I believe The Dexateens are done. Yeah, I've heard that too, and it really ticks me off. Part of the reason I drove through heavy weather (seven damn hours from Little Rock to Memphis) to see DBT in Tuscaloosa last year was to see the Dexateens. I got there late, while DBT was playing 18 Wheels of ...

Van Morrison
The Dexateens
The Jayhawks
Prince
Lou Reed

It hadn't quite sunk in till just now how much older I am than the rest of you, or at least how much older my musical tastes feel. Anyway: Bob Dylan, Highway 61 Revisited. I was up in the middle of the night listening to WKY or KOMA (I forget the details) and the dj played "Ballad of a Thin Man...

Among the Cooley songs, many people complain about "Bob" which is probably the most controversial song in the entire DBT canon. (Pretty ironic that a band which has given us songs about incest -- "The Deeper In" -- and child molestation -- "Bulldozers and Dirt" -- woul...

When I reach out and skip "Bob" (which I do quite often) I usually skip "Home Field Advantage" (much better live), too. In both songs I metaphor I didn't like.

First, get your mind out of the gutter. Thank you. Now, my question. I've promised my daughter, who is seven and a half, that we will soon make a trip one way by plane and one way by train. Chicago has always been the city I had in mind, as it's arguably the nicest place one Amtrak connection away f...

People who still had some music in them they never got to let out: Buddy Holly (lots could have come together with him) John Coltrane (clearly headed out somewhere those last couple of years) Jimi Hendrix (he just wan't done) D. Boon (he did so many different things so well, and he was so young) Jac...

So, who can tell me: What the hell is "heartbreak motor oil" anyway?

A friend gave me Separation Sunday when it came out and I instantly loved it. I wrote a good friend on a bad day and told him I'd gone from Life's Rich Pageant to Exile on Main Street and I still needed help and what could he recommend. He said either Separation Sunday or Decoration Day. I had alre...

The Black Canary wrote:

Smitty wrote:

CooleyGirl wrote:

Like them both and plan on spending some quality time with each!!!!! possibly at the same time

The local version...

The Oxford American music issue is always interesting and usually great, but I was let down by last year's Arkansas issue. It wasn't that it wasn't a good disc and stories to go with it--it was--but it didn't have the part of the state where I spent most of my adult life. Northwest Arkansas pretty m...

And biscuits. The restorative power of good biscuits with a big swath of butter is well-known among my people.

Freddie Hubbard, Sing Me A Song Of Song My
The Mothers of Invention, Absolutely Free
Camper Van Beethoven, Telephone Free Landslide Victory
John Coltrane, A Love Supreme
Egberto Gismonti, Danca dos Cabezas

DBT ought to cover "Wichita". It'd fit them to a tee.

It is, indeed, a great shirt.

Sway
Shattered
Stray Cat Blues
Happy
Brown Sugar

Ask me again tomorrow. I've got another perfectly good list for a different day.

Katie's Been Gone
Ophelia
Up on Cripple Creek
The Rumor
The Shape I'm in

I'm surprised no one has chimed in with The Band's version of "Atlantic City". I'm ready to hear it again--what I remember disliking I think I'd like now.

Shut Out The Lights
Wild Billy's Circus Song
Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street?
Candy's Room
Wreck on the Highway

I don't know if they're really my favorites, but I can sing most of all of them and all of most of them, which tells me something.

So the bottom line is that if a song can't be played on an acoustic guitar or in a simple piano or organ arrangement and be just as good as it is with a full band and all th trappings of production, then IMO it's just not a very good song. Some days I think this is true, other days I don't, but I d...

But i just don't understand how "Honky Tonk Women" and "Brown Sugar" are "pablum for the masses." Brown Sugar is just Mick to the excess and no one wants that. Some days "Brown Sugar" is my favorite Stones song and (I think) their greatest work of art. It pre...

Jonicont wrote:

John A Arkansawyer wrote:

Is there a 46 somewhere in here? Oh wait I see it

See what happens when you let an amateur drive?

I dreamed earlier this week about being at a record fair and going from table to table and failing to find this. I hope it's not an omen, or, at least, if it is, that I do find those Jorge Santana records real cheap, too. And I know where I'll be at 9 AM tomorrow morning.

Drive By Truckers are more spiritual than you think. No argument here, either about music in general or DBT in specific. When other folks at church talk about spiritual moments they've had out in nature, I'll allow as how I've had a few of those, but that most of mine have come in dark, loud, smoky...

Flea wrote:

4sooner wrote:Willin'-Lowell George

We have a winner!

That was one of the three songs I swore I'd never ever play in a band, and I still haven't. My vote goes for "Phantom 309". And let's not forget "Cheeseburger" by the Gang of Four.

4sooner wrote:Goin out back to "Dad's Sports Bar" right now to watch it. LOUD.
Then, this evening, Alice's Restaurant gets it's traditional spin.
Autographed by Arlo himself.

By any chance, did you get it signed on April 1, 1976, at Lloyd Noble or thereabouts?

Just about shit my pants the other day when I heard the Gang of Four in (I think it was) an X-Box commercial. Now that is the ultimate sell-out. Gaming can be very lucrative for bands. And I'm not even talking the rockband/guitarhero games. I don't know if it is still this way, but some bands were ...

(and paid extra to get back on time to get to church Sunday) Hedging your bets, eh? and look the preacher in the eye Better--it was one of the two possible dates for me to do a guest sermon while our regular preacher is on sabbatical. (People there are very tolerant of my music problem. We aren't b...

So while we're talking Elvis and X and sucking doggie dicks, we've got the Macy's parade on in the background and Carrie Underwood (who I've carefully avoided up till now) was singing some song called (I think) "Undo It", and I thought (rather than said, since my mom and my daughter are th...

Okay, I'm in. Made plane reservations (and paid extra to get back on time to get to church Sunday) and bought my tickets.