More Ryan Adams & the Cardinals Live

Cardinalology (bloody awful title & cover, by the way) is out. To celebrate, one song from it & two older ones from a recent gig (get the whole gig here):

mp3 Ryan Adams & the Cardinals: Fix it (live)
mp3 Ryan Adams & the Cardinals: Oh, My God, Whatever, etc. (live)
mp3 Ryan Adams & the Cardinals: Come Pick me Up (live)

See Fix It Live on Letterman here.

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Vic Chesnutt, Elf Power & the Amorphous Strums: Dark Developments

Having posted about Vic Chesnutt's old stuff, suddenly here's a home recorded collaboration between the man himself and other Athens luminaries. It has electrics, the man's familiar rasp, and sounds less confrontational than his last. Try this:

mp3 Vic Chesnutt, Elf Power & the Amorphous Strums: Mystery

As a bonus, here's a great Dylan cover:

mp3 Vic Chesnutt: Buckets of Rain

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Trenches

Off to the battlefields of the First World War, so quiet fir a few days (this is where we're staying). So, some songs:

mp3 Kevin Coyne: (Take Me Back to) Dear Old Blighty
mp3 John Wesley Harding: Anonymous 1916
mp3 Roy Harper: Berliners

Lambchop: OH (Ohio)

It took me while, but I'm fast coming round the view that this slice of soul infused '70s style rock by Lambchop is, well, the business. Try these:

mp3 Lambchop: Slipped, Dissolved & Loosed
mp3 Lambchop: I'm Thinking of a Number

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Bonnie "Prince" Billy: Is it the Sea

Will Oldham again? Yes, the ever prolific one returns with some live material recorded in the Celtic Fringes 2006. Why? Well, here's the reason. Some old songs, some current ones, some traditional, but all wrought anew in collaboration with a Scottish folk ensemble, Harem Scarem. Try this:

mp3 Bonnie "Prince" Billy: A Minor Place (live)

Not (unaccountably) on the album, but from the same tour, here's a magnificent version of a classic:

mp3 Bonnie "Prince" Billy: I See a Darkness (live)

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Antony & the Johnsons: Another World

Antony & the Johnsons return with an ep, Another World. Much sounds familiar, bar Shake the Devil's rumbustious r'n'b at halfway. But, if it ain't broke... Try this:

mp3 Antony & the Johnsons: Another World

As a bonus, from their debut:

mp3 Antony & the Johnsons: Blue Angel

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One offs number 1

Some classic songs, from albums or whatever, that weren't that great as a whole. The photo, by the way, is of St Kevin's, Glendalough, Wicklow, Ireland.

mp3 Hothouse Flowers: Sweet Marie
mp3 Turin Brakes: Feeling Oblivion
mp3 Runrig: The Fisherman

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Dylan's Bootleg 8

Look, it's long been a given for me that his Bobness faded, his voice gone, the never-ending tour a tale of a man who's lost. And yet, Oh Mercy, parts of the latest stuff. Well her comes the latest installment of the Bootleg series. Some leaves me cold, but some.... Oh Mercy had some killer songs (a Lest We Forget to come), but this version just blew me away, with its raw beauty and echoes of Blood on the Tracks:

mp3 Bob Dylan: Most of the Time

From the soundtrack of the movie Gods and Generals:

mp3 Bob Dylan: Cross the Green Mountain.

Wow!

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Lest We Forget; Paul Weller's Wild Wood

After The Jam. Paul Weller got lost in '80s soul boy frippery with The Style Council. The early 'nineties saw him reinvent himself, once more from a 'sixties starting point of the soul tinged British rock and demi-mystic folky feel of that era. The result was Wild Wood, which still sounds classic now. Try these:

mp3 Paul Weller: Sunflower
mp3 Paul Weller: Wild Wood

The next one, on the album, was in that acoustic style. Here, live in 1993, it's something different:

mp3 Paul Weller: Foot of the Mountain (live)

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Horse Feathers: House with no Home

A new album by the delectable Horse Feathers, all delicate voice and strings, breath and air. Try this:

mp3 Horse Feathers: Curs in the Weeds

They have a great Daytrotter session here, including this version of a song from the album:

mp3 Horse Feathers: Helen

And from their first album:

mp3 Horse Feathers: Finch on Sunday

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