Monday Morning Music Shuffle - Funky-Ass Car Mix

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We have a whopping six songs in today's shuffle - so let's get to it!


If Rhode Island and Alt-Country don't make much sense to you, then you need to familiarize yourself with Providence band Deer Tick, and it will all become clear.  I, myself, was late coming into the Deer Tick fold, but I've been hooked ever since that first listen.  Today we open up a jam packed music shuffle with the opening song from the band's debut album - War Elephant.  The song is Ashamed. 

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit are like an unstoppable force. Their album Here We Rest was one of the best albums of 2011.  This time, we go back a couple of years to the predecessor - the self-titled album was the first to feature the  400 Unit.  Today, we have Soldiers Get Strange.

All Mod Cons by The Jam is consistently one of my favorite albums of all time. It was released thirty-four years ago this past Saturday, and man oh man does it hold up well.  Today we have the second song on the album To Be Someone (Didn't We Have a Nice Time).

 

Elizabeth Cook was born in Wildwood, Florida.  Today, we have a song from Welder her critically acclaimed Don Was produced album which was released back in 2010. The subject of this song is the Chevy vehicle which helped me to get a letter to the editor published in the original print edition of Film Threat magazine.  In case you weren't aware, the El Camino has appeared in an incredible number of motion pictures over the years. The list is too long to mention, but if you watch movies with an eye out for the car/truck thing, you will begin to notice a trend.  Anyway, Elizabeth Cook's song is really good.

Detroit Rapper Danny Brown released a non-album single earlier this year.  Grown Up has a sweet, nostalgic bent to it.  It's good stuff.

And we close out this long set of music with the opening track off The Plimsouls second album, Everywhere At Once.  Shaky City highlights the band's signature brand of power-pop. 

 

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Tuesday Morning Music Shuffle - Que Sera Sera Mix

Chasing rabbits down the rabbit hole

Dreaming of birds

A melody crashes

The mind reels

A journey which never ends

A time out of context

Rivers running backward

A mountain falling silently into the roiling sea.

Challenge (no challenge)

Lost the sense of what is real

And what is not real

Does it matter?

Did it ever?

Ah - musings of a Tuesday with rising temperatures and gathering clouds....

Record Store Day is just over two weeks away.  Support your local record store whether you are a vinyl junkie or not.  I'll be holding court down at Grimey's.  Jeff the Brotherhood have been announced as a musical guest with more acts to follow.

Due to some technical issues, only two tracks on the shuffle (Que sera sera) and a bonus track for your listening pleasure:

40 East by Avett Brothers from Four Thieves Gone reminds me of the treks from my hometown/college town to the city (Nashville) for shows at the Cannery, Vanderbilt, War Memorial and Cat's Records  and to shop at Discount Records and Cat's Records... And those late night/early morning trips back to our lives which seemed endless but which are now lost to the vagrancies of time.

 

 

Top 5 Band of the Year finalist, Taco Land are up next with a track called Can You Hear Me? from his fabulous Heart of Texas release.  

 

 (a video of another Taco Land track - Wonderful Rain)

 

Bonus track time:  Danny Brown is a Detroit-based rapper.  His 2011 album XXX just got the deluxe treatment - the deluxe version was released in March of this year.  

 

He has a brand new song, Grown Up which you can grab for free over the Stereogum .

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