instamatic godlife (blur vs. beach boys) cat power sweedeedee feist gatekeeper (pocketknifes faded beach towel remix) mountain goats red river valley (daytrotter session) townes van zandt tower song leonard cohen tower of song marco mahler hike the lake marco mahler design in quick rotation marc manning moonlight is bright kenny rogers ruby don't take your love to town devendra banhart fistful of love tranzmitors plastic genocide [[THIS IS ONLY A SUMMARY OF THIS *Sixeyes POST. PLEASE VISIT *Sixeyes FOR LINKS, MP3s, AND MUCH MORE. THANKS.]]
You may have noticed that my posting regimen has been anything but regimented of late. This is because my job sucks. But since I no longer care about it, you can more or less expect a return to form. "So what," you ask aloud? Good question. At the very least, I'll try to keep you coming back with more offerings of some decent-to-pretty good music. Tons of notable new shit out there since we last spoke, most of which has by now had its blood drained by a pesky swarm of blog mosquitos. So I will [...]
There is a busy week ahead of me. There is a busy week ahead of us all, I suppose, but since this is the place where I write about myself, I am most comfortable asserting things about my own life. I hope you understand. Some of you readers are very nice, by the way. I just thought I'd throw that out there. I've never really said "thanks" for all your kind e-mails and such, and this is as good an opportunity as I can get, considering this is probably going to be a fairly successful mix tape. Speaking [...]
Summer's here...things are great...so why not take some time to listen to some of the most depressing music my hard drive has to offer! And apparently no one does sad like a sad bastard...I didn't even notice that all the songs I had chosen for this mix were by guys. Whether they're whining, crying or moping though it's all great shit and I hope life continues to hand them all the worst it has to offer so they keep making this amazing music. MP3: Beck - Asshole [...]
Cool party last night. Great crowd, great selection of booze, and great food. Unfortunately for you, I'm not in the business of writing party retrospectives. You'll just have to envision it all for yourself. Unfortunately for me , I drank and ate a lot , and after running through the park at 2am in order to get home without being assaulted, I felt ill until well after 5am. Note-to-self: Running full-speed with a stomach packed with hard liquor and food--just to ensure arrival safe at home--is not worth hours of intestinal discomfort. Next time, take getting mugged like [...]
Townes Van Zandt: Greensboro Woman [1972] "I'll be home soon, for once, there's someone waitin' there...." A song for the sunset; quietly intense, beautiful and sad.
Dear friends, We've been to a few places in the past year. We have been to Belmar and Isla Mujeres. We made it to Chincoteague but we didn't see the swimming ponies. We went to Woodstock and endured well water showers and overcame bear-nerves. Also Moosebeck!, where were we listened to Vivaldi in a pseudo hobbit house. Sometimes we don't go too far. We went to the Brooklyn Botanical Garden and
"Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that." – Steve Earle "All the poets do push-ups/ On carpets of rubber foam/ Loudly they laugh/ At some joke that's been made" I'm often compelled to return to old musical favorites for utterly inane reasons. [...]
"He is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that." – Steve Earle Although the digital age has allowed a virtual tidal wave of terrible bands to make there music more accessible than ever, the up side is that fewer amazing acts go unnoticed. While it's sometimes daunting to sift through the rubble of awf-rock, the jems that lay amidst it have a much better chance of being found with millions of people scouring instead [...]
The score: "In 1975, the film Heartworn Highways documented the emerging singer-songwriter scene in Nashville and Austin, capturing intimate performances by artists like Steve Earle and Rodney Crowell while they were still struggling to be heard. 30 years later, we have restored these now historic recordings to their original, unedited length and are making [...]
Townes Van Zandt - To Live Is To Fly
"There are only two kinds of songs; there's the blues, and there's Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah." - - Townes Van Zandt (1944-1997) I am presently reading author John Kruth's biography of legendary Texas singer-songwriter Townes Van Zandt entitled To Live's to Fly: The Ballad of the Late, Great Townes Van Zandt. If you're at all familiar with Townes [...]
Until recently Townes played the underappreciated artist role to perfection. It seems that with the reissue of many of his live recordings and his studio albums available on a wider scale, critical and compatriot praise has gushed forth over his catalog. And with great reason; for me Townes is the prime example of simple understated truth and world weary sadness. Though he was always at his best in front of an audience to overlook bright spots on his albums would be a shame. Townes Van [...]
This is taken from the collection of early recordings called In the Beginning, this track offers a typically sparse, downbeat lesson in understatement. Not sure about that reverb effect going on in the background though. Listen: Townes Van Zandt - Black Crow Blues Buy it
Please pardon this post if you're looking for the usual Big Rock Candy Mountain flippancy or songs about sin and salvation. A dear friend of mine has just died, and this post is for him. His name was Jeremy. He had a heart attack at the age of 34, leaving behind a wife and two young daughters. I hadn't spoken to him in a couple of years,but he never let me disappear from his life, or the
It's the Ides … officially. Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. On account of the fact that March is the official month of betrayal, here are a couple songs to commemorate the occasion. (They're both live tracks for no particular reason... don't look too far into it.) Townes Van Zandt – Pancho & Lefty Clem Snide – Jews for Jesus Blues [...]
The best song ever in six diferint Download: Townes Van Zandt - Waiting Around To Die (Original from 1968) Download: The Be Good Tanyas - Waiting Around To Die Download: The Tennessee Rounders - Waiting Around To Die (Live) Download: Calvin Russel - Waiting Around To Die (With Townes Van Zandt) Download: Pat Haney - Waiting Around To Die Download: Dan Whitaker and The Shinebenders [...]
I've been keen on Townes Van Zandt ever since a Texan friend of mine introduced him to me as a figure not to be missed if I was into folk and country. I picked up Anthology 1968-1979 , and love it, with the exception of a song or two that have campy country feel... hell, maybe its western, but anyway, there's a couple on there that stray from my interests. I was at a video store the other day and saw the documentary on him, Be Here To Love Me , that [...]
J'avais pourtant pris de bonnes résolutions, celles qu'on ne tient malheureusement jamais. Mettre un peu d'ordre dans mon existence, éviter de me "ressourcer" auprès de vieux démons, ressentir doucement et longuement plutôt que plonger dans les tourbillons de la vie... Il était très tard lorsqu'ils sont passés chez moi, je me répétais mes bonnes résolutions, mais elles n'ont pas fait long feu.
*SIXEYES
The Ear Hole
Swan Fungus
That's F#@king Dynamite!
Art Decade
soft communication
The Canals
An Aquarium Drunkard
Be Hear Be Now
Raven Sings The Blues
lonesome music
bigrockcandymountain
Nine Bullets
Faster Horses, Younger Women, Older Whiskey
hearsay
la case de l'affreux thom
Monday Music – 28 May 2012
Bison - Quill
Ondatrópica – Punkero Sonidero
