Posted on December 14th, 2007 by Josh Hathaway
The 2008 BMA nominations are out so you know what the news is, here’s my reaction to it.
First, I’ve got a lot of music I need to get my hands on and hear before I submit my final ballot. I’m very interested in James Blood Ullmer’s album. Ullmer was nominated three or four times. […]
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Posted on November 13th, 2007 by Josh Hathaway
It’s not so much that I’m starting my Best of 2007 list as much as it is I’m preparing for it. A lot of unbelievable music was released this year and and I need to refresh myself on some of it before I can attempt to create any kind of ordered list. I […]
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Posted on September 7th, 2007 by Josh Hathaway
I told you in the Blues Round Up that Watermelon Slim’s new disc, The Wheel Man, is in stores April 17. There is nothing about having connections that doesn’t rule. I got an advance of Slim’s new album and I listened to it from beginning to end three times within the first 12 hours of […]
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Posted on August 28th, 2007 by Josh Hathaway
The daily scorecard of what I listened to, provided as a public service. See anything you like? Anything you’ve forgotten? What did you listen to?
Girlfriend | Sweet, Matthew | Time Capsule|The Best Of Matthew Sweet 1990-2000
Today | The Smashing Pumpkins | Greatest Hits|Smashing Pumpkins
Creep | Radiohead | Pablo Honey
Ansaphone [Demo] | Pulp […]
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Posted on August 4th, 2007 by Josh Hathaway
Saturday afternoon, singing the blues.
This little playlist began with a couple Karp songs and a song from The Twisters. I remember thinking about their being some similar sonic threads between the two artists when I was working on the Karp review but wasn’t able to find a way to work that in […]
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Posted on August 3rd, 2007 by Josh Hathaway
Fanboy Post #300, a major milestone. Pretty cool, huh?
As I was driving in to work this morning, I realized I had forgotten to reset my Let’s Talk About My iPod playlist on my iPod. I realized this right about the time I put Guster’s Lost and Gone Forever in my CD player to […]
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Posted on May 12th, 2007 by Josh Hathaway
“You know what the news is, well this is my news and you are welcome to it.â€
–Keith Larson
Now that we know who our 2007 BMA winners are, what do we think about it?
The big stories of the night were Charlie Musselwhite’s dominance and the shutout of Watermelon Slim. I admit mild surprise […]
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Posted on April 20th, 2007 by Josh Hathaway
We bring Watermelon Slim Week to a close with something of a sequel to yesterday’s Day 4 post. Yesterday, I gave you the Cliff’s Notes version of his self-titled record. Today, I’m doing the same thing with The Wheel Man. Again, you should really just take the plunge and buy the album […]
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Posted on April 19th, 2007 by Josh Hathaway
We get into our “Way Back Machine” as Watermelon Slim Week rolls along. We’ve been talking about Slim’s new album, The Wheel Man, a lot this week. Today, we’re going to talk about his previous album, Watermelon Slim & The Workers.
Naturally, I think you’d do well to go out and buy the record […]
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Posted on April 18th, 2007 by Josh Hathaway
Before I listened to Watermelon Slim’s self-titled release, I was suspicious of present-day blues records and artists. I also formed a certain bias against white bluesmen as a reaction to the legion of Stevie Ray Vaughan-abees whose music seemed so inauthentic to my ears.
I am a Chicago blues junkie. When I […]
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