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Artist I Really Like: Rob Zombie

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That’s the sum total of the thesis of this post, y’all: Rob Zombie, I Really Like His Tunes and His Style.  My reasons, in video form:

 

White Zombie - More Human Than Human

More Human than the Human (1995)

This one is actually from when he was part of White Zombie, and was one of the first songs I heard when I started going clubbing in Glasgow in 1996. I’m not quite sure how I missed it before that, but I did. It was definitely a “What is that and where can I get some more?” moment. When I got home I decamped to Tower Records where – this was the downside of living in suburbia when the Internet was still very young – all they had was the remix album, Supersexy Swingin’ Sounds, which was interesting but not . . . quite . . . what I was after.

Puzzled but not put off, I went back to college; meanwhile, White Zombie broke up and Rob Zombie went solo, and eventually put out Hellbilly Deluxe, in 1998. By then I had jumped across the ocean again (for work, this time) and on weekends I was going to places where they played these two songs a whole lot:

 

Rob Zombie - Dragula

Dragula (1998)

Rob Zombie - Superbeast

Superbeast (1999)

 

My favorite part of the video for Dragula is that he seems to be trying to play Grand Theft Auto in a tricked-out Model-T.  Anyway, jumping forward in time a few years: when The Sinister Urge came out in 2001, I was back in the U.S. again, in Brooklyn, and had mostly stopped clubbing.  I moved again about a year afterwards, and discovered that it’s also a great driving music. Never Gonna Stop (The Red, Red Kroovy) is an especially delicious way to start a long trip. And Feel So Numb is the track I frequently put on in the evenings this past semester as I was walking either to or from class:

 

Rob Zombie - Feel So Numb

Feel So Numb (2001)

 

As I’ve been putting this together I discovered I missed a record while I was in (cultural) exile: Educated Horses, in 2006 (whoops!), so my next and last favorite song is What? from Hellbilly Deluxe 2, in 2010. I have been dancing around my apartment to it for a while now, and also, because this is what I do in my spare time, dreaming of ways I would make a video for it. When I went to looking for the “official” video, I found that a) there isn’t one and b) two fierce ladies have stepped up and made their own, complete with really amazing dance moves:

 

http://youtu.be/jUZ8ba1-TZg

“What?” direct by BODYCON, starring BODYCON and Kristina Z (2010)

 

The last reason I really like Rob Zombie fits under the heading of “style” and is this: when I (finally!) got to see him live a year or so ago, not only did he play all of my favorite songs, he also did something I’d never encountered at a hard rock show before: he called a special ladies’ only pit, scolded the dudes who tried to crash it, and gave the girls hanging on the barrier a chance to mosh.

I couldn’t get in it myself – I was back by the soundboard at the time, since I had come  up late, after school, just in time for him to come on – but I appreciated the gesture, and him for making it, because in a very real way, a place in the pit is a place at the table. Thank you, Rob Zombie, for the all of the tunes, and for that moment. I look forward to whatever your next musical adventure may be.

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Rebirth of the Cool: Sinnerman

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Nina Simone and the song “Sinnerman” go hand-in-hand. If you think of “Sinnerman”, you probably think of Nina’s version, and if you think of Nina, you probably thing of “Sinnerman”. Simone’s version is so authoritative and brilliant that you might not realize that she didn’t write the song. “Sinnerman” (or “Sinner Man”) began life as a traditional spiritual and many other people had a turn at it before Simone made it her own in 1965. For instance, king of exotica Les Baxter did it up with Will Holt on vocals in 1956.

 

 

Kind of a shock after Simone’s version. It’s kind of… well… white. (Though not the whitest of the white. For that, check out versions by the Weavers and Tommy Sands.)

Peter Tosh had a long relationship with the song, beginning in 1966 (some sources say 1964 or 1965) when he recorded it with the Wailers. In the ’70s, he changed the name to “Downpressor Man”.

 

 

One of the most recent versions was recorded by the Black Diamond Heavies for their 2008 album A Touch of Someone Else’s Class. It clearly draws from Simone’s version, shaping the song out with John Wesley Myers’ distinctive Fender Rhodes sound and ravaged vocals.

 

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Video Grab Bag: Panic! at the Disco, Christina Perri, Industries of the Blind and Empires

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This video for Ready to Go (Get Me Out of My Mind), Panic! at the Disco‘s second single off of their new record Vices & Virtues, just came out yesterday, and, you guys, I really just love it so much. Not only is it a great song (turn it up!), but the video is beautifully shot and lit AND there is fabulous choreography. There are also fun costumes, because the whole thing is a visual tribute to musicals, including Grease, Mary Poppins and Singin’ in the Rain. Oh and also SOMEONE GETS SHOT OUT OF A CANNON. It is just delicious.

 

Panic! At The Disco: Ready To Go [OFFICIAL VIDEO]

 

Continuing with the movie theme, this is the lyric video for Arms, from the upcoming lovestrong by Christina Perri, which features words “projected” onto old-fashioned movie screens. I’ve already confessed to typography nerdery; what I especially like about this one is the way the letters shuffle and jump and sometimes arrive as snarled little knots that then expand into words and phrases.

 

Christina Perri - Arms [Official Lyric Video]

 

Next up is music that sounds like it should be in movies, from Industries of the Blind. This video is a teaser trailer for their upcoming record Chapter 1, and so doesn’t contain a full song. It does, however, give you the chance to see all nine (!) of them in action. I haven’t yet had the chance to see them live, but once this semester is over and law school (temporarily) stops interfering with my social life, I’m going to venture out to Brooklyn and catch one of their shows. In the meantime I put it on while I’m working on writing projects, because it is perfect for making all of the other noise in my head settle down so I can focus and concentrate on the task at hand.

 

Industries of the Blind - Chapter 1 promo

 

And in conclusion, a band that I hope gets their Hollywood ending: that’s right, Empires, the little rock band that could/band of my heart, has made it all the way to Round Three of the Rolling Stone cover contest. If they make it to Round Four, they have a shot at playing a battle-of-the-bands style show with the other finalist at Bonnaroo,  and, of course, being on the cover of Rolling Stone.  As an enticement to vote for them as often as you can before the contest closes on May 13, I submit TWO new videos for songs written and recorded during the contest, Night is Young and Hard Times. There is also a third song, Hells Heroes, which is available for free from their website. If you join their mailing list while you’re there, you’ll periodically get epistles addressed “Dear Scholars,” which is one of the very many reasons this band is the band of my heart.

 

 

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Feel Bad For You, May 2011

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Feel Bad For You hosts a monthly mixtape comprised of submissions from music bloggers and Twitterers, and it’s always a good time. This month’s compilation has a theme, killer basslines, and you can enjoy it all below, by stream (maybe, barring technical difficulties) or by download.

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Title: Waiting Room
Artist: Fugazi
Album: 13 Songs (1989)
Submitted By: Romeo Sid Vivicious
Comments: This one took no thought at all. The opening to this song is what comes to mind any time any one mentions a bass line. This album this one is off of was an icebreaker between me and my now best friend when we first met and to this day still makes my playlists 22 years later. God damn it now I feel fucking old…

Title: Chicken Strut
Artist: The Meters
Album: Struttin’ (1970)
Submitted By: Phil Norman – @philnorman – www.bluemoonshineband.com
Comments: I dig the current neo-funk-soul revival of bands like Sugarman 3, but I dig The Meters even more. Also, this song has chicken noises.

Title: Yes
Artist: Morphine
Album: Yes (1995)
Submitted by: April @ Now This Sound Is Brave
Comments: Since the general makeup of Morphine was drums, baritone sax and two-string slide bass, nearly every song they recorded was built around a killer bassline. But the bassline on “Yes” is the one that most frequently makes me rock out and say, “Damn.”

Title: Queen of Canton Street
Artist: Eleven Hundred Springs
Album: Welcome to Eleven Hundred Springs (1999)
Submitted By: @mikeorren
Comments: In my mind, the best country acts use bass to create an R&B rhythm behind the fiddle, slide and twang. This is one of my favorite examples, as well as some nice songwriting from Matt the Cat. (Hint: “Naomi” was one of Dallas’ best country bars, not a woman.)

Title: Comfortable In Your Arms
Artist: Tom Freund
Album: Copper Moon (2005)
Submitted By: toomuchcountry
Comments: Before pursuing his solo career, West Coaster Freund played in a couple of fantastic bands: first with then unknown Ben Harper and later with The Silos. His bass playing is as smooth as a tumbler of Kentucky bourbon. Be sure to check out the video of this song at www.youtube.com/watch?v=l98sRV-TXkY.

Title: Testarossa
Artist: Sir Mix-a-Lot
Album: Mack Daddy (1992)
Submitted By: Autopsy IV (ninebullets.net)
Comments: The 808 kick drum makes the girlies get dumb.

Title: Young Man Blues
Artist: The Who
Album: Live at Leeds (1970)
Submitted BY: Rockstar_Aimz
Comments: I recently heard the Foo Fighters cover of this song, and while their version is good, Nate Mendel is no John Entwistle. This song has so many killer parts, but it’s Entwistle’s driving base line that makes it kick so much ass. Although it’s not an original, this song represents The Who musically at their very best

Title: People, Let’s Stop The War
Artist: Grand Funk Railroad
Album: E Pluribus Funk (1971)
Submitted by: Truersound
Comments: What Homer Simpson calls “The bong-rattling bass of Mel Schacher”

Title: Mona
Artist: Quicksilver Messenger Service
Album: Happy Trails (1969)
Submitted By: Shooter Jennings

Title: The Real Me
Artist: The Who
Album: Quadrophenia (1973)
Submitted By: erschen
Comments: My introduction to this song was by the 80′s Metal Band W.A.S.P. Which got me to look into deeper cuts from The Who. Thanks, Blackie!! John Entwistle sure could play. What a rhythm section, Keith Moon & John Entwistle.

Title: The Escape
Artist: Radio Moscow
Album: Brain Cycles (2009)
Submitted By: @popa2unes
Comments: Comprised of singer/songwriter/guitarist Parker Griggs, drummer Corey Berry and bassist Zach Anderson –the rebirth of the Power Trio. Call it blues rock, call it psychedelic, call it hard-grooved stoner rock, it’s Cream on steroids

Title: Nice ‘n’ Sleazy
Artist: The Stranglers
Album: Black and White (1978)
Submitted By: The Second Single
Comments: With regards to killer basslines, when in doubt, pull out some late ’70s/early ’80s British punk.

Title: My Generation
Artist: The Who
Album: My Generation – Deluxe Version (2002)
Submitted By: Simon
Comments: No choice to make on the track, other than which version to submit.

Title: Potential Suicide
Artist: The Wipers
Album: Is This Real
Submitted By: verbow1
Comments: Another band I discovered thanks to one Mr. Kurt Cobain. Very heavy song – and pretty depressing – stay away from the handguns after listening to this one.

Title: Myage
Artist: Descendents
Album: Milo Goes To College (1981)
Submitted By: @marioegarcia (@imperialrooster)
Comments: If we’re talking killer basslines it’s hard not to submit something by Motorhead or the Minutemen (or Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five). I’ve been struggling with this selection for a little bit but decided to submit this Descendents song. It’s the song that made me fall in love with punk rock, a relationship that has alternately ruined my life and made my life worth living at various points. Let’s talk about that bassline. The Ventures after about six pots of coffee this is one of those lines that’s guaranteed to get my motor going in the morning, especially when Bill Stevenson’s Wipeout drums lock in time with the bass.

Title: The Hanging Garden
Artist: The Cure
Album: Pornography (1982)
Submitted by: Slowcoustic
Comments: Because I was every alternative outcast character of a mid 80′s John Hughes film, I listened to said ‘alternative’ music because it made me better than the rest of the Junior High/High School normals. Because of this early emo angst, I was introduced to The Cure. And it changed music for me forever. The bass lines on the album might not be killer, as they are fairly straight forward, but are also quite pronounced. The album is dark & echoing due to the heavy bass & percussion aspect, and it almost pushed me to eyeliner….almost.

Title: Your Mama Wants Ya Back
Artist: Betty Davis
Album: They Say I’m Different (Originally released in 1974; reissued with bonus tracks in 2007)
Submitted By: BoogieStudio22
Comments: This was a very tough choice. Whittled my library down to 32 songs with “killer bass lines”. Then down to five songs. In the end, went with this Betty Davis track, with nasty sounding vocals to complement the “killer bass line”. BTW, Betty Davis was married to Miles Davis in ’68, divorced in ’69.

Title: Six Pack
Artist: Black Flag
Album: The First Four Years
Submitted by: AnnieTUFF
Comments: After a lot of thinking about Killer Bass lines, and about technical skill vs just sounding badass. I had to choose this song. Because it doesn’t matter where I am, who I’m with or what is going on with my life, when I hear the first couple of notes of this song I wanna get rowdy. And who doesn’t wanna get rowdy?

Title: Belle
Artist: Al Green
Album: The Belle Album (1977)
Submitted By: Adam Sheets
Comments: Great bass here courtesy of Reuben Fairfax Jr. and an excellent performance from the undisputed King of Memphis soul. This is perhaps Green’s most ambiguous number and those who aren’t paying close attention to the lyrics are likely to interpret this one far differently than the artist intended.

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Songs About… Fornicating

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It’s springtime in America.

Well, for a given value of spring in some parts of the country.

Anyway, springtime means spring fever, and the link between music and sex is well-documented, multi-faceted and enjoys a long and robust history. There are songs to woo, songs about The Act, songs about the morning after… every aspect of the coupling dance that goes on between humans has had a song written about it at some point. Hell, if you took away all of the songs related to getting someone into bed, you might have two albums left in your whole music collection.

Some of NTSIB’s Twitter friends helped us put together a list of favorite songs about the dirty, ugly, funny, horrifying, ecstatic, beautiful act of sex, and we present the list here with some accompanying video highlights. (No, not those kinds of video highlights.)

Submitted by @austinlucasIND:
Songs About Fucking, Big Black

Submitted by April (@nowthissound):
“Call of the Playground”, Shudder to Think
Gentlemen, The Afghan Whigs

Submitted by @amanjo:
“Full Grown”, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

Submitted Jennifer (@rufus_):
“First of May”, Jonathan Coulton
“Closer”, Nine Inch Nails
“The Man That I Am with My Man”, The Hidden Cameras
“Cheat On Your New Lover With Me”, Jail Weddings
“Pink Cadillac”, Bruce Springsteen
“Cream” and “Little Red Corvette”, Prince
“Supernova”‘ Liz Phair
“Striptease”, Hawksley Workman
“I Want Your Sex”, George Michael
“I Touch Myself”, The Divinyls

Submitted by @Truersound:
“Who Were You Thinking Of?”, Texas Tornados

Submitted by @cowbelle78:
“One For The Cutters”, The Hold Steady (for the line “getting nailed against dumpsters behind townie bars”)

Submitted by @davepolak:
“Why Me, God? (Everybody’s Fucking but Me)”, Durwood Douche

Submitted by @lilykerson:
“Fucking in Rhythm and Sorrow”, The Sugarcubes
“I Like Fucking”‘ Bikini Kill
“Orgasm Addict”, The Buzzcocks
“Pony”, Ginuwine

Submitted by @leighbee:
“Sex (I’m a…)”, Berlin
“Let’s Get it On”, Marvin Gaye

Submitted by @simon2307:
“Squeeze Box”, The Who

Submitted by @andiamkate:
“Angel”, Massive Attack

Submitted by @popa2unes:
“She Makes Me Feel Big”, The Fools

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Video Spotlight: Les Wampas

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Good morning, NTSIBbers. Today we’re going on a virtual field trip to France! We are going to visit with Les Wampas, a punk band that has been around since 1983 but I didn’t know existed until probably about a month ago. And they are fantastic. They have become my go-to comfort music at pretty much all times. They do sing in French, but do not let that put you off. My facility with spoken French is approximately that of a very polite toddler, and I don’t find my lack of proficiency and/or comprehension a barrier to enjoying their music quite thoroughly.

The first song I am going to share is Manu Chao, from Never trust a guy who after having been a punk, is now playing electro (2003). It’s a diss track, but it’s a mild one. The lyrics, loosely translated, are along the lines of “If I had as much money as Manu Chao, I would go on lots of vacations” and Manu Chao is another  European rockstar.

It’s the track that floated up on shuffle as I was walking to class one night after visiting the 7-11, trying to balance my cup of tea and umbrella at the same time and thinking something along the lines of “Have I lost my brownie again?” and I really did stop in the middle of the street, circuits jammed with “What is that?“, “Where can I get some more?” and “I need to make it louder right now.”

 

Les Wampas - Manu Chao

 

The next one is Rimini, from Rock’n’Roll No. 9 (2006) and is a memorial song for Marco Pantanni, a Tour de France champion who died in Rimini, Italy, in 2004. The song is masterfully constructed; it starts with just Didier Chapedelaine’s voice accompanied by a simple, delicate guitar line and then, in something like a minute and a half, slowly expands to include another guitar, drums and fuzzy, thudding bass:

 

les wampas - rimini

 

Finally, a fan video from a show, filmed in Spain in 2009, so you can see them in action. Didier Chapedelaine is essentially leading the pit in an acoustic performance of Les bottes rouges from Simple et Tendre (1993) . The whole room is singing along, clapping out the beat, and carefully surfing him around all at the same time:

 

Les Wampas - Les bottes rouges / Alhambra - 2009.10.23

 

There is much more to listen to on the “Songs” section of their website, and you can also watch some webisodes they made to promote their last record over here. If nothing else the person running around dressed like an ostrich is extremely entertaining.

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Markers: 1 Year

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Hello NTSIBbers,

Today is my one year anniversary of writing for this blog. Thank you, April, for inviting me to the party and being a fabulous co-blogger, and thank you, NTSIBbers, for reading and commenting and making music and generally being wonderful people.

Also, I figured I should introduce myself, since I didn’t bother with that a year ago. (Whoops!) Hi! I’m Jennifer, and when it comes to music I’m a bit of a magpie. I like things that glitter and shine. I deeply appreciate people who, to paraphrase Brandon Flowers, wear their sequins unironically. I enjoy big drums and dirty bass lines, geeks, novelty songs, and novelty songs about geeks. I also enjoy the roar of the big machine, and my favorite part of  nearly any show is when the circle bells out and the center starts to spin.

Mostly what you’ve seen from me so far has been concert photography, and there will be more of that to come. I also have some half-formed ideas/nefarious plans regarding other topics (hint: I have A Lot of Feelings about videos) which I’ll be exploring later this spring.

Finally, in celebration of this first anniversary of mine, I’m doing a special give-away of twelve prints of my pictures that have appeared on NTSIB. Here’s the deal: The first 12 people to email the blog today, April 6, will get one 8×10 print of a picture, of your choice (if you specify which one you want) or of mine (if you don’t.)

Your email should contain the following: Your name; your address; and an indication as to which picture you want, if you have a preference. You can specify as broadly or as narrowly as you would like. Note: International submissions are okay!

To find my pictures: click on the Rock n’ Roll Photog category and look for posts tagged “show reviews”.

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Feel Bad For You, April 2011

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Feel Bad For You hosts a monthly mixtape comprised of submissions from music bloggers and Twitterers, and it’s always a good time. This month, NTSIB jumped into the fray, and you can enjoy it all below, by stream or by download. It’s a good time, people.

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Title: Commodify Your Dissent
Artist: The Dead Milkmen
Album: The King in Yellow (2011)
Submitted By: Bryan Childs (Autopsy IV)
Comments: Brand new music from the Dead Milkmen. Love the lyric, “country music used to be about the music and not the country”

Title: The Ballad of Johnny X
Artist: The Bouncing Souls
Album: Johnny X 7″ (1995)
Submitted By: Romeo Sid Vicious
Comments: Been in kind of a “Fuck Off” mood lately due to various circumstances so I have been pulling out older and angrier stuff to make it through. This one is pretty standard for me when these moods rear their ugly heads.

Title: Little Summertime Girl
Artist: David Childers and The Modern Don Juans
Album: Burning In Hell (2007)
Submitted By: Truersound
Comments: Recent Childers talk made me want to submit this. I’ve posted this song on ATS a couple times, but I love it and I love David Childers and it’s never made it to a FBFY comp….til now!

Title:Two-Headed Coin
Artist Obits
Album: Moody, Standard and Poor (2011)
Submitted By: David Horton @Popa2unes
Comments: This band just showed up on my radar, but they’ve only been a band since ‘07 but are accomplished musicians who once fronted Drive Like Jehu, Edsel, Hot Snakes, and Pitchfork.

Title: The Speed of Trees
Artist: Ellis Paul
Album: The Speed of Trees (2002)
Submitted By: Phil Norman @philnorman www.bluemoonshineband.com
Comments: “Your love makes me move at the speed of tress.” For me, Ellis Paul defines the contemporary singer-songwriter genre.

Title: Land It
Artist: Vulture Whale
Album: Vulture Whale (2007)
Submitted by: Corey Flegel, This Is American Music
Comments- “This song is our Freebird” — Lee Bains (Glory Fires, Dexateens)

Title: Forty Days
Artist: Let’s Active
Album: Every Dog Has His Day (1988)
Submitted By: toomuchcountry
Comments: April > Easter > Mitch > Let’s Active. Naturally.

Title: Punx Not Dead…It’s Just Sleeping
Artist: Yesterday’s Ring
Album: Diamonds In The Ditch (2009)
Submitted By: PearlSnapMan

Title: Don’t It Make You Wanna Dance?
Artist: Rusty Wier
Album: Don’t It Make You Wanna Dance? (1975)
Submitted By: erschen
Comments: I hadn’t heard this in years until I heard Todd Snider’s version on his latest live album. This song never fails to bring a smile to my face.

Title: Champipple
Artist: John Popper & the Duskray Troubadors
Album: s/t (2011)
Submitted By: Trailer from www.farcethemusic.com
Comments: I’m a huge Sanford & Son fan, so pretty much, a song titled “Champipple” only need be listenable to grab me. Bonus points for being a pretty damn good tune.

Title: Bessie Smith
Artist: Bob Dylan and the Band
Album: The Basement Tapes (1975)
Submitted By: Jackattack
Comments: I love Garth Hudson’s organ playing on this song. Absolutely stunning. And Rick Danko singing doesn’t hurt!

Title: American Girl
Artist: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Album: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers (1976)
Submitted By: BoogieStudio22
Comments: How best to introduce myself? How about with *the* song from *the* album that, for me, distilled the sound of the 50s/60s (to which my older brother introduced me) & also had the attitude and energy that set the stage for my future musical preferences. I can still remember that day in 1977 when I first heard it. It was a spring afternoon. My best friend and I are cruising in his metallic blue Duster. Mike says he has a new tape he wants me to check out, pops it into the player and I hear the snare/cymbal intro of “Rockin’ Around”. And so started my love affair with music that continues to this day. This album is in my top 10 and this song, “American Girl”, never fails to bring that day back to me. I can, quite literally, smell the smells, feel the sun and relive that afternoon. Friends think I’m crazy when I say that, but it’s true.

Title: The Right to Love You
Artist: Cut in the Hill Gang
Album: Mean Black Cat (2010)
Submitted By: Now This Sound Is Brave
Comments: Covering a song by the Mighty Hannibal, CitHG make love sound like a threat. A sexy, going-down-slow kind of threat. Album only available as import, but well worth the extra scratch.

Title: If Only You Were Lonely
Artist: The Replacements
Album: B-Side to I’m In Trouble (1981)
Submitted By: @marioegarcia (@imperialrooster, vacuumsongs.blogspot.com)
Comments: Early peek at Westerberg’s songwriting genius. It amazes me that he was this melodic and sincere this early in their “snotty trash” days. Perennial mixtape fave of mine. The lyrics are perfect. Who here hasn’t been in the position of our hero, drunk and dying for the person sitting next to him at the bar to go home with him…

Title: Busted
Artist: Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis
Album: Here We Go Again (2011)
Submitted By: @mikeorren
Comments: Willie’s country has always had a jazz delivery. This is the second live disc collaboration, a tribute to Ray Charles. And lately, I’ve been feeling a little Busted.

Title: Goodbye Princess
Artist: Chase 56
Album: Allatoona Rising (2010)
Submitted By: TheOtherBrit
Comments: One of the few albums in recent history that I love every single track on, these guys are my hometown heroes, or something like that.

Title: Alone in the Make-Out Room
Artist: The Broken Family Band
Album: Balls (2006)
Submitted By: Simon
Comments: Sticking with UK bands for FBFY, here’s a killer indie twang track from The Broken Family Band

Title: Surprise, Honeycomb
Artist: The Wrens
Album: Secaucus (1996)
Submitted By: verbow1
Comments: This song is killing me lately. Can’t describe it. Dark and twisted – as you can tell by the lyrics.

Title: Tennessee Nighttime Blues
Artist: Jacob Thomas
Album: Black, White and Red: Vol. II (2007)
Submitted by: Slowcoustic
Comments: Truly a down trodden track if I ever heard one – but at the same time achingly beautiful. Like exhaling smoke from lungs this song just brings a sense of stillness to the sad bastards among us.

Title: Beautiful Gas Mask
Artist: The Mountain Goats
Album: All Eternals Deck (2011)
Submitted by: noteethleroy

Title: Lookin’ For A Girl Like You
Artist: Dan Tedesco
Album: Tracks On Fire (2011)
Submitted By: monkeyboy
Comments: I’m liking this guy’s new album and going to see him in Denver on April 7th. Check him out!

Title: I Take It On Home
Artist: Charlie Rich
Album: 20 Greatest Hits
Submitted By: Bowood
Comments: Great voice and great advice.

Title: Rules
Artist: Blue Moonshine
Album: Distilled EP (2011)
Submitted By: Rockstar Aimz
Comments: Great little bluegrass-ish/country-ish EP. More fiddle!

Title: Drink, Fuck, Drive Truck
Artist: The Tower of Dudes
Album: A Plan (2008)
Submitted by: Jessica (newmusicco.blogspot.com)
Comments: The title says it all.

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Clarksdale Revisited: the Australian Perspective

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This past summer, my co-blogger Jennifer and I lured our longtime friend Cam into hitting the road down to Mississippi with us. If you check the roadtrip tag at the bottom of this post, you can read some of our other recollections from the trip, but for now, go read Cam’s lovely article about our visit with Rat at the Riverside Hotel in Clarksdale.

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A Post Wherein I Drop the Ball

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I have no post today. I’ve got plenty of great music coming in, and it will be featured soon… but nothing is ready quite yet. So, I’m just going to let you enjoy one of the reasons I’m excited to be seeing Hacienda again when they open for the Greenhornes at the Beachland Ballroom tomorrow night, the band playing an instrumental cover of “Day Tripper”.

Hacienda Official Website
Beachland Ballroom