Air Traffic

Check out this band recently signed to EMI. I'm hoping for good things from these 20-year-olds from Bournemouth, England.

Even Better at the End of June

My intention was to make a Country Time Lemonade, soft and slow, sweet and summery, sundown Sunday compilation for my week at home. Well, Sunday was gorgeous, and here's what we listened to:

1) Nina Simone - I Shall Be Released
2) Leo Kottke & Doc Watson - The Last Steam Engine Train (from a live recording on A Prairie Home Companion)
3) Loose Fur - The Ruling Class
4) Johnny Cash - The City of New Orleans
5) Eva Cassidy - Time After Time
6) Matt Nathanson - Romeo & Juliet
7) Johnny Cash & Fiona Apple - Father & Son
8) The Beatles - When I'm Sixty Four
9) Old 97's - In the Satellite Rides a Star
10) Redbird - You Are the Everything
11) Hem - South Central Rain
12) Richard Julian - Love of Mine
13) Josh Ritter - The Bad Actress
14) Townes Van Zandt - Flyin' Shoes
15) KT Tunstall - Black Horse & The Cherry Tree (Live @ VH1.com)
16) Jackie Wilson - Please Tell Me Why
17) Otis Redding - I've Been Loving You Too Long
18) Lightinin' Hopkins - Found My Baby Crying
19) Muddy Waters - Walking Blues
20) Buddy Guy - Try to Quit You Baby
21) Ray LaMontagne - Trouble
22) Josh Ritter - Good Man

Thom Yorke - Black Swan

Awesome April Music

The compiling of songs for this mix began way back in April and has extended into June. You can see that I began by trying to stick only to new releases, relatively speaking, but as usual, I ended up fleshing it out by throwing in a bunch of discoveries and rediscoveries. I hope you like it.

1) Track a Tiger - Sound as Ever song
2) Ian Love - The Only Night song
3) The Eighteenth Day of May - Sir Casey Jones official site
4) Jolie Holland - Springtime Can Kill You song
5) Gnarls Barkley - Crazy song
6) Katharine Whalen - You Who official site
7) The Mountain Goats – Fall of the Star High School Running Back
8) Drive By Truckers – Sounds Better in the Song
9) Fleetwood Mac - Beautiful Child lyrics
10) Lyle Lovett – Her First Mistake
11) Julie Miller – All My Tears bio
12) Blur – Tender song
13) Lee Dorsey – Get Out of My Life, Woman info
14) John Prine – Your Flag Decal Won’t Get You into Heaven Anymore
15) The Band – The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
16) Percy Sledge – Out of Left Field
17) Smokey Robinson & the Miracles – I Second That Emotion
18) Bonnie “Prince” Billy – I See a Darkness song
19) Beck – Guess I’m Doing Fine live cut from VH1
20) Sufjan Stevens - Adlai Stevenson
21) Jon Brion - Creep (Live at Amoeba Records) video song

Music for a Rough Day

This mix has been a month or so in the making, but it's finally time, I think, to post it. Since finishing with school, losing the family I'd help to cultivate over the past couple years, I've been down. This is just some of the music I've listened to since finishing. And I might as well explain that I wanted to hear these songs as sung by their writers, even though someone else may have had more success singing the song.

1) Warren Zevon - Reconsider Me
2) Harry Nilsson - Gotta Get Up
3) Leon Russell - A Song for You
4) Billy Joel - Vienna
5) Fred Neil - Everybody's Talkin'
6) Elton John - Talking Old Soldiers
7) Townes Van Zandt - No Place to Fall
8) John Prine - Illegal Smile
9) Leonard Cohen - The Stranger Song
10) Jimmy Cliff - Many Rivers to Cross
11) Randy Newman - Real Emotional Girll
12) Paul Simon - American Tune
13) Wilco - Reservations
14) Josh Ritter - Here at the Right Time
15) Neil Young - Down by the River
16) Loudon Wainwright III - New Paint
17) Kris Kristofferson - Help Me Make It Through the Night
18) Jackson Browne & Warren Zevon - Hasten Down the Wind

So not all sad and lonely, but you can see where I was going.