The excellent and highly recommended Athens, GA music blog Southern Shelter has some live Mike Cooley shows from the past week or so.
@ The Earl (2/22/12)
@ The Earl (2/23/12)
@ The Melting Point (2/24/12)
Among these shows are versions of two of my all-time favorite songs:
Women Without Whiskey
Panties in Your Purse
and a great cover:
Behind Closed Doors
Good stuff!
Some weekend music.
I love the garage band sound on some of the Stones’ early records.
Speaking of the garage band sound, an awesome song by The Stone Roses.
And finally some newer garage band vibe from The Raveonettes.
While I am still deeply into Spotify, I also enjoy the ability to roll some mixes that are available to those who stubbornly refuse to sign up.
My current favorite of the mix-tape sites is 8tracks.
Here’s our third mix. 25 great alt. county songs you’ve probably never heard. Probably the best mix I’ve ever rolled.
Enjoy. Share. Tell your friends.
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Here’s a little audio-video holiday card from your friends at Newsome.Org.
One of my favorite Christmas songs is the hard to find Punch Bowl Full of Joy, by Sonny Columbus, with help from The Del Fuegos. Likewise, one of my favorite holiday cartoons is Snow Foolin’, a 1949 cartoon, now in the public domain.
Those two plus a little iMovie editing equals our digital holiday card for 2011.
Enjoy.
Courtesy of Twangville, the best music blog on the internets, I’ve queued up Michael Donner & The Southern Renaissance in my Spotify player for the weekend.
Good stuff so far.
Here’s the Spotify link.
And here’s a music video.
I heard part of this great show on the Grateful Dead XM channel tonight. It reminded me how much I like this show. My favorite version of Here Comes Sunshine, a fantastic version of Loser, among many other great songs.
I just cannot get the Archive.Org embeddable player to work, so here is the link.
Live, from Public Hall, Cleveland, OH. December 6, 1973.
A post in which we demonstrate that:
a guy on a buffalo + great music + social networking = awesomeness.
It all started when I came across these hilarious videos. Seriously, if you can watch these without howling, dial 911 immediately, because your brain isn’t working right.
I haven’t laughed that hard since that iPhone video. Straight-up got mauled by a cougar. Epic.
Being the curious sort, I discover that those videos were made by The Possum Posse, an Austin band, as a way to generate interest in their music, and to finance a record.
That led me to their SoundCloud page, where I discover some fantastic music, including the excellent Pocket Dial.
This is some seriously great music. Going through this discovery process was reminiscent of the day I stumbled onto the Wrinkle Neck Mules, who remain my all-time favorite alt. country band.
From there, I went back to The Possum Posse’s YouTube page, where I see even more audio video excellence, in the form of a video mashup of another one of their excellent songs and a really old Tom & Jerry cartoon.
Humor in songs, especially humor that doesn’t rise to the level of complete stupidity, is an under-utilized tool, that works. Remember this song, one of my favorites from last year?
Ultimately, I ended up on The Possum Posse’s Kickstarter page, where they are seeking funds for their next record. Having just kicked in for my upper case Friend Mary Lou Lord’s (I’ve not met her IRL, but we have mutual musician lower case friends) next record, I gladly pledged a few bucks.
Any time we can reward hilarity, great music and smart marketing, we should do so. It’s like the anti-Twitter.
And, finally, for an added bonus, here’s the entire Buffalo Rider movie, that helpfully provided the raw materials for the (much better) Guy on a Buffalo videos.
So, I just fixed you up for humor, music and movies. Enjoy.
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