The last few days I’ve been groovin’ to the music of band/duo Mapache. And “groovin’” – that hip slang word of yesteryear- is appropriate, as Mapache seem to have been transported from a time when the Grateful Dead, New Riders of the Purple Sage, the Flying Burrito Brothers, and America were the hot currency. Watching…
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Even More Songs of Spookiness
Last year I collected some songs of spookiness here for Halloween, and a few years before that put together a Halloween compilation “The Moon Hangs in Black.” I’m not a rabid Halloween fan or anything, but I do like collecting songs around a theme. And Halloween is an especially fun theme to work with! The…
A Ukulele Neil Young World
In Neil Young’s recent acceptance speech at the Canadian Songwriter’s Hall of Fame ceremony, he mentioned his dad buying him a ukulele as a kid. He’s also quoted in Shakey: A Neil Young Biography as saying he first started to play music on a plastic ukulele, going on to “a better ukulele to a banjo…
The Church – “Man Woman Life Death Infinity”
A new album from the Church. These guys have been making music for a long time – this is album, what, 25 or something? You’d think they’d have lost it long ago. Lost the drive, the inspiration, the spark. But what do we have? Man Woman Life Death Infinity: to my ears, one of the…
Petty Days
Tom Petty’s death made more of an impact on me than most of the many musician deaths there’ve been over the last couple of years. Partly because it was so unexpected and out of the blue, but also because, in a way, it was like a living connection to my teenage years was suddenly gone….
Farewell Green Leaves: UK Autumnal Folk
From last year, a mix I made for the Aquarium Drunkard website: Farewell Green Leaves: UK Autumnal Folk
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