I've written about my father several times here on Cover Lay Down, citing him as a friend and fellow folkfan whose companionship I cherish, especially now that I have children of my own. I've written about my wife, too, and my children, when the occasion warranted it. But other than a 2008 feature on Mothers of the Folkworld , we've skipped over Mother's Day for four years running - leaving my own mother conspicuously absent from these virtual pages. If I've avoided taking the time to parse the particulars of our often volatile [...]
This song too is from Russell's Album The Man from God Knows Where.
This song too is from Russell's Album The Man from God Knows Where.
Ahh yes, the very first Friday of 2012 is here. I am still getting caught up on all the Top Songs of 2011 from all over the internet BUT this handful of songs have found a way to make it into my eardrums this morning. Hope you enjoy them. Free mp3: Conveyor - Mukraker Free mp3: MPSO - Can I Convince You Free mp3: Of Montreal [...]
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Appropriately, "Our Town: An Evening with Iris DeMent and Greg Brown" began with the faces of the children who were the real focus of Friday evening's show at the Folly Theater. A video montage of the kids served by United Inner City Services (UICS) and St. Mark Child and Family Development Center played over Sweet Honey in the Rock's "On Children." The wise, funny, and beautiful faces of these children supported Sweet Honey in the Rock's demand that they be respected.… [ Read more ] [...]
Iris DeMent : Let The Mystery Be [ purchase ] Iris DeMent didn't get to spend Sundays the same way as the other kids in her Southern California neighborhood. Her parents took her to Pentecostal and Assembly Of Life churches where she spent hour after hour listening to fire and brimstone sermons which sometimes involved speaking in tongues. As Iris told The Aspen Times recently: "There's a lot of weird stuff there that anybody could do without." When Iris left home, she left the church. [...]
Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside and John McCauley of Deer Tick Cover John Prine.
This week you can win while listening to The Revolution. You can win hard. Trust me. We've got a metric ton of giveaways. Yardwork , Nucular Aminals and Clawform @ The Pinhook , 7/14 Bill Callahan @ Local 506 , 7/15 The Charming Youngsters and The Howlies @ The Pinhook, 7/16 The Ladybug Transistor , James Husband and T0W3RS @ Kings Barcade , 7/16 [...]
Okay, I got a little cutesy with the songs today!
I'm proud to say Iris DeMent emerges from the same Orange County, California, background as me (her: Buena Park/me: La Habra & Huntington Beach). This song may be folk music superficially, but lyrically it's punk as fuck. If Iris says justice is sinking to the bottom of the sea, who am I to argue?
When it came time to decide what this week's Top 5 topic was gonna be I didn't have to look any further than the front page of my favorite news sites. The topic picked itself. Protest songs. It's pretty self-explanatory. Go! Iris Dement - Wasteland of The Free : From Iris's 1996 album, The Way I Should. Otis Gibbs - The People's Day : I see hope for our country in what's happening in others lately. One day our whispers will be louder than their screams. The people's day [...]
photo by tapsjg Like California, Los Angeles has been rebuked and scorned in book, film, song, musical, vaudeville, pretty much every medium dating back to protozoan wall art. It's easy to hate LA. I don't have much of a problem with the city, beyond traffic, but the entertainment-industrial complex is a whoremaker chewing up everything in its path like a tornado made of assholes. I get the hate. So, let's channel that hate into song. Bicycle Thief - L.A. Country Hometown [...]
1 David Gray - Say Hello Wave Goodbye ( buy ) 2 The Blazing Zoos - Do You Have A Sister ( buy ) 3 The Broken Family Band - You Broke My Fucking Heart ( buy ) 4 Lauren Pritchard - Painkillers ( buy ) 5 Elvis Costello - Good Year for the Roses ( buy ) 6 Ryan Adams - Dear Chicago ( buy ) 7 Lucinda Williams - Cold, Cold Heart [...]
Ever used a Miller Planisphere ? Probably. If you haven't, do us all a favor and buy one already. Lord. Just dial the date and time and you'll see what's happening up there in the sky, then rotate the time dial to simulate sky motion. No math-heavy introductory astronomy college course required. Make sure you order the model number that corresponds with your latitude. Comes in a pocket size too. MP3: Iris Dement - Leaning On The Everlasting Arms
Pieta Brown's second songwriter-in-residency called "This Land Is Your Music" at The Mill Restaurant kicked off on Saturday 12/4 right on the heels of a six-day mini-tour of Australia which wrapped up the previous Saturday. I had been looking forward to seeing these two shows. Last year's three consecutive Thursday night shows in November (read my reviews for 11/5/09 , 11/12/09 , 11/19/09 ) were truly magical, intimate shows. Pieta considers The Mill her home venue- she got her start playing The Mill, so she was happy to bring these shows to that stage. [...]
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