Sunday Random Ten (European Edition)

Okay, this time we've really been busy, as we'll explain below. 


Let's...Hit...Shuffle!



June 10
Vince Guaraldi - Star Song
Rosanne Cash - Motherless Children
The Rascals - Easy Rollin'
Crowded House - Pour Le Monde
(Tues am) Ike Reilly - God Damn Shame
(Wed am) The Lovin' Spoonful - Daydream
Spike Jones - Dance of the Hours
World Party - World Party
Meat Puppets (feat. Alison Scott) - Tomorrow Never Knows
The Baseball Project - Tony (Boston's Chosen Son)


Started this one on Sunday evening on a Moscow-to-Volgograd flight (which, to us, was really a late Sunday morning CDT) and, having a charming young Volgograd boy as a seatmate, we hit pause, had a nice chat with his quite good English skills, and finished it on Tuesday and Wednesday morning in a spartan Soviet-era Volgograd hotel that was not unlike the vibe of a northern Minnesota cabin. 


Interesting mix of tunes, from Guaraldi's Latin jazz (and if you only know his Charlie Brown Christmas album, you really need to hear more) to Doodles Weaver's reportage of the Indy 500 in Jones's 40s classic, to The Baseball Project's tribute to Tony Conigliaro.


June 17
The Coasters - Idol With the Golden Head
Duke Otherwise - Bananas?
Jonathan Rundman - A Better Place
The Temptations - Get Ready
The Animals - We Gotta Get Out of This Place
The Vicksburgs - Drive Faster
The Decemberists - California One/Youth and Beauty Brigade
Jonathan Rundman - A Farm in Minnesota
The Beatles - I'll Follow the Sun
The O'Jays - For the Love of Money


Did this ten on a Sunday evening in a London hotel room, so it's cool that some Animals and Fab Four popped up. (Sadly, we didn't make it to a certain crosswalk in St. John's Wood, but we did have our photo taken outside Waterloo Station.) 


June 24
Erik Brandt - Hanna Marie
This Train - A Million Years
Richard Thompson - Jerusalem on the Jukebox
Sanctus Real - These Things Take Time
Elvis Costello and The Attractions - Man Out of Time
Laura Nyro and Labelle - Spanish Harlem
Old 97's - Timebomb
Lost Dogs - Eleanor, It's Raining Now
The Beatles - The Ballad of John & Yoko
Tom Waits - Filipino Box Spring Hog

Did these back at TWDQ HQ this morning. Again, if you've never heard Laura Nyro and the then-little-known Labelle, you need to rectify that.


We now return you to This Week's Discussion Question ("Wouldn't it be nice to hear someone on this side of the pond, calling out tax dodgers as immoral?"), already in progress.

Sunday Random 10 (x2)

Hope you all had a great Memorial Day weekend! Been busy around TWDQ HQ, so we're a week behind again. Let's see what the little green Nano came up with this week.

Let's...Hit...Shuffle!

05/27/2012
Arcade Fire - Sprawl I (Flatland)
The Clash - Clampdown
Billy Bragg - Lay Down Your Weary Tune
Rickie Lee Jones - The Moon is Made of Gold
Joe Henry - The World and All I Know
The Who - My Wife
Old 97's - Please Hold On While the Train is Moving
Feist - Caught a Long Wind
The Lovin' Spoonful - Lovin' You
The Kinks - Here Come the People in Grey

06/03/2012
Bonnie Raitt - God Only Knows
The Temptations - Cloud Nine
Ivy - The Conversation
Dolly Varden - Forgiven Now
Jonathan Rundman - Minneapolis
The Baseball Project - The Closer
Patty Griffin - Go Now
Tinted Windows - Nothing to Me
Rockpile - You Ain't Nothin' But Fine (Live)
Todd Rundgren - We Gotta Get You a Woman

Good week for Adam Schlesinger's side projects (Ivy, Tinted Windows). We also get Bonnie Raitt's nice Joe Henry cover and Jonathan Rundman's 19-second tribute to what would soon become his metro area of residence. We'll see if he ever leaves here. Also, we do not endorse some of the sentiments in Mr. Rundgren's first big hit. Smart women are even more fun, Todd.

Should be a good week for new tunes, with new Beach Boys, Rhett Miller, and Shawn Colvin discs due out, so we'll see if any of them show up in the shuffle.

We now return you to This Week's Discussion Question ("Amen. Wouldn't it be great if the media stopped referring to non-apology apologies as apologies?"), already in progress.

Sunday Random 10 (x3)

Hey, how did we get three weeks behind? Oh yeah, we were cleaning TWDQ HQ last weekend for a Mothers' Day celebration--then it turned out to be such a nice day that everyone wanted to be outside.

Let's...Hit...Shuffle!


05/06/2012
R.E.M. - Shiny Happy People
Crowded House - Into Temptation
The Coasters - Young Blood
Kirsty MacColl - Caroline
Legendary Shack Shakers - Two Tickets to Hell
The Who - Sea and Sand
Taylor Swift (feat. The Civil Wars) - Safe & Sound
Brinsley Schwarz - Brand New You, Brand New Me
The New Standards - The Inchworm
The Who - Sally Simpson

11. The Who - Imagine a Man

The Nano had quite the thing for The Who this week.

05/13/2012
Blind Pilot - I Know
The Beatles - With a Little Help from My Friends
Arcade Fire - Windowsill
The Kinks - All Day and All of the Night
Paul McCartney - She Said Yeah
Fountains of Wayne - Cemetery Guns
Muddy Waters - My Home Is In the Delta
Wilco - Sonny Feeling
The Beatles - Love You To
The Soggy Bottom Boys - I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow

Lots of Beatles here, which isn't a surprise. The Soggy Bottom Boys track always reminds us of Dan Tyminski's wife's great quip when he told her that in the musical numbers in O Brother, Where Art Thou, she'll hear his voice but see George Clooney singing:  "Dan, that's my fantasy."

05/20/2012
The Lovin' Spoonful - Younger Generation
The Kinks - All Day and All of the Night
The Beach Boys - Sloop John B.
The Replacements - I Will Dare
Old 97's - The Dance Class
Dwight Yoakam - Little Ways
The Pogues - Fiesta
Los Straitjackets - Ana (Anna)
The Replacements - Androgynous
Gary U.S. Bonds - Daddy's Come Home

Bonus
11 - Gear Daddies - Little Red Corvette
12 - Lost Dogs - Breathe Deep

The Nano's got a "All Day and All of the Night" streak going here. A pair from the 'Mats great Let it Be, a tune from the recently acquired Bonds live at King Biscuit Flower Hour disc, and when we let it keep rolling, the first two bonus tracks were quite excellent as well.

We now return you to This Week's Discussion Question (Don't you just love schadenfreude?), already in progress.

Sunday Random 10

Too much going on yesterday, so here's what the little green Nano coughed up--yes, we've had a cold--on Sunday.

Let's...Hit...Shuffle!

Brinsley Schwarz - Down in the Dive
The Replacements - Achin' to Be
The Jayhawks - Closer to Your Side
Fountains of Wayne - It Must Be Summer
The Beatles - Tell Me Why
Beki Hemingway - Only Thing Worse
Buddy & Julie Miller - Ellis County
The Beatles - Something
Muddy Waters - You Shook Me
The Beatles - Sea of Time

Wow, three from the mop-tops! I swear it knows we're booking travel to the UK. (Okay, that last one's George Martin from the Yellow Submarine soundtrack.) Reminds us that the Harrison documentary's out tomorrow. Having been sick, we opted to skip the Fountains of Wayne show Saturday night. We also need to learn that terrific Miller song for one of the Tuesday night shindigs at TWDQ HQ.

We now return you to This Week's Discussion Question (Who the hell booked this idiot in the first place?), already in progress.

Sunday Random 10

Hope you all celebrated Record Store Day in the traditional manner. We picked up a Lovin' Spoonful anthology yesterday to add to the mix for this week, so we'll see if it comes up. (The three Van Morrison LPs acquired haven't been burned from vinyl to disc yet.)


Let's...Hit...Shuffle!


Dolly Varden - We Are Lucky (Live)
The New Standards - Toxic
Bonnie Raitt - Million Miles
The Monkees - (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone
Dr. John - Kingdom of Izzness
Preservation Hall Jazz Band (feat. Louis Armstrong) - Rockin' Chair
Junior Brown - Surf Medley
Lucinda Williams - Blessed
Arcade Fire - Modern Man
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - If You Call


The Dolly Varden tune's a live track that may appear on their forthcoming album. (Get a sneak peek here.) Yes, that's a Britney Spears cover by the terrific New Standards. Couple of new songs from solid new albums by Ms. Raitt and the Doc. Lucinda's title track made our Faves compilation last year.


We now return you to This Week's Discussion Question (Will her personal Warhol clock never run down?), now in progress.

Sunday Random 10

Sunny/rainy/sunny/stormy Sunday here at TWDQ. Fortunately, the hail and storms bypassed us here.

Let's see what the little green Nano had for us today. Let's...Hit...Shuffle!

Elvis Costello & The Attractions - (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes (Live)

Drive-By Truckers - The Boys from Alabama

Los Lobos - When the Circus Comes

Gin Blossoms - Hey Jealousy

Kirsty MacColl - Can't Stop Killing You

Florence + the Machine - Remain Nameless

The Beatles - I Dig a Pony

Hank Williams Sr. - Your Cheatin' Heart (single version)

Bryan Ferry - Bob Dylan's Dream

The Ike Reilly Assassination - God and Money

Well, we broke the two-week Wilco lead-off streak, which is funny since we just ordered Wilco tix yesterday. The Costello tune might be our favorite Elvis tune after this. It also gives us an good excuse to post this little slice of awesomeness. And that Gin Blossoms song is a killer rock 'n roll tune.

We now return you to This Week's Discussion Question (Why did Hilary Rosen need to apologize for telling the truth?), already in progress.

Sunday Random 10

Happy Easter to those of you who celebrate it! Been a long day, so here's what the little green Nano came up with this morning.

Let's...Hit...Shuffle!

Wilco - Wishful Thinking

Greg Brown - I Don't Know Anybody in This Town

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - Without a Heart

Yusuf - Heaven/Where True Love Goes

The Kinks - Picture Book

Carly Simon - Just Like a Woman

Joe Henry - Fireman's Wedding

Jeff Arundel - It's Okay

Drive-By Truckers - Everybody Needs Love

Dan Zanes - When the Curtains of Night are Pinned Back

Wilco leads off for the second week in a row. We'll see if they can keep the streak up next week. The wonderful Kinks tune (from The Village Green Preservation Society) made a memorable appearance in a HP printer commercial a few years back. The Carly Simon track is one of the less memorable Dylan covers on Amnesty International's 4-disc Chimes of Freedom. If you don't own Joe Henry's terrific Kindness of the World, go track down a copy. Same goes for Dan Zanes' Parades and Panoramas.

We now return you to This Week's Discussion Question (Why isn't this guy on the Sunday morning talk shows?), already in progress.

Sunday Random 10 catch-up

Wow, where did those three weeks go?

Oh well, Let's...Hit...Shuffle!

03/18/2012

XTC - Playground

The Rascals - You Better Run

Diane Birch - Photograph

Old 97's - The Other Shoe

The Beatles - She's Leaving Home

This Train - Great Atomic Power

Muddy Waters - Young Fashioned Ways

Robert Palmer - Bad Case of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor)

Van Morrison - Real Real Gone

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - Without a Heart

(Bonus) Mavis Staples - In Christ There Is No East or West

We actually went out and picked up Van the Man's Enlightenment after hearing the Belfast Cowboys terrific cover of "Real Real Gone".

03/25/2012

The Rascals - A Beautiful Morning

Elvis Presley - You're a Heartbreaker

The Muppets - Wipe Out

Elvis Costello & The Attractions - (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes (Live)

Geraint Watkins - Two Rocks

Brendan Benson - Misery

Uncle Tupelo - Anodyne

The Temptations - Ain't Too Proud to Beg

Preservation Hall Jazz Band (feat. Anita Briem) - C'est Si Bon

The Coasters - Three Cool Cats

One of our favorite Costello tunes, from the Live at Hollywood High album, and we learned of the Coasters original from Ry Cooder's cover on the fine Chavez Ravine.

04/01/2012

Wilco - Hummingbird (Live)

The Decemberists - Foregone

The Beatles - Maxwell's Silver Hammer

Kirsty MacColl - Miss Otis Regrets

The Band - Acadian Driftwood

Toad the Wet Sprocket - Fall Down

The Beatles - Misery

The Who - I'm a Boy

The Who - Quadrophenia

Joe Henry - Nico Lost One Small Buddha

(Bonus) The Honeydogs - Dear Prudence

Seemed to be in a Beatleish mood today. I'm sure it knows we were watching the Abbey Road Crosswalk cam yesterday. Interesting back-to-back murder songs, too.

We now return you to This Week's Discussion Question (Why isn't it ever about race?), already in progress.

Sunday Random 10

Incredibly beautiful spring weekend here at TWDQ. We're embarrassed to say we didn't crank up the little green Nano while taking a stroll in the extra daylight. Instead, here's what the Nano shook out on the beautiful ride to and from church this afternoon.

Let's...Hit...Shuffle!

Wild Flag - Electric Band

The Coasters - Young Blood

Etta James - Something's Got a Hold on Me

Kirsty MacColl - Perfect Day

Dan Zanes - The Mermaid

Allen Toussaint - A Dear Old Southland

XTC - The Meeting Place

Death Cab for Cutie - Crooked Teeth

The Beatles - Honey Pie

The Who - Happy Jack (Acoustic)

Boy, oh boy, do we miss Kirsty MacColl. At minimum, go find yourself a copy of Galore. You won't be sorry.

We now return you to This Week's Discussion Question ("Can we call them racist, misogynist bigots now?"), already in progress.

Sunday Random 10

Hey, it's Sunday again! And we're on time this week!

Was a beautiful, sunny day (albeit a bit chilly) at TWDQ HQ, plus we got to listen to a bit of the local nine getting warmed up in Fort Myers--the new guy's going to be fine, BTW--so let's see what the little green Nano came up with today before the ball game.

Let's...Hit...Shuffle!

Greg Brown - Lovinest One

Jimmy Donley - Radio, Jukebox and TV

Dan Zanes - Deep Blue Sea

Bob Dylan - The Man in Me

Lone Justice - Dreams Come True (Stand Up and Take It)

XTC - King for a Day

Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone

XTC - Stupidly Happy

Joe Henry - Unspeakable

The New Standards - Song 2

Okay, so the Nano was really into Dylan and XTC. (We always love a good excuse to point you to Sal Nunziato's terrific love song to that terrific love song.) The Jimmy Donley track is from the new Oxford American Music Issue CD, this year it's focused on Mississippi music. Always a great read and listen. It also popped out some Dan Zanes, whom we caught on the Del Fuegos reunion tour Tuesday night. (Good show at a great venue, plus their new EP is pretty solid.) And we wrap with some local faves covering Blur.

We now return you to This Week's Discussion Question (Shouldn't an apology contain, y'know, actual apologizing?), already in progress.

Sunday Random 10 catch-up

Before another Sunday rolls around, let's get this baby up to date.

Let's...Hit...Shuffle!

02/19/2012

Crowded House - Saturday Sun

Jars of Clay - Sunny Days

Jim Jackson - Old Dog Blue

The Animals - Boom Boom

Lucinda Williams - Blessed

U2 - Where the Streets Have No Name

Little Feat - Oh Atlanta

Mary Lou Lord - Lights Are Changing

The Beatles - Old Brown Shoe

Peter Case - Banks of the River

Ms. Williams' tune made this year's Faves compilation and the Mary Lou Lord song is the version from her self-titled debut, which we highly recommend.

02/26/2012

The Temptations - Don't Look Back

The Temptations - Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today)

Elvis Costello - Satellite

Elvis Presley - Blue Moon

Jules Shear - Sad Sound of the Wind

John Hiatt - Detroit Made

Eddie Vedder - Sleepless Nights

Muddy Waters - Who's Gonna Be Your Sweet Man When I'm Gone

Los Lobos - I Wanna Be Like You (The Monkey Song)

Rhett Miller - Happiness

Wow. We once opened a church variety show singing & playing "Don't Look Back" with three guys in shades doing backups, finger snaps, and a bit of choreography. The Shear tune is another of his gorgeous pop songs that should've been a monster hit back in the early 90's. And yeah, Eddie Vedder and ukuleles combined for a terrific album, and we've always been pretty apathetic toward Pearl Jam.

We now return you to This Week's Discussion Question (Rush Limbaugh said something incredibly misogynistic this week. Wouldn't the sun rising in the east be a bigger story?), already in progress.

Sunday Random 10 (x3)

Been busy, blah, blah, blah, so let's get caught up on the little green Nano's selections.

Let's...Hit...Shuffle!

01/29/2012

Elvis Costello & The Attractions - License to Kill

R.E.M. - Supernatural Superserious

Kirsty MacColl & The Pogues - Miss Otis Regrets

Jonathan Rundman - Local Road

U2 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations

The Ventures - Walk Don't Run

Thea Gilmore - I'll Remember You

Muddy Waters - I Feel Like Going Home

Bruce Springsteen - Fire

The Costello and Gilmore tunes are from the Chimes of Freedom - The Songs of Bob Dylan 4 CD set that dropped earlier that week. Good to see the remaining Beach Boys on the Grammys tonight singing "Good Vibrations."

02/05/2012

Greg Brown - Mercy, Mercy, Mercy

The Beatles - Wait

Solomon Burke - I Need Your Love in My Life

Beki Hemingway - My World

Adele - Make You Feel My Love

Los Lobos - Anselma

U2 - Beautiful Day

Muddy Waters - Mean Red Spider

Sussan Deyhim - All I Really Want to Do

Drive-By Truckers - The Day John Henry Died

Hope Adele rented a pickup truck to carry home all her hardware tonight.

And "Anselma" is one the kid and I used to dance around the room to. (We need to do that again when you're back from Russia.)

02/12/2012

Van Morrison - Domino

Jonathan Rundman - The Loneliness of Happiness

Everything But the Girl - These Early Days

Marah - 20,000 Streets Under the Sky

The Avett Brothers - Kick Drum Heart (Live)

Loggins & Messina - Angry Eyes

Greg Brown - Remember the Sun

Tom Waits - House Where Nobody Lives

Steve Dawson - Goodbye

The Beatles - I'm Only Sleeping

If you don't own EBTG's wonderful Idlewild, do yourself a favor and go get it. Coincidentally, we just heard Nils Lofgren on World Cafe last night talking about helping Danny Whitten finish the song "I Don't Want to Talk About It" and EBTG does a terrific cover of it on that very same record.

We now return you to This Week's Discussion Question (What the hell was that Nicki Minaj deal?), already in progress.

Sunday Random 10

Finally starting to get wintry here in the land of TWDQ. Fortunately, not wintry enough to shovel or blow winter out of the driveway.

Let's see what the little green Nano has in store for today.

Let's...Hit...Shuffle!

Mary Lou Lord - His Indie World

Nick Lowe - I Read a Lot

Ry Cooder - Do Re Mi

Todd Snider - Disorganized Crime

Elvis Costello & The Attractions - This Year's Girl (Live)

Fountains of Wayne - Nightlight

Split Lip Rayfield - Fallen

Tracey Thorn - Late in the Afternoon

Al Green - You Ought to Be with Me

The Avett Brothers - All My Mistakes

The wonderful Mary Lou Lord song that leads this off is one we'll throw on repeat, so this list could well have been ten repeats of that. Couldn't find it on YouTube, but there is a nice version from the BBC in the link above. Nick Lowe is aging so, so gracefully. We highly recommend his most recent album. Couldn't find a live clip of the Split Lip Rayfield tune, but do check out the clip to see the awesome gas tank bass.

We even got a little Al Green this week, which is a pretty good excuse to link to the other Al Green we got this week. The kid thought the aside to the wings was so The West Wing.

We now return you to This Week's Discussion Question, already in progress.

Sunday Random 10

Let's see what the little green Nano produced this morning!

Let's...Hit...Shuffle!

XTC - Blame the Weather
The Beatles - Sea of Time
The Beatles - Lovely Rita
Dr. John - Mos' Scocious
Brook Benton - Rainy Night in Georgia
Lyle Lovett - Cowboy Man
Los Lobos - Carabina .30-30 [Live]
The Temptations - My Girl
Elvis Presley - Blue Moon of Kentucky
Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)

Love that it picked up from last week's XTC song at #10 to leading off with XTC this week. (Again, not that the odds of it hitting an XTC tune are terribly long.) The first of the Beatles tracks is one of the instrumentals from Yellow Submarine. (The odds of hitting a Beatles tune are way shorter than XTC.) Brook Benton's tune is from the album that is pound-for-pound the Best Album in Our Collection. [1] There's our choice for the Best Band America has Produced [2], followed by The Tempts singing The Greatest Song Ever Written, and the B-side of the record that made it all happen for The King. It wraps with those crazy Canadian kids who were the highlight of last year's Grammys telecast. [3] Not a bad ten at all.

We now return you to This Week's Discussion Question (Is Mitt Romney a serial killer?), already in progress.

[1] Atlantic Rhythm & Blues 1947-1974 - Volume 6 1966-1969. Try to find a 2-album set with more great songs on it, we dare you.
[2] Excellence in a broad variety of styles, solid body of work, longevity, same lineup all these years.
[3] But were noticeably absent from tonight's commercial for this year's ceremony.

57 Channels and Nothin' On

Saw the following item in the latest Comcast Xfinity e-mail under the heading "Editor's Top 5 Picks":

Rob: Rob Schneider stars in this new sitcom as a bachelor who marries into a tight-knit Mexican-American family.

An "editor" picked that? Sweet Mother of Pearl, we've only seen the commercials for this stinkfest, so here's This Week's Discussion Question:

How much cash would someone have to pony up to get you to watch an episode of that "editor's pick"?

Please keep the discussion civil and do not wander off into "I think there's an editor with a death wish -- or a new Mercedes," "To paraphrase Arthur Dent, 'Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word "stars" that I wasn't previously aware of," or "Hell, it'll make the Republican presidential debates look like Masterpiece freaking Theatre."

Discuss.

Sunday Random 10

Let's see what the little green Nano offered up this week!

Let's...Hit...Shuffle!

Erik Brandt - The Ballad of Janos Sinko

Blind Pilot - We Are the Tide

Husker Du - Makes No Sense At All

Nick Lowe - Somebody Cares for Me

Ike Reilly - Put a Little Love In It

Wilco - Someone Else's Song

Wilco - Solitaire

John Hiatt - When New York Had Her Heart Broke

Los Straitjackets - Close to Christmas (The First Noel)

XTC - Generals and Majors

We're thinking about catching Mr. Brandt opening for Koerner and Glover in the near future. Bought the Blind Pilot album via download on Saturday after seeing them on Letterman (and recalling my buddy Tom raving about them). We're suckers for a band with an extra tom-tom player. Five bucks on Amazon. The Husker tune is the A-side of the single we bought years ago for the terrific B-side, the video of which we'd never seen until just now. There's a pair of pretty obscure Wilco tunes, and Los Straitjackets track is from their terrific new album, Yuletide Beat. And let's just say that as time goes by, the chance of an XTC tune popping up in the mix gets more and more likely.

We now return you to This Week's Discussion Question, already in progress.

Sunday Random 10

Happy New Year! Here's what the Nano dropped on New Year's Day 2012!

Let's...Hit...Shuffle!

Eurythmics - Missionary Man

The Band - When I Paint My Masterpiece

Gear Daddies - African Killer Bees

Florence + the Machine - Hurricane Drunk

Wilco - Handshake Drugs

Fountains of Wayne - Revolving Dora

Todd Rundgren - Marlene

The Beatles - Get Back (Let it Be...Naked)

Old 97's - Love Is What You Are

The New Standards - The Dark End of the Street

Hope 2012 is off to a good start!

We now return you to This Week's Discussion Question (Iowa? Really?), already in progress.

Sunday Random 10 (catching up for 2011)

Getting caught up here after a long holiday week. Here's the last of the 2011 randoms. Let's...Hit...Shuffle!

12/18/2011

The Coasters - I Must Be Dreamin'

Joe Henry - This is My Favorite Cage

Florence + the Machine - Cosmic Love

Fountains of Wayne - All Kinds of Time

The B-52's - Good Stuff

Ivy - She Really Got to You

Todd Snider - Unorganized Crime

The Beatles - Misery

Diane Birch - Forgiveness

The Staple Singers - Respect Yourself

12/25/2011

Ry Cooder - Taxes on the Farmer Feeds Us All

Susan Werner - Sunday Mornings

Beki Hemingway & Jonathan Rundman - Easy Chair

Beki Hemingway & Jonathan Rundman - Everything to Everyone

Marvin Gaye - Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)

Wilson Pickett - I'm In Love

Over the Rhine - Here It Is

Dolly Varden - Balcony

The Replacements - I'll Be You

The Ike Reilly Assassination - Garbage Day

Didn't have a lot of holiday music on the Nano this year--or anywhere, for that matter--so it's nice that Over the Rhine's terrific Christmas tune turned up on Christmas Day.

"I'm wrapping up my love this Christmas and here it is."

Peace on earth, goodwill to all...

Sunday Random 10

Before we get another week in the hole, let's clean out the queue of Sundays.

Let's...Hit...Shuffle!

12/04/2011
John Coltrane - Everytime We Say Goodbye
Laura Nyro - Stoney End
Dan Zanes and Friends - I Am What I Am
Dwight Yoakam - Wichita Lineman
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Simplest Love
The Autumn Defense - Why I'm Like This
Professor Longhair - Whole Lotta Loving
Allen Toussaint - Just a Closer Walk with Thee
The Beatles - Long, Long, Long
Allen Toussaint - West End Blues

The Nano was in a jazzy New Orleans mood, it appears.

12/11/2011
Dolly Varden - Some Sequined Angel
Wilco - That's Not the Issue
Ricky Nelson - Hello Mary Lou
Badfinger - No Matter What
The Honeydogs - I Miss You
Greg Brown - Tenderhearted Child
Professor Longhair - Meet Me Tomorrow Night
Yusuf - Heaven/Where True Love Goes
Fountains of Wayne - The Girl I Can't Forget
Nick Lowe - All Men Are Liars

Even though we didn't get tickets for the Wilco/Nick Lowe shows last week, the Nano apparently thought we should have.

We now return you to This Week's Discussion Question, already in progress.

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.