
This party is for the Vernal Equinox. Pop a top and celebrate seventeen songs for spring!!! Jolie Holland ~ Springtime Can Kill You Tom Waits ~ You Can Never Hold Back Spring Sasha Dobson ~ Spring Is Just Around The Corner Joni Mitchell ~ Little Green Greg Brown ~ Spring & All Grant Lee Phillips ~ Spring Released Cheryl Wheeler [...]
When I compiled this top twenty list (for Bruce and Heather's 12 X 12 post), I did knocked it out in a hurry, at the end of November. If I could go back now, I would make some changes. The Format would crack the top ten. Damien Rice would move up in numbers. Regina would probably come in second. Greg and Amos would switch seats. Brett Dennen would be voted off the island and replaced by Sonya Kitchell. But it is what it is and hindsight is twenty twenty. No matter how [...]

These six tunes are kinda bluesy. Not sure how that came about. I was looking for songs that fit the bill (6 from 2006 that are 6 minutes or so) and these 6 jumped out right away. Not that you have to listen in this order, but I did position them for optimal listening experience. Jolie Holland ~ Mexican Blue Bob Dylan ~ Working Man's Blues #2 Greg Brown ~ Skinny Days The Black Keys ~ My Mind Is Ramblin' [...]

I’ve never made a mix that tried to capture the feeling of Autumn, my favorite season. Until now! Just in time for tomorrow's equinox. I tried to use songs that either have fall lyrics, sound like fall, or were I purchased in the fall. Hope you enjoy. 1. Smashing Pumpkins ~ Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (I like to start with instrumentals and this is a good one off a great double album released in October 1995) 2. [...]

Mose Allison ~ Young Man’s Blues Greg Brown ~ Mose Allison Played Here Van Morrison ~ Benediction (Mose Allison songs) Alison Brown ~ Everyday I Write The Book (Costello cover, who wrote the song “Alisonâ€, from an album called Fair Weather) Allison Moorer ~ Fairweather (starting to see the connection now?) Alison Kraus and Union Station ~ [...]

I doubt anyone would say 23rd is a charm. Or that after 30 years of writing songs, playing live and recording album is too much. Greg Brown has been doing just that. He started his own record label ( Red House Records ) with friend Bob Feldman, named it after the house Greg was living in at the time. Bob past away this last January. Greg dedicated this album to him. In his own words: “I build a fire and stare into it, to be with you. To hear your stories, [...]