Sunday, November 27, 2011

Sunday Random 10

Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving! We're thankful for you and we're thankful for music! Shall we see what the little green Nano served up today?

Let's...Hit...Shuffle!!!
Tres Chicas - Drop Me Down
Hank Williams - Jambalaya (On the Bayou)
Ace - How Long
Muddy Waters - Stuff You Gotta Watch
The Who - We're Not Gonna Take It
Drive-By Truckers - The Righteous Path
Michael Penn - Mary Lynn
The Who - Call Me Lightning
The Rascals - Mustang Sally
Todd Rundgren - I Saw the Light
Bonus 11 and 12 because, um...well, it's the first Sunday in Advent, so it's the Christmas season, and um...yeah, like the "Twelve Days of Christmas", and it's a Christmas song, so that's a sign that we ought to do twelve! Yeah, that's it! (Actually, 11 was a pretty great song and then twelve is brand new and we simply must mention it.)
Rodney Crowell - Closer to Heaven
Los Straitjackets - Que Verdes Son
Okay, we see the Nano is liking The Who this week. Ace's one and only hit appears (though Paul Carrack went on to have several more), there's some Hank Sr. and Muddy, and the terrific lead track from the great Something/Anything?, which we'd strummed on the uke earlier in the day.

Now to the bonus tracks. The Rodney Crowell song is the beautiful closing piece from the Joe Henry-produced Sex & Gasoline and we introduced a bunch of folks to Los Straitjackets' first holiday record several years ago, but didn't get in early enough to get one of the limited run of the Yuletide Beat CDs, so we ended up downloading it last week and "Que Verdes Son" is one of those tracks. We're not sure why we waited so long. Go. Get. It.

We now return you to This Week's Discussion Question (While Jimmy Fallon and The Roots are apologizing for the sexism, shouldn't they also apologize for assuming our former Congresswoman knows enough about what she speaks to be lying?), already in progress.

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