new music wednesday = language of the spirit

_posted in new music wednesdays | 28 November 2007

title: Venus and Mucusoara, Stefanesti     photographer: joakim eskildsen

there's a nice little mix here... there is a cute french girl who's a bit homicidal, a few irish singers who make me miss soft kisses... a french group that i love to dance to in my living room... and johnny cash... johnny cash you say? god please don't let him turn into tupac, a new album each year since he's dead and gone... and gypsy punks that take me back to previous life #23, romani.

ben harper: lifeline
damien rice: 9
gogol bordello: taranta!
hafdis huld: paper cut
johnny cash: the great lost performance
soko: not sokute
various artists: the cake sale
yelle: pop up

_soundcheck: curtis fuller: imagination

new music wednesday brought to you by the letters B, E and N

_posted in new music wednesdays | 21 November 2007

i've been wanting the trojan box set for some time and thanks to benji dreams can come true.

justice: +
metro area: metro area
roots radics/scientist/king tubby: in a dub explosion
scientist: introducing scientist
scientist: scientist rids the world of the evil curse of the vampires
trojan: chill out box set (1 - 3)
trojan: ska box set, volume 1

_soundcheck: cali stars: african mix

this monday morning blues = blues covers...

_posted in monday morning blues | 18 November 2007

listen.

this monday morning blues is centered around four songs. if you know me, then you know how much of a snob i can be about music and film. i have a profound distaste for covers unless they are exceptional. i hate film remakes and "reimagining", even more, unless the new version has injected the story with a new perspective. i get it, i completely understand that unless we remake things that subsequent generations will miss out on quality art.

having said that, i am completely fascinated by covers (and remakes). what i can't stand is sub par fair that is taken as original or even innovative. i like the white strips, but no their cover of death letter can not hold a candle to son house sitting in a chair with his steel guitar or johnny farmer putting it down like only an old blues man can. and i'm sure jack white would agree, but i fear that the majority of people listening to the white strips have no idea who son house is. my hope is that the white stripes is the gateway drug to some hard core blues.

the history of the blues is so dynamic that it's hard to say who actually created some of the earlier songs. these earlier songs came from the fields and front porches or the chain gang lines, passed down through generations. so many of the greats did the same song and made it unique and part of their signature sound. so some of them i don't consider covers so much as the natural evolution of the genre.

the covers i hate the most are marked with @@ <--- that's me rolling my eyes... annoyed that this cover exists.

Black Betty
Leadbelly
Nick Cave & The Bad Seed @@
Ram Jam @@

Crossroads
Robert Johnson
Cream @@
Derek & The Dominos / Eric Clapton @@
Elmore Jones

Death Letter
Son House
Ida Cox: Death Letter Blues
Johnny Farmer
Johnny Farmer / Organized Noize Remix
White Stripes
Muddy Waters: Burying Ground Blues
Robert Wilkins: Nashville Stonewall Blues
Blind Mctell Willie: On the Cooling Board

Stagger Lee - Stackolee - Stackerlee
I love that there's a billion spellings for this song.
Mississippi John Hurt
Woody Gutherie & Sonny Terry
16 Bama
Big Bill Broonzy, Memphis Slim, Sonny Boy Williamson
Lucious Curtis & Willie Ford
Lloyd Price
Black Keys: Stack Shot Billy

if only...

_posted in dayedayerocks | 16 November 2007

Birds flying high you know how I feel
Sun in the sky you know how I feel
Reeds driftin on by you know how I feel

Its a new dawn
Its a new day
Its a new life
For me
And Im feeling good

Fish in the sea you know how I feel
River running free you know how I feel
Blossom in the tree you know how I feel

Its a new dawn
Its a new day
Its a new life
For me
And Im feeling good

Dragonfly out in the sun you know what I mean, dont you know
Butterflies all havin fun you know what I mean
Sleep in peace when day is done
Thats what I mean

And this old world is a new world
And a bold world
For me

Stars when you shine you know how I feel
Scent of the pine you know how I feel
Oh freedom is mine
And I know how I feel

nina simone: feeling good

the blues ain't nothin' but a good woman feeling bad...

_posted in dayedayerocks | monday morning blues | 14 November 2007

the lyrics say it all...

listen.

Black Night: Muddy Waters
Dark Road: Robert Bradley
Worried Down With the Blues: Larry McCray
The Sky is Crying: Elmore James
Another Bad Day: Larry Garner
Blue: Stevie Ray Vaughan
What In The World: Rory Gallagher
Lonesome In My Bedroom: Luther Johnson
Trouble Trouble: Son Seals
St. James Infirmary Blues: Joe Cocker
Everyday I Have the Blues: Elmore James
Blue and Lonesome: Little Walter
3 O'clock in the Morning Blues: Ike & Tina Turner
Cold, Cold Feeling: Aron Burton
Worried Life Blues: John Lee Hooker
It Serves You Right to Suffer: John Lee Hooker
Hard Time Killing Floor Blues: Chris Thomas King

new music wednesday, you sultry minx! i can't stop fallin' in love with you!

_posted in new music wednesdays | 14 November 2007

oh, and she returns to me. how i've missed you, oh wanton woman...

My love, do you recall the object which we saw,
That fair, sweet, summer morn!
At a turn in the path a foul carcass
On a gravel strewn bed,

Its legs raised in the air, like a lustful woman,
Burning and dripping with poisons,
Displayed in a shameless, nonchalant way
Its belly, swollen with gases.
charles baudelaire: une charogne

joni mitchell: shine
jose gonzalez: in our nature
mum: go go smear the poison ivy
panda bear: person pitch
sara bareilles: little voice
sunset rubdown: random spirit lover
the books: lost and safe

_soundcheck: wilco: sky blue sky

new music wednesday = this thursday

_posted in music | new music wednesdays | 01 November 2007

just one new joint for this week... oh snap! does that mean new music wednesdays are back... hell to the yes! word to yo mama... ok.. im done...

i present the inevitable rise and liberation of niggy tardust! collaboration at its best...

back in the day, during my spoken word days, my coffee house cool days i interviewed
saul while he was at morehouse and i was at gsu... fell in love with that cat, the moment he opened his mouth...

a cover of sunday, bloody, sunday... can i love any man more than i love saul right now?

he's lived up to the image and then some over the years... and niggys tardust takes it to another level... saul and trent reznor? shut the fuck up... perfection!

enjoy...

saul williams: the inevitable rise and liberation of niggy tardust!

_soundcheck: saul williams: the inevitable rise and liberation of niggy tardust!