Cathedrals

I was happy to hear Joan Osborne’s take on Jump Little Children’s “Cathedrals” on a recent Paste sampler. Makes for a nice conversation partner to her “What If God Was One of Us.” And makes me want to be in a cathedral.

Read Full Post »

So last year

I’m calling it.
Unlike many purported “best of 2008″ lists, I actually wait until all the music that is going to be released in 2008 has been. And maybe a few that really tried to get in under the wire. I then subject every note of every song to an empirical study to determine which albums [...]

Read Full Post »

Be of Good Cheer

I’m a little slow these days. Had to post this video. These guys will be at the Canyon Club on Thursday night.

Also check out this great unrecorded gem live in a library with Jacob Parnell, from the olden days, when they were The Pretty Good Cheer.

Read Full Post »

Sweet and low

I can’t get enough of the strings under N”K”C’s vocals on this.

Read Full Post »

Otis

Today was Otis Redding’s last with us, 1967.

Read Full Post »

If you didn’t do it for God, who would you do it for?

The Commitments was on the other day. I like this scene.

Read Full Post »

Joe Tex, “I Believe I’m Gonna Make It”

I meant to squeeze this in for Veterans Day, but didn’t make it.

Read Full Post »

So Stories

I heard “Red Rain” on KTXT one night soon after So was released. I knew a little Peter Gabriel before then, but I loved that aural space. Eno and Lanois would follow the next year with The Joshua Tree’s big landscapes, but So was something comprehensive to me; there was something inside the bass and [...]

Read Full Post »

Not “Smoke on the”

Read Full Post »

4 Eva

I had to be 15 years older than Van Morrison was when he recorded Astral Weeks before it caught me, but it quickly became a seminal record to me. Morrison is performing the full album in my neighborhood soon, and I won’t be there, but I’d like to be, even as a late-comer.

Read Full Post »