I hope everyone had a great weekend. It's Monday, it's also Tax Day here in the USA. Our goal of late, seems to be to cover as much musical ground as possible in the span of 7-10 songs or so. I hope today's Pre-Shuffle and Shuffle Shuffle do not disappoint.
Let's get to it....
Pre-shuffle: April Verch is a Berklee trained Bluegrass/Traditional music fiddle player and step-dancer. She has a new sampler out of Noisetrade, so there is no excuse not to check her music out. We listened to two selections from the release this morning.
We also heard more music from Taco Land's Pancakes and Pizza album - (see our review).
Plus another song from the awesome new record from Sad Baby Wolf. This morning's Gershwin song is performed by the late, great Rosemary Clooney, and we closed out the Pre-shuffle with John Wesley Harding with the opening track from his 2011 album,The Sound of His Own Voice.
Let's head into the shuffle - now....
Thinking about MLK and the price of Freedom and Justice and the power of Love and Mercy. For the record, the shot didn't ring out in the early morning of April 4 (despite U2's poetic license, it was the late evening). But I digress.
The awesome music continues to roll in faster than we can distribute it out to you. Stay tuned!
First up, we had a whopping eight songs in our Pre-Shuffle Shuffle this morning. Just to explain, I listen to music on my ride into work and then on my walk from the parking lot. It was taking to long to write a complete post about all of the music, but I wanted to take the opportunity to give some quick shout outs. So I invented the Pre-Shuffle Shuffle which contains fewer details but 100% of the love.
Pre-Shuffle Shuffle includes: Colorado by way of Brooklyn Singer-Songwriter and CXCW Alum David Lott, Birthday boy Luke Anderson and his band The Danbury Lie with another great song from their '?' album out now via Bandcamp. Built4BBQ band and friends of The End Men (obligatory The End Men mention) New Red Scare are a Rock and Roll band from Albany - Unlucky One is from The Appetizer Sampler. More Gershwin. Connecticut prodigies, The Foresters with Mugshot from their self-titled EP. A track from the forth-coming album, Damaged Goods from veteran Canadian band The Mohawk Lodge. A classic track and one of my favorite songs by Nashville by way of Mobile, Alabama singer, songwriter and guitar god, Will Kimbrough going back to his This album. And the Pre-Shuffle closes out with yet another great track from Taco Land's awesome new album Pancakes and Pizza which is out now.
We hit the Shuffle, Shuffle after the Jump
Well, we stand here at the tail-end of the first quarter or 2013. One thing that regular readers of this blog may have noticed is that we have yet to have Featured Artist or Band of the Month or anything like that. As this year got underway, and due to a variety of circumstances, we decided to step back and decide how we wanted to proceed. I think we've worked it out, and stay tuned. In the next couple of days, we will be rolling out a brand new feature....
In the meantime, we moved around some songs and added a pretty cool sampler to our current playlist. Pre-shuffle we had a couple more songs from the You and Me album by You and Me (Val and James). Plus we had a classic from Mr. Nick Lowe (which is included in the Playlist at the bottom of this post), The Harmonica Lewinskies (also represented in the Playlist) and Southern Culture on the Skids.
The Shuffle Shuffle is ready for you after the Jump
