日志

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It’s not every day that we host an Oscar winner for a musical performance at Street Date. It’s even more rare that an artist shows up with a batch of new songs produced by T-Bone Burnett, and stories from the year that changed this young man’s life forever.
Ryan Bingham‘s new album is called Junky Star and it’s his first effort since rising to fame on the back of his tune “The Weary Kind” – last year’s oscarwinner for Best Original Song. Check out his song “Depression” also; Click through to hear the rest of the acoustic
Studio Session

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We finish up our feature this week with my interview with Lydia & Laura Rogers. The Secret Sisters, hailing from Mussel Shoals, AL, had their debut album released this week. They will be involved in T-Bone Burnett ‘s The Speaking Clock Revue shows taking place on the 16th and 20th, at the Wang Center in Boston, MA and the Beacon Theatre in NYC, respectively.

watch & listen

Last.FM Milestones1000th track: (22 Oct 2008)
Sleater-Kinney - Light Rail Coyote
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/82241.jpg2000th track: (14 Nov 2008)
Sonic Youth - Drunken Butterfly
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Hall & Oates - You Make My Dreams4000th track: (31 Dec 2008)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Hold on to Yourself
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/313394.jpg5000th track: (25 Feb 2009)
Self - She's an Island
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/63562.jpg6000th track: (21 Mar 2009)
Richard Thompson - Sight Unseen
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/117475.jpg7000th track: (10 Apr 2009)
VAST - Touched
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/3516839.jpg8000th track: (15 May 2009)
David Karsten Daniels - Jesus and the Devil
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/15274565.jpg9000th track: (01 Jun 2009)
Sonic Youth - Sunday
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Under the Radar review: Country Music

Willie Nelson
T-Bone Burnett
Bob Wills
Ernest Tubb
Merle Travis

Country Music

Rounder

Dark as a Dungeon
A Satisfied Mind
Nobody's Fault But Mine
My Baby's Gone
Drinking Champagne

Masochist that I am, here I go for the third year in a row with my answer to March Madness - namely Music Madness. Sixty-four songs randomly chosen by my iTunes, the only stipulation being that participants from previous years have been excluded.

This year's crop is interesting. There are no less than three long medleys here. There's not as much over-representation of artists this year; Ben Folds gets three - one with and two without the Five; and Sufjan Stevens and Smashing Pumpkins each score two entries (which is strange because I only have two Pumpkins albums). As in years previous, there's a great spread of material, from pop to prog to jazz to novelty. Jandek even rears his head once more. Seems like he's had an entry every year.

One changeup from last year. My difficulty rating symbol has been changed from the reliable asterisk to the plus sign - the scale being one plus (I could judge this one without listening to either song but I did anyway just to be fair) to five pluses (why…

Just as I did around this time last year, here is a list of the twenty albums I listened to the most in 2008. Most interesting is the disappearance of a couple of track-packed double album sets from Rosemary Clooney and Talking Heads, which popped up no doubt because of the sheer number of tracks on them. But then, why didn't my similarly packed collections from The Korgis or T-Bone Burnett show up? Who knows?

Also disappearing is The Commercial Album by The Residents - but I know why this one vanished. But this one I can explain: I made the switch from an iPod Shuffle to a 30 GB 5.5 Generation iPod this year. The shuffle loved the 40 sixty-second tracks from the giant eyeballs because it could use them as filler when it was almost full. Not so much anymore.

And now, the countdown begins.

20 tie
Stan Ridgway – Holiday in Dirt (down 5)
The Dandy Warhols – Earth To The Dandy Warhols(new)
Stan the Man ties with the latest and most esoteric offering from The Dandy Warhols. …

1. Sam Phillips - Don't Do Anything
2. The Fall - Imperial Wax Solvent
3. T Bone Burnett - Tooth of Crime
4. Ry Cooder - I, Flathead
5. Oppenheimer - Take The Whole Midrange And Boost It
6. Julian Cope - Black Sheep
7. Saul Williams - The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust
8. Ministry - Cover Up

What was the last concert you attended?
Amon Amarth/ Ensiferum/ Belphegor/ The Absence @ The House of Blues in Chicago, 10/13/08

How many people were there?
i dunno, a few hundred at least

What bands have you seen in concert the most, and how many times?
Haste the Day (when Jimmy was still the singer)- 7 times
Black Label Society- 6 times
Still Remains- 5 times (b/c they played with Haste the Day a lot)
Umphrey's McGee- 4 times
Demiricous- 4 times

Do you have any set lists? From what bands?
the actual physical set list that the band had taped to the floor or wherever? No. I do have a ton of set lists that I wrote down from different bands at Bonnaroo each year, both Tool shows, and Amon Amarth.

Are there any CDs in close proximity to you? Which ones?
hundreds. I shan't name them all.

What band are you in the mood to see live right this second?
Tool (I'm always in the mood to see them, so I suppose they don't count), Amon Amarth, Phish, Yonder Mountain String Band, Sound Tribe Sector 9, Amorphis
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