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The Imperial Rooster: Decent People

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Booze, drugs, deer people, suicide, internet pornography, fire, brimstone, L. Ron Hubbard and domestic violence… that’s right, it’s time for a new album from the Imperial Rooster.

On Decent People, the Imperial Rooster once again mixes the sublime with the absurd to create the perfect soundtrack to your damnation. Check out my favorite track, “The Vintage.”

 

 

The band recently played Frogfest 6 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where they rocked another new song, “DWI Marijuana Blues”.

 

 

This Saturday, June 11, the Imperial Rooster will be playing the Thirsty Ear Festival alongside the Handsome Family, Calexico, the Cedric Burnside Project and others.

Decent People is available now via Bandcamp.

 

The Imperial Rooster @ Bandcamp

The Imperial Rooster @ Facebook

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Songs I Love Best: Wildflowers

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I don’t remember now how I first discovered Trio, the record Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmyloud Harris put out together in 1987, but I know I bought it on tape because I can remember both the garish pink cover, and the number of times I carefully cued up various tracks for mixes. I acquired it again recently – digitally, this time – when I went on an Emmylou Harris collecting tangent and realized I had missed it, somehow, when I was filling in other digital gaps.

I liked the whole thing, by and large – I can also remember singing along (hand stapled firmly to forehead) to The Pain of Loving You and Those Memories of You at various times in high school – but my favorite track is, was, and ever shall be Wildflowers. If (when) I get a tattoo, “no regrets for the path that I chose” will be a part of it. Of course that’s now, when I’ve been walking a while and had some time to actually make some choices; then, it was more about the hope of invoking the appearance of the path.

In any case, bursting with enthusiasm and keen to share it with all of y’all, I then went to YouTube to find a video and on first skim it seemed like there were precious few for the original song. (The two quasi-live performances are 1) a clip from a movie and 2) a clip that appears to be the result of  pointing the camera at the tv set and pressing record.)  A little bit of further digging pulled up this, which at least as a slideshow of pictures of Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt through the years:

 

http://youtu.be/aDxrQFrGipo

 

Because I am a magpie, though, I got distracted from my main search by all of the cover versions that I found. The following are a few of the highlights:

This version, by The Clear Branch, is probably the most faithful to the original overall, and the beautiful voice you are about to hear belongs to Signe Salvesen, who moved from Norway to the hills of East Tennessee to study mountain music. She’s accompanied by Clint Riddle (guitar, banjo, mandolin), originally from Decatur, Alabama, with a background in Delta blues.

 

 

In this version, which features just Ginny White and her guitar and was recorded at the  New Harmonies Exhibit, Culp Building, Johnson County Historical Society in Warrensburg, Missouri, it’s stripped down to its barest essentials and transformed into something quite like a hymn.

 

http://youtu.be/-DZH58V8D6A

 

This one, performed by Tuva and The Far-Out Orchestra, and recorded in the Privaten Cafè in Holmsbu, Norway, occupies the patch of ground where indie rock and bluegrass overlap, and tends to slide more towards the indie rock end of the spectrum. Tuva Andersen has a rich, full and flexible voice, and it shines here.

 

Tuva & the Far Out Orchestra - Wildflowers (Dolly Parton)

 

This one, by the Sandy Bottom Bluegrass Band (according to YouTube, they are: Neil – Mandolin, Ken – Guitar, Steve – Dobro, Wayne – Banjo, Rick – Bass, and Denise – Autoharp), of Florida, is a solidly bluegrass rendition; the instrumental underpinning is perhaps a hair or two richer than the original.

 

Wildflowers Dont Care Where They Grow - complete band

 

As I was exploring, I also got to thinking about who I’d like to hear cover this song. Gillian Welch and Dar Williams sprang to mind first, and I spent a good ten minutes contemplating who I’d make the third part of that trio before I decided on Lucinda Williams, though I think Neko Case and/or Alison Krauss might also work well there.

And then my thoughts took a more critical turn. You know it is kind of plinky. Couldn’t we fuzz that up a little bit? Give it some muscle? said I to myself, and I  shuffled my mental deck of voices some more, and came up with Courtney Love, which was actually kind of a stumbling block because the pairings that seem to me to be obvious there (Kim Gordon and Kim Deal) are, shall we say, complicated. Though on further reflection, I’ve decided swapping in, say, Pink and Shirley Manson might produce just the right kind of fireworks.

Now tell me, dear readers, who would you pick?

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Feel Bad For You, June 2011

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Feel Bad For You hosts a monthly mixtape comprised of submissions from music bloggers, Twitterers and a rockstar or two, and it’s always a good time. A celebration of eclecticism, you can enjoy it all below, by stream or by download.

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Title: I’ve Got Love
Artist: Warren Smith
Album: The Complete Sun Recordings
Submitted By: Bowood
Comments: Sun Studios legend Warren Smith. That studio…that f…in’ beautiful studio. Thank you Lord for Sam Phillips.

Title: Angel From New Orleans
Artist: The Dead Exs
Album: Resurrection (2011)
Submitted By: @popa2unes
Comments: David Pattillo – electric slide guitar and vocals – Wylie Wirth – on the skins. Pattiillo is a producer with a credit list from Alanis Morrissette to the Hold Steady, The Black Crowes to the Beastie Boys and last year produced the Reni Lane debut for Universal Motown. Wirth has toured extensively in Europe and the US with various bands and was a member of the Warner Bros act Sweet Lizard Illtet.

Title: What She Turned Into
Artist: Retribution Gospel Choir
Album: Retribution Gospel Choir (2008)
Submitted By: verbow1
Comments: I like to think of myself as ahead of the musical curve, finding new stuff before anyone else. The truth is I’m often several years behind, always trying to catch up, hence a 2008 release just finding me at the end of 2010. This band features Alan Sparhawk of Low – I’m not the biggest Low fan but these guys really stick with me. Nothing fancy, just a good rock song.

Title: City Lights
Artist: National Grain
Album: self-titled (2006)
Submitted By: Corey Flegel
Comments: some dude on an Amazon review of the record said it best about NG- Their songs sound like deepcuts off of some of the early, better albums by Haggard and the Possum.

Title: Ain’t No Such Thing As a Superman
Artist: Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson
Album: Midnight Band: First Minute of a New Day (1975)
Submitted by: April @ Now This Sound Is Brave
Comments: Shortly after I received the June FBFY call to arms, it was confirmed that Gil Scott-Heron, the man responsible for “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”, died. His album I’m New Here was possibly my favorite of 2010, and I was looking forward to seeing what he would do next. Dying wasn’t what I had in mind.

Title: Stuck in an Office
Artist: Edmunds Crown
Album: Regrets of a Company Man (2006)
Submitted By: Simon
Comments: One of the may highlights from an eighteen track album of 3 minute power pop songs everyone should own

Title: Penicillin Penny
Artist: Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show
Album: Belly Up! (1973)
Submitted By: Shooter Jennings
Comments: Be cleansed by her dirtyness

Title: $2 Pints
Artist: Last False Hope
Album: Outlaw Radio Compilation Vol. 1 (2010)
Submitted by: Adam Sheets
Comments: Everything that is great about honky tonk and punk is represented in this song. This is the sound of the future

Title: Sleep With One Eye Open
Artist: Chris Thile & Michael Daves
Album: Sleep With One Eye Open (2011)
Submitted By: Phil Norman | @philnorman | www.bluemoonshineband.com
Comments: Been listening to this record non-stop since it came out last month.

Title: Never Miss Your Mama
Artist: The Black Twig Pickers
Album: Hobo Handshake (2008)
Submitted By: Truersound
Comments: I’ve been seeing these guys a lot lately, and every time I swear they get better. Love it when they break out the washboard, especially on this song and on The Coo-coo. See these guys live if you get a chance, talk Mike into telling some stories. This song also makes me wish I could clog like a drunk hillbilly.

Title: Fuck Me Up
Artist: Brandon Adams And The Sad Bastards
Album: Self Titled (2011)
Submitted By: Romeo Sid Vicious
Comments: This one has been stuck in my head for about a week now. It’s a raw song that’s just plain amazing. I don’t have a rant for this one. Just one I have been enjoying a lot lately

Title: My Back Pages
Artist: The Ramones
Album: Acid Eaters (1993)
Submitted By: @mikeorren
Comments: In honor of Bob Dylan’s 70th, a cover I just rediscovered

Title: Every Day You Have To Cry
Artist: Bon Scott
Album: Round And Round Compilation (1967)
Submitted by: Erschen
Nothing spectacular here but interesting to hear Bon Scott before his AC/DC days. This was a band called the Valentines. The song is by Arthur Alexander and has been covered by quite a few including the Bee Gees and Dusty Springfield.

Title: What Am I Supposed To Do?
Artist: The Sidewinders
Album: Witchdoctor (1989)
Submitted By: toomuchcountry
Comments: The deadline was drawing near for this month’s submission, and I hadn’t chosen my June selection. So my quandary naturally resulted in my submitting this great track by Tucson AZ’s The Sidewinders (later known as The Sand Rubies).

Title: I Can Buy You
Artist: A Camp
Album: A Camp (2001)
Submitted By: DC Noise
Comments: A Camp makes some mighty infectious pop music. The band is fronted by Nina Persson, aka That Girl From The Cardigans (an underrated band, in my opinion).

Title: Let’s Get Out Of Here
Artist: Les Savy Fav
Album: Root For Ruin (2010)
Submitted By: PearlSnapMan

Title: Heart Attack
Artist: Raphael Saadiq
Album: Stone Rollin’ (2011)
Submitted By: @BoogieStudio22
Comments: Raphael Saadiq has been around for a while, but in his most two most recent releases he’s been digging into the Motown catalog of sounds. He’s still got the R&B / Soul thang going on, but his most recent album rocks out a bit more.

Title: Down In The Valley
Artist: The Head and the Heart
Album: Self-titled 2011
Submitted by: Cowbelle / morecowbelle.net
Comments: I’m not huge on this band in general, but I heard this song on a sunny walk in my new stomping ground the other day and it spoke to me. Something about trouble and whiskey – and I think there’s some optimism in there too.

Title: Walking Into Walls
Artist: Mike Ethan Messick
Album: The Only Easy Day Was Yesterday (2011)
Trailer / farcethemusic.com

Title: Arousing Thunder
Artist: Grant Lee Buffalo
Album: Copperopolis (1996)
Submitted By: The Second Single

Title: Heart Won’t Bend
Artist: Branden Barnett
Album: Heart Won’t Bend (2011)
Submitted By: TheOtherBrit
Comments: I forgot to send in my submission so made this selection in about 30 seconds. This song is part of a series of singles and covers Branden has been releasing on his bandcamp (bandcamp.com/tag/branden-barnett). 100% of what you hear on there is Branden and I think that’s pretty badass.

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Shouting Thomas Torment/T-Model Ford & GravelRoad at the Beachland Tavern, Cleveland, OH, 6.4.11

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Shouting Thomas Torment

 

 

Sometimes you go to a show just hoping the opening act won’t be unbearable. Then sometimes you get something like Shouting Thomas Torment.

While sometimes situated in a group, Shouting Thomas and the Torments, Shouting Thomas was doing it one-man band style at the Beachland Tavern Saturday night. He immediately lived up to his name by shouting, showman style, from the moment he stepped on stage to the moment he stepped off. In between, he thumped the bass drum, drove the hi-hat and took the guitar from fuzzed-out punk blues to rockabilly twang, shook it all together and broke it all down. The set kicked off with “Struggle (Scratch That Itch)”, hit on a number of highlights like “Slave for My Cave”, “All Grown Up Wrong”, “Trouble Doll” and “Swamp Witch”, and closed out with “Shakey Shake #1”. There was also a Bo Diddley beat and a very respectable imitation of a chicken on the guitar.

(Shouting Thomas also made sure to mention a couple of 45s he had for sale: “Slave for My Cave” on a split with Wolfboy Slim and “Black Cat Bone” b/w “Trouble Doll”.)

I went in not knowing a single thing about Shouting Thomas Torment and came out an enthusiastic fan.

 

T-Model Ford & GravelRoad

 

 

One of my regrets from the Great Mississippi Sojourn I took last summer with co-blogger Jennifer and our friend Cam Rogers is that I didn’t spend an evening or two in a juke joint. Well, now I feel a little better because James “T-Model” Ford brought the juke to the Beachland. Aside from being about the right size and aesthetic for a Mississippi juke, the tavern also had about the right heat and humidity Saturday night. But it took T-Model to fill it with the right vibe and sound.

GravelRoad – this night being comprised of just guitarist Stefan Zillioux and drummer Martin Reinsel as bass player Jon “Kirby” Newman was under house arrest for undisclosed reasons – took the lead, playing a couple of their own numbers, showing why they make a great complement to Ford with their low, rough, electric blues-drag sound. Then Ford, who drew a crowd that covered a wide variety of ages and classes, took the stage, strapped on Black Mattie (his trusty Peavey guitar) and got hips to rolling in short order.

Best estimates place Ford’s age at 90, he has a pacemaker and has survived a stroke in recent years, but you’d hardly think it from watching him play. While a couple of his songs this night lasted less than 3 minutes, most of them ran well beyond the usual 5-minute mark, playing on the classic blues tradition of not letting a good groove go once you’ve got a hold of it. And groove is what it’s all about. Just fast enough to get your ass to swaying, but not too fast to keep your partner from holding on tight. This is why they call him the Tail/Tale Dragger. (And this is also probably part of why he calls himself the Ladies Man, because you can bet he was taking in as much of the body-grooving females in the audience as he could.)

While Ford was undeniably the star of the show, the support of GravelRoad should not be underestimated. Zillioux stayed tight in Ford’s wake through tunes like “I Love You, Baby”, “Hip Shakin’ Woman”, “Chickenhead Man” and “Train I Ride”, while Reinsel pummeled a tide of heavy beats that were more than a little responsible for the shaking of hips through the night. Not to mention, Reinsel looked like he was having the time of his life.

 


Video courtesy of Chris Bishop.

 

Now if there had just been some fried pickles and sweet tea…

 

 

For some absolutely beautiful shots of T-Model Ford’s recent show in St. Louis, Missouri, check out our friend Nate Burrell’s Flickr set.

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Notable Shows in the Greater Cleveland Area

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Shows worth checking out this week in and around Cleveland:

The Beachland Ballroom & Tavern

  • Sat, Jun 4| 8:30 PM (7:30 PM door)
    The Hesitations
    $10
    Ballroom | All Ages
  • Sat, Jun 4| 8:30 PM (7:30 PM door)
    T-Model Ford & Gravel Road
    Shouting Thomas & The Torments
    DJ Kitty B. Shake
    $12
    Tavern | All Ages
  • Sun, Jun 5| 8 PM (7 PM door)
    Southern Culture on the Skids
    Whiskey Daredevils
    $15 adv / $17 dos
    Ballroom | All Ages
  • Mon, Jun 6| 8 PM (7 PM door)
    Zoe Keating
    Nick Diodore
    $18 adv / $20 dos
    Ballroom | All Ages
  • Tue, Jun 7| 9 PM (8 PM door)
    Del The Funky Homosapien
    Bob & The Devil
    Bukue One
    Muamin Collective
    Unseen Handz
    Groovesmith
    $12 adv / $14 dos
    Ballroom | All Ages
  • Tue, Jun 7| 8:30 PM (8 PM door)
    Daryl Hance
    Physical Rockett
    Andrew La Ponza
    $7
    Tavern | All Ages
  • Wed, Jun 8| 8:30 PM (7:30 PM door)
    Dennis Coffey
    (with Will Sessions & vocalist Kendra Morris)
    Stepkids
    We The People
    DJ Charles McGaw
    $18 adv / $20 dos
    Ballroom | All Ages
  • Wed, Jun 8| 8:30 PM (7:30 PM door)
    Nicole Atkins & The Black Sea
    Rebekah Jean
    Nate Jones
    $10
    Tavern | All Ages

Grog Shop

  • Sat, Jun 4| 8 PM
    Red Giant
    Ohio Sky
    $6
  • Sun, Jun 5| 8 PM
    Polymerization
    The Red Buttons
    People Parts
    Big Sur
    $5
  • Tue, Jun 7| 8 PM
    The Dodos
    Gauntlet Hair
    Shoreway
    $10 adv / $12 dos

Now That’s Class

  • Sat, Jun 4| 9 PM
    Keelhaul
    Megachruch
    $5
  • Mon, Jun| 9 PM (4 PM doors)
    10 Cent Beer Night, featuring
    Natural Child
    Rabble Rabble
    Mr. California
    (Bar opens at 4 pm. Kegs tapped then. Show starts at 9 pm When they run out, they run out.)
    $5
  • Thu, Jun 9| 9 PM
    Garbage River
    Yvette
    Folded Shirt
    Skitzobill
    FREE
  • Fri, Jun 10| 9 PM
    Tiger Hatchery
    Moth Cock
    Drake-Scheible-Henry
    Dead Peasant Insurance
    $5

Happy Dog

  • Sat, Jun 4| 9 PM
    The Flying Eyes
    The Suede Brothers
    The Exploding Lies
  • Wed, Jun 8| 9 PM
    The Tillers
    Shivering Timbers
  • Fri, Jun 10| 8 PM
    Weapons of Mass Creation Pre-Fest Mixer Show, featuring
    Humble Home
    Gregory and the Hawk
    Bethesda
    David Dondero

Musica

  • Fri, Jun 10| 10:30 PM
    J Rawls
    A Minus
    Muamin Collective
    TUT
    DJ Jack da Rippa
    $10
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T-Model Ford in Cleveland

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“It’s Jack Daniels times.”

T-Model Ford, the 90-year-old bluesman from the Mississippi hill country, the Bad Man, the Ladies’ Man, the Tale Dragger, will be putting players half his age to shame at the Beachland Tavern tonight.

He’ll be backed by GravelRoad. Shouting Thomas & The Torments and DJ Kitty B. Shake open.

Doors at 7:30, show at 8:30. $12 gets you in. You can buy me a drink while you’re there.

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Your T.V. Favorites

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Earlier this spring, I conducted a seasonal survey on Twitter that was a big hit all around. And while this one won’t be as titillating as the first, here’s another fun one, inspired by @Truersound talking about one of his old favorites (and which song I can’t remember now… oops). While I don’t watch television that much anymore – aside from occasional shows on the internets… oh hey, I should have an episode of Archer waiting for me – I grew up with television as my best friend. I was a latchkey kid for most of my childhood and used the T.V. set for company becoming well-versed in all manner of syndicated sitcoms and afternoon talk shows.

While I wouldn’t accuse most shows of having good music for their theme songs, there have been a few that have really stood out down the line. My personal favorite has to be the theme from The Dukes of Hazzard, a show which I was devoted to when I was a kid, sung by none other than Waylon Jennings.

 

 

Submitted by @ATerribleIdea:
“Hard tossup between Electric Company and Sanford and Son. #ismellamashup”

 

 

 

Submitted by @dopeburger:
“because of a local jam band in college that really stretched out on it, Night Court.”

 

 

Submitted by @pdennison:
“Unquestionably, Mike Post’s theme for ‘The Rockford Files’!”

 

 

Submitted by OwenTemple:
“A-Team. it’s like a 4 movement symphony. you will drive your van better after hearing it.”

 

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Postcards from the Balcony: Panic! at the Disco / fun. / Foxy Shazam, Terminal 5, 5/24/11

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I was up on the balcony for this one largely in the interest of self-preservation; I don’t do well in large crowds I can’t get out of, and Terminal 5 was almost literally packed to the rafters.

The first band was Foxy Shazam:

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I’ve seen this band four times now, twice on their headlining tour last summer (I went for one of their opening acts and developed an affection for them along the way), once when they opened for Courtney Love (!), and then at this show. Eric Nally whirled around the stage as he always does, but somehow they seemed a little bit subdued. And by “subdued” I mean Eric Nally did a headstand in the middle of a song –

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– but didn’t do the bit where he eats lit cigarettes (which I can’t actually bear to watch). Though I suspect that bit of business was sacrificed due to them being confined to a truncated opening act set. In any case, I was pleased to visit with them again.

The next band was fun., which is Nate Ruess (vocals; The Format), Andrew Dost (piano, keyboard, fluegelhorn, and glockenspiel; Anathello), Jack Antonoff (guitar; also currently with Steel Train) at the core and also currently has Will Noon (drums; Straylight Run), Nate Harold (bass) and Emily Moore (keys/guitar) as traveling with them, and to my surprise they were actually fun. I was surprised because when Aim & Ignite came out I tried to get into their tunes and it just didn’t work. Their live show is strong, however,  and I am still humming bit of the chorus to All The Pretty Girls almost a week later.

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And then it was time for Panic! at the Disco. The last time I wrote about them here was in February, when they played a special show in New York to introduce some of their newer tunes and promote their (unreleased at that time) third record, Vices & Virtues. Up until that point, the Panic!-focused internet (including me) had been collectively hovering over them like a hen with one chick, waiting anxiously for new tunes, and to see if the band had survived the departure of two of its members, including the chief lyricist. The songs I heard that show were promising; the record finally appeared in late March, and I loved it.  As of right now I can tell you: they have caught the thermals and are soaring.

As I noted after the show: now that was a rock concert. They started with Ready to Go (Get Me Out of My Mind) and proceeded to power through a high-energy mix of old and new songs. I was especially pleased to finally hear Hurricane live, and also Memories; and as much as I love Always, I was a little bit sad that Northern Downpour didn’t make it into the set-list this time around.

It was also a visual spectacle. They have new steam-punk stage furniture – Spencer Smith’s kit was perched atop a raised platform that looked like it would be at home in 2000 Leagues Under the Sea, with matching old-fashioned pipe organs on either side -  and Brendon Urie threw himself all over the stage, incorporating some of the dance moves from their recent video for Ready to Go (Get Me Out of My Mind). The rest of the band wasn’t standing still either, and the audience was definitely into it too.

Watching the pit sway and heave, I was both filled with joy to see people pogoing hard and grateful I had claimed a spot in safer territory. And, for those of you who may be keeping track of their tour covers, they did Careless Whisper (instrumental) by George Michael, Panic by The Smiths and Carry On My Wayward Son, by Kansas.

I don’t have that many pictures of them this time around, partially because I was on the balcony, and partially because I was busy trying to dance and not flail all over my neighbors. The following are a few of my favorites from the evening. The first one is from when Brendon Urie came up to the balcony to sing Always:

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And this one is probably the best picture of drummers in general and Spencer Smith in particular that I have yet managed to take, thanks to the spotlight rolling over him at just the right moment:

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And then, finally, a wider-screen shot of the view from the balcony, taken while Ian Crawford (guitar, left), Spencer Smith and Dallon Weekes (bass, right) were waiting for Brendon to return from his balcony visit, and which I like mainly for the atmospheric look of everything, including  the pinpoints of light visible in the pit:

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The Ridges: This Word is Worth a Thousand Pictures

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As I was listening to the Ridges’ EP last night, a storm kicked up that colored the sky charcoal grey and blew leaves horizontally through the air. It seemed appropriate to the roll and swell of moody strings and beautiful but fraught vocals of the album.

Formed in Athens, Ohio, and consisting of core musicians Victor Rasgaitis (guitar), Talor Smith (cello) and Johnny Barton (percussion, glockenspiel) – with a rotating line-up of additional musicians contributing violin, viola, upright bass, trumpet, percussion, mandolin, cello and accordion – the Ridges took their name from the institution that was formerly the Athens Lunatic Asylum. And the band continues to draw inspiration from the old asylum. Not only was their album recorded in the ornate Victorian building, but the songs are imbued with an aching hauntedness that seems to reflect the ghost stories that surround any once-abandoned institution worth its salt.

That’s not to say that the self-titled EP is a non-stop dirge full of melodramatically gothic declarations of emotion. While none of the lyrical matter could be accused of being upbeat, many of the songs invite foot-stomping and sing-alongs. Listen to and download an example of what I mean with stand-out track “Not a Ghost”.

 

Not a Ghost by The Ridges

 

Now download the full EP at their Bandcamp site and get haunted.

The Ridges @ Bandcamp

The Ridges @ Facebook

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Gil Scott-Heron: And now it’s time to gather all the things we need to fly

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The beautiful Gil Scott-Heron died yesterday.

If I was into making Best Of lists, GSH’s I’m New Here would have been high atop my list for 2010. But, of course, his legacy stretches much further back than that, at least back to 1970 with the release of Small Talk at 125th & Lenox, which contained the iconic “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”.

If you’re not as familiar with GSH as you’d like to be, you can check out a documentary about him at Self-Titled or read a sketch of his life and career at The Telegraph.

 

Gil Scott-Heron: On Being New Here from Iain & Jane on Vimeo.