Just a quickie: I unexpectedly wrote a review of Johnny Young’s The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions last night. I ordered it from Amazon and planned to write something short about it for here but once I got started I couldn’t stop, so the review is over at BC Magazine.
I’ll be contributing to “Iguana” [...]
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I don’t know how he does it. It doesn’t seem possible. It shouldn’t be possible, yet he continues to do it.
Watermelon Slim is back with his third album in three years. Backed by his band The Workers, Slim will release No Paid Vacations tomorrow through the Northern Blues label.
Three albums in three [...]
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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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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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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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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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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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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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“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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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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