Just a plug for my favorite album of the post-rock era: Gastr del Sol's "Camoufleur" - it takes that 90s Chicago sound and infuses it with doses of Van Dyke Parks, Vietnamese folk, German electronics & John Fahey. The album was criminally forgotten as the band had already broken up by the time it ca...

Wolf wrote:yes Iowan that is totally unjustified and the cop will rot in prison hopefully

Unfortunately the recent evidence suggests that they will not go to prison. I'd like to be wrong.

And both of them deserve blame for allowing Shonna's songs to be included on albums when - at that point in time, at least - they weren't up to DBT standards. But with so few nits to point out over 15 years of writing, it's safe to say that Patterson and Cooley are just plain special. (Sorry for th...

Mark Kemp author of Dixie Lullaby on Patterson's article. http://m.sfweekly.com/shookdown/2015/07/09/drive-by-truckers-patterson-hood-tackles-hateful-flags-and-southern-heritage-in-new-york-times-essay Thanks for posting this - I really enjoyed Dixie Lullaby and in particular the way Kemp was able ...

Off the top of my head:

New Morning
Girl From the North Country
I Shall Be Released
Maggie's Farm
My Back Pages

I just saw this and was coming to post it. I am so very proud of Patterson today. Agreed - the best piece I've seen written on this topic since this controversy blew up. Interestingly, I've seen alot of pieces being written recently that use his phrase "the duality of the Southern thing" without at...

Surprised to see this hadn't been posted yet:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/09/magaz ... -flag.html

On point as always.

Going on 3 years without a Cleveland date.

Too early to get into rankings, but these should all find a place on my end of year list: John Moreland - High on Tulsa Heat Chris Stapleton - Traveler The Honeycutters - Me Oh My Lilly Hiatt - Royal Blue Leon Bridges - Coming Home Great Peacock - Making Ghosts The Deslondes - s/t Alabama Shakes - S...

Is Cooley still doing the voice work for STP? I heard a radio commercial for STP this morning, no DBT song, but damn if the voice didn't sound like him!

Jason says in Rolling Stone that 24 Frames is "how indie rock sounded when I was 15." Anyone know what he's talking about? I don't hear that at all. So, in '94/'95? I have no idea what he was listening to, but nah, I don't really hear it either. I was listening to Frank Black solo along with my spe...

It's been almost 3 years since they played Cleveland. Come on, guys!

This was my year end playlist, I think it's probably the best sequenced, most personal mix I've made in years... m ^^^^ listened this afternoon, sounds good NP: JJ Cale playlist... m I'm hardly an expert - I just kind of discovered him last month - but here are some songs that really caught my ear....

This was my year end playlist, I think it's probably the best sequenced, most personal mix I've made in years...

http://open.spotify.com/user/mjordan127 ... hJrF1fGR4K

Just ordered an Audio Technica ATLP-120, which looks similar to a Technics 1200 & has USB capabilities & is one of the few modern midrange TTs with 78RPM capabilities. I'll post my thoughts after it arrives next week. m Also have a pair of Polk Audio bookshelf speakers on the way. All of thi...

My initial reaction to the line change was that it was no big deal. But the more I think about it, it does kinda neuter the impact of the line before it ("what did they say when they shipped you away..."). In Isbell's version, that line sneaks up on you and bites pretty hard. Brown's vers...

http://www.emilymandel.com/images/StationElevenHCUS2.jpg This has been in the pile on my desk for so long now. I feel like I'm never going to get to it. I put a request for it at the library a long time ago and it arrived at the perfect time when I was finishing something else!

http://i2.bookpage.com/books/images/045d4540fbb3e595cd7c2e09a9364a19/medium.jpg Yes! A favorite. Finished it last night. I'd call it good but unexceptional. Kinda boring, but I suppose that was the point. I don't see how it made that Esquire list of 80 books. Next up: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/i...

Wilson Pickett
Booker T & The MGs
Aretha Franklin
CSNY
Byrds

This was a nice reading of "Dark End of the Street" - love that Dave can get something like this on network TV in 2014.

Hall & Oates - everything - My first album ever was "Big Bam Boom" in '84 and I pretty much started collecting their whole catalog after that - I still love them today with no apologies John Mellencamp - The Lonesome Jubilee - bought this when I was 10 and it's still my favorite of his...

It's great seeing all the love for Caleb Caudle's record here, that one has been truly slept on in alot of corners and it's such a great set! His recent Fire Mountain cover is fantastic as well.

1. Hiss Golden Messenger – Lateness of Dancers 2. Sturgill Simpson – Metamodern Sounds in Country Music 3. Hurray for the Riff Raff – Small Town Heroes 4. Drive By Truckers – English Oceans 5. St Paul & the Broken Bones – Half the City 6. Delines – Colfax 7. Caleb Caudle – Paint Another Layer on...

Seems like about once a year or so I go on a Dylan binge, and I'm in the middle of one right now. Every time I do this I tend to focus on a different set of albums and so far this time along with the Basement Tapes box that spurred this, I've been digging into "Self Portrait" - an album I'...

No - he's 100% right. Royalties from terrestrial radio play only get paid to the songwriters, the recording artist gets nothing at all. This is why sampling was such a hot button issue in the 90s. The credited songwriters of the sampled songs wanted a piece of that action. Yes, you're right. I read...

How do you read this, then?: "But let’s look at what those counts really represent. If a song has been listened to 500 thousand times on Spotify, that’s the same as it having been played one time on a U.S. radio station with a moderate sized audience of 500 thousand people. Which would pay the...

Tom T is supposedly a cousin of mine. I know there are Halls in my family tree and my dad was born in the same county as Olive Hill, but I don't know the actual linkage. That said, I've only really started listening to him in the last few years and more than any other of the great songwriters of his...

I think it also says a lot that every time a rate the albums or songs thread appears, it's promptly moved to the Everything Else section. I don't necessarily agree with that but then again, I'm not one of the ones running the board. I also see no harm in rating records, songs, live shows, etc. but ...

Am I the only one that doesn't think GGB is a lesser tier DBT album? I'm always surprised how it's taken for conventional wisdom around here that it's something of a misstep. I love EO, but I still place GGB ahead of EO, I don't know - I guess maybe I like DBT best when they emphasize their country...

Am I the only one that doesn't think GGB is a lesser tier DBT album? I'm always surprised how it's taken for conventional wisdom around here that it's something of a misstep. I love EO, but I still place GGB ahead of EO, I don't know - I guess maybe I like DBT best when they emphasize their country ...