Mountain Driving Mix(tape) ’09
October 22, 2009
Hitting the road? Check out this great mix from The Lost Art Of The Mixtape.
Brighter Days – Mofro
Flux – The Jazz Mandolin Project
Che Che Cole – Anitbalas Afrobeat Orchestra
Can’t Wait – The Benders
By My Side – Mofro
Darlene – Led Zeppelin
Magic Fingers – Béla Fleck & The Flecktones
Free – Mofro
Willy’s Song – The Benders
Harmonicas Are Shite – Fila Brazillia
I’m A Ram – Al Green
Singles Party – Greyboy
White House Blues – Yonder Mountain String Band
Four Wheel Drive – Béla Fleck
High Cost Of Low Living – Allman Brothers Band
Party Girl – T-Bone Walker
Blackwater – Mofro
Photography – The Benders
Just One Thing – My Morning Jacket
Mean Old World – Duane Allman
Instrumental – Stevie Wonder
Coming In Hot – Peter Tosh
Big Country – Béla Fleck & The Flecktones
re: Stacks – Bon Iver
Sunset Road – Béla Fleck & The Flecktones
Circles – Mofro
? – Yonder Mountain String Band
Can’t Find My Way Home – Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood
Fearless – Pink Floyd
For Emma – Bon Iver
Come On In My Kitchen – Allman Brothers Band
That’s The Way – Led Zeppelin
Once Upon A Time In The West – Dire Straits
Flaming Lips to Dark Side
October 22, 2009
From Jambands.com:
The Flaming Lips will record a reworked version of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. The group first revealed the news at a Q & A held at the promotional “pop-up” Flaming Lips Embryonic store the band erected in Los Angeles last week and confirmed the details on KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic. The members of Stardeath and White Dwarfs—including Lips leader Wayne Coyne’s nephew Dennis Coyne—will collaborate with the psychedelic band on the project, while the Toronto-born singer Peaches will perform on “The Great Gig In The Sky.” In addition, Henry Rollins will provide voiceovers throughout the project.
Review of Exile On Main St
October 22, 2009
Robert Christagu was one of the first rock writers to praise Exile On Main St upon its release in 1972. Pretty spot on if you ask me.
“More than anything else this fagged-out masterpiece is difficult–how else describe music that takes weeks to understand? Weary and complicated, barely afloat in its own drudgery, it rocks with extra power and concentration as a result. More indecipherable than ever, submerging Mick’s voice under layers of studio murk, it piles all the old themes–sex as power, sex as love, sex as pleasure, distance, craziness, release–on top of an obsession with time more than appropriate in over-thirties committed to what was once considered a youth music. Honking around sweet Virginia country and hipping through Slim Harpo, singing their ambiguous praises of Angela Davis, Jesus Christ, and the Butter Queen, they’re just war babies with the bell bottom blues.” A+
Here’s the lead off track, “Rocks Off” from Sydney ’73:
Hitting the “Panic” button
October 22, 2009
We love music and we love college football around here. Here’s a cool article written by Mark Schlabach, formerly of the AJC and now of ESPN.com to merge the two with Widespread Panic serving as bridge and basis for this piece.
Every Bottom 10 member might be hearing those Widespread Panic lyrics in their heads this week. From the band’s hometown of Athens (can Georgia stop anyone other than Vanderbilt?) to Columbus (is Ohio State’s offense really that bad?) to even the music hotbed of Austin (is the Texas offense really that mediocre?), there is indeed widespread panic as we hit the midpoint of the 2009 season.
Ohio State reached an all-time low Saturday, losing at woeful Purdue 26-18, which cost the Buckeyes a chance of getting beaten soundly in yet another BCS National Championship Game. (more…)
