Cowboys Junkies continue their Nomad series, this time covering songs by Vic Chesnutt. Shit is good.

Color me interested. Thanks Rads.

Working with esteemed producer and musicologist T-Bone Burnett, a veteran who knows a thing or two about roots music and career revival, Allman takes a sure-footed step forward on his first solo album in thirteen years by looking back at the music that lit a spark for him and his late brother Duane when they were just kids: the blues…and in particular, the swampy, sweaty south-of-the-Mason-Dixon-line variety.

Allman singing and playing classic (and obscure) blues covers would be a worthy listen in itself. But adding Burnett’s inspired collaboration, from track selection to rounding up a killer studio band, is what makes Low Country such a treat. As he did with Robert Plant and Alison Krauss’ Raising Sand, Burnett simply raises the bar for what an album can and should sound like…and ultimately be about. Bonding with Allman quickly, Burnett brought in a core group of players including guitarist Daryl Bramhall II, bassist Dennis Crouch and drummer Jay Bellerose, supplementing Allman’s B-3 organ with horns and even a guest piano turn from Mac “Dr. John” Rebennack. “The band was just a bitch, man,” Allman says. “If it works right, it all turns real magic. And that’s what happened this time, more so I think than anything I’ve ever recorded.” Check out the album sampler as well as the lone Allman original “Just Another Rider.”

Dern, missed that Hayes Carll link. KMAG YOYO = Kiss my ass guys, you're on your own?

Dern, missed that Hayes Carll link. KMAG YOYO = Kiss my ass guys, you're on your own?

Doubt this'll be my kinda thing, but some here might splooge over it.

Hayes Carll hasn't been resting on his laurels since topping critics polls and winning awards for his 2008 album, Trouble in Mind. Instead, he's been on the road nearly nonstop with his band, "The Poor Choices" blasting through honky tonks and rock clubs across the U.S. and beyond. Along the way, he's been inspired to write a crop of new tunes that the acclaimed songwriter says are "a layman's take on our country - a snapshot of America in some small way." The result: the sharply drawn collection KMAG YOYO (& Other American Stories), his second release from Lost Highway. KMAG YOYO is pronounced "kay-mag, yo-yo."

Updated link

I haven't heard this, nor am I much of a fan, but here ya go.

The Decemberists - The King is Dead

I haven't bothered to listen to anything since The Tain, but this one I like quite a bit.

I haven't bothered to listen to anything since The Tain, but this one I like quite a bit.

Norman Blake and Euros Childs are pleased to announce details of their debut album together as Jonny. The self-titled, co-written album will be released on 31st January on Alsatian Records (Turnstile) preceded by single Candyfloss on the 17th January.

The album artwork (above) is also revealed to be the inspiration behind their unusual name. Blake came across the image on a friend’s website “and thought it would make a great record sleeve… and name for a band”. “Sleeve first, band-name after”, confirms Childs, “that’s always the best way”.

Blake’s Teenage Fanclub and Childs’ Gorky’s toured together in 1997, and when Blake contributed guitar and vocal harmonies to Gorky’s bitter-sweet How I Long To Feel That Summer In My Heart in 2001, Euros remembers “it just felt like he was part of the band… from that point on it always felt like we might do something together in the future, it just took a few years to actually get it organised”. Euros eventually made it up to Norman’s house in Glasgow in 2006 to record “what we thought was an EP”, and the duo played a handful of rapturously received live shows, before finally getting down to putting a whole album together early in 2010.

“Jonny” album track listing:
1. Wich is Wich
2. Candyfloss
3. Waiting Around For You
4. Goldmine
5. You Was Me
6. Circling The Sun
7. English Lady
8. The Goodnight
9. Bread
10. Cave Dance
11. I Want To Be Around You
12. I’ll Make Her My Best Friend
13. Never Alone

Inter-twining the musical DNA of two of Britain’s most gifted songwriters, Jonny’s debut album proclaims the advent of an irresistibly infectious new strain of psychedelic pop. To kick things off, Jonny are giving away a free, four-track download EP of non-album songs from today (Monday 1st November).

Meloy seems to have subdued some of the quirky vocal mannerisms that were off-putting to many of the haters. The band is strong and tight, and for me, the story-songs are as literate and entertaining as ever.

Nearly ten years after their acclaimed Ultraglide in Black helped kick-start a renewed interest in all things Detroit and rock-and-roll, The Dirtbombs are releasing the de facto companion piece, Party Store.

Ultraglide was a covers collection of 60’s and 70’s soul gems centred on the ideas of African-American identity and politics of the era (see Curtis Mayfield’s “Kung Fu” and Stevie Wonder’s “Living for the City”). All of the songs made an impression on a young, pre-musical Mick Collins as he listened to them on 45’s in the family basement.

Party Store is an assortment of live band interpretations of classic Detroit techno music of the 80’s and early 90’s. These are songs Collins digested when they were originally released - at a time where he was already making waves with garage-punk legends the Gories. Songs that run the gamut of subject matter from materialistic future-disco braggadocio “Sharevari” (originally by A Number of Names) to cold, post-industrial isolation of “Alleys of Your Mind” originally by Cybotron) through the instrumental optimism of a worldwide house classic, “Strings of Life” (originally by Derrick May)… ALL these themes encapsulate the climate of Detroit both now and at the time of their initial release. Let it be said clearly…this is a record that addresses, at the same time, both the past and the future of Detroit.

With “Good Life” - originally by Kevin Saunderson via his Inner City outfit, Collins recontextualizes the upbeat modern dance élan to echo with post-punk zeal as the zest of doubled harmonies resonates throughout. “Bassbin” (originally by Carl Craig as Innerzone Orchestra) features modular synthesizer programming by Carl Craig himself and is the album’s piece de resistance. Clocking in at over 21 minutes, the track’s original light jazz underpinnings are diffused into a martial, militaristic backbeat coupled with fire-raining feedback screes from Collins trusty Kent guitar. It is arguably the most intense recording the Dirtbombs have ever produced.

Then end result is nothing short of impressive. The players’ recreation of the sequenced, digital rhythms and melodies stems from an Oblique Strategies card pulled during the recordings (“Humanize something that is without error”) and they tend to do so with a crisp, krautrock-like precision. For originals that all contained drum machines, sequencers and synthesizers the Dirtbombs takes on these pieces all matter-of-factly and use said tools only to accent what’s laid down by the live unit.

The Dirtbombs ability to reinterpret is their trump card and with their work here they will undoubtedly turn a whole new audience of “rock” ears on the techno world they have ignored far too long for no good reason.

CD TRACKLISTING:
1. Cosmic Cars
2. Sharivari
3. Good Life (Basement Roots Mix)
4. Strings Of Life
5. Alleys Of Your Mind
6. Bug In The Bass Bin
7. Jaguar
8. Tear The Club Up
9. 謎 のミスタ-ナイソ (Detoroito Mix)

Ducktails – III: Arcade Dynamics - 2011



2011 release from Ducktails, the one-man Psychedelic Pop project of Matthew Mondanile, guitarist for New Jersey’s Real Estate and, more importantly, a proud son of the mid-1980s. At 22 years old, he started releasing his own cassette albums. His first seven inch came out on Breaking World Records and was followed by a string of LPs, cassettes, and CDs on independent labels like Not Not Fun, Olde English Spelling Bee, Release the Bats, Arbor and Goaty Tapes. Now surrounded by a crew of young songwriters, Mondanile spends his time either touring or recording in the basement of his parent’s house. Categorized by David Keenan as part of the “hypnagogic pop” movement, Ducktails realizes a shared cultural memory and nostalgia through various genres. Ducktails III: Arcade Dynamics is Mondanile’s third official full-length LP and first for Woodsist Records.

When Matthew Mondanile isn’t playing guitar for critical darlings Real Estate in the studio or on the road, he’s apparently either out partying or hanging in his parents’ basement recording woozy electronic music under the name Ducktails. As its title might imply, Ducktails III: Arcade Dynamics is his third full-length under the ’90s cartoon-recalling moniker. And it continues in the tradition of the previous releases as it finds Mondanile tinkering with various electronics and instruments to craft his take on psych-driven drone. Or chillwave, if you prefer that term.-prefix

Year Of Release: 2011
Label: Woodsist
Genre: Electronic / Lo-Fi / Alternative / Psychedelic / Indie
Format: Mp3
Quality: 320 kbps
Total Time: 34:55 min
Total Size: 84,1 mb

Tracklist:

01 In the Swing 1:31
02 Hamilton Road 2:24
03 Sprinter 2:10
04 The Razor's Edge 1:52
05 Sunset Liner 2:09
06 Little Window 1:23
07 Killin the Vibe 4:19
08 Arcade Shift 2:54
09 Don't Make Plans 2:24
10 Art Vandelay 3:43
11 Porch Projector 10:06

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