My sweet wife bought me the Sufjan Stevens Illinoise CD and... I don't know. Will continue listening, but right now, I'm not so sure it's for me. I keep going back to his Christmas songs.
Spike ,'Sleeper'
Buffista Music III: The Search for Bach
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
There's a whole box set of his Christmas EPs.
That sweet wife I mentioned has also ordered that, but it hasn't arrived yet.
If anyone is interested: my dear friend Guy just uploaded a live session he did for his music blog. This one is with José González.
NPR are giving free listening to Neil Young, Hear Sugar Mountain: Live At Canterbury House 1968.
Music I have ganked in the last 23 hours:
Orange Juice - The Glasgow School (comp.)
Giant Sand - The Love Songs
The Pale Fountains - Pacific Street
16 Horsepower - Secret South
The Chameleons - Script of the Bridge
The Gun Club - Las Vegas Story
Ronnie Spector - She Talks to Rainbows
Shampoo - "Bouffant Headbutt"
Johnny Cash & Joe Strummer - "Redemption Song" (Marley cover)
Music bought:
Imogen Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Sunday at Devil Dirt
Sarah sez, "BBC radio is doing a piece about the influence of Yiddish on American culture - they have a great clip describing the ways in which Yiddish songs made their way into jazz...
Yiddish - a language once spoken by more than 10 million Jews - had a profound effect on American culture in the first half of the 20th Century.
It originated in central and eastern Europe - and spread to the United States when thousand of immigrants arrived in New York.
Zalmen Mlotek is the Artistic Director of the city's last surviving professional Yiddish theatre - the Folksbiene.
With the help of his piano, he has been telling Radio 3's Dennis Marks how the language influenced jazz music - and the likes of George and Ira Gershwin.
DW is making the mother of all Christmas mixes. She wants to know if anybody has:
- Noel Gallagher: Merry Christmas Everyone
- Claudine Longet: I Don't Intend To Spend Christmas Without You
- Evan Dando: Silent Night
If you need any Christmas songs, just ask. She probably has them.
If you need any Christmas songs, just ask. She probably has them.
Well, I don't have those songs but I've got about 60 CDs worth of xmas music so I think I can help her out.
I think I've posted at least three xmas mixes to bufrawk 1 and 2.
I went through your mixes and pulled several - thanks!
ETA: I also uploaded that Sufjan Stevens Christmas song I was yammering on about a few days ago.