Some days, the shuffle brings up wildly diverse musical
styles and eras which coexist in an uneasy alchemy of unforeseen beauty. Other days, like today, it’s all about
amazing songs with simple but powerful words and music.
Shuffle it up…
“Spend Your Life” by The Autumn Defense from NoiseTrade
Eastside Manor Sessions/The Autumn Defense
Purveyors of seventies-style pop music – Chicago’s The
Autumn Defense offer up a song from their self-titled 2007 album. This version is recorded at Eastside Manor in
East Nashville.
“Asmodea” by The Jean Jackets from Field Theory Blues
New Jersey’s The Jean Jackets play lovely music, and this is
one of the loveliest – from Field Theory Blues.
“Bring it All” by Deena from Rock River
Second day in a row will have a song from Deena (also from New Jersey). This one has a gentle twang that pushes the
song forward like an easy hike on a warm summer day.
The Grey A is the new project by Grey Jacks formerly of
Glossary. My Country won’t be out for a
month or so, but you can check out some of the music at the website. http://www.thegreya.com/
We will have much more of this album in the days and weeks to come. Dumb Fool is just a plain old great song of political frustration tinged with just a little bit of hope.
E2TG Note: The bass player for The Grey A is none other than long-time
friend of this blog, Howard Rabach. We met Howard in the early, early days of
Ear to the Ground (when we were still on Posterous), and his band Ubiquity
Machine was runner-up for our first annual Band of the Year Reader’s Poll and
they had a song on our first (and currently only) compilation.
Closing out the shuffle is a gorgeous song from Seattle band
Gumshen from their recent album Progtronica.
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