Robin: it's just like every other place

Well, yeah. It is just like every other place (and also has its own unique personality, just like all places), but it's cool that you found us and we get to meet you. I really enjoy hearing from the Buffistas in Israel and Ireland and Egypt and Australia and Germany and all over this country.

The police have made two arrests in the Harvey killings: [link]

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In totally separate news, I am listening to the PEFECT Sunday afternoon album: Begonias by Cary Caitlin and Thad Cockrell. They are the lesser known other half of Whiskeytown (Ryan Adams' first band). Their post W-town efforts have not been anything too special until this album. It's not too country to send anyone who doesn't lean that way running for the hills but it really doesn't have any "alt" to it either. A lot of reviewers are making Gram Parsons/Emmylou comparisons - I'm not sure I agree, but it's v. good.

If you liked any Whiskeytown albums or are looking for a sleepy twangy Sunday afternoon album, it's worth a listen: [link]

Finally, my favorite find from the albums I bought after listening to Jon's Best of show is a band it's impossible to find anything out about because they have NO national press but seem to be revered in their hometown of Knoxville. Dixie Dirt: the name makes them sound twangy but they are not. At all. I got their latest album off of emusic and there is nothing else on it better than the song Jon played: "Bad Lights." It's still a good album. I have to admit I was a little disappointed though - based on how good that song was, I thought I was hearing another Rilo Kiley. (Meaning a female led band that I would begin immediately to worship. I don't have a lot of female singers that I really love. It's a me-thing that I wish wasn't and am working on thus this post about all female singers/bands - but there you go.)

Speaking of Rilo Kiley. I heard the first few tracks off of Jenny Lewis' solo album Rabbit Fur Coat this weekend. Not suprisingly, I was giddy with delight that her voice, lyrics and music are as unbelievably great as ever. My copy is pre-ordered on Amazon - it comes out on the 24th of this month.

OK. I'm done.

Wait, no I'm not. Emusic users: go now and try a couple tracks off that Bettye Lavette album that all the editors keep pimping. Especially try the Sinead O' Connor cover and "Just Say So." I was freaking out listening it to on my headphones last night - it's great. Non emusic users: go join or at least get the 50 free downloads you get in the free trial.

tina, on your recs I just used up my last 3 downloads for this 30 days on emusic.

Thanks.

edited b/c I really can read. der.

I heard the first few tracks off of Jenny Lewis' solo album Rabbit Fur Coat this weekend.

That album... I've said it elsewhere, but not at buffistas so: one of the three best album of 2006 unless something unpredictable happens. If Thea Gilmore and Flaming Lips had decided to not to do new albums this year, Jenny Lewis would have been number one right away without a doubt.

Two men are under arrest for the murder of the Harvey family, in part because of evidence in another set of murders they committed.

Horrible, horrible, horrible.

Another link about the arrests: [link]

Idle thought of the day as I put together a 70s Pop mix together: I'd really like to hear the Posies cover "Love Lies Bleeding." Now where's my Wings CD; I need "Magneto and Titanium Man" in there with the 10cc, Sparks and The Move's "Message From The Country."

So I am listening for the 3rd or 4th time to the Calexico and Iron & Wine show that was available on NPR as MP3s, but I think this might be the only time where I have basically just sat and listened. They cover Always on Mind and Wild Horses in the finale (where they are playing together). It is of the awesome.

Why do I love covers so much? It is a mystery. Reminds me how much I loved the Elvis Costello/Emmylou Harris show this summer. They did a ton of covers, including Wild Horses, I believe. That would be an awesome show to get a bootleg of.

I just finished watching Hooligans, Elijah Wood's first post-Rings starring role and quite a good dose of violence and British slang for a Sunday evening but...my point is.. ah yes.. the soundtrack included lots of Stone Roses and made me extremely sad that I only own them on tape and that my tape deck and tape collection are in storage. Because I would like to hear them about now.

Anyone who has seen that movie will also probably be as freaked out as I am to find out that Terence Jay, the actor who plays Wood's smarmy coke-head roommate at Harvard, actually wrote and sings the theme for the movie: "One Blood." (Which plays over the final fight scene.) It's not a great song - it's just really - odd, after watching the movie, to find out that he wrote it.

So I am listening for the 3rd or 4th time to the Calexico and Iron & Wine show that was available on NPR as MP3s

I didn't know about this. Sweet. Am downloading now. Here is the link for anyone interested: [link]

Why do I love covers so much?

Because they are a double scoop of good if you like both the song and the new artist who is covering it. Just last night I was making a mix of covers of familiar songs that you can't tell are that song unless you listen really carefully. So a mix of extremely deconstructed covers, I guess.