My musical crush on Montreal blueswoman Dawn Tyler Watson continues. While “Hey Hey” is still the top of my playlist, some of the covers from the recent En Duo album are climbing up.
For instance the cover of Patty Griffin’s tune “Wiggley Fingers” (lyrics) on the album is pretty amazing. Something about Dawn’s voice, especially when [...]
My pal Danny Michel just whipped up a homemade video for the track “Tell Sally” from his latest album. Check it out.
Apparently the budget for making this video was… $9.00.
I love living in the age of digital media.
Speaking of making art with digital toys, Danny has also made the all the raw tracks from his [...]
On my recent drive back to Canada, among the many other good things that happened, I had a chance to be reminded why I love Etta James singing Damn Your Eyes so much.
Here, you have a listen, and it should be obvious why that is:
As I was listening to it, I got to thinking that [...]
Remember back in May 2007 when I mentioned my pal, musical genius Danny Michel was planning to co-host a radio show for the CBC with his pal Emm Gryner? (If you don’t remember, click back and refresh your memory)
Well the pilot for that program aired quite a while ago, but it did get picked up, [...]
This post is in honour of my old pal Roach, a real fegManiac, and my pal EBOC1 who is about to have his first Robyn Hitchcock experience.
I’ve got about a half-dozen Hitchcock albums, mostly from the 80s and 90s. I think I might have had one or two before Roach started campaigning heavily in favour [...]
Look, if you know me, or you’ve read this blog for any length of time, it should come as no surprise that I am a huge Tom Waits fan.
I dig Tom’s music of course–hell Hold On is probably my all time favourite song, and he’s probably got a dozen at least in the top hundred, [...]
…like Kate Bush, or Tori Amos, or Bjork, you may like Bat For Lashes. They’re new to me this week, following a pointer from Emma Bull. Me, I like those artists1.
Plus, the videos on Youtube are pretty great. Check these out:
well, I would pretty heavily qualify in time my Tori appreciation…(back)
That’s my favourite Montreal blueswoman, Dawn Tyler Watson, performing her song “Hey Hey”, the lyrics of which inspired the title of her album Ten Dollar Dress. (I found her because I saw the album on a wall once, and the title more or less forced me to buy it.)
That’s the video for the World Party song Is It Like Today?.
The reason it’s here: it’s explicitly inspired by, and intended to be a precis of, Bertrand Russell’s History of Western Philosophy.
Lyrics after the jump:
I am totally having a Grateful Dead day today, and I feel motivated to share with you all.
Annotated Lyrics: Scarlet Begonias, Ripple, Uncle John’s Band, and Tennessee Jed. The other track, Me & My Uncle, is a cover.
A few years ago I picked up a Rokia Traore album. I’m not sure what the impetus was–probably I was looking for another hit of the same kind of musical whammy that I got from Orchestre Baobab’s Pirate’s Choice, so I was exploring African contemporary.
Let us cut a long story short and say that I [...]
I like the latest “why the recording industry is in the tank” theory from Esquire this week–it’s not the same old piracy or consumer selectivity or even “end of format shifting” arguments, but instead a simpler economic argument. I have no idea whether or not it’s any more true than any other, but it seems [...]
…NEVER say that I got left behind.
I have not been here, because I have been driving ridiculous distances around North America to visit friends and to see the Oysterband live (third time!)
I think I had an idiot grin on my face for about six hours after the show.
I will be discussing this at length at [...]
And boy, is it good.
One of my favourite music videos of all time, for Geldof’s second-best song.
The woman playing the bodhrán–the one with all the stage presence of a bass player–scares me. A lot.
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