Happy Monday(s), and welcome to each of you who joined us over the weekend! It’s great to have you here with us.
The playlist below is some of what I’ve been playing. Album of the Year season is about to be in full swing, but it’s tough to make a list with so many new releases still popping up—2023 has been awesome for music.
Now it’s your turn:
What caught your ear this week? Find anything good while crate digging? Is there an upcoming release or show you’re excited for? Have you started putting a “best of” list together? If so, what’s on it?
Great make out songs are a genre that doesn't get enough credit. "Something About Your Touch" by Francesca Beghe does have a slightly 90s feel to it. But man, it is smoking hot and sultry.
I'm not sure how this song wasn't a hit when it was released in 1991, although the fact that it was released by the short-lived SBK Records probably didn't help.
Crate digging: a vinyl compilation of jazz violinist Stuff Smith that's wonderful (for 3 bucks!). I only recently discovered him through a CD find: a recording with Dizzy Gillespie. So this was most welcome
I think I might've told you, but for years, one of the asst. manager offices here had a Xanadu poster on the wall. No one knew where it came from (we took over this space from another carrier), and no one would take it off.
Afternoon (from the UK)... with the overnight news of the sad passing of Geordie Walker (Killing Joke) I've been delving into their back catalogue and appreciating how influential Geordie (and the band) was... 'Love Like Blood' sounded like nothing else when it was first released and still stands proud today....
I've also had the weird experience of being able to listen to myself on Spotify as I released my debut album on Friday. It took about 4 months to record, produce and release (but I reckon there's about 40 years of musical germination in there - I'm actually 57!). Link is here : https://open.spotify.com/album/04yPw5yXD2USZ3Fq3gjjm2?si=UWdhoc9CTQa9yw5oLWVKBw
In a weird connection between the two, I'd already created a thematic playlist for Album 2 (due out in Oct 2024) and it extensively features Killing Joke... #RIPGeordie
RIP Geordie - saw the news this morning but hadn’t had time to listen to my favorite Geordie riffs until now - Tension, Pssyche, and Requiem from the 80s days, but also cuts from their excellent eponymous 2003 album like Death and Resurrection Show, You’ll Never Get to Me, and Seeing Red. The rhythm and enveloping tone stand out in songs recorded decades apart. Great stuff and the music will live on.
I mentioned it when commenting on Notes, but you can hear traces of Geordie's sound in countless other players. It's clear a lot of people listened to Killing Joke, and it inspired them to pick up a guitar.
This is catchy! I like it. It reminds me of someone, but I can't quite put my finger on it. Probably gonna spend the rest of the morning trying to think of it. Lol.
While The Psychedelic Furs are never far from my current listening, I binged every record last week in honor of losing Mars Williams to cancer at 68. Their 2020 release Made of Rain didn't get nearly enough attention, and they've always remained a vital live act. Here's "Don't Believe" --
Agree! I saw them for the first time in the 80s and then 3-4 times in recent years, and they're always wonderful. Richard is such an underrated frontman.
Received my reissue of Vs by Pearl Jam on vinyl so that’s been getting a spin. An album that perhaps doesn’t get the love that it should? Instead of going for the easy second album of anthems they swung the other way. Bit of raw sound, heavier, with lyrics around politics, child abuse and police racism.
Watched a documentary on Stevie ray Vaughan and so been listening to a lot of his Texas Flood again. Such a bummer we lost him. He was truly incredible.
Went record shopping yesterday. Picked up Javelin by Sufjan Stevens, We're New Here by Jamie xx and Gill Scott-Heron, and Blowout Comb by Digable Planets. But in the car, I couldn't stop listening to the new album from Bombay Bicycle Club: https://open.spotify.com/album/4mlLSBujzp0u166fIpNgvt?si=80d628deda024f0e
I finally stopped fussing with mine long enough to (sort of) map it out...and I'm still not sure I'm married to the order I have them in. What a great problem to have, though!
Loving The Yellow Melodies record as well. Stay tuned for more of them later this week!
I've been reminding myself what a great record 'The Yes Album' is, because I'm writing about it this week.
Today, though, I've spent a lot of time with the new Peter Gabriel track - the last track to be released ahead of the full 'i/o' - and it's a beautiful, joyous thing. 'i/o' is out on Friday, as an actual record.
And I've been completing my alternative Christmas playlist, also out on Friday. Luckily, at the last minute, I remembered to include Frank Sidebottom ...
The last week has been a blur, between cooking four pies, two types of stuffing, gravy, and cranberry sauce and inventing a new cocktail for Thanksgiving, not to mention the necessity of eating all of it. But I did go record shopping on Friday for my birthday, which was on Monday, and scored some very cool things including albums from T.Rex, War, Isis, Buddy Holly, Armageddon, and Matumbi. I've only had a chance to listen to The Buddy Holly Story, a 1963 repress of a 1959 collection that does a great job of putting everything he was great at in one concise place, and Matumbi's Point Of View, an excellent British reggae album from 1978. Not a ton of new releases on Friday, but I Oral by Bjork and Rosalia sounded good and I loved Vines' cover of Christmas Time Is Here, which I shared in my A Song For Friday post: https://open.substack.com/pub/anearful/p/a-song-for-friday-vines?r=3d4xe&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
I don't recall if I mentioned this new single by Beat Hotel before but it's brilliant if you are a fan of The Jazz Butcher, BMX Bandits or Biff Bang Pow! (As they are named after one of their songs.)
Some funky stuff is going on in the soundtrack to "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving" by VInce. Also recently, Pan Amsterdam, aka Leron Thomas, has a new single out. Leron is a true Renaissance man and an accomplished jazz musician. He's put out a ton of stuff and is responsible for Iggy's last great album, "Free". Anyway, his hip-hop work under Pan is catchy and funny. If you like 90's hip hop check out the album "EAT" he made with Damu the Fudgemunk.
I recently put in to open for a young touring "Southern Rock " band, Robert Jon and the Wreck, on what would be the biggest stage Bessemer Saints has played yet. It's RJTW's first time in Cleveland, so we got it. December 7th, Beachland Ballroom.
So I've been listening to them and sharing them around.
Awesome to see something from Shake the Sheets on your playlist, as well as the always-welcome Tisburys.
I've been getting into Juliana Hatfield's ELO covers album and the new GBV. I also picked up some used CDs last week and have enjoyed spinning Black Crowes' Southern Harmony and Musical Companion and Buffalo Tom's Big Red Letter Day.
Uh-oh, I saw a Wussy song... which means I’ll start listening to Wussy again and won’t stop for... days? Months? Until their next album comes out? They dropped a hint on their Facebook page a few months back that they could have a new album next year. So now I’m cueing up One Per Customer, to follow on thoughts of Geordie Walker’s passing, and I’ll listen to it more than once before the night is through. Wussy: come for the harmonies, stay for the sublime noise guitar, linger on the lyrics, and ponder how one of the dumbest possible band names belies one of the greatest musical catalogues ever. I could proselytize for Wussy for pages up on pages. I’m a big, dumb, number one fan. In some parallel universe I am screaming and crying and passing out as Wussy takes the stage at Shea Stadium. I’ll shut up now and let Lisa and Chuck speak for themselves.
If there's anywhere that proselytizing about the band would be welcome, it's here. I love them and tend to binge listen to them as well. Still haven't figured out why Chuck is so bad at naming bands, but I suppose it's a fair trade for the killer music.
Here's my attempt at doing 'Funeral Dress' justice from earlier this year. Lemme know if I need to unlock it.
urvashi urvashi is a banger. not sure if i like the music as much as the concept of the video - in a gang of thieves that specialize in ripping off high society events they need a special player that can turn the party so inside out the party goers don't notice the other members of the crew driving off with their rides. ;)
Not much in the way of new music this past week or two, given a large volume of work, followed by moving my daughter in NYC and then Thanksgiving in Virginia. But I have been revisiting a "Live at McCabe's" album by Dead Rock West. They open quite a bit for West Coast bands that I like (X, Los Lobos, Dave Alvin, etc.) and I really like their Paisley Pop (ish) sound.
First off, hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. I locked myself in the kitchen and spent some quality time baking pies and cooking the holiday meal.
I found a relaxing playlist on Spotify that contained mostly bands that I was not aware of. The playlist allow me to reminisce about the time I spent as a bouncer at an Irish pub.
I slid out of its purposely well kept album sleeve... Thunderclap Newman’s “Hollywood Dream”. When you consider that the entire band was made of: a mailman, a rock ‘n roll chauffeur, and a 15 year old playing lead guitar is truly remarkable as this album still holds up.
I've been going backwards to Joni Mitchell, Carol King and the amount of work there is of these amazing ladies !
I don't listen to much new stuff, If writing, I could have a terrible habit of plagerism, cos I have a phonographic memory after hearing something once!
Maybe I'm safer with oldies lol - but yes must have a listen to what's happening now
Black Rose by Solomun
https://open.spotify.com/track/0TQ5L43aonmPE9l7ItFXQB?si=z9MfiCj_SsCZMNIzWHwf6A
Total mood-changer!
Hold Me Now by the Thompson Twins. Caught it on the radio while at my favorite bar.
https://open.spotify.com/track/1B1Y52ftMyCmgjPsEMQDqq?si=u7vNlLCxTGmZbMAUHBlaBQ
Now this is stuck in my head at 7:15a on a Monday. ;-)
I suppose there are worse things (?) :)
80s gold.
...and a total earworm for sure... :)
Great make out songs are a genre that doesn't get enough credit. "Something About Your Touch" by Francesca Beghe does have a slightly 90s feel to it. But man, it is smoking hot and sultry.
I'm not sure how this song wasn't a hit when it was released in 1991, although the fact that it was released by the short-lived SBK Records probably didn't help.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rjpZFewAX8
A totally underrated genre for sure!
Crate digging: a vinyl compilation of jazz violinist Stuff Smith that's wonderful (for 3 bucks!). I only recently discovered him through a CD find: a recording with Dizzy Gillespie. So this was most welcome
Right on. Those kinds of finds are the best!
I’ve been caught by this one. Sound and voice reminds me of Springsteen. Vigorous sensitivity.
https://open.spotify.com/track/3ahuBtIP8Hh1n5L8jUUzXD?si=A56ojiZfSkWFWWdCap4DmA
It’s featured on the Reflect & Relax Cafe #50:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6EcLhgESeOBX3Fvfxt8SH4?si=AonlU_mkTx254EqNps_A4Q&pi=e-_4xQVGQ5QOug
Not exactly a massive undertaking, but I have updated my "Magic and Wizards" playlist just a bit: https://www.pandora.com/playlist/PL:184896076497551406:74638688
I think I might've told you, but for years, one of the asst. manager offices here had a Xanadu poster on the wall. No one knew where it came from (we took over this space from another carrier), and no one would take it off.
That's the kind of thing you just laminate in place!
lol. Right? I'm not smart enough to figure out how to put a picture into the comments here, so I just emailed it to you.
Afternoon (from the UK)... with the overnight news of the sad passing of Geordie Walker (Killing Joke) I've been delving into their back catalogue and appreciating how influential Geordie (and the band) was... 'Love Like Blood' sounded like nothing else when it was first released and still stands proud today....
I've also had the weird experience of being able to listen to myself on Spotify as I released my debut album on Friday. It took about 4 months to record, produce and release (but I reckon there's about 40 years of musical germination in there - I'm actually 57!). Link is here : https://open.spotify.com/album/04yPw5yXD2USZ3Fq3gjjm2?si=UWdhoc9CTQa9yw5oLWVKBw
In a weird connection between the two, I'd already created a thematic playlist for Album 2 (due out in Oct 2024) and it extensively features Killing Joke... #RIPGeordie
Congrats, Jack! Looking forward to checking out your record.
Thanks, Dave!
Congratulations!! Thanks for sharing the link with us. I'm at work, but will cue your record up shortly.
Saw Killing Joke years ago and what a blistering live set
RIP Geordie - saw the news this morning but hadn’t had time to listen to my favorite Geordie riffs until now - Tension, Pssyche, and Requiem from the 80s days, but also cuts from their excellent eponymous 2003 album like Death and Resurrection Show, You’ll Never Get to Me, and Seeing Red. The rhythm and enveloping tone stand out in songs recorded decades apart. Great stuff and the music will live on.
I mentioned it when commenting on Notes, but you can hear traces of Geordie's sound in countless other players. It's clear a lot of people listened to Killing Joke, and it inspired them to pick up a guitar.
This young artist recently pinged my radar. I think he's going places.
https://open.spotify.com/track/2wuz1PbfaVhLAqrsV2RTFQ?si=550a341c449047aa
This is catchy! I like it. It reminds me of someone, but I can't quite put my finger on it. Probably gonna spend the rest of the morning trying to think of it. Lol.
LOL. I'm still trying to figure out who he "sounds like." Maybe we can tag team.
Thanks Mallie- love hearing new music - it’s got a great vibe to it - sort of reminds me of 80s pop-rock (Men at Work etc)
So sorry for my slow response. It's been a bit of a Monday. Thanks so much. I'm glad you enjoyed it!
While The Psychedelic Furs are never far from my current listening, I binged every record last week in honor of losing Mars Williams to cancer at 68. Their 2020 release Made of Rain didn't get nearly enough attention, and they've always remained a vital live act. Here's "Don't Believe" --
https://open.spotify.com/track/2iYjConqbyDKiIYvYNSfn5?si=WDqu-wXMQYS95oon-VERhQ
I look forward to checking out the other picks in this thread!
I promise I'm not making this up, but "We Love You" is playing as I type this. Sometimes the universe works in mysterious ways.
Excellent band and always fantastic live as my brother and I have seen them at least 3 times
Agree! I saw them for the first time in the 80s and then 3-4 times in recent years, and they're always wonderful. Richard is such an underrated frontman.
Received my reissue of Vs by Pearl Jam on vinyl so that’s been getting a spin. An album that perhaps doesn’t get the love that it should? Instead of going for the easy second album of anthems they swung the other way. Bit of raw sound, heavier, with lyrics around politics, child abuse and police racism.
100% agreed.
We talked about that here as Vs. turned 30. A lot of people had a lot of thoughts about the album.
After this short interaction, I thought I would write about my relistens.
https://blanckslate.substack.com/p/vinyl-pearl-jam-vs
Libianca - People
That's a new one for me! A shift away from your normal R & B?
Watched a documentary on Stevie ray Vaughan and so been listening to a lot of his Texas Flood again. Such a bummer we lost him. He was truly incredible.
Went record shopping yesterday. Picked up Javelin by Sufjan Stevens, We're New Here by Jamie xx and Gill Scott-Heron, and Blowout Comb by Digable Planets. But in the car, I couldn't stop listening to the new album from Bombay Bicycle Club: https://open.spotify.com/album/4mlLSBujzp0u166fIpNgvt?si=80d628deda024f0e
We’re New Here is an awesome album!!!
I'm really loving the new Bombay Bicycle Club. I think I found it through you? If so, thank you for getting it on my radar!
Glad to have potentially returned the favour!
Thanks for The Yellow Melodies on this cold, gray morning 😎
I am culling my AOTY list with brutal efficiency. Just don't ask me about ranked order 😭
Thanks Pete, very proud of this release 👌😊
I finally stopped fussing with mine long enough to (sort of) map it out...and I'm still not sure I'm married to the order I have them in. What a great problem to have, though!
Loving The Yellow Melodies record as well. Stay tuned for more of them later this week!
I've been reminding myself what a great record 'The Yes Album' is, because I'm writing about it this week.
Today, though, I've spent a lot of time with the new Peter Gabriel track - the last track to be released ahead of the full 'i/o' - and it's a beautiful, joyous thing. 'i/o' is out on Friday, as an actual record.
And I've been completing my alternative Christmas playlist, also out on Friday. Luckily, at the last minute, I remembered to include Frank Sidebottom ...
YES FOREVER
Former “not famous” 80s and 90s radio personality here - I’m reliving the life of Tina Turner through her new compilation “Queen Of Rock and Roll.”
Poison Idea
Hell yeah. Their time was "just" before I started going to shows, but what killer band.
Happy Monday(s)! 🤣 I just got Whitney’s My Love is Your Love reissue in translucent blue vinyl before the price jumps like a mfcker 😅
Nice! In just in time!
digging the variety here. got a crossover west african folk + modern anthem for everyone --
Demba by TSHA and Trio Da Kali
https://youtu.be/_JK8ogWbmXI
Right on. I'm on it!
Other than a few tracks on the new GBV album, not much new stuff this past week, but plenty of oldies:
Joe Jackson, Look Sharp
Everything But the Girl, eponymous US debut album
Joni Mitchell, Blue
Jimmy Cliff, The Harder They Come The Harder They Fall
Silver Jews, American Water
Much of the rap music my kids listen to is terrible, so I introduced them to The Pharcyde. We’ll see how that turns out.
You're a good dad; I don't care what they say.
https://open.spotify.com/album/34ZmHgTZ7OcRCsrTqbHpSQ?si=y0h7DcnZToiNwgeZtBLk0w
New Kurt Vile EP has been on constant rotation. That cover of “Passenger Side” is *chef’s kiss*.
Oh, I haven't heard this yet! I'll have to change that ASAP.
Listened to Never Too Much by Luther Vandross for the first time and can’t turn it off
I went through the very same thing a few months ago lol
Went through a similar phase with "Give Me The Reason." His records are infectious!
He’s in the pantheon of artists I assumed must have been lame cause my mom liked them. Lol
lol.
The last week has been a blur, between cooking four pies, two types of stuffing, gravy, and cranberry sauce and inventing a new cocktail for Thanksgiving, not to mention the necessity of eating all of it. But I did go record shopping on Friday for my birthday, which was on Monday, and scored some very cool things including albums from T.Rex, War, Isis, Buddy Holly, Armageddon, and Matumbi. I've only had a chance to listen to The Buddy Holly Story, a 1963 repress of a 1959 collection that does a great job of putting everything he was great at in one concise place, and Matumbi's Point Of View, an excellent British reggae album from 1978. Not a ton of new releases on Friday, but I Oral by Bjork and Rosalia sounded good and I loved Vines' cover of Christmas Time Is Here, which I shared in my A Song For Friday post: https://open.substack.com/pub/anearful/p/a-song-for-friday-vines?r=3d4xe&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Happy belated birthday, and thanks for sharing the link for everyone! Sounds like you scored big on your shopping trip.
I'm always discovering music old and new and a friend recommended this album by Mal who is new to me and enjoying it -
https://malmusiconline.bandcamp.com/album/masterpeace-songs-for-our-kid-after-im-gone
I don't recall if I mentioned this new single by Beat Hotel before but it's brilliant if you are a fan of The Jazz Butcher, BMX Bandits or Biff Bang Pow! (As they are named after one of their songs.)
https://beathotel2.bandcamp.com/album/beat-now
And one more, the new album by The Jasmine Minks is an absolute beauty of a record -
https://spinoutnuggets.bandcamp.com/album/we-make-our-own-history
Listening to this as I type. I'm only a little ways in, but loving what I'm hearing so far.
Some funky stuff is going on in the soundtrack to "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving" by VInce. Also recently, Pan Amsterdam, aka Leron Thomas, has a new single out. Leron is a true Renaissance man and an accomplished jazz musician. He's put out a ton of stuff and is responsible for Iggy's last great album, "Free". Anyway, his hip-hop work under Pan is catchy and funny. If you like 90's hip hop check out the album "EAT" he made with Damu the Fudgemunk.
I recently put in to open for a young touring "Southern Rock " band, Robert Jon and the Wreck, on what would be the biggest stage Bessemer Saints has played yet. It's RJTW's first time in Cleveland, so we got it. December 7th, Beachland Ballroom.
So I've been listening to them and sharing them around.
https://youtu.be/lpUACS2rztY?si=4jla-tgt3lergGMD
Right on! Congrats on landing the gig!
Steve Earl, Corb Lund, Whitney Fenimore & Addison Agen, The Decemberists and David Gilmour
https://wordpress.com/post/weatheredmusic.ca/5620
That's a great list (and read)!
Watched ‘Forever Young’ (Mel Gibson) at the weekend and can’t get Billie Holiday’s The Very Thought Of You out of my head...
https://songwhip.com/billie-holiday/theverythoughtofyou
First off, I initially read that first track’s artist as Ted Lasso. 😂
I am feeling sad today (PNW sad, not regular sad) and for some reason Purple Rain on repeat is my emotional blanket for the day. 💜
I know that feeling! Hopefully Prince helped you shake it!
Awesome to see something from Shake the Sheets on your playlist, as well as the always-welcome Tisburys.
I've been getting into Juliana Hatfield's ELO covers album and the new GBV. I also picked up some used CDs last week and have enjoyed spinning Black Crowes' Southern Harmony and Musical Companion and Buffalo Tom's Big Red Letter Day.
Ted Leo rules. I don't listen to him nearly enough. Big Red Letter Day is also a fave-- I did a quick write up of 'Soda Jerk' earlier this year.
https://open.substack.com/pub/thekevinalexander/p/buffalo-tom?r=3cbf2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Our friend Keith R. Higgons has written about them a few times as well. Hopefully, I'm smart enough to make this link work...
https://substack.com/search/buffalo%20tom?focusedPublicationId=1028564&searching=all_posts
Love Buffalo Tom, but I found them much later. Big Red Letter Day is only the 2nd album of theirs I have on CD, after Quiet and Peace.
Driving my daughter back to college on Sunday, we were listening to her Spotify playlist. Daniel Johnston's "Walking the Cow" came on. It was other worldly. Forgive me, but I had never heard it before. I thought it was contemporary. It is amazing. I want to know more. Pearl Jam covered it. Here is the version we listened to, I believe. This is amazing. Interested in learning more. https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=585730610&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS884US885&tbm=vid&sxsrf=AM9HkKlHmnXkmoGUHyXZvGkr2nzomSVohg:1701125853936&q=walking+the+cow&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi6xffRo-WCAxVOrokEHeB_DhYQ8ccDegQIShAD&biw=1536&bih=756&dpr=2#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:7a32c43a,vid:03Mu9Utm94M,st:0
Oh, this is great! I'm not sure I've ever heard it before, either?
I should probably know this, but if i can ask, is she a Hawkeye? Cyclone? Panther?
What do you think of the song? haunting...She is a Hawkeye...
I loved it!
Green Day “The American Dream Is Killing Me”
Uh-oh, I saw a Wussy song... which means I’ll start listening to Wussy again and won’t stop for... days? Months? Until their next album comes out? They dropped a hint on their Facebook page a few months back that they could have a new album next year. So now I’m cueing up One Per Customer, to follow on thoughts of Geordie Walker’s passing, and I’ll listen to it more than once before the night is through. Wussy: come for the harmonies, stay for the sublime noise guitar, linger on the lyrics, and ponder how one of the dumbest possible band names belies one of the greatest musical catalogues ever. I could proselytize for Wussy for pages up on pages. I’m a big, dumb, number one fan. In some parallel universe I am screaming and crying and passing out as Wussy takes the stage at Shea Stadium. I’ll shut up now and let Lisa and Chuck speak for themselves.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/56Uj6GD5AXDrOakiJM6pFR?si=VupVgWVYTCqb_W84Vg6qSA&pi=u-wth428KBTCmR
If there's anywhere that proselytizing about the band would be welcome, it's here. I love them and tend to binge listen to them as well. Still haven't figured out why Chuck is so bad at naming bands, but I suppose it's a fair trade for the killer music.
Here's my attempt at doing 'Funeral Dress' justice from earlier this year. Lemme know if I need to unlock it.
https://open.substack.com/pub/thekevinalexander/p/from-the-archives-record-review-wussys?r=3cbf2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
https://youtu.be/0VwgpYJ4q38?si=xi6uKRKsPLjl4GZw
urvashi urvashi is a banger. not sure if i like the music as much as the concept of the video - in a gang of thieves that specialize in ripping off high society events they need a special player that can turn the party so inside out the party goers don't notice the other members of the crew driving off with their rides. ;)
Not much in the way of new music this past week or two, given a large volume of work, followed by moving my daughter in NYC and then Thanksgiving in Virginia. But I have been revisiting a "Live at McCabe's" album by Dead Rock West. They open quite a bit for West Coast bands that I like (X, Los Lobos, Dave Alvin, etc.) and I really like their Paisley Pop (ish) sound.
I'm behind in reading, but saw you've been busy! That's a great problem to have.
After two lost years due to Covid, I’ll take it!
First off, hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. I locked myself in the kitchen and spent some quality time baking pies and cooking the holiday meal.
I found a relaxing playlist on Spotify that contained mostly bands that I was not aware of. The playlist allow me to reminisce about the time I spent as a bouncer at an Irish pub.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DXb1IUaS6F7Z8?si=BZHK9ySvR5OnXv4KGQgyyw&pi=u-E6a7PUaQTvG_
Shake the Sheets is a great record.
So good!
I slid out of its purposely well kept album sleeve... Thunderclap Newman’s “Hollywood Dream”. When you consider that the entire band was made of: a mailman, a rock ‘n roll chauffeur, and a 15 year old playing lead guitar is truly remarkable as this album still holds up.
I need to know more about this band!
I've been going backwards to Joni Mitchell, Carol King and the amount of work there is of these amazing ladies !
I don't listen to much new stuff, If writing, I could have a terrible habit of plagerism, cos I have a phonographic memory after hearing something once!
Maybe I'm safer with oldies lol - but yes must have a listen to what's happening now