have you heard the Bettye Lavette album that got all the rave reviews this year?
I have not, but thanks for the recommendation, tina. I'm glad emusic's catalog keeps growing, but having too many choices is a really bad thing for me: I have broad tastes and I'm indecisive. Paralysis ensues. Upgrading my subscription wouldn't help. It isn't a matter of narrowing six or eight albums down to four each months, it's a matter of picking four things out of thousands. Doubling my monthly quota means having to make twice as many decisions every thirty days. And the fuckers don't roll over the picks! So it's use 'em or lose 'em. I'm just not right in the head.
Cool list, Corwood. You are a bundle of energy: kid, job, band, book deal, an active blog, this board and who knows how many others. You aren't part of that nationwide meth problem I keep hearing about, are you? Apropos of the Neil Young track I strongly recommend that you check out The Powwow Highway, which features Gary Farmer (Nobody in Dead Man) in one of my all-time favorite performances. The book and its sequel, Sweet Medicine, are even better, but Farmer makes the film a must see.
And apropos of the flood survivor interviewed by your friend, did you think "Old Man" when you read that? I don't think the Tall Convict said as much in the whole story as the New Orleans guy did in that one answer, but still I couldn't help thinking of Faulkner.
check out The Powwow Highway, which features Gary Farmer (Nobody in Dead Man) in one of my all-time favorite performances.
Powwow Highway
also oddly features Daytime Hunk A. Martinez in the lead role! I love both book and movie as well.
Sweet Medicine is even better, tina. A Martinez is good, but Farmer is like Philbert stepped right out of the book; perfect casting. Btw, since this is the music thread I'll mention that George Harrison was one of the producers.
You aren't part of that nationwide meth problem I keep hearing about, are you?
You should see my meth mouth. It's groovy!
Apropos of the Neil Young track I strongly recommend that you check out The Powwow Highway, which features Gary Farmer (Nobody in Dead Man) in one of my all-time favorite performances. The book and its sequel, Sweet Medicine, are even better, but Farmer makes the film a must see.
Will do.
And apropos of the flood survivor interviewed by your friend, did you think "Old Man" when you read that? I don't think the Tall Convict said as much in the whole story as the New Orleans guy did in that one answer, but still I couldn't help thinking of Faulkner.
Man, I think "Old Man" whenever I think about New Orleans these days. In fact, I re-read The Wild Palms in its entirety about a month after the flood, mainly because "Old Man" was stuck in my head.
You should see my meth mouth. It's groovy!
Band Name: Groovy Meth Mouth
I'm in for the franken-mix.
Back in May 2003, This American Life did a road show, later compiled for broadcast, that they called Lost in America. I saw the Boston show. The house band for the evening was a band assembled by Jon Langford featuring a couple of Waco Brothers as well as a few folks from the One Day Band. I
loved
the title song Langford wrote for the show, performed after Ira's teaser, and I've been waiting patiently for over two years for him to record it.
It's finally here, on Langford's new album "Gold Brick". Yay! I put it on buffistarawk. Go listen.
Also mailed to Buffistarawk is a song by Wussy, a band featuring Chuck Cleaver, leader of the late great Ass Ponys. It's called Airborne, and it's a awesomely bitter, sour grapes, break-up song.
Oooh, thanks for the the rawk, Jon!
Thanks for the namecheck, Corwood -- I am very fond of that track. Goddammit! He loves John Coltrane!
How did your round robin work that you were so happy with, did I miss that?
Oh, and, OK, I'm in for the mix. I should warn you that I've been ripping a lot of mid-90s alt-country for a coworker, so expect to hear mandolins.
