WOW Wednesday Music Shuffle - On My Own Mix

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As we do pretty much every Wednesday, we dig into the well that is the music currently residing on my phone's memory, and we hit "shuffle" and let the chips fall where they may...  Today's shuffle yields a nice mix of different styles of music which makes sense only to people like me...

Shall we?

Wednesday/Thursday Evening/Morning Music Shuffle - Luckiest Guy in the World Mix

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Railroad Bridge - Nashville

Good morning, I am back after a day off... my new earphones are still In-Transit, so today I presenting my mix of yesterday's drive home and today's drive in to work.  Jump through to the marvelous musical mixture...

Monday Morning Music Shuffle - Explosions in my Mind

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Hey ho! It's a brand new month.  Let's kick it off right!

Pre-Shuffle: (I had some post Shuffle technical difficulties so I'm having to reconstruct the order of the songs from memory)

"Goin' to a Party" by Alabama Shakes
"From a Window Seat" by Dawes
"Freak Show" by SkyBurnsRed
"I Found You" by Aaron and Andrew
"Give Me Back my Wig" by Hound Dog Taylor and The Houserockers
 "Last Stop" by Black Jake and the Carnies (Nashville Show Alert!!!!  Black Jake and the Carnies will be playing at this Wednesday's edition of Music City Roots Live from the Loveless Barn.  If you can't make it to the Loveless, you can catch the broadcast on Lightning 100 or at  the Music City Roots website)
"Buried" and "On My Own" by Year of October
"Tina Says" by Those Darlins

And a song from Nashville's Ben Shive serves as a transition to the Shuffle which begins right after the JUMP!

Friday Morning Music Shuffle - Illustrious Illusions Mix

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'Tis a rainy Friday in Nashville, Tennessee.  Fortunately, the rain let up for my daily walk up the hill to higher ground. Even more fortunate, I got to listen to some killer tunes, and as always, I want to share them with you.


Pre-shuffle:

"Please" by The Vespers (awesome Nashville band who will be playing May 25th at the Eastside Hootenanny.  Those Darlins will also be on the bill that day because this is Nashville and that's just how we roll)

"Hello It's Me" by Todd Rundgren (The classic song from 1972)

" Singing Sunrise" by JENNY (who have a new album, Love and Politics out now)

"Hail Hail" by Shovels and Rope (the awesome South Carolina band from a Noisetrade tour sampler for their summer jaunt with the equally awesome Dawes - who we will hear from later in the mix)

"Rewind" by Kopecky Family Band (more good stuff from the Nashville band who were recently featured in the NY Times)


SHUFFLE - after the JUMP

Wednesday Morning Music Shuffle - Traffic Jammed Mix

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Well let's get to it. Due to an unplanned change in schedule and some wicked traffic patterns, we had an extended set of music for the day.... complaining? who me?

Pre-Shuffle:  "Magic Missiles" by Ghost and Goblin; "Bombs Away", "Heart U 4 Ever", and "Lackluster Love" by Kyle Andrews; "For Cowboy" by Hotpipes; "Penny, Things Won't", "Turn Me On Dead Man", "Beach State Rocking", "Wyoming", "Kenneth -- What's the Frequency" and "Rayon Drive" by Game Theory; "Merry Go 'Round" by Kacey Musgraves; "A Story (Written in the Sky)" by The Bongos; "The Rosarito Beach Cafe" by Warren Zevon; and "Summer's Dead" by Those Darlins. 

Shuffle now... wait for the Jump

Tuesday Morning Music Shuffle - Tiger of Manhatten Mix

I'm currently reading Jonathan Lethem's rather trippy novel Chronic City (and yes the titular Chronic is what you think).  I'm a big Jonathan Lethem fan, and so far I'm enjoying the book, but I'm just about half way through - it's very long.  Anyway, there are lots of interesting occurrences and references in the book. The novel falls into the classification of what I like to call hyper-realism, which for me means a view of the world which is skewed from what most of us perceive as reality.

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We are in a daze, a haze, a maze

we are amazed

we meet an icon and are surprised

to find the truth behind

their facade

And then we are overtaken with joy

and laughter fills the air around our ears

We look around and fine ourselved

unimpressed

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Our list today features music added into the MP3 for the month of March - it's our last adds for March.

Here is today's list:

 

Dancing Daze is  from The Avett Brothers' 2006 album Four Thieves Gone: The Robbinsville Sessions  which was recorded in 10 days in early 2005.

 

"Mean" Joe Green comes from recent Band of the Week, Calicocat off of their 2011 set, Unnatural Oasis.

  Couldn't find a video of the band doing this song, so here is the classic Coca-Cola commercial of Mean Joe Greene.

 

The Way You Laugh is by Dawes off of Nothing is Wrong.

 

And finally, we have our brand new Band of the Week, Northbrook Garage with their song  So What.

 

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Chronic City The acclaimed author of "Motherless Brooklyn" and "The Fortress of Solitude" returns with a roar with this gorgeous, searing portrayal of Manhattanites wrapped in their own delusions, desires, and lies. Chase Insteadman, a handsome, inoffensive fixture on Manhattan's social scene, lives off residuals earned as a child star on a beloved sitcom called "Martyr & Pesty." Chase owes his current social cachet to an ongoing tragedy much covered in the tabloids: His teenage sweetheart and fiancee, Janice Trumbull, is trapped by a layer of low-orbit mines on the International Space Station, from which she sends him rapturous and heartbreaking love letters. Like Janice, Chase is adrift, she in Earth's stratosphere, he in a vague routine punctuated by Upper East Side dinner parties. Into Chase's cloistered city enters Perkus Tooth, a wall-eyed free-range pop critic whose soaring conspiratorial riffs are fueled by high-grade marijuana, mammoth cheeseburgers, and a desperate ache for meaning. Perkus's countercultural savvy and voracious paranoia draw Chase into another Manhattan, where questions of what is real, what is fake, and who is complicit take on a life-shattering urgency. Along with Oona Laszlo, a self-loathing ghostwriter, and Richard Abneg, a hero of the Tompkins Square Park riot now working as a fixer for the billionaire mayor, Chase and Perkus attempt to unearth the answers to several mysteries that seem to offer that rarest of artifacts on an island where everything can be bought: Truth. Like Manhattan itself, Jonathan Lethem's masterpiece is beautiful and tawdry, tragic and forgiving, devastating and antic, a stand-in for the whole world and a place utterly unique.

Mean Joe Greene and the Steelers' front four This book is in Used condition

Friday Morning Music Shuffle - Hills are Alive Mix

Good morning, I've got a lot to do and not a little bit of time to do it so let's get to today's list:

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Dawes are back on our playlist with a track from their  2009 album North Hills:  Love is All I Am

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Delta Spirit have also come back to our list.  Today's song is on Ode to Sunshine (although our version is

from the I Think I Found It -EP which we got from Noisetrade) - People, Turn Around!

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Americana-Country-Folk band Folk Family Revival are from Texas and they are Chasing a Rabbit  from their 2011 album Unfolding.  Check them out:

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And we'll go out today with North Carolina's The Avett Brothers with a rollicking number off their latest I and Love and You - Kick Drum Heart .

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KOL Drum Kick Canada Jr. Tee This Kings Of Leon Jr. tee features the Canadian KOL logo on front. White 100% cotton.

Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels: Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich, and Rabbit at Rest When we first met him in "Rabbit, Run" (1960), the book that established John Updike as a major novelist, Harry (Rabbit) Angstrom is playing basketball with some boys in an alley in Pennsylvania during the tail end of the Eisenhower era, reliving for a moment his past as a star high school athlete. Athleticism of a different sort is on display throughout these four magnificent novels--the athleticism of an imagination possessed of the ability to lay bare, with a seemingly effortless animal grace, the enchantments and disenchantments of life. Updike revisited his hero toward the end of each of the following decades in the second half of this American century; and in each of the subsequent novels, as Rabbit, his wife, Janice, his son, Nelson, and the people around them grow, these characters take on the lineaments of our common existence. In prose that is one of the glories of contemporary literature, Updike has chronicled the frustrations and ambiguous triumphs, the longuers, the loves and frenzies, the betrayals and reconciliations of our era. He has given us our representative American story. This Rabbit Angstrom volume is comprised of the following novels: Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit is Rich; and Rabbit at Rest.

Love Is All I Am We believe it is important to preserve what makes music special, and make it easy to craft listening experiences. At MOG, browse millions songs and play them instantly. Or just turn on radio where you can stop and replay songs. You can also create playlists for any occasion, and even download songs to your mobile. We are dedicated to employing the cleanest but most powerful technology so you can enjoy music as much as ever.

People, Turn Around We believe it is important to preserve what makes music special, and make it easy to craft listening experiences. At MOG, browse millions songs and play them instantly. Or just turn on radio where you can stop and replay songs. You can also create playlists for any occasion, and even download songs to your mobile. We are dedicated to employing the cleanest but most powerful technology so you can enjoy music as much as ever.

Wednesday Morning Music Shuffle - Something Something Something Mix

Moving right along... reminder check back with #CXCW this evening for the big awards ceremony.  What was you favorite moment of the festival? (While you are there, be sure to check out any videos you may have missed.

Shuffling up some music added during the month of March.  Here is today's mix:

First up with have Will Kimbrough (Will & the Bushmen, The Bis-quits, Daddy) who has played and/or recorded with Emmylou Harris, Jimmy Buffet, Todd Snider, Garrison Starr, Tommy Womack among others. Today's track is off his 2010 album Wings, The Day of the Troubadour seems like a good song choice for a man whose music currently has him touring Scandinavia.

Use the image below to head over to Amazon to check out Wings by Will Kimbrough.

 

Dawes is one of the hottest indie/Americana/Alt-Country bands around.  The rich, smooth sound of this band, with it's familiar yet modern feel has garnered the band a lot of attention and the opportunity to work with the great California singer/songwriter Jackson Browne.   Their latest release  Nothing is Wrong was released last year, and today we have the track Moon in the Water.  Check out Nothing is Wrong by Dawes on Amazon.com by clicking the image below.

 

Bobby Womack has a long and storied career which has included forays into R&B, Soul, Rock, Country, Doo-Wop and Gospel. He has a brand new album due out in June which is called The Bravest Man in the Universe - it will be his first album of original recordings since 1994.  The first track from the forthcoming album has dropped, and you can get Please, Forgive my Heart by clicking on the rather disturbing image below:

 

 Teen Daze comes from Vancouver, Canada.  The first full-length album is due out in May and is called All of Us, Together. The first song out. It's called Treton and you can pick up over on Bandcamp:

 

You can also check out the band's 2010 EP Four More Years @amazon.com by clicking the image/link

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Bobby Womack: Midnight Mover: The True Story of the Greatest Soul Singer in the World Bobby Womack is a legend--a phenomenally gifted singer, songwriter, and guitarist with 40 albums and 30 million record sales to his name. A protege of Sam Cooke, Womack wrote classics that include "Lookin' for a Love" and "It's All Over Now" (a smash-hit for the Rolling Stones). Their success helped make him a star, but ongoing battles with drugs and the record industry nearly destroyed him. Behind his music lies a life scorched by tragedy, beginning with his impoverished childhood in Cleveland, to his years touring and recording with the greats--including James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, Sam Cooke, Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, Eric Clapton, and Elvis Presley--and through the years of drugs, partying, and riotous abuse, this is the authentic voice of a major soul artist.