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I heard this recently: "When you meet a true friend, you will be bound together though space and time for 500 years." I don't know if it is true or not, but it does reflect a little about how I feel about friendships. I think about people who were an important part of my life in a particular place and time. Life moves on, and I have lost touch with those people - either physically lost touch or emotionally I no longer feel connected in the present. But, regardless, the connections that originally formed cannot be broken.
What I mean is (for example), sixteen year old me will forever be linked to the people who were my true friends at age sixteen - even if 54 year old me doesn't know or can't related those same people today.
This reminds me of my thoughts about moments in time. I think back even just five or six years ago, and where I was and what I was doing and who I was with - and for sure much has changed in that time. I think by that point in my life, I was aware that moments in time are fleeting. I still have a tendency to want to recreate past moments rather than forge new ones, but I guess that is human nature.
I am rambling now - but the take away for me - is to enjoy the people that fate or circumstance have brought into my life. Make the most of the moments. Try to preserve the good things and hold onto the good friendships but recognize that change is inevitable and it is actually a good thing. If life never changed, it would be boring.
Today our Featured Friday Recap continues with songs 16-20...
16. "What a Wonderful World" by Black Needle Noise (with John Fryer & Tom Berger)
We start off this segment of music with a stunning cover of the Bob Thiele and George David Weiss classic first and most famously recorded by Louis Armstrong. Black Needle Noise is the project of legendary producer John Fryer (we have featured this project numerous times. Fryer - whose production credits read like a complete listing of early electronic and industrial music - Depeche Mode, The Cocteau Twins, Nine Inch Nails, and Stabbing Westward to name just a few. Fryer is also a member of This Mortal Coil (one of two constant members of that band). This is from the covers album This Mortal Cover. Here is teams with Tom Berger. The results are extraordinary.
17. "Song for a Cowboy - Live Acoustic" by Maxximo
Next up, we have a track from New York pop singer-songwriter Maxximo from his Live at Home EP - recorded under quarantine. We have featured Maxximo before. He is a gay Mexican immigrant, and I just dig the spirit and energy of his music.
18. "Haluum Pois" by Bad Sauna
Also making a return trip to the Playlist is Helsinki based rock band Bad Sauna with their latest single with translates to "I Wanna Get Out". This is another great song from the band - who have announced that their debut album will be out in December. It is called Olen rikas sillä minulla on teidät (“I’m Rich Because I’ve Got You”)
19. "California" by Malin Pettersen
The last time we caught up with Norwegian singer-songwriter Malin Pettersen, she was singing about Nashville - on "Wildhorse Dream". The album was, in fact, recorded in Nashville. Now, the album Wildhorse is out, and we are featuring a song about California. The song and its title belies the strong Laurel Canyon influences on Pettersen's music, and she wears those influences well. I am enjoying this album very much.
20 "Old Guitar" by Matt Eckstine
We close out this segment of music with Savannah, Georgia based singer-songwriter Matt Eckstine with a track from his new album Lil' Blue. The underlying theme of Eckstine's work is described as hold fast and roll with the tide - which seems good advice for these times. This is a terrific song, and I look forward to featuring more from this album.
Tomorrow - we have the next five songs...
Featured Friday Playlist
"Heavy Load" by Great Peacock (from Forever Worse Better)
First up in the shuffle - from a very recent Featured Friday Playlist - a track from the new Great Peacock album. One of the best albums of 2020.
"Eldorado" by Rusty Reid (from Head to Heart)
Next up, we have a track from an album we featured last year - Rusty Reid is a songwriter, activist, spiritual seeker and guide based in Seattle. The album takes on many of the issues of the day.
"Marimba" by Merrill Beach (from Geen/Marimba single)
Merrill Beach is the main solo project of our old friend Hayden Nork (The Foresters, Batkhi Dahn, Discount Ravioli etc etc etc). This instrumental? was the b-side of a single he released early in 2020, but it is no longer available. The debut Merrill Beach album Roller Disco Lion Songs is out now. For the video, I could not find any Merrill Beach on You Tube so I picked a Batkhi Dahn song about my friend Giulia's place.
"Stickers" by Graham Bramblett (from The Great Inbetween)
Next up, we have a track from Nashville singer-songwriter Graham Bramblett's fantastic album which was released over the summer. We featured another track on our Playlist. Wonderful stuff.
"Help Me Make It Through the Night" by Iron Mike Norton (from single)
And we close out with singer-songwriter Iron Mike Norton's cover of the Kris Kristofferson classic. I believe we featured this on the playlist early in the year.
VIDEO PLAYLIST
NEW AND RECENT RELEASES
THIS WEEK
10/17 - The Fortune - "All Eyes" (single)
10/21 - Griff Clawson - "Chasing Highs" (single)
10/23 - The Agency - In the Haunted Woods (LP)
10/23 - Lera Lynn - On My Own (LP)
10/23 - Stuffy Shmitt - "Mommy & Daddy" (single)
10/23 - Justin Farran - Pretty Free (LP)
10/23 - The Luxembourg Signal - The Long Now (LP)
10/23 - The Greek Theatre - “Demos & Alternate Takes Vol. 1” (LP)
10/23 - Raves Kole - 3D Immersive (LP)
10/23 - Andrew Weiss and Friends - Lookout Mountain (EP)
10/23 - The Subtheory - Impact (EP)
10/23 - Kevin Burnstein- Attack Distract Divide (LP)
10/23 - Paul Nelson - Birmingham Woman (LP)
10/23 - Rodney Rice - SAME SHIrT DIFFERENT DAY (LP)
LAST WEEK
10/12 - The Pull of Autumn - "The Stars of the Jungle" (single)
10/13 - New Yeller- "Mama's Got a Gig" (single)
10/16 - Malin Pettersen - Wildhorse (LP)
10/16 - Matt Eckstine - Lil' Blue (LP)
10/16 - The Mastersons - Red, White & I Love You Too (EP)
10/16 - Watch Clark - Generator Room (EP)
10/16 - Taiwan MC - Special Request (LP)
10/16 - Jeremy Ivey - Waiting Out the Storm (LP)
10/16 - Shape & Sound - "All Day Morning" (single)
10/16 - Davey Woodward & the Winter Orphans - Love and Optimism (LP)
10/16 - Burris - "Who I'm Thinking Of" (single)
10/16 - Bad Sauna - "Haluun pois (“I Wanna Get Out”)" (single)
10/16 - Volcanic Brass feat. EvilA - "Consoled Forts" (single)
10/16 - The Plastic Pals - "More Than an icon" (single)
10/16 - The Silverbeets - "Girlfriend" (single)
10/16 - Maxximo - Live at Home (EP)
10/16 - Taiwan MC - Special Request (LP)
10/16 - Rid of Me - Broke Shit Demos (LP)
10/16 - Isabelle Stillman - Heartrender (LP)
NEXT WEEK
10/30 - Andrew Grimm - A Little Heat (LP) *(NEW DATE)*
10/30 - Philip Parfitt - Mental Home Recordings (LP)
10/30 - Graber Gryass - Late Bloom (LP)
10/30 - Ghostlawns - Motorik (LP)
10/30 - Marten Larka - "Parfum Du Nuit "/ "Je Suis Un Rocker" (singles)
10/30 - My Politic - Short Sighted People in Power (EP)
10/30 - The Wake - Hammer Hall (LP)
10/30 - Wheeler Del Toro - Quiet Alright (LP)
10/30 - The Wake - Perfumes and Fripperies (LP)
10/30 - Strays Don't Sleep - A Short Film for a Long Story (EP)
UPCOMING
10/31 - Beauty in Chaos - Out of Beauty Comes... (LP)
11/06 - Love Tractor - Love Tractor - reissue (LP)
11/06 - Tom Mason - Under the Mistletoe Sky (LP)
11/12 - Spencer Cullum's Coin Collection - Spencer Cullum's Coin Collection (LP)
11/13 - The Flat Five - Another World (LP)
11/13 - Andrew Adkins - The Echoist (LP)
11/13 - The Silverbeets - Halcyon Days (LP)
11/13 - The Sensational Country Blues Wonders! - The World Will Break Your Heart (LP)
11/13 - SWANS - Children of God - reissue (LP)
11/13 - Last Year's Man - Brave the Storm (LP)
11/13 - Cindy - Free Advice (LP - Reissue)
11/20 - Stuffy Shmitt - "Sweet Krazy" (single)
11/20 - John Calvin Abney - Familiar Ground (LP)
11/20 - Josh King - The Shed (LP)
11/20 - Life in a Blender - Satsuma (EP)
11/27 - Lady Bugs - From the Cities, To the Shores (LP)
12/04 - Stuffy Shmitt - Stuff Happens (LP)
12/04 - Scenius - Enough Fears (LP)
12/04 - Bad Sauna - Olen rikas sillä minulla on teidät (“I’m Rich Because I’ve Got You”) (LP)
12/11 - The Red Step - The Red Step (LP)
1/01/2021 - This Frontier Needs Heros - Go With the Flow (LP)
2/05/2021 - The Orchestra of Cardboard - The Antidote (LP)
RECENT
9/15 - Darwin - "Unkind Lover" (feat. David J) (single)
9/16 - D.L. Marble - One Line at a Time (LP)
9/16 - HMS Morris - "Myfyrwyr Rhyngwladol" (single)
9/18 - The Pull of Autumn - Small Colors (LP)
9/18 - Adrian + Meredith - "Kids These Days" (single)
9/18 - OUTWAVE - "Moving Tangles" (Single)
9/18 - Anton Barbeau - Manbird (Double LP)
9/18 - Rahway - Slumlords of New Jersey (LP)
9/18 - The Persian Leaps - Smiling Lesson (EP)
9/18 - Dan Friese - Jane Songs (LP)
9/18 - Pelvis Wrestley - Vortex Vorever (LP)
9/18 - 4 Track All-Star - 5123 (LP)
9/18 - McClendon - Room 33 (EP)
9/18 - Red Eye - "A Girl Too Far" (single)
9/18 - EG Vines - "Them" (single)
9/18 - Julian Shah-Tayler - "Devil Knows" (single)
9/18 - Wynnm - "Milk" (single)
9/18 - Wynnm - Moonwalking (EP)
9/18 - The Asteroid No. 4 - Northern Songs (LP)
9/18 - Adam Kurtz - "M-I-LL-E-R Lite" (single)
9/18 - Adam McIntyre - Black Planet (LP)
9/18 - Nick Faber - "The Lost Highway Tapes" (LP)
9/18 - The Wake - "Perfumes and Fripperies" (single)
9/18 - Fabien Jack - "Silent Alarm" (single)
9/18 - Various Artists - The Last Shall Be First: The JCR Record Story, Volume 1 (LP)
9/18 - Magazines - "Home Alone" (single)
9/21 - John Lensing - "Talk to Me" (single)
9/21 - The Silverbeets - "We Mattered (Once Upon a Time)" (single)
9/22 - Babybird - King of Nothing (LP)
9/22 - Mighty Joe Nolan - "Lone Wolves Together" (single)
9/24 - Magnolia Bayou - Strange Place (LP)
9/24 - XL427; Mensa Deathsquad - "Ideas" (single)
9/25 - Buildings and Food - Up Down Strange Charm (LP)
9/25 - Music Maker Relief Foundation - Hanging Tree Guitars (LP)
9/25 - Cayucas - Blue Summer (LP)
9/25 - of1000faces - Astronomica (LP)
9/25 - Shane Tutmarc - Written & Produced by Shane Tutmarc (Double LP)
9/25 - ASM - Blue Cocoon (LP)
9/25 - Hell Boulevard - Not Sorry (LP)
9/25 - Ethan Gold - "The Last Dive" (single)
9/25 - All Night Dining - "There Must've Been a Reason" (single)
9/25 - The Roogs - The Roogs (LP)
9/25 - Stuart Rolfe and the Daylight Stealers - No Gas Lost Roads (EP)
9/25 - KnightressM1 - Dreams and Devastation (LP)
9/25 - Healthy Junkies - Forever on the Road (LP)
9/25 - Mav Nuhels; Metodo - "Quixotic Neutrino" (single)
9/25 - Teen Creeps - "Seeing Shapes" (single)
9/25 - Mt. Doubt - Doubtlands (LP)
09/30 - The Sea at Midnight - "Afterglow" (single)
10/02 - Buckle Bunny - Pet Speak (LP)
10/02 - Divine Horsemen - "Mind Fever Soul Fire" (single)
10/02 - Will Payne Harrison - The Stratford Sessions (EP)
10/02 - The Jensen Sisters - Yellow Frames (LP)
10/02 - Mantis & The Prayer - Murder Ballad and the Blue (AA singles)
10/02 - Kouatchou - "My Teacher"/"Change" (AA singles)
10/02 - Gold Hick - Formed at Depth (LP)
10/02 - Laura Fernandez - Okay, Alright (LP)
10/02 - Stuffy Shmitt - "Jim's Dad" (single)
10/02 - Leron Thomas - More Elevator Music (LP)
10/02 - The Subtheory - IMPACT (EP)
10/02 - This Frontier Needs Heroes - "Go With the Flow" (single)
10/02 - Fly the Nest - "Wild Ride" (single)
10/02 - Christian Singles - Maybe Another Time (LP)
10/02 - Elkyn - beech remixes (EP)
10/02 - Short-Haired Domestic - Short-Haired Domestic (LP)
10/02 - Steve Poltz - "Quarantine Blues" (single)
10/02 - Elkhorn - The Acoustic Storm Sessions (LP)
10/02- The Orchestra of Cardboard - "Black Flag" (single)
10/02 - Lefthnd - Ad Mausoleum (LP)
10/02 - Klammer - "I Don't Know What It Is" (single)
10/02 - White Ribbon - "You Say You Don't Want Me" (single)
10/02 - David Woodard - The Grand Scheme of Things (EP)
10/02 - My Politic - Short Sighted People in Power (EP) - bandcamp release date
10/08 - Melting Mallows - "I'm Okay" (single)
10/08 - Jenee Halstead - "Heart Light" (single)
10/09 - Year of October - Wastelands (LP)
10/09 - Great Peacock - Forever Worse Better (LP)
10/09 - Fred Abong - "The Minit" (single)
10/09 - Zao - Preface: Early Recordings 1995-1996 (LP)
10/09 - Zao - All Else Failed: 25th Anniversary Edition (LP)
10/09 - Laraaji - Moon Piano (LP)
10/09 - Tomas Welding - "Arcade" (single)
10/09 - So We Are - Piece of the Puzzle (LP)
10/09 - Howard Gladstone - The Promise (LP)
10/09 - Rick Hromadka - Better Days (LP)
10/09 - Josh Werner - Mode for Titan (LP)
10/09 - Amelia White - "No Sound" (single)
10/09 - Seagoth - "Dreamworld" (single)
10/09 - Lee Taylor - "Pay It No Mind" (single)
10/09 - Kevin Burnstein - "Distraction" (single)
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