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Friday, July 20, 2007

The Intermitent Random Ten: A, B, W edition

OK, now that things are sort of under control again, at least for the moment, I should be able to offer some intermittent posts again. Including ...

1. Westfall--Okkervil River, Don't Fall in Love with Everyone You See.
2. Bone Chain--Tom Waits, Orphans.
3. Again--Bill Frisell, with Dave Holland and Elvin Jones.
4. All Mine--Portishead, Portishead.
5. Beautiful--Me'Shell Ndegocello, Bitter.
6. I Had No Intentions--Damienn Jurado, And Now That I'm In Your Shadow.
7. Black Eyed Man--Cowboy Junkies, Black Eyed Man.
8. Georgia--The Viking Moses, Crosses.
9. Boot Hill--Johnny Winter, Alligator Records 20th Anniversary Collection.
10. Blues for Yesterday--Louis Armstrong, Blues for Yesterday.

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Friday, June 15, 2007

Friday!

1. Subterranean Homesick Blues--Bob Dylan, Bringing It All Back Home.
2. Buford Stick (The Legend of Sheriff Buford Pusser)--Drive-By Truckers, The Dirty South.
3. In the Ghetto--Elvis Presley, The Essential.
4. Hold On Magnolia--Songs: Ohia, The Magnolia Electric Co.
5. Your Song--Elton John, Very Best of.
6. "She Belongs to Me"--Bob Dylan, Bringing it All Back Home.
7. Moon Dreams--Miles Davis, Birth of the Cool.
8. If I Have To Go--Tom Waits, Orphans.
9. Sweet Lady--Tim Hardin, Person to Person.
Peter Mulvey - Every Word Except Goodbye, The Trouble with Poets.

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Friday, June 01, 2007

Friday Random Ten: Long Goodbyes edition

For those of you with no interest in this, cruise over to our Flickr page for some new photos ...

1. "World War III," Dos Gringos, Live at the Sand Trap.
2. "Johnny Come Home"--Fine Young Cannibals, These People Are Nuts!
3. "Lazy Man"--Essex Green, The Long Goodbye.
4. "Dead and Lovely"--Tom Waits, Real Gone.
5. "Ngalam"--Orchestra Baobab, Pirate's Choice.
6. "Three O'Clock in the Morning"--Dexter Gordon, The Blue Note Years.
7. "Onukpa Scwarpo"--Bokoor Band, Bokoor Beats. I haven't the faintest idea where this came from, but it's quite nice--lo-fi and rhythmic.
8. "Dollars and Cents"--Radiohead, Amnesiac.
9. "Sounds Better in the Song"--Drive-by Truckers, Decoration Day.
10. "Dumb I Am"--Nina Nastatia, On Leaving.
11. "Irene"--Leadbelly, Leadbelly's Last Sessions.

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Friday, May 25, 2007

The Triumphant Return of the Friday Random Ten

1. "Lonely Weekends"--Charlie Rich, Best of Sun Records V. 1.
2. "Manha de Carnival"--Bola Sete, Tour de Force.
3. "I'm an Old Cowhand (From the Rio Grande)," Sonny Rollins, Way Out West.
4. "Lambori"--Batman Samini, downloaded from this marvelous site.
5. "A Lover Sings," Billy Bragg, Back to Basics. Ah, back to college.
6. "Eighth Cognition/All You've Left," Six Organs of Admittance, School of the Flower.
7. "We and Dem"--Bob Marley & the Wailers, Uprising.
8. "Did it for Me"--The Spectacular Fantastic, The Spectacular Fantastic Goes Underground.
9. "Charley Patton Songs"--Gomez, How We Operate.
10. "Mexican Special"--Rebirth Brass Band, Feel Like Funkin' it Up.

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