Hayes Carll has gotten a lot of run on a lot of blogs. Thank god too. Had it not been for me continually seeing his name on blogs I read on a regular basis I may not have ever gotten around to checking out his latest (and first I've ever heard) release, Trouble in Mind. Really, everything that needs to be said about this album has already been said and it's all been said better than I could have done. A particularly good review of the album which pretty much sums up how I feel about the cd [...]
This past weekend i got to let off some steam and relax whilst floating the Guadalupe River with some friends. For those not familiar with how you float a river - well.... you sit in an inner-tube connected to a chocked-full ice chest and let the river do the grunt work. While down there, i stocked this new computer up with a stash of new tunes - some ripped off from friends, and some i bought. i've mentioned how i buy a lot of my music from LoneStarMusic.com [...]
Today in Music History: In 1993 'Get a Grip,' Aerosmith's 11th studio album, debuts at #1. It goes on to sell 7 million copies in the U.S. and more than 10 million worldwide. It also ushers forth another quartet of hits: "Livin' On the Edge" (#18), "Cryin'" (#12), "Amazing" (#24) and "Crazy" (#17). If you haven't already heard any of Hayes Carll's music, then I must ask where the heck have you been? His new album Trouble in Mind came out in April and [...]
Now that Steve Earle is clean and living in Greenwich Village (not to mention making records with drum machine), it's time we start looking for a new Hardcore Troubadour. Today, we'll be checking out the resume of Houston's Hayes Carll , who throws his hat into the ring with the Lost Highway release, Trouble In Mind . There are a lot of things to like about Carll's pedigree, not the least of which is that he once resorted to selling vacuum cleaners door-to-door to keep his belly full. A veteran [...]
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NEIL YOUNG COVERS . . . A to Z (Part Two: G to M) For part one, go here. G is for Gibbard. Harvest Moon-Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie. H is for Harvest Moon-Kevin Barnes of Of Montreal. Hmm. Two frontmen covering the same song. I smell a conspiracy! Call Scully! H [...]
Alt-country fans rejoice! Here's an album so good, and so under-the-bubble, that I'm breaking my no-majors rule for it. Hayes Carll's first, independently released albums (available on eMusic) were extraordinary works that somehow missed the Ryan Adams/Sun Volt crowd, but got enough attention that Mr. Carll has been bought up by Lost Highway (yes, the [...]
While the message board itself may have gone a.w.o.l. the compilation we were in the middle of making at the time of its demise will live on. For an unknowingly final compilation we did a fine job if I do say so myself. Joe Pug, fresh off his appearance on songs:illinois yesterday, makes an appearance for a second month in a row while Stucky and I both contributed tracks from Slim Cessna's Auto Club. Mcallan1 submitted a track by Hayes Carll I liked so much I ordered his cd today. Considering Miles of Music's slow shipping department expect [...]
My New Digs for this week are some of the first stand-outs from a few of the albums i've picked up recently. The initial surge from the flood of Spring releases has hit, and i would have until about May to catch up, but Konk comes out next Tuesday - and that's a big one. ------------------------------ - [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: The Rosebuds have released a free and legal remix album, Sweet Beats, Troubled Sleep , that features remixes of tracks from their Night of the Furies release. Registration at the Merge online store is required to download the album. Rosebuds : free and legal remix album [mp3]* other Rosebuds music blog posts: @lhb @hype @elbo.ws [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: The Rosebuds have released a free and legal remix album, Sweet Beats, Troubled Sleep , that features remixes of tracks from their Night of the Furies release. Registration at the Merge online store is required to download the album. Rosebuds : free and legal remix album [mp3]* other Rosebuds music blog posts: @lhb @hype @elbo.ws [...]
Today in Music History: In 1997, US songwriter Ben Raleigh died after setting fire to his bath robe while cooking. Co-wrote 'Scooby Doo Where Are You.' Last Tuesday night our little piece of the island was awash in talent. Appearing at our new arena was John Mellencamp with Tom Cochrane and Red Ryder as the opening act. Holy schnitzel's batman, Tom is a major headliner in his own right, let alone opening for Mellencamp. We wanted to go but we already had [...]
One of my favorite artists that i often forget about - maybe cuz he's pretty selective when it comes to puttin' records together. Hayes Carll's patience, however, pays off. 2005's Little Rock remains one of the best albums in my collection. A perfect mix of grungy, country rock tunes and slower, seething ballads. His debut, Flowers and Liquor (2002) , is groovy, sometimes pretty funny, folk-rock. From the small amount of info i've heard about his 2008 release ( due out April 8th ), he could only have [...]
There's just one record I've really been looking forward to this year. If you've heard that from me before about some other band I may have been lying, because the new record from Hayes Carll is the one I've been dying to hear. See, I think Hayes Carll put out the best americana record of the last half decade or so with 2005's Little Rock and I was sure he'd have a great follow-up. Thankfully I was not wrong. Trouble In Mind , out April 8th on Lost Highway , [...]
Hayes Carll is from the Houston area. His first album, Flowers & Liquor, was released in 2002. It won a few local awards and got Carll some recognition. His second and most recent album, Little Rock, on Carll's own label, was released in 2005. This song is from that album. His voice just pulls you in and keeps you for a long while. I do wish, though, he'd write something just a bit more upbeat. MP3 File
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