonade and then write a song about it….”Saturday night’s comin’… Et toi!
😀Rockpile – “Seconds of Pleasure” (1980)
Dave Edmunds, Nick Lowe, Billy Bremner & Terry Williams
This album never fails to put a smile on my face – “a true rock’n’roll classic”
🙂Wipers – “Is This Real?” (1980) Very real 8)
To quote mastermind Greg Sage:
“We weren’t even really a punk band. See, we were even farther out in left field than the punk movement because we didn’t even wish to be classified, and that was kind of a new territory…When we put out “Is This Real?”, it definitely did not fit in; none of our records did. Then nine, ten years later people are saying, “Yeah, it’s the punk classic of the ’80s.”
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