Monday Morning Music Shuffle - Hello My Name is... Mix

Raining morning in Nashville. Counting the days until Record Store Day (this coming Saturday April 21).

Today's shuffle ventures from the distant recesses of my former life to the near recent past while geographically traveling from one side of the Tennessee to the other and veering north, just across the border into Kentucky.

We begin just across the border in the college town of Bowling Green, Kentucky.  Cage the Elephant released their self-titled debut album in June 2008 in Europe and then in May 2009 in the US. Ain't No Rest For the Wicked  has a great hook and a cool groove. 

   

These days, Will Rambeaux is a successful Nashville-based songwriter. Back in the mid 80s, he headed up a hot Nashville roots rock band called Will Rambeaux and the Delta Hurricanes. Baby, Put Your Gun Down is from a vinyl rip of a classic benefit album called Nashville Homegrown which also includes The White Animals, Jimmy Hall & the Prisoners of Love, Nashville Bluegrass Band, Tom Kimmel, & Mark Germino among others. 

Will Rambeaux was also 1/2 of the Everready Brothers with Bill Lloyd.  You can hear some Will Rambeaux and other Nashville 80s rock at Nashville80srock.net.

Moving back into the near past and driving west about as far you can go and still stay in the state, we move to Memphis ("Home of Elvis and the ancient greeks") with a song of the impending season - Memphis is also the album name, the debut by Magic Kids. Summer is sweet like melting ice cream and

 

And finally, we cross the state to the east and span the years back to my college days, and a song that dominated.  Smokin' Dave & the Premo Dopes were one of the best Knoxville-based bands of all time.  In the era of USA for Africa and Live Aid and concern about the desperate state of affairs in Ethiopia - disinterested and jaded rich kids liked to go to parties and tell stupid, sick jokes which referenced the crisis.  The jokes were in poor taste especially as they underscored the differences between life "over there" and the life of relative ease and privilege.  Ethiopian Jokes summarized that era perfectly.  I grabbed the song off a rip of the vinyl 45 (Heart of Stone is the B-Side).  You can find the song along with some other classic Smokin Dave and the Premo Dopes catalog. Over at  Amazon.

 

I could not find a video of the song, but (HERE) is  a link to the MP3.

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Cage the Elephant - Live from the Vic in Chicago Deluxe DVD/CD edition includes bonus live CD. First ever live concert film from the Indie Rock quartet from Bowling Green, KY. Live From The Vic was filmed during the band's 2011 U.S. tour and directed by Wayne Isham.

Harry Houdini for Kids : His Life and Adventures with 21 Magic Tricks and Illusions No Synopsis Available

Monday Morning Music Shuffle - Lighting Issues Mix

Tons of songs on today's shuffle so let's get to it.  Check out the Amazon pages for the albums containing today's songs above:

United Provinces of India by Cornershop
Screen Door by Uncle Tupelo
A Dirty Song by The End Men
This Town by Don Ryan
Flags for Everything by Let's Active

Bastards of Young by The Replacements

Superball by Magic Kids

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Cornershop and the Double-O Groove Of Track Listing: 1. United Provinces of India, 2. Topknot, 3. 911 Curry, The, 4. Natch, 5. Double Decker Eyelashes, 6. Biro Pen, The, 7. Supercomputed, 8. Once There Was a Wintertime, 9. Double Digit, 10. Don't Shake It

Uncle Tupelo - Uncle Tupelo 89/93: An Anthology - MP3 Download This Uncle Tupelo download is available in DRM-free, MP3 256kbps format. Uncle Tupelo MP3's will play on iPod(r) and all MP3 players. Individual tracks and samples of the songs from this album are available by clicking on the product image on the left. Need help? Click here and search for "downloads" to learn more.

The Replacements: All Over But the Shouting: An Oral History Formed in a Minneapolis basement in 1979, the Replacements were a notorious rock 'n' roll circus, renowned for self-sabotage, cartoon shtick, stubborn contrarianism, stage-fright, Dionysian benders, heart-on-sleeve songwriting, and--ultimately--critical and popular acclaim. While rock then and now is lousy with superficial stars and glossy entertainment, the Replacements were as warts-and-all "real" as it got. In the first book to take on the jumble of facts, fictions, and contradictions behind the Replacements, veteran Minneapolis music journalist Jim Walsh distills hundreds of hours of interviews with band members, their friends, families, fellow musicians, and fans into an absorbing oral history worthy of the scruffy quartet that many have branded the most influential band to emerge from the '80s. Former manager Peter Jesperson, Paul Stark and Dave Ayers of Twin/Tone Records, Bob Mould and Grant Hart of rivals Husker Du, the legendary Curtiss A, Soul Asylum's Dan Murphy, Lori Barbero of Babes in Toyland, R.E.M.'s Peter Buck, power-pop hero Alex Chilton, Craig Finn of The Hold Steady, and replacement Replacements Slim Dunlap and Steve Foley: all have something to say about the scene that spawned the band. These and dozens of others offer insights into the Replacement's workings--and the band's continuing influence more than fifteen years after their breakup. Illustrated with both rarely seen and classic photos, this, finally, is the rollicking story behind the turbulent and celebrated band that came on fast and furious and finally flamed out, chronicled by one eyewitness who was always at the periphery of the storm, and often at its eye. " T]his consistently engaging and poignant work . . . . is a] loving, appropriately ramshackle tribute to one of the most beloved rock-and-roll bands of the 1980s. . . . The band's story is an archetype of the joys and pitfalls of underground success."--"Publishers Weekly" "The Replacements were superheroes: They rescued a whole planet from '80s music. Jim Walsh's loving, engrossing oral history is the book they deserve."--Nick Hornby, author of "High Fidelity"

20 Piece Superball Eyeballs All eyes will be on you when you arrive with a bag of twenty bloodshot eyeballs that really bounce! These bouncy superballs make great Halloween party favors or a little extra something special for