I would say "Eee!" too with a giant mint milano cookie wedged in my head. Brenton Wood (1967) Don Dixon (1989) Among the covers of Brenton Wood's 1967 pop-soul classic, "Gimme Little Sign," that I've heard, there are quite a few that are nothing more than weak, pallid reflections of the original. Wood's original hit is lively, infectious, and emotionally soulful (which, I suppose, is a bit of a redundancy, since I don't think you could have "soulful" without the "emotion"), simultaneously [...]
Don Dixon & Marti Jones : Praying Mantis [ purchase studio version ] I just finished spending the day smoking a pork butt, creating some delicious pulled pork, so I’m going to head off in a very different direction. There is a sense of recycled-ness to this week’s theme—we are extending last week’s theme, and this blog has already done a food theme, but a long time ago in Internet terms, and in any event before I was part of this community of music obsessives. So, in keeping with this overlay [...]
For this version of Six Degrees of Separation we're celebrating the jangly pop that made 80's college radio rule. 1 . Tommy Keene : Run Now [Buy Tommy's Retrospective] From the back of the 9:30 Club, where we CMJ marathoners had gathered, the singer taking the stage looked suspiciously like Alan Thicke who was not the most popular late night talk show host in New Orleans at the time. ( I think that had something to do with [...]
According to Don Dixon he and wife Marti Jones have only recorded a handful of duets over the past 25 years. They solve that problem with the release of their first duets record called Living Stereo . If you came of age in the 80's then you know who both Don Dixon and Marti Jones are. If not look `em up. Purchase the new record here via Amazon. Trouble Is As Trouble Does
DC has become my adopted city since I moved here after grad school for my first "real" job. It's a city that has its problems, but it also contains some amazing aspects as well. For a music dork like myself, at the top of this list of amazing DC elements definitely includes the 930 Club . My first experience to the 930 was at its old location, on 930 F St.,to see Paul Westerberg on his first solo tour after the Replacements in 1993. By the time I'd moved back in 2002, the [...]
DC has become my adopted city since I moved here after grad school for my first "real" job. It's a city that has its problems, but it also contains some amazing aspects as well. For a music dork like myself, at the top of this list of amazing DC elements definitely includes the 930 Club . My first experience to the 930 was at its old location, on 930 F St.,to see Paul Westerberg on his first solo tour after the Replacements in 1993. By the time I'd moved back in 2002, the [...]
The Southeastern United States was the epicenter of jangly 80s music, in particular Georgia and North Carolina. Here are some of my favorites from the great Southeast. GEORGIA The grandfathers of jangly 80's rock, R.E.M. got their start on the campus of the University of Georgia in Athens. Their first single was released on the independent Hibtone label in 1981. It included two songs that were re-recorded for release two years later on their Murmur LP. Here are the original [...]
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