It's almost that time of year again... that's right, Thanksgiving is just around the corner with the rest of the holiday season following hot on its heels. It's good to be back to regular posts just in time for the holidays. Food, family, friends, and drinks. So, last year I posted an awesome roast turkey recipe , and this year I wanted to post my mom's vegan pumpkin pie recipe, but I have no idea where it is. So here is one of my other favorite pie recipes (courtesy of my mother)... and some songs. Heck, [...]
For the last week I have taken your hand and dragged you along for a stroll down memory lane. Together we have recapped my most successful Sunday Mix Tapes. The next new one will be number 200, you know. But that probably won't happen for a while, because I'm flying into Newark airport tomorrow to spend the next two weeks in the New York/New Jersey area. My goal is to enjoy rest and relaxation in the company of old friends. Maybe I'll even make some new friends! What say you, Magic 8-ball? Outlook not so good? Fuck you! [...]
...and then suddenly it was August. The evening creep in ever closer clawing away the daylight and all the time, I'll sit in my bedroom, staring out the window soaking it all in; wallowing in the sober presence of an approaching autumn shadow.August 2010XTC "Science Fiction" (Fossil Fuel:The XTC Singles Collection 1977-1992, 2009 Virgin Records) Buy it hereBeat Happening "Gravedigging Blues" (
In honor of tomorrow's National Record Store Day (which really total bullshit in the sense that music fans should celebrate the existence of "indie" or mom-and-pop record stores every day), I'm going to geek out and blog about music nerd stuff today. We're having a big sale at the store tomorrow, so I'll be surrounded by collectors and hobbyists all day. To say that it's on my mind would be a huge understatement. I've spent much of this week trying to figure out how to increase our social networking presence in anticipation of this event of ours. Oh well. Enough [...]
:: Vanilla Ice will be at Glastonbury . So I guess that shark is clearly in Glastonbury's rear-view mirror, then? :: There's been a lot of chatter flying around that Refused might be getting back together . Um, yes. Please yes. :: Um, no . Please no. :: Past Lives ' van got burgled... in Detroit of all places. Detroit, you say? Who would've ever guessed? :: The more I see from Scion Rock Fest , the more I'm [...]
:: Apparently NME readers thought Lady Gaga was the best and worst dressed this year. :: If you're wondering how band's get ready for tour, just ask Titus Andronicus . I heard that Titus was coming back to Louisville in April after their in-store at Ear X-Tacy in March. :: When a music blog discusses the merits of Repo Man , all is right in the world. :: I missed Backyard Tire Fire when they came to [...]
THANKSGIVING DAY Ray Davies Other People's Lives V2 : 2006 [Buy It] THANKSGIVING DAY Johnny Dowd Wrong Side of Memphis Munich : 1998 [Buy It] THANKSGIVING Mary Gauthier Between Daylight and Dusk Lost Highway : 2007 [Buy It] THANKSGIVING Loudon Wainwright III Career Moves Virgin : 1993 [Buy It] [...]
With Thanksgiving now less than two weeks away, I figured it was about time to repost my tried and true recipe for brined and roasted turkey. So what if I ganked the original recipe from the amazing Alton Brown a few years ago. I've made enough delicious changes that it really feels like mine though. I'm still thinking about the possibility of cooking something else a little less traditional for Thanksgiving... something like a Bacon Explosion perhaps. (Yum!) And my mother's vegan pumpkin pie to balance it all out. Oh yeah! Here's the recipe: [...]
I know I promised the Notcraigcast last week, but it didn't happen I'm afraid. After last week's amazing Craigcast Neil and I were intending to introduce Craig to all sorts of modern music which we thought continued some of the traditions of the blues music he was describing to us, but circumstances have rather conspired against us unfortunately. Neil is off on tour with Meursault playing his songs, and Craig is off on tour with his liver, taking it around the watering holes of Edinburgh and giving it a good, hard kicking in each one. Consequently [...]
Sorry I forgot to post this on Sunday! RULES for uninitiated noobs : With roughly 100MB of webspace, I give birth to a weekly Mix Tape to be deposited on your iPods or Zunes or Kingklangs or whatever the industry is currently pushing on you. Sometimes there will be themes that link all the songs together, other times I'll just throw songs at a wall (not literally) and see what sticks. This week includes a couple live cuts (Will Oldham, Yndi Halda), and a bunch of randomly selected tunes. The final track was recorded by [...]
Taken from Wikipedia: Moran Lee "Dock" Boggs was an influential old-time singer, songwriter and banjo player. His style of banjo playing, as well as his singing, is considered a unique combination of Appalachian folk music and African-American blues. Contemporary folk musicians and performers consider him a seminal figure, at least in part because of the appearance of two of his recordings from the 1920s, "Sugar Baby" and "Country Blues", on Harry Smith's 1951 Anthology of American Folk Music collection. Boggs was initially recorded in 1927 and again in 1929, although he worked primarily as a coal miner for [...]
FROM THE ARCHIVES: ELECTION DAY SPECTACULAR Dock Boggs: Country Blues John Coltrane: Afro-Blue Jimi Hendrix: Machine Gun Mickey Newbury: An American Trilogy Art Tatum: Elegie
A new book called Worlds of Sound: The Story of Smithsonian Folkways has just been released. It is filled with both images and stories from the 60 years since Moses Asch founded the Folkways label, the little label that could. An amazing CD, from which I took this song, comes free if you order directly from Smithsonian. You know me. I love this label and toot its horn every chance I get. If you want the CD, here's where to find this amazing book: Smithsonian Folkways. [...]
"i'm glad to say my dreams came true. i saw america changed by music. or whatever you people are saying..." saw rani singh's documentary on harry smith's anthology of american folk music tonight. and like the recent anthology remixed exhibition i liked it but left me wanting more of him and the music rather than others and their [...]
mp3: Dock Boggs - Sugar Baby mp3: Frank Stokes - I Got Mine mp3: Memphis Jug Band - On The Road Again mp3: Parham–Pickett Apollo Syncopaters - Mojo Strut mp3: Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra - Kater Street Rag I was recently gifted a book of the american cartoonist Robert Crumb. It packages together the Heros of Blues, Early Jazz Greats, and Pioneers of Country trading card sets that he created in the 1980s. If you are unfamiliar with R. Crumb's [...]
burkhard bilger reports in this week's issue of the new yorker on the search for and recording of the artless singing of american folk song, or old time music, in the southeast. bilger follows art rosenbaum, a professor of art at the university of georgia and curator of art of field recording volume 1 , and lance ledbetter, founder of dust-to-digital records in atlanta, as they travel to various outposts and record folks singing songs learned in the oral tradition, handed down through generations of families & [...]
Time to pay homage to one of the true greats of folk. Once you've heard Dock Boggs, you never forget. He recorded many versions of this song, but believe this one I is the earliest (1927). Dock Boggs - Country Blues from Country Blues: The Complete Early Recordings 1927-1929 (out of print on CD, but still available on vinyl through insound ) Mandatory Christmas Content: Boy, Get That Stockin Out Of Your Mouth [...]
What better time to discuss murder ballads than Halloween? Several well known American murder ballads from the Appalachian region are based on the 18th century English folksong "The Gosport Tragedy." The story is a familiar one: a callous young man murders his girlfriend when he learns she is pregnant. Sadly, it's an old story in folksong around the world. Many of these ghastly ballads may have been sung to tell of true stories. In the days before TV or radio and when the majority of the rural population was illiterate and couldn't read a newspaper even if one was [...]
I first met my good friends Greg and Ramona when Greg and I worked together on a project in Illinois. I had arrived at the jobsite a day before I was to start work. As I had done many times before, I drove east from the jobsite in search of a place to stay while I was on the job. I learned early on in this gypsy career, if I live east of the job, I won't be driving into the sun on my way to and from work. As often happened, I found a bar before [...]
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Dock Boggs: Country Blues [1927] The psychic intensity of this recording is insane. From the first second, you're hypnotized. It's eerie. Other highlights include the lyrics, Dock kicking ass on the banjo, and the title. Who says "ooh!" after the line "Sweet heaven when I die"? Some background on the song, from the liner notes: "Homer Crawford, the itinerant photographer and musician from Tennessee, taught the song to Dock as Hustling Gamblers , probably around 1914. Dock added verses of his own... Hustling Gamblers and Darling Cory belong to [...]
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