ALBUMS
Big Red Machine. How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last? If you like Bon Iver, The National, Fleet Foxes, and Sharon Van Etten, I guess you'll like this album, since people from all those bands appear on this project. Oh, and someone from Pennsylvania named Taylor Swift too...
Nathan Salsburg. Psalms. "For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David; when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: According to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions..." The song "O You Who Sleep" is a tribute to the late, great David Berman (Silver Jews). Nathan, the long-time Alan Lomax archivist, brings friends like Bonnie "Prince" Billy and Joan Shelley (Nathan's partner) to these songs based on ancient Jewish scripture.
Steve Gunn. Other You. New songs from the talented singer-songwriter.
Angel Olsen. Aisles. An excellent 80s covers album.
Ty Segall. Harmonizer. Another great one from the psychedelic guitar fuzz master
Patti Smith. Live At Electric Lady. Her voice is better than ever. It shines on this new live album, which includes a cover of Stevie Wonder's "Blame It On The Sun"; recorded at Electric Lady in 1972 for Talking Book.
Sturgill Simpson. The Ballad of Dood and Juanita. Light bluegrass, easy as the wind.
Jesse Fuller. Jazz, Folk Songs, Spirituals and Blues. Classic collection from the author of "San Francisco Bay Blues".
SINGLES
Johnny Marr. "Spirit Power and Soul". New single by The Smiths guitarist extraordinaire from a forthcoming double album.
Phoebe Bridgers. "Nothing Else Matters" (Metallica cover). She literally can do no wrong.
Parquet Courts. "Walking at a Downtown Pace". A dramatic come back for a great American band.
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss. "Can't Let Go" (single from forthcoming album, a sequel to their wildly successful 2007 release Raising Sand).
Kevin Morby. "Campfire (4-Track Demo)". Suspected these songs would sound better as stripped-down demos and I think they do.
Bonnie "Prince" Billy. "Brownsville Girl". A 2012 live performance of the Dylan cover is on YouTube. Billy should get an Olympic Gold Metal just for finishing the song and not making a damned fool of himself.
St. Vincent. "Prince Johnny" (Acoustic Live from the Down and Out Downtown After Party)
Waxahatchee. "Talking Dust Bowl Blues" (from the forthcoming Woody Guthrie tribute album Home In This World - out on Elektra Sept. 10th - Mark Lanegan, The Felice Brothers, and a bunch of other cool folks are on it too)
Bobby Darin. "Dream Lover" (Demo, Fred Neil on guitar)
Courtney Barnett. "I'll Be Your Mirror". Courtney Barnett has a new album coming out Things Take Time, Take Time (Milk/Nov. 12).Two singles "Rae Street" and "Before You Go" have been released already. This her contribution to a new Velvet Underground tribute album (Verve/Sept. 24), I'll Be Your Mirror...Lou Reed, Nico, Andy Warhol... warmly remembered with a tribute album by contemporary fans:
I’ll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute to the Velvet Underground and Nico Tracklist:
01. Sunday Morning – Michael Stipe (3:50)
02. I’m Waiting For The Man – Matt Berninger (3:44)
03. Femme Fatale – Sharon Van Etten (w/ Angel Olsen on backing vocals) (4:43)
04. Venus In Furs – Andrew Bird & Lucius (6:55)
05. Run Run Run – Kurt Vile & The Violators (6:59)
06. All Tomorrow’s Parties – St. Vincent & Thomas Bartlett (4:52)
07. Heroin – Thurston Moore feat. Bobby Gillespie (7:24)
08. There She Goes Again – King Princess (3:29)
09. I’ll Be Your Mirror – Courtney Barnett (2:27)
10. The Black Angel’s Death Song – Fontaines D.C. (3:12)
11. European Son – Iggy Pop & Matt Sweeney (7:45)
...and a new documentary by Todd Haynes, The Velvet Underground:
The Beatles. "Don't Let Me Down" (First Rooftop Performance) from the forthcoming Super Deluxe version of Let It Be. Amazing to me there are still Beatles performances that aren't well-known. On YouTube you can find George Harrison's "Something" sung by John. And John singing the trad song "Black Dog" they learned from Koerner, Ray & Glover. Of course we're about to hear a lot more about The Beatles "Let It Be"-era (i.e. The End) when Peter Jackson's The Beatles: Get Back is released November 25th:
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