Cool, New Music Playlist October 2022

 

Waxahatchee at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, October 1, 2022 

COOL NEW BOOK ABOUT MUSIC: 

"This Bell Still Rings: My Life of Defiance and Song" by Barbara Dane.

Barbara Dane, singer/activist, age 95, has written her memoirs and it's a great read. I'm just getting started and have already enjoyed spending time with Barbara and friends such as Studs Terkel, Kenneth Rexroth, Jesse Fuller, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee , Woody Guthrie, and Malvina Reynolds who wrote "Magic Penny". We see her organizing a benefit for The Rosenbergs and participating in every musical and political fluctuation of the day. She hasn't met Louis Armstrong or Bob Dylan yet. But she will! Barbara Dane is a national treasure... better make that an international treasure... Barbara Dane and the Chambers Brothers, her 1966 Folkways collaboration with The Chambers Brothers, is an absolute classic:

ALBUMS

Dropkick Murphys. This Machine Still Kills Fascists. Their first acoustic album, with archival Woody Guthrie lyrics. Powerful.

Titus Andronicus. The Will To Live. Love these guys. Punkish indie rock with a heart of solid gold.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Cool It Down. Worth a listen.

Pixies. Doggerel. Sounds like classic Pixies.

Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin. Ali. Doing his dad's classic songs with Khruangbin. Good.

Paul Weller. Whoosh. (EP). Always good.

Buddy Guy. The Blues Don't Lie. One of the last of the old school blues guy, still got it!

OFF! Free LSD. Classic Keith Morris (Circle Jerks, Black Flag) punk rock .

Jesse Malin. Glitter In The Gutter. Pretty good.

Bill Callahan. YTILAER (Reality)

Elysian Fields. Once Beautiful, Twice Removed.

The Snuts. Burn The Empire.

The 1975. Being Funny In A Foreign Language.

Black Lips. Apocalypse Love.

Todd Rundgren. Space Force. 

Plains. I Walked With You A Ways. Collaboration of Kate of Waxahatchee & Jess Williamson

Iceage. Shake the Feeling: Outtakes & Rarities 2015–2021. Known as a metal band, here they do a Bob Dylan cover and more.

Jake Blount. The New Faith. And his debut album Spider Tales too. Saw him on a livestream from the Hardly Strictly Festival and was impressed.

Tyler Childers. Can I Take My Hounds To Heaven? Still don't know what to make of this album and this artist...but it is interesting! Country and then some.

Karen Elson. Green. Nice album.

SINGLES

Gene Vincent. "The Day The Earth Turned Blue"

Courtney Barnett. "Words and Guitar" (Sleater-Kinney cover)

Barbara Dane. "I'm On My Way"

King Gizzard. Laminated Denim: "The Land Before Timeland"/"Hypertension"

Stephen McCarthy & Carla Olson. "Night Comes Falling":

                                Jackson Browne & Billy Strings live, "Running On Empty"

ARCHIVAL

Wilco. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Super Deluxe Edition)

Faces. London '71 (live) & Strawberry Mountain Fair, Vancouver, 1970 (live)

Lou Reed. Words & Music, May 1965.

The Who. BBC Radio 1965 - 1966.

Gene Clark. Ebbet's Field Club '75 (live). The Byrds co-founder solo show from 1975.

Ten Years After. Seattle 1969. Featuring Alvin Lee.

Can. Live In Cuxhaven 1976.

John Lee Hooker. Festival International De Jazz (Antibes Live 1969)

Leonard Cohen. A Poet In Germany (live)

Original Photos by Michael Donnelly for ThisSmallPlanet of Waxahatchee at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, October 1, 2022 and People's Park, Berkeley, September 2022.

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