Posts by Kurt
Dave Gleason
I saw in my weekly Mog report that Dave Gleason made my "song of the week." How those stats are calculated is always a mystery (hello, most played, Jay-Z? Um, sorry, but not exactly). Anyway, figured I 'd pass along a stream of one of my favorite new Dave Gleason tracks, from his brand new album. (You can also stream it in context with other "summer beat" tracks via this link.)
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Richard Buckner's "Town"
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I'm a little late in the game I guess, as Buckner's most recent album Meadow came out in 2006. Anyway, if any trace of Buckner's quasi-twang persona was still lurking in his music, the dark, churning surge of "Town"s melody has chased it from the room. Heavy, yes, but steeped in a melody that knows where its groove is.
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New Lee Hazlewood
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Lee Hazlewood's got a new album, "Cake or Death," and while it's not quite up there with monumental 60s/70s albums of his (or songs like "Nancy and Me," "Four Kinds of Lonely," and "I Move Around"), it is pretty damn good.Here's a taste--it's a song that I first heard done by Harry Johnson on the country comp "God Less America" (http://www.discogs.com/release/594490), and Lee's version is slow and
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Who's next
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I never thought I'd say it, given the death of John Entwistle and the seemingly callous choice of Roger and Peter to go on touring without him a few years back...and given the fact these guys are in that bulging camp of rock heavies who, as a general rule, really shouldn't be bothering with new recordings anymore.All that, yes, but...damn it, I really am digging the new Who song "Tea and Theatre."
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Silver Mount
Here's another gig I attended recently that I wonder if anyone else did: A Silver Mt Zion with Carla Bouzalich at Great American Music Hall (SF) last Monday (Aug 21). Man, I have always dug Carla's Geraldine Fibbers stuff (some of my favorite live shows ever), and her solo work, too, but damn, this time her set was way too self-consciously abstract, like an art-school interpretation of a Jim Morri
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Bleeding Edge Festival
Anyone other Californians attend (or even hear of) the Bleeding Edge Festival a week ago, Aug 13 in Saratoga, Calif.? I was drinking coffee that a.m. and reading the local paper, saw a listing for it, and bang...an hour later I was in the car driving south. So damn little publicity on this thing! And so under-attended, which was too bad--though good for those of us who made it, as we got to hear Y
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