Saturday, February 9, 2008
It took overtime to do it but.....
The Spurs beat the Nicks. That's what 4 wins in the last 5 road games? Not too bad, besides, it's still so early. It looks like the Champs are catching back up in the West. Did you ever doubt them?
The Hold Steady Project
I'm working on a Hold Steady compilation that's proving very hard to put together. I love their shit so much that it's hard to pick out just one CD's worth of music out of the three masterpieces they've released in the last several years. I tend to want to put way to much on it and end up with two CD's. It's like my painter friend Donald always reminds me, just because you can fit 20 or more songs on one CD doesn't mean you have to. It's a work in progress, but I'll have some copies for you guys along with a bonus live show from the 9:30 club in DC. Hold Steady, it's on it's way soon.
Friday, February 8, 2008
smoke 'em if you got 'em.....
Shine a light...
I can't wait for this one to come to Austin.
Follow the link below for an early review.
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/35536
Follow the link below for an early review.
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/35536
Way over my head...
Tonight I came home from work and found my sweet little girl had gone and gotten a make over. I think she looks very cute, but I had better start saving for a gun or two. If she's taking these pictures at 2 years old.....well, I'm in way over my head.
The best part about SXSW? Free Daytime shows!!
Below are some of the free day shows for this year's SXSW. We had so much fun at last years free parties that I cannot wait to see what is in store for us this year.
Tuesday 3/11
This is American Music
Grand Champeen, Two Cow Garage, The Drams, Glossary at Beerland
Friday 3/14
Bloodshot Records 14th Annual Party and BBQ
Firewater, Bobby Bare Jr., The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir, The Waco Brothers, Ha Ha Tonka, Justin Townes Earle, Deadstring Brothers, Mark Pickerel & His Praying Hands, The Silos (in tribute to Drew Glackin), Andre Williams at Yard Dog Gallery (1510 S. Congress Ave.)
I'm still trying to get the low down on the No Depression Party, the Twangfest Party, and the New West Records Party, all of which are usually very nice. Hopefully my painter friend Donald wont' be so hung over this year and can truly enjoy himself.
Tuesday 3/11
This is American Music
Grand Champeen, Two Cow Garage, The Drams, Glossary at Beerland
Friday 3/14
Bloodshot Records 14th Annual Party and BBQ
Firewater, Bobby Bare Jr., The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir, The Waco Brothers, Ha Ha Tonka, Justin Townes Earle, Deadstring Brothers, Mark Pickerel & His Praying Hands, The Silos (in tribute to Drew Glackin), Andre Williams at Yard Dog Gallery (1510 S. Congress Ave.)
I'm still trying to get the low down on the No Depression Party, the Twangfest Party, and the New West Records Party, all of which are usually very nice. Hopefully my painter friend Donald wont' be so hung over this year and can truly enjoy himself.
Whiskeytown :: Stranger’s Almanac (Reissue)
Come March 4th, Whiskeytown’s second album, 1997’s Stranger’s Almanac, is getting the deluxe, two disc, reissue treatment. This marks the first Whiskeytown release since the post-humous 2001 release of Pneumonia, the band’s final studio album. No Depression dot net has the details — check it out:
“Disc One of the two-disc set will feature the original album plus five tracks recorded live on Los Angeles radio station KCRW on September 10, 1997. Three of those tracks are album cuts (”Houses On The Hill”, “Turn Around”, “Somebody Remembers The Rose”) and two were not on the album (”Nurse With The Pills”, “I Don’t Care What You Think About Me”).
The 20 tracks on disc two include outtakes and alternate tracks from the Strangers Almanac recording sessions and demo sessions. A few of them were issued separate from Strangers Almanac at the time: “Theme For A Trucker”, “My Heart Is Broken”, and alternate versions of “The Strip” (a.k.a. “Dancing With The Women At The Bar”) and “Houses On The Hill” comprised a double 7-inch gatefold release by Bloodshot Records in early 1997, and “Ticket Time” and Alejandro Escovedo’s “The Rain Won’t Help You When It’s Over” were on a limited-edition bonus EP packaged with initial pressings of the Strangers Almanac CD.
Aside from “The Rain Won’t Help You”, other cover songs on Disc Two include Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams”, Gram Parsons’ “Luxury Liner”, and a Ryan Adams solo version of Johnny Cash’s “I Still Miss Someone”.
Previously unreleased outtakes from the Strangers sessions featured on Disc Two include “Kiss & Make-Up”, “Indiana Gown”, “Barn’s On Fire”, “Whispers” (a.k.a. “Streets Of Sirens”), “Breathe”, and “10 Seconds Till The End Of The World”.
Disc Two also includes alternate studio versions of Strangers tracks “Excuse Me While I Break My Own Heart Tonight”, “16 Days”, “Somebody Remembers The Rose”, “Avenues”, and “Turn Around”.” (via)
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And……we’re back. The majority of the additional tracks - noted above - have been widely available online, and in trading circles, for years. Most of disc two is made up of tracks that Adams had been quoted as saying were to be part of an album entitled Those Weren’t The Days, which would have been the link, stylistically speaking, between the Faithless Street and Stranger’s Almanac records.
“Disc One of the two-disc set will feature the original album plus five tracks recorded live on Los Angeles radio station KCRW on September 10, 1997. Three of those tracks are album cuts (”Houses On The Hill”, “Turn Around”, “Somebody Remembers The Rose”) and two were not on the album (”Nurse With The Pills”, “I Don’t Care What You Think About Me”).
The 20 tracks on disc two include outtakes and alternate tracks from the Strangers Almanac recording sessions and demo sessions. A few of them were issued separate from Strangers Almanac at the time: “Theme For A Trucker”, “My Heart Is Broken”, and alternate versions of “The Strip” (a.k.a. “Dancing With The Women At The Bar”) and “Houses On The Hill” comprised a double 7-inch gatefold release by Bloodshot Records in early 1997, and “Ticket Time” and Alejandro Escovedo’s “The Rain Won’t Help You When It’s Over” were on a limited-edition bonus EP packaged with initial pressings of the Strangers Almanac CD.
Aside from “The Rain Won’t Help You”, other cover songs on Disc Two include Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams”, Gram Parsons’ “Luxury Liner”, and a Ryan Adams solo version of Johnny Cash’s “I Still Miss Someone”.
Previously unreleased outtakes from the Strangers sessions featured on Disc Two include “Kiss & Make-Up”, “Indiana Gown”, “Barn’s On Fire”, “Whispers” (a.k.a. “Streets Of Sirens”), “Breathe”, and “10 Seconds Till The End Of The World”.
Disc Two also includes alternate studio versions of Strangers tracks “Excuse Me While I Break My Own Heart Tonight”, “16 Days”, “Somebody Remembers The Rose”, “Avenues”, and “Turn Around”.” (via)
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And……we’re back. The majority of the additional tracks - noted above - have been widely available online, and in trading circles, for years. Most of disc two is made up of tracks that Adams had been quoted as saying were to be part of an album entitled Those Weren’t The Days, which would have been the link, stylistically speaking, between the Faithless Street and Stranger’s Almanac records.
Below are the four studio tracks from the unreleased Those Weren’t The Days album that will not be featured on the upcoming Stranger’s reissue. Note: Three of the Those Weren’t The Days tracks (“Empty Baseball Park,” “Here’s To The Rest of The World,” “Factory Girl”) were previously cribbed for the 1998 reissue of the Faithless Street album.
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