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Post by arob71 on Mar 10, 2009 8:26:31 GMT -8
John Wesley Harding - Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead
In my opinion, his best since 1992's Why We Fight. It features the ubiquitous Scott McCaughey and the Minus 5 as well as Kelly Hogan
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Post by tommylee on Mar 10, 2009 9:11:06 GMT -8
The $5.00 CDs we got from YepRock: Minus 5 "Down With Wilco", Dave Alvin "West of the West", Chatham County Line "IV", Marah "IYDLYC" and John Doe "A Year in the Wilderness".
Not all at once.
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Post by Duvi on Mar 10, 2009 9:16:03 GMT -8
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Post by pro on Mar 10, 2009 9:59:26 GMT -8
John Wesley Harding - Who Was Changed and Who Was DeadIn my opinion, his best since 1992's Why We Fight. It features the ubiquitous Scott McCaughey and the Minus 5 as well as Kelly Hogan Thanks for the heads up, I didn't even know he had a new record out. Your post also sent me to JWH's site in search of tour dates and I ended up looking at some of his old tour diaries. I cannot freaking believe this (incredible) show was EIGHT years ago this week. Damn... #7: 12th March 2001
What a night in Hoboken. Certainly one of the best gigs this band has ever played. And The Minus Five were fantastic. No insult to Blue Rodeo, but The Minus Five are great friends and, playing with them in NJ last night, was like bringing a great night from The Crocodile in Seattle and transplanting it to Maxwells in Hoboken. It felt like what a show should feel like. It was The Velvety Sound Of Malt!
The Minus Five, for this night - and by the way they're on Conan on Tuesday, so check them out - - were, of course, Scott McOi and Peter Buck (he's in another band as well) who are the sine qua non of the band. The other two regular members Bill Reiflin (drums, once of Ministry) and John Ramberg on guitar (currently of The Model Rockets, Seattle's own...) and also guesting last night Ken Stringfellow on keyboards (Popular Posie and now member of Big Star), Dennis Diken on percussionism (long time hitter for The Smithereens), me (of me) and Robert Lloyd (of Thee Radical Gentlemen.)
It was a wonderful night. The Minus Five rocked. They played, of course, not only their own songs from Let The War Against Music Begin but also the covers we love: Tell It To The Raven (by our favourite Jimmy Silva, great writer and friend of McOi and Diken) and Massachusetts by The Bee Gees (Ken on vocals) and others, impromptu. Hazy memories (perhaps linked to the bottle of Whiskey Scott had, on which someone had written in loud Black Sharpie 'GIVE TO SCOTT!!') tell me that I even performed a tribute to John Fahey at one moment towards the end of the set, another NW highlight! I walked on stage at one point (to do my 'fake English accent' on Boeing Spaceairium and sing a duet on Girl I Never Met) and mentioned that in the restaurant they were playing Psycho by Seattle's The Sonics - Scott didn't even think about it: '1,2,3,4..... Baby, you're driving me crazy....' Luckily, I didn't mention, when I got up for the second time that the next song that I heard in the adjoining restaurant was Gotta Get A Message To You. If I had, it would have almost certainly been ALL Bee Gees all night. If anyone is going to be anywhere near Albany, NY for the show with the Fellows on March 25th, I recommend it. It's not The Minus Five, but it is Sled Dog McOi, and these things don't happen outside Seattle often enough. But can The Velvety Sound of Malt records tour be far away? Certainly there's no bands that I'd rather play with in the world.
Our show was great too. I love Maxwells anyway. The Gentlemen were fantastic (it was easily the best that we played either The Secret Angel, If You Have Ghosts and the new Protest song....) and we got to stretch our time a little longer than we do with Blue Rodeo, including encores etc. I even played a brand new acoustic song for the first time called The Governess. I felt this gig was even better than Atlanta and Nashville. Tonight, Northampton on a Monday night - but we're headlining and playing Boston tomorrow...
Last night, I stood on monitors, played a lengthy harmonica solo in Cm on the breakout ending of Spaceairium for about ten minutes, got given a beautiful suede jacket, also some jelly babies and some wine gums (Thank you Jennie!) and some cookies (Thank You Suzan!), told a long story about my mother, and, incredibly, even played an acoustic guitar solo. Tonight? Well, no pressure, Northampton, but let's just see what you have to offer.
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Post by arob71 on Mar 10, 2009 10:18:23 GMT -8
JWH, The Minus 5, and Blue Rodeo? Wow! That would have been some evening.
I got JWH's CD from his website last year and have listened to it over and over. Be sure to get the live bonus disc as well.
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Post by pro on Mar 10, 2009 10:34:25 GMT -8
Blue Rodeo was not at the Hoboken show, I believe JWH was touring with Blue Rodeo but there was an open NY/NJ night on the schedule that coincided with The Minus 5 being in NY/NJ on their tour, hence the Maxwell's show.
I remember they both played full-length sets (with JWH sitting in frequently during the M5's set, as he mentions in the write-up), and then they played an extremely long encore together. It was a great, great show.
I will seek out the version of the new album with the bonus disc, thanks for the tip!
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Post by arob71 on Mar 10, 2009 17:38:36 GMT -8
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Post by Diglerdee on Mar 11, 2009 14:14:51 GMT -8
Bosque Brown ~ Baby  |
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Post by Duvi on Mar 12, 2009 4:00:31 GMT -8
Eric Brace & Peter Cooper / You Don't Have to Like Them Both
Interesting side project by members of Last Train Home.
Challenge: spot the former Jayhawk....
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Post by zippy on Mar 12, 2009 6:54:14 GMT -8
I've been listening to Bill Frisell with Dave Holland and Elvin Jones a lot lately. Also to John Zorn's The Circle Maker and The American Ragtime Ensemble Performing Ragtime Chamber Music. The last two albums really go together well, even though they're quite different. I've never listened to Zorn much, although my friends have been telling me how great he is for years. I see what they're talking about.
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Post by lazyranchhand on Mar 12, 2009 16:25:31 GMT -8
 Yeah, I know - but there's a heavy Nesmith presence (not least the classic 'What Am I Doing Hanging 'round'), light on the Jones and Dolenz. |
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Post by jayell on Mar 13, 2009 16:32:03 GMT -8
I'm listening to Yo La Tengo murder the classics live, again. Ooooooo, "I'm a Boy"!
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Post by F0|50M PR|50N 88 on Mar 13, 2009 19:07:56 GMT -8
Who wants to play Old Records Bingo at the Habitat in Champaign?  "New on 3.13.09 the LPs have been sorted" |
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Post by Duvi on Mar 14, 2009 7:37:08 GMT -8
Nathan Bell ... finally found after 20 years ... I found Susan Shore a while back but Nathan was eluding my cosmic search engines ... (20 years ago, as Bell & Shore, they did L-Ranko Motel together the year after Little Movies) ... this month NB released Traitorland but I also found 2007's In Tune, On Time, Not Dead).... www.nathanbellmusic.com/Site/HOME.html
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Post by Fearless Heart on Mar 15, 2009 13:14:50 GMT -8
New Chris Isaak - Mr. Lucky
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