T Bone Burnett is like unto a music producing god.
Damn! The Cold Mountain soundtrack is stunning. I haven't seen the movie but listening to this just about made me cry (OK, so I cry VERY easily...but still).
Just fantastic. Oddly, the only song I didn't love was the Alison Kruass and Sting duet that is nominated for the Oscar. Everything else is reach through your headphones and shake you fantastic.
Especially the two songs by the Sacred Heart Singers and the acapella track by Cassie Franklin. Jack White's songs are really fantastic as well. Mmmm. The original orchestrated score tracks (there are four composed by Gabriel Yared) are beautiful but they take you right out of the ethereal bluegrassy civil war mood set by the vocal and fiddle tracks. That's the only reason I would say this isn't as good as the O Brother Soundtrack. Still really beautiful and worth buying if you like the bluegrass though.
Hey if you live in Canada and you wanted to see the Pixies - you are in luck. Their dates have been announced:
4/14 Burton Cummings Theatre, Winnipeg, MB CANADA
4/15 Doris Knight Ballroom, Regina, SK CANADA
4/17 Prairieland, Saskatoon, SK CANADA
4/18 Red's, Edmonton, AB CANADA
4/19 MacEwan Hall, Calgary, AB CANADA
4/21 Victoria Curling Club, Victoria, BC CANADA
4/22-23 Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, BC CANADA
4/24 Big Easy, Spokane, WA
4/25 The Big Easy, Boise, ID
4/27 MacDonald Theatre, Eugene, OR
4/29 Freeborn Hall, Davis, CA
5/1 Coachella Festival, Indio, CA
No plans for additional dates.
Here is my last vestige of hopefullness about this reunion:
They are doing these dates to get back in festival-headlining shape for Coachella - I mean the drummer has been a
professional magician
since they broke up.
So - say they had announced 45 dates across the US only to find out that they really sucked. That'd be bad. A better idea is to do the small theater thing and if they can pull off the big fest, make lots of money and perhaps even have fun and like how they sound - then they can schedule more dates.
They opposed this reunion so much for so long - they can't be getting back together JUST to play 11 dates in NA, open for the freaking Chili Peppers in Europe and sell a compilation album. Right?
So - I think everybody who has been waiting for this since it was announced just has to see how it goes. I still kind of can't believe it is happening at all.
t /positive pollyanna
I'm getting a kick out of them playing the Burton Cummings Theater. (Burton was the lead singer with Guess Who. Imagining Black Francis tackling "These Eyes" is entertaining.)
4/14 Burton Cummings Theatre, Winnipeg, MB CANADA
They named a theatre after Burton Cummings? Is there a Randy Bachman highway? Hospital? All-you-can-eat buffet?
Heh. Joe and I latch onto the obscure GuessWhoiana.
And oddly enough we're both shakin' all over.
And oddly enough we're both shakin' all over.
See now, I'm already to go off on some really obscure Guess Who song like "Glamour Boys" or "Life in the Bloodstream" but that would just be wasted effort.
Heh. Joe and I latch onto the obscure GuessWhoiana.
I just watched a whole Randy Bachman biography a few weeks ago! (I was in northwestern Washington at the time; the hotels up there get the CBC.)
I'm afraid my main reaction was "The Guess Who were Canadian?"
