First off - we have a treat! How about the brand new video of a song we presented a week or so ago. Our friends Those Mockingbirds released the song "How to Rob a Bank" back on the 22nd of October. Now they have an instructional video. An Official Video anyway... Here it is!
I never quite have it together enough for a holiday-themed shuffle... but today, the Randomizer came up with alien arachnids, electrical discharges, monks, extinct birds, and puppets. Which can create some pretty frightening images if you use your imagination.
Jump to see what I am rattling on about... if you dare... bwahahahahaha!
ICYMI - please check out Sandy Hook: Somewhere Over the Rainbow featuring the Children of Newtown along with Ingrid Michaelson which was produced by Chris and Tina of Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club renown.
It continues to be winter here in Nashville, but we press on... Let's shuffle - after the jump:
What a week! Friday is here. Let's have a shuffle!
Nashville band and past Featured Artist on Ear2theGround just released a live album recorded on Tuesday at Springwater Supper Club. You can get that via the band's Bandcamp page. Today's song comes from the September 2012 release from the band's vault. It's a cover of the song that helped make Hank Williams Sr. an honorary Cajun. I say, Calicocat have earned that distinction with this awesome cover of Jambalaya (On the Bayou), and I'm 3/4 Cajun so it's my decision - right?
Here's Hank!
Here's CCR!
Another Nashville artist is up next. Harrison Hudson from his 2011 album American Thunder with Every Girl.
Shaky is the former guitarist for the Philadelphia band Cold Fronts. He has has some solo music out now including the song Head Over Heels. Check it out:
Here's a video from Cold Fronts when Shaky was part of the band.
And finally, we go back a few years to pick up on L.A. band Beachwood Sparks from their album Once We Were Trees with Confusion is Nothing New
Have I mentioned lately how much I love writing this blog? So, a big "Thanks" to all our regular readers - and to the irregular ones, too.
Well we have a great set of music that actually has a somewhat cohesive sound. Now, if you've been paying attention, you know I absolutely love totally random and insanely diverse mixes of music. Still and all, it is kind of cool when the gods of the random shuffle - deign to offer up a set of music that seems preplanned.
Let's go!
John Stewart not the Daily Show guy (he's Jon), but the folk singer/songwriter had a remarkable career. First as a member of the legendary Kingston Trio and then solo. He wrote the Monekee's hit Daydream Believer and scored a Top Ten hit with his own song, Gold, which featured Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks. Gold was released in 1979, and I remember the song well from that part of my youth. The song we have today is from Stewart's 1973 album Cannons in the Rain which was his first on the RCA label. All Time Woman is about life as a musician on the road.
(I couldn't find a video for All Time Woman, so here's one for Gold)
Next we have a new song from an album due out in a couple of weeks (The Tarnished Gold by Los Angeles based Alt-Country band Beachwood Sparks). Sparks Fly Again really sounded great following up the John Stewart song.
And finally, rounding out our countrish/folksy set is a slice of life from the Canadian band Cowboy Junkies. Sun Comes Up, It's Tuesday Morningwas originally on the band's 1990 album The Caution Horses, this morning we had an acoustic version of the song from the 2009 Acoustic Junk album.
