
Both of the songs for today’s chapter of my 1000 Minutes project were featured on soundtracks in the late nineties, and are the only exposure I’ve had to the artists. While that may be a poor reflection on me as a music lover, it’s really more of a reflection on the amount of money I had in 1996 and 1998, when I was 17/19 – which is to say, not much at all. 45. David Garza – Slave (mp3) from This Euphoria (3:23) [Time Remaining: 758:51] [...]

Fair or not, I tend to give Davíd Garza a bit of a free pass. That's what happens when a guy writes what I'd have to consider one of my top 10 albums of the '90s. I don't hesitate to say This Euphoria (1998) belongs in every collection. ( Overdub is pretty great, too.) Problem is, Garza, who hails from Austin, has a bit of that Ryan Adams problem: He's immensely prolific ... maybe to a fault. At the very least, it's hard [...]