So, here we go... after several months of waiting, I finally have a 32GB card in my phone and to celebrate I added a random 20GB (left room to grow) sampling of my entire digital library and then I randomly shuffled that 20GB and the resulting Morning Music Shuffle is after the jump:
A cold and misty rain here in Music City USA. Reminder: Voting is heating up in our 2nd Annual Band of the Year poll. Right now, the Brooklyn band The Disappointment have jumped out into the lead. Sci-Romance, Skeletons in the Piano, The End Me, and Black Jake and the Carnies round out the top so far, but it's early and anything can happen.
Well, I hope everyone had a good fourth of July. Here in Nashville, it seems like burn bans due to dry conditions kept the private fireworks to a minimum. The Downtown Nashville fireworks display was, as usual, pretty amazing. With a finale that did not disappoint.
But, it's back to work now, and a pretty interesting shuffle for this 5th day of July.
First up: We "discovered" National Grain when we stumbled across some music from an off-shoot band called The Flint Hill Specials. We checked out National Grain found their Americana, Alt-Country sound to our liking. This morning we had Pretty Women Won't Give Me the Time of Day from the band's self-titled album which was released in 2006. National Grain hail from Atlanta, Georgia.
could not find a National Grain video, so here's something from Flint Hill Specials.
Second up, is a new song from Joe Jackson's new album, The Duke, which is a tribute to Duke Ellington. On this first look, Jackson teams up with the one and only Iggy Pop to take on the Classic song It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing).
And finally, we have a track from former Fleet Foxes member Joshua Tillman, who has previously released solo albums as J. Tillman, but who is now recording under the moniker Father John Misty. His first album under the new name is called Fear Fun, and the song we have today is called Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings.
