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Led Zeppelin - “Down by the Seaside”
Enjoying this old one quite a bit right now. It’s kind of new for me.
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My Morning Jacket - “Holdin on to Black Metal”
still want to see these guys.
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Joe Pug - “Hymn #76”
Opening track off the new album.
He actually says “water” as other North Carolinians I’ve known—namely Hamilton Berry and his relatives when we were little… “/WUH ter/”
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Joe Pug- “The Great Despiser”
One of my most favorite. This album, The Great Despiser, came out today, so I can’t find many of the songs online yet. But this one, at least, had already been posted somewhere. His best ones, including on this album, are really his acoustic ones. This larger production is a rarity. I may have to share some of his more typical ones later.
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The title track from Joe Pug’s forthcoming album, out April 24.
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Jay Farrar, Will Johnson, Anders Parker, Yim Yames - “Chorine My Sheba Queen”
Here’s a new Woody Guthrie album. I didn’t know this before, but apparently the Woody Guthrie foundation sponsors one of these Mermaid Avenue-like albums all the time. Additionally, the foundation and Billy Bragg seems to have approached Jay Farrar before they went to Wilco. Farrar had been the other main guy in Uncle Tupelo with Jeff Tweedy (of Wilco) before a bad fall-out. Farrar has been in a group called Son Volt ever since, which has some decent stuff. He says he was on tour when they first approached in him about putting some Woody Guthrie lyrics to music, so he couldn’t do it then. Farrar claims that he still has never listened to Mermaid Avenue so that it wouldn’t affect his take on the music.
Of course, there are several all-stars working on New Multitudes, like Yim Yames of My Morning Jacket… another badass. They each picked and arranged their own songs on the album. This is one of my favorites and was a Yim Yames one, I believe.
Thanks to Erik for sending this album to me.
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p.s. a nice live version (the 2nd song)
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Willis Earl Beal - “Same Old Tears” (live in Chicago)
Thanks for this one, Meghan. Soulful.
HIs website is possibly the simplest and best one I’ve seen for an artist.
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Sleigh Bells - “Born to Lose”
Happy Easter. Thought it was vaguely appropriate to share this little bit more from this Williamsburg duo… but maybe not.
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Jack White - “Sixteen Saltines”
New video via Pitchfork. Cutting off fingers, flying in the air, making out with slushies in their mouths… Kids these days
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Dale Earnhardt, Jr. Jr. - “Morning Thought”
just introduced to this Detroit group. digging it.
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Radiohead - “Codex”
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