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Sunday, January 26th, 2014
So a couple of weeks ago I was writing a murder tune based loosely on iconic murder tune "The Banks of the Ohio" -- I came up with "Braddock" as a good name for a town to be the setting; did a little research and found there is such a town, and it is pretty ideally located on the banks of the beautifully named Monongahela River, one of the two principal tributaries of the Ohio. Came up with "Veil of Mourning", which John and I played at our New Year's jam. And weird, this story seems to be sticking with me -- I spent some time last week listening to "The Cuckoo, she's a pretty bird" in different versions including Richard Fariña's, "The Falcon"; and the thing to do suddenly seemed to be to write a new version of the Braddock story, called "The Buzzard" -- so that's what I did. Check it out:
It was fun picking up my guitar -- I have not played it in a while.
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Saturday, December 7th, 2013
Lots of fun at the Mountain Station practice session today! Our practice set list:
- Bethlehem Half-step
- Lonesome Nickel
- Talking Heads weirdness
- Meet Me in the Morning
- Birds in Perspex
- Been all around this world
- Cole Durhew
- I Can See Clearly Now/ Here Comes the Sun medley
- Why Don't We Do It in the Road jam
Let's listen to "Birds in Perspex"! It is my favorite Robyn Hitchcock song; this is the first time we've ever played it and I think we did a pretty good job.
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Friday, November 29th, 2013
Ampersan: this is Orlando Guillén's "ABCD", from Muchachos desnudos.
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Friday, November first, 2013
One from the archives -- here are me and John a few years back --
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Saturday, October 5th, 2013
Let's listen to Cat Stevens.
Let's listen to Sam Cooke.
No link or video (natch), but one of my favorite memories of hearing a busker playing in the subway is of a young Latino guy in the Times Square station playing this song with a sort of Reggae beat, musta been back in '96 or something.
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I saw the Carolina Jug Stompers at last weekend's Hoboken Music Festival, along with a huge crowd; then last night I caught up with them (well just with WB Reid and his wife Bonnie, and jug master Luke Faust) in a much more intimate setting at Maxwell's -- there were about as many people in the audience as there were on stage. Fantastic music both shows.
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Thursday, October third, 2013
The visuals in this cartoon are at moments strikingly reminiscent of the Codex Seraphinianus. Let's listen to the Soft Boys.
(I'm a bit blown away also by the quality of the mashup, which is Unavión Ounpájaro' s editing of "Fantastic Planet" by Deloux.)
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Saturday, September 28th, 2013
A couple of songs from roday's Mountain Station practice session.
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Friday, September 27th, 2013
"Train on the Island."
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Saturday, September 21st, 2013
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