Thanks to the forum users at AltCountryTab.ca for these lovely tunes! Ho-Ho-Holy Shit! This is a great comp! The comments under the songs are not necessarily from me, but they are necessarily hysterical. Feel Bad For Santa Zipped 1. The Legendary Tiger Man - Fuck Christmas, I Got the Blues.mp3 Buy (MP3): Fuck Christmas, I Got The Blues (2007) 2. Andre [...]
No, folks, I have not given up on this blog. I sincerely apologize for not living up to this blog's name this year. You'd think at least one post a month would be easy enough. For various reasons that I won't bore you with, I just wasn't able to. My second job has taken up so much more time this year than it did last year. Which is a good thing...extra money is always good. It seems in today's economy you either are out of work or you are working more for the same [...]
Sam Baker is someone you should be listening to. From his website: "In 1986, at age 32, Baker was traveling in Peru when, as he says, "I got in the middle of somebody else's war." A terrorist bomb (the Sendero Luminoso or "Shining Path" Maoist group) blew up the train he and some friends were riding on. Several passengers died, including a German boy and his parents, who were sitting next to Baker. Though he nearly bled to death, Sam survived but suffered a constellation of injuries and aftereffects—shrapnel in his leg, renal failure, brain [...]
Sam Baker è un sopravissuto, sofferenza e dolore, fiducia e riscatto sono gli ingredienti del romanzo della vita del cinquantacinquenne texano. Nel 1986 durante uno dei suoi viaggi in America Latina è coinvolto in un attentato del gruppo terroristico "Sendero Luminoso" che causò su un treno in Perù decine di vittime, Sam ne uscì vivo ma [...]
Austin's Sam Baker may just have written most painful song of the year. A song that asks, "What would make a person leave and not come back? Not a day goes by when I don't think about you." Every time I hear "Angel Hair" it breaks me in two. You should go buy "Cotton" just to support a singer-songwriter who could create a song full of such profound beauty. But there's more than just one great song here. You also get a nifty little reworking of the old classic, "Dixie," the [...]
Sam Baker has a backstory as riveting, tragic, and inspiring as anyone out there in the music industry. While most critical writing could focus solely on his near death experience when a bomb exploded on his bus in Peru, it doesn't need to, because Sam Baker's music is so excellent. After nearly losing his hearing in the explosion, and learning to write songs while bedridden, Baker has just appeared fully formed on the songwriting circuit like some apparition. He has three albums to his name, the first, Mercy , was released in 2004 and his most recent, [...]
I can't pretend to be anything but a fanboy of Sam Baker . I've been anticipating this release since I first heard about it 6 months ago. I truly believe Sam Baker is a poetic soul who despite (or perhaps because of) impossible obstacles has become one of the greatest singer songwriters the country has ever seen. cotton ( Music Road Records ) is the third in a trilogy of albums that are an attempt by Sam to deal with an event that happened over 20 years ago. I'll cut and paste rather than rewrite the bio: [...]
Thomas Denver Jonsson is back in the UK in September: 09/17 - St Bonaventure, Bristol (UK) w/ Sam Baker 09/18 - Catweazle Club, Oxford (UK) 09/19 - Vortex Jazz Club, London (UK) 09/20 - The Electric Dustbowl: Americana UK live!, The Musician, Leicester (UK) w/ Peter Bruntnell , more 09/21 - The Golden Fleece, Nottingham (UK) 09/22 - Vox @ The Vale, Glasgow (UK) 09/25 - NxNY, York, York (UK)
Image: cropped still from Fa yeung nin wa / In the Mood for Love With Valentine's Day as an excuse to finally finish this long-in-progress playlist, it suddenly appeared that this is actually an ode to After I Made Love to You by Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, the best song ever written about sex. And it couldn't feel more perfect than to post this song today. The theme of this playlist is obvious. The songs unite in lyrical content, dealing with love, relationships and sex. "If everything is imperfect [...]
1. The Necks – Townsville ( Milk of Fish / ReR ) MP3: Townsville (Excerpt) Last October – in what normally would have been nothing but a typical autumn week with darkness setting in early and people wrapped in warm clothes, hiding from the cold wind – I experienced what was most definitely the musical highlight of the year for me. Maybe even the musical highlight of many, many years. That entire week the city was besieged by music and film dedicated to "minimalist" composer and legend Philip Glass. Every [...]
(Deel 219 hiero ) Good Things - The Story of Saadia Records label: Jazzman jaar: 2006 kant a1: Brother Williams - Right on Brother kant a2: Brother Williams - Cold Sweat kant b1: Pearl Dowdell - Good Things kant b2: Pearl Dowdell - It's All Over kant c1: Little Beaver - Do Right Man kant c2: Sam Baker - Do Right Man [...]
Photo credit: Elisa Tagliati To complete this trilogy we've now come to the ending of the sleep cycle. In the previous chapter Asleep Eternally there was all the time in world to wrap ourselves in the night's dark and serene setting, but now it's time to start a new day. Currently one of my favourite albums of this year (Sam Baker / Pretty World) features a wonderful song about the moments just before waking up. Before the sun Before the heat Before we untangle from our [...]
Photography by Ufuk KIRAY Sounding as if he just crawled out of a deep Florida swamp, if you told me you heard all these songs by some guy sitting on his porch in 100% humid and about 95 degrees, well.... I wouldn't be the slight bit surprised. Sam Baker's latest Pretty World is simple, mostly acoustic, with Sam singing/talking (and the occasional female vocal) over a backwoodsy & humid atmosphere of music. What else to say? Grab a lemonade, load up the songs, go sit [...]
The same day that I wrote everyone I could think of to get the new record by Sam Baker it arrived in the mail. How's that for service? I had hoped to write about his highly acclaimed debut, Mercy , but the stars never aligned and I couldn't get permission or find a free/legal mp3. With the arrival of the new disc I guess permission has been granted. They say that Sam Baker is an Austin singer-songwriter that even seasoned and weathered Austinites haven't heard of, but I find that hard to believe [...]
Nashville, nouvel arrêt. Reprenons notre visite du catalogue Sound Stage 7 avec une voix injustement oubliée dans la plupart des ouvrages concernant la Sweet Soul Music. Sam Baker, natif du Mississippi, a débuté sous les auspices de Clyde McPhatter, ce qui est plutôt de bon augure. Ses premiers singles sortent sur les obscurs labels Copa, Athens, fortement influencé par la musique du diable. Le
Uncommon soul, uncommonly good. Sam Baker - Coming to Bring You Some Soul (mp3) Clarence Carter - Getting the Bills (But No Merchandise) (mp3) Check Out Dean Farrel's (of WHUS ) Homemade CDs .
Rockstar Aimz
Twelve Months of Christmas
Whale in a Cubicle
Happy Days Are Here Again
Berkeley Place
Stark Online
songsillinois
It's a trap!
motel de moka
chezlubacov
T S U R U R A D I O
la case de l'affreux thom
The Smudge of Ashen Fluff
Loreen - Euphoria
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Bobby Womack ft. Lana Del Rey – “Dayglo Reflection”
