tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75881212009-10-13T22:31:13.513+11:00A Country Music Death Beast and Worker in the Dylan-Industrial Complex in Sydney AustraliaAmandanoreply@blogger.comBlogger684125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7588121.post-48818410338056665162008-01-29T06:02:00.000+11:002008-01-29T09:29:05.995+11:00

Not hereabouts at least. Blogger has served me well, I have no complaints with it and recommend it anyone. But I was feeling the need for a Daniel Craig-esque reboot of the franchise and so you now need to go here for the new site.

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A list of every book Art Garfunkel has ever read.

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I think I can honestly say that Jose Feliciano has never before been mentioned on this blog. Got the Best of the Johnny Cash Show DVDs -- more later.

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I'm not doing Tamworth this year ;-( but if I were I would probably try and catch Andy Baylor at the Southgate every single damn day. The place is just not the same without him. Steve from Yesterday and Today will also be setting up at the Southgate, selling the best country collection this side of Nashville and probably the other side of it too.

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Notes:* I don't know why Willie Nelson is under R&B either.* Big Mama Thornton with the Muddy Waters Blues Band is my new favourite blues record EVAH. * Honeyboy Edwards they say is one of the last living connections to R. Johnson, having palsed around with him on the day he died.* Danny O'Keefe wrote "So Long, Harry Truman" and also "Goodtime Charlie's Got the Blues." Never heard of him before

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I did a quick 2007 Favourites at Hickory Wind. I neglected to mention Bishop Allen, The Broken String. Listen to the MP3 of Bullet and Big D to see why. Although that song is not actually on the album but it should have been. This is what I said:Upfront and Down Low -- Teddy Thompson. Can't add much more to my original review. Still holding up a few months later.Hammer of the Honky Tonk

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A very acceptable new record of honky tonk. The Mootster is joined by ex-Dwight svengali Pete Anderson on guitar and production.Listen to: The Man, The Myth.

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Ages ago, I got the second volume of the Sopranos soundtrack and was captivated by "Black Books" by Nils Lofgren. It's still one of my very favourite songs. His solo work hasn't always reached those heights, but I got Sacred Weapon (2006) the other day and it's excellent. Rocky, bluesy, funky, a bit of country including Nils of some gorgeous pedal steel, interesting and varied songs, Nils'

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I met Keith at the LA premiere of Pirates 3, and I mean, what do you say to someone whom you listen to literally every day of your life? For me, it's simple, it's the Stones and Dylan, bar when you have someone over, then it's a bit of Marvin Gaye on top just to be sociable.~ Bill Nighy. The Word, August 2007, p. 61I wanted to buy the new issue of The Monthly while waiting for the train but

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Recently went on an eMusic splurge. Pearls Before Swine were a 90s psychadelic folk band and One Nation Underground was released in 1967. According to Wikipedia:They were quickly signed up, and recorded One Nation Underground (1967), featuring songs of mysticism, protest, melancholia, and some controversy in the case of “Miss Morse”, which spelled out an obscenity in code.The sophisticated 2007

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This is a great cover. "As the albums have gotten worse, the covers have gotten better. Discuss." Also I love that at his official website you can actually pat the dog. Go on, try it. So cute!I have put this off and off because I listened to it a few times and did not like it. This depresses me because I love Steve Earle but have not, not one bit, loved his last few albums. I choose

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Picture stolen from my sister's blog.The new Tom Russell, Wounded Heart of America, which is a collection of ogher folks covering him from over the years plus a few new ones from Tom himself. I got it from the best shop in Sydney Yesterday and Today -- go buy stuff.Veteran's Day -- Johnny Cash Recorded on "Boom Chicka Boom" in the Mercury interlude between being dumped by Columbia and crossing

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October 23rd. "Close Up the Honky Tonks" is on Dwight's MySpace page.

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OK so September is pretty much over and I am not going to make my one-post-a-day target. But I did OK. I hit a wall when uni deadlines started bearing down. This essay won't write itself and bob knows I've given it enough opportunity to do so. Having a semi night off for the rugby league grand final even though I hate both teams.All I want to say about it is this:And BOOOOO to the NRL for being

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Song of America is a three CD set exploring the byways of the great American songbook originating with none other than Janet Reno. I’ve only heard bits and pieces thus far, as is usual with projects like this some of it works and some of it fails to grab you BUT it has given me my favourite song of the year.Bettye LaVette covering Bruce’s Streets of Philadelphia. You can hear it here.I always

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1.Handle With Care -- Traveling Wilburies2. Somehow, Someday -- Ryan Adams3. Promised Land -- Elvis Presley4. I'm Walking the Dog -- David Ball5. Bethleridge -- Robbie Fulks6. Find You At Last -- John Hiatt7. Cold Irons Bound (Live) -- Bob Dylan8. There's a Story in Your Voice -- Elvis Costello and Lucinda Williams9. She Knows Why -- Claude King10. Fraulein O. -- James McMurty11. Cipó de goabeira

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First live performance of Meet Me in the Morning, in Nashville. (with Jack White)

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Well, I've missed a couple of Septabulous days on account of: essay. We'll make it up on the back end. Trying to avoid doing just YouTube posts but I'm not above it.Dylan's Theme Time radio show is back tonight/today. Weee!Lucinda Williams has been doing these series of shows where the first half she plays one of her studio albums song for song ( PDF of World Without Tears show in LA. PDF is

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Alberta Hunter.

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Nowt to say except I added a Lastfm widget to the sidebar, below recent comments. Stickybeak away at what I'm playing on iTunes. It's all jazzed up today because that's what I put on when I'm in the other room writing an essay as I supposedly was.You will see the new Moot Davis album Already Moved On appearing there in the coming days. It's really very good.Went to Sydney Uni library today but

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Here's a recap of the FEM music so far:Teddy Thompson: Upfront and Down LowJohnny Irion: Ex TemporeCaitlin Cary and Thad Cockerell: BegoniasNorwegian Hank Williams etc

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New Bob Dylan album in January ... with Rick Rubin and someone called Jacknife? I thought Bobby/Jack Frost had had his fill of celebrity producers.

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... has some audio up from the forthcoming Mary Gauthier record, Between Daylight and Dark. I'm loving them all.

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Off topic and originally posted at Sidelined.The Bronx is Burning is a 2007 eight episode ESPN series (yeah, they make drama too. Who knew?) about the famous 1977 Yankees. Due to the tyranny of distance, my interest in baseball is casual but there's alot I find attractive about the game, and the mythology that surrounds it. By accident of birth I'm pouring over economy rates and not outs

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Ringtones.Why do people download ringtones when you can just load your own MP3s into your phone?Mine is "Like A Rolling Stone" and I didn't pay no stinking $5.95 or whatever for it.Oh OK I guess what you might be paying for is the right -- although I don't see why you should need extra permission, any more than to play it on your car stereo with the windows down -- to use it as your ringtone but

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