After some extended time away, we are back with an honest to goodness Morning Shuffle. Louisville, Kentucky based My Morning Jacket are up first with Librarian from their 5th Studio Album - Evil Urges.
The late, great June Carter Cash wife of the late, great Johnny Cash wrote the song Ring of Fire which was made famous by her husband. Since then, numerous covers of the song have been recorded including Social Distortion, Wall of Voodoo, Eric Burdon and the Animals and others. Today, we have June's own version:
Lou Reed released his third solo record Berlin in 1973. Caroline Says Iis from the first side of the record.
And finally, Rage Against The Machine from their 1999 album, The Battle of Los Angeles with Guerilla Radio. And we are out!
So... every week I add anywhere from 30 to 80 songs to my MP3 player. These become part of the Morning Shuffles you have come to know and love... Each shuffle has between 3 and 5 songs. So even at 5 songs for 5 days, I max out at 25 songs per week that I am able to present in the Morning Shuffle. Obviously, this leaves a large number of songs that I have not been able to play for you. Over the past several months, I have been collecting a playlist of the best of those unplayed tracks. As the year winds down, and I contemplate a new phone with increased memory capacity, I wanted to begin to present some of these songs. I have ripped off the band X and called this segment, The Unheard Music.
These will be video posts with little to know explanation or description....
By the way, it's not windy here today - just a random bit of words floating through my brain.
It looks like our friends, Those Mockingbirds ended the contest in 1st place! As I understand it, the final decision is now in the hands of the movie's producers. I still don't understand completely what happens now, but when I know you will know.
Let's go... it's Friday before a long holiday weekend here in the States, and I am expecting readership to drop significantly today because everyone is getting a jump start on their holiday plans. In any event, I've been focusing exclusively on the May 2012 playlist this week, but to wrap up the week, I thought I would go to one of our randomly selected playlists.
NUMBER ONE
We begin with a track off legendary British band, The Psychedelic Furs' self-titled debut album. Susan's Strange is classic Furs music, but did you know this song was not on the original UK release of the album?
NUMBER TWO
Next up with a cover song. Long-lived California band, Social Distortion have recently done some arena dates opening for The Avett Brothers, which at first glance seemed like an odd combination, but Mike Ness and company have a long-held affinity for classic county music. They covered June Carter Cash's Ring of Fire on their self-titled Epic records debut, and here we have a song off their second Epic release, Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell, this one is a cover of a song which topped the Country charts in 1955 for Ms. Kitty Wells. Making Believe was written by Jimmy Work.
NUMBER THREE
Finally, we have a track from one of our 2011 Band's of the Week. The Hunting Accident are an Indie Rock band based in Los Angeles. The band is made up of former members of the bands Piebald and Arlo. The song Aubergine is available now via Soundcloud using the widget below, and will be included on Trees and Parks, a 10" which will be released in July.
Here is an Amazon link to an earlier EP by the band
