Test Patterns

Blind Joe Death

A soldier from Tacoma, Marylad was killed in Iraq last week. Here's John Fahey playing In Christ There Is No East Or West

Note: the audio and video are slightly out of sync and so am I.

A new British song

Richard Thompson's

(Bagh) Dad's Gonna Kill Me

An old British song

A very old song sung by British soldiers in WWII

Desert Blues

I'm just tired of seeing Eastern moons,
Bright red sunsets and the shining sand dunes.
Must get away,
I've got the desert blues.

Miles of sand whichever way I look,
Swell but only in a fairy tale book,
All I can say,
I've got the desert blues.

Camels galore, goats by the score,
Must go before it gets me down.
I never knew I could be so blue,
Just take me to a respectable town.

I'm just tired of domes and minarets,
Eastern sunsets and the silhouettes,
Tired of it all,
I've got the desert blues.

White Light/White Heat/White Christmas

Lou and Rufus

Ho,Ho,Ho

For what it's worth

I recall when the Go Go's released their first LP, I didn't buy it, instead I did what few others did, I bought Holly Beth Vincent's first album The Right To Be Italian. While others were doing that stupid new wave pony dance to "We got the beat" I was listening to "Tell that girl to shut up."  Anyway, this YouTube clip is Holly Beth's very percussive version of the Buffalo Springfield's song "For What it's Worth" from her excellent second album, Holly and the Italians.

As this review from Popmatters.com suggest their are 2 great songs on the album,  "Just Like Me" and "Unoriginal Sin", the first is an ode to unexpectantly finding yourself waking up with the perfect companion and lover, while the second is a cathartic plea to a lost and confused lover. Songs this raw and passionate are a rare find, they are on par with Lou Reed's best work. It's sad so few have ever heard this music.

Good enough for me...

Jolie Holland - "Old Fashioned Morphine"

actually, if you take her advice you just might die...

Drivelswigger

A fine group of buccanneers make music fit for Fiddlers Green.

Lou Reed, Bryan Ferry, John C. Riley, Richard Thomson, Loudon Wainwright III, Lucinda Williams, Nick Cave, Jolie Holland, David Thomas (of Pere Ubu), Stan Ridgway (Stan Ridgway? shiver me timbers and turn up the mexican radio), and Sting. Avast, Sting? What's that lily-livered, scurvy dog, squiffy, scallywag doin aboard this vessel?

1952 Vincent Black Lightning

Richard Thompson in your living room...

Earlier Baghdad

T Bone Burnett - Earlier Baghdad (The Bounce)

Help!

Eric Alterman asked the question

You know, Bush was born on the same day John met Paul back in Liverpool…  (Different years, of course.)  Would you trade the Beatles for a Bush never having been born?

Hell no, Cheney would have simply found another hand puppet. We’d be stuck in a world ruled by President Cheney, but absent of Rubber Soul, Rain, Strawberry Fields, Sgt Pepper, Help!