Blog: lonesome music

The ever-lovely Hem have posted their contribution to the Winter's Night compilation, along with lots of other soothing tunes on that URL. Listen: Hem - have yourself a merry little... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Where ever you find yourself this Christmas, make the most of it. Happy Christmas. Lonesome Christmas #2 (zip file) [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

As way of saying thank you to everyone who has dropped us a line this year - whether by email or by using the comments, here is the first of two eleven track compilations of (my) lonesomemusic... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

The ever-lovely Hem have posted their contribution to the Winter's Night compilation, along with lots of other soothing tunes on that URL. Listen: Hem - have yourself a merry little Christmas [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Morphine does strange things to your mind, I've taken quite a bit of it in the last month, first intravenously and then orally. Hallucinations, amazingly colourful dreams and conversations with... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

In case you were wondering, I was in a car crash 4 weeks ago and have been in hospital. Whilst there I had a lot of time to listen to the new Laura Cantrell album (posted somewhere below) along with... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

One of my favorite albums this year has been Brett Dennen's self titled album I blogged a few months ago. It is an album that has not diminished in lustre, indeed as the leaves change to Autumn I... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

You hear it and you know it's special. Bright Eyes - When the President Talks to God [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

With his new album Candy Ass, Mark Eitzel has continued to frustrate the serious rock critics by producing music that doesn't match their doomed poet with a silly hat image. That said, I'm a sucker... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

As recommended to me by a man I shifted some turf with for my next door neighbour. This begins gently enough, with a vocal styling no a million miles for the recent Antony and the Johnsons, twinkles... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Not sure if this as been posted here already, but I thought I'd repost it just to keep Kate happy. Dolly Parton - The Bargain Store To quote Kate, “it’s a poignant tale where Dolly uses the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Taken from the rather splendid compilation friends and lovers - the songs of Bread, this is Mojave 3's Rachel Goswell (she has a solo album too you know) singing the cheesy, but classic If. Also... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Howdy pardners. It's Friday night, I'm fresh back from a trip to Nashville and am setting the pace for the weekend with some old time fiddle music to get us all dancing around our respective... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Taken from his recently released (and very fine) album Coles Corner, this is one of those songs that popped into my headphones midway through a particularly crap day at work (it has to be bad before... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

So I haven't posted much in the last month or so, but that still hasn't stopped my bandwidth getting eaten up by the various mp3blog aggregators and file leaches. So I've had to remove almost all the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Don't ask me why, but once this song gets stuck in my head it is almost impossible to get rid of. Was there was a mid-fifties trend in female barbershop style singing? I can see that acts in the UK... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Better late than never - apologies for the almost complete cessation of posts - work has got in the way of real life, then I went on holiday to Maine and now work is back in full effect. Anyway as... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Her album "Humming By the Flowered Vine" has an easy grace and beautifully pitched tone. Songs that would otherwise sound mundane, cloying or trite in other's hands sound intimate and delicately... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Indie MP3 - Keeping C86 Alive! has a peel session version of Ballboy and Laura Cantrell doing I lost you (but I found country music) - go and get it! [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

I get quite a few emails asking for me to listen to bands/artists and/or post about them - I always listen to the songs, visit the site etc., and the vast majority of the time I think they are either... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]