I heard one song long back, and forgot it. How? I've just discovered Lewis & Clarke, eons after everyone else of course. If I could find the words, I would. Some seems singer-songwriters folkish, other stuff just goes elsewhere,
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Missed It: Lewis & Clarke
I heard one song long back, and forgot it. How? I've just discovered Lewis & Clarke, eons after everyone else of course. If I could find the words, I would. Some seems singer-songwriters folkish, other stuff just goes elsewhere,
American Music Club: The Golden Age
After a spell solo, Mark Eitzel's reborn American Music Club return with The Golden Age. The feel this time is, as seems a bit of the zeitgeist now, a 'seventies soft rock feel (and none the worse for that, the ghosts of Fleetwood Mac are walking). Definitely worth checking out; try this opener for size:
As a bonus, one from the last AMC effort, Love Songs for Patriots:
And one from way back San Francisco
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
The Race: The Damnwells, Damien Jurado & The Weight
It's getting near the end, thank the Lord. This one could be decisive. fortunately, some great songs can keep us going:
Monday, February 25, 2008
Lest we forget: The Velvet Underground's third album
Everyone (now) knows the first album; the feedback drenched experimentalism of White Light/White Heat is widely recognised as hugely influential. The third Velvets album seems to slip under the radar. Indeed, there is much about it that almost seems designed to do so. It is sonically downbeat and subtle, a song cycle that is notable for some of Lou Reed's finest songs. A couple are now pretty well known, such as Candy Says (of which I posted a cover earlier) and Pale Blue Eyes; others should be:
And a live version from their great 1969 recording:
Buy The Velvet underground's music here.
Friday, February 15, 2008
Traveler: Ryan Adams, Magnolia Electric Co, Track a Tiger & Screaming Trees
Off to the north of Denmark for a couple of days, so I might not be posting for a few days. So, here's some stuff inspired by the fact...
Lest we forget: Mott the Hoople
I'm away for a few days... so a few posts early doors,,,Mott the Hoople are mostly remembered as a singles band, and the albums that get remembered are mostly the two that they took with them to stardom. So, we're going elsewhere. Their last album, The Hoople, was recorded when guitar ace Mick Ralphs had left the band for Bad Company and Ian Hunter became wholly dominant; yet it contains some of their finest songs. Many will remember the singles:
On youtube: The Golden Age of Rock'n'Roll and Roll Away the Stone (from Top of the Pops with Ian Hunter singing over his own vocal line)
Two album tracks make the point:
As a bonus, a lovely early Mott song:
But Mott the Hoople here
Monday, February 11, 2008
The Race:Okkervil River, The National, The Damnbuilders & Steve Earle
The latest installments
mp3 Steve Earle: Christmas in Washington (it had to be this one really).
Enjoy...
New feature: great first lines (thanks to the wee Makem)...
"Dropped acid, Blue Oyster Cult Concert, 14 years old" Anyone know?
Buy the artists music here
and download some DRM-free here
Sunday, February 10, 2008
The Race: Bruce Springsteen, Faun Fables, Lucinda Williams & Jesse Henry
Lest we forget: Red House Painters' Songs for a Blue Guitar
Made in 1996, the Red House Painters' Songs for Blue Guitar seem to have slipped beneath many people's radar. It was, it seems, pretty much a Mark Kozelek solo effort; it combines his trademark melancholy lyricism with some crunching Neil Young-esque guitar work outs. I'll offer one of each here:
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
The Race: Super Tuesday Songs
So, that was Super Tuesday.
Here's one for the day itself:
Given the vast number of states, here's one for each where they've some kind of strong connection. I will, at some point, post something for each state, and some songs for the candidates... perhaps.
mp3 I See Hawks in LA: Byrd from West Virginia (good to get some issues in here).
Buy their music here
and some drm free here.
Sunday, February 3, 2008
Lest we Forget: Ronnie Lane's Anymore for Anymore
Ronnie Lane was a member of one of the great English bands of the 'sixties, The Small Faces, and then in the 1970s The Faces, paying bass and co-writing some great songs. He quit The Faces & formed a band, Slim Chance, getting a top 20 single How Come and releasing a solo album Anymore for Anymore and continuing a low key solo career thereafter. For me, Anymore for Anymore is a forgotten nugget (and one that seems to be out of print: DEAL WITH IT SOMEONE!). It has a folky. rootsy, laid-back feel (must have been fun to make; it was recorded in his barn in Fishpool of all places), and some great songs; Lane was a real tunesmith. Try these:And the hit single:
And here's Ronnie & the band from 1974 performing the song he wrote for The Faces Debris.
Sadly, Lane died in 1997; his music should not be forgotten.
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