Cool, New Music Playlist September 2022

 

ALBUMS

BEST NEW ALBUM (TIE): Gently Tender. Take Hold Of Your Promise! Sam from Palma Violets has a new band and a new album and it is killer.

BEST NEW ALBUM (TIE): The Chieftains. Bear’s Sonic Journals: The Foxhunt, The Chieftains, San Francisco 1973 & 1976. Classic Irish music recorded by The Grateful Dead's Owsley "Bear" Stanley on their first American tour in 1973, opening for Jerry Garcia's bluegrass band Old And In The Way, as well as a 1976 performance. A fitting tribute to The Chieftain's Paddy Maloney, who passed away last October.

Oneida. Success.

Gogol Bordello. Solidaritine.

Jesca Hoop. Order Of Romance.

Iron & Wine. Lori. (EP).

David Bowie. Moonage Daydream documentary soundtrack

Joe Strummer. Joe Strummer 002.

The Mars Volta. The Mars Volta.

Valerie June. Under Cover.

The Afghan Whigs. How Do You Burn?

Built to Spill. When The Wind Forgets Your Name

Julian Lennon. Jude.

The Kinks. Everybody's In Show-Biz (Deluxe Version) and Muswell Hillbillies (Deluxe Version)

Anna Tivel. Outsiders.

Stella Donnelly. Flood.

Ezra Furman. All Of Us Flames

Robert Earl Keen. Western Chill.

Jim Lauderdale. Game Changer.

Marcus King. Young Blood. Da Blues.

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Bonnie "Prince" Billy live in Santa Cruz, September 16, 2022

                                                                      Elizabeth Cotten

Rest In Peace, friend.... Clayton Gross, gone four years now...

The Clash's Joe Strummer died at 50 in 2002. He would have turned 70 this August 21st. Celebrate with a Cool, New Eddie Vedder Cover of Joe's "Long Shadow" + Strummer's Previously Unreleased Song "Fantastic"

Hard to believe The Clash's Joe Strummer has been gone 20 years... and mind blowing to think he would only be 70 (on August 21) if he were still alive!

"Long Shadow" is a song Joe wrote for Johnny Cash but Cash died before he had the chance to record it. Joe later recorded it, and Eddie Vedder has just released this cool cover.

It's all part of the celebrations for what would have been Joe's 70th, as is a new compilation from Joe's Hellcat Records years. Hellcat, founded by Tim Armstrong (Operation Ivy, Rancid) provided a warm home for Strummer and the Mescaleros in the 90s.

Joe's post-Clash catalogue is now administered by Dark Horse Records, a label founded by George Harrison (The Beatles) and recently relaunched by his son Dhani Harrison. The collection, called Joe Strummer 002: The Mescaleros Years, contains selections from the Mescalero three studio albums, as well as several outtakes and alternate takes, such as this previously unreleased song, "Fantastic":

Cool, New Song from Bonnie "Prince" Billy: "Outsider" (Dee Dee Ramone/The Ramones cover feat the late, great David Berman)

Bonnie "Prince" Billy just released a cool cover he recorded in 2016.

It's "Outsider" by Dee Dee Ramone, and it originally appeared on The Ramones 1983 album Subterranean Jungle:

Green Day covered the song in 2002 on Shenanigans:

I'm an outsider
Outside of everything
I'm an outsider
Outside of everything
I'm an outsider
Outside of everything
Everything you know
Everything you know
It disturbs me so

I'm an outsider
Outside of everything
I'm an outsider
Outside of everything
I'm an outsider
Outside of everything
Everything you know
Everything you know
It disturbs me so

Everybody tried to push me
Push me around
Everybody tried to put me
Try to put me down

All messed up, hey everyone
I've already had all my fun
More troubles are gonna come
I've already had all my fun
Ooh yeah, yeah, yeah

Everybody tried to push me
Push me around
Everybody tried to put me
Try to put me down

I'm an outsider
Outside of everything
I'm an outsider
Outside of everything
I'm an outsider
Outside of everything
Everything you know
Everything you know
It disturbs me so

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It's a cool song and the Bonnie "Prince" Billy version, available here on Bandcamp, takes it to a whole other place, complete with petal steel guitar and an Americana feel. Dee Dee Ramone might have been surprised at the result but probably would have liked it. I do. Nice to hear the late great David Berman (Silver Jews, Purple Mountains) on the bridge. Damned shame he suffered so and didn't hang out with us a bit longer. Have you heard this song by him?

It's a beautiful song, but makes me cry, because of what happened to him shortly after. I'm dying to hear a mash up of this song with the 1982 Modern English love song about nuclear war "I Melt With You": 

And speaking of "Stop The World And Melt With You", towards the end, is it a tribute to Lou Reed's "Walk On The Wild Side", a rip-off, or just a coincidence?

Subterranean Jungle is a cool album. It contains an interesting cover of the 1966 Chambers Brothers classic "Time Has Come":

 

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