Frank Morey ( official AMG FB MyS profile ) is a Massachusetts blues-folk type of guy, with a perfect gravelly voice. Like Waits and Wolf before him, he uses his voice to express not just beauty but pain and anger and wrecked ennui and all sorts of other things, and even occasionally that beauty but through a cracked window. This version of Stag has a slow, tuning-up kind of start, but soon begins swinging hard and loose. Then it turns into a medley, with quotes from "Delia" (the [...]
Since this theme is all about lyrics, I'm not going to describe any of the songs. I'll let the lyrics speak for themselves. Pat MacDonald - The Wise Guy and Lucky The Wise Guy and Lucky, on a blind double date, got set up with two sisters named Destiny and Fate. The first to move was Lucky, the Wise Guy was too late. He lusted after Destiny, but he ended up with Fate. Buy In The Red Room . Eric Bachmann [...]
Blind Willie McTell - Cold Winter Day Let's start off with a good blues tune, because winter can often bring the blues. You're inside most of the time, it's too cold to venture out. It gives one too much time to think. Blind Willie McTell is one of the classic bluesmen, and this track is ideal for the theme, not just because of the title. Buy The Classic Years: 1927-1940 . The Be Good Tanyas - Rain and Snow This [...]
Tom Waits - Lie To Me . I was so excited to find this track. I heard him play it live when I saw him this summer, and immediately fell in love with it, and then discovered it's one of the tracks on Orphans . (Which is just a very exciting release to begin with. . .three discs, filled with tons of previously unreleased or hard-to-find tracks!) "Lie To Me" is a sexy rockabilly number, where the singer is begging his lover to lie to him. Quite the opposite of most pop songs, which all [...]
Recently, I ordered a bunch of stuff from CD Baby . May I just say how much I adore that site? I have never ordered anything from them that I haven't absolutely loved. Their recommendations for me (based on the other stuff I like and have ordered) have always been spot-on. Anyway, I actually ordered five CDs, so for this post I chose the three albums that were released most recently. Frank Morey - Made In USA Frank Morey was raised Irish Catholic in [...]
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