Songcircle playlist, 9/10/10

Winter Hours - Roadside Flowers - Winter Hours Collector's Edition
Mike and Ruthy (formerly of The Mammals) - Covered - Million to One
Fred Eaglesmith -Careless - Cha Cha Cha
Peter Himmelman - This Lifeboat's on Fire - The Mystery and the Hum

Brian Wilson - I Got Rhythm - B.W. Reimagines Gershwin
The Beach Boys - Slip On Through - Sunflower
Francis and the Lights - In a Limousine - It'll Get Better
Dion and the Wanderers - Now - Wonder Where I'm Bound


Corin Tucker - Doubt - 1,000 Years
Lucinda Williams - The Ballad of Lucy Jordan - Twistable Turnable Man: A Musical Tribute to Shel Silverstein
The Unthanks - Lucky Gilchrist - Here's the Tender Coming
Carolina Chocolate Drops - Why Don't You Do Right? - Genuine Negro Jig
Martha Wainwright -Non, le Monde N'est ce pas Triste - Sans Fusils, Ni Souliers, en Paris: Martha Wainwright's Piaf Record


Leonard Cohen - The Traveler (early version of The Stranger Song) - 92nd St. YMHA, New York, 2/14/66


Bob Dylan - It Ain't Me Babe - USF Sundome, Tampa, FL 9/30/10
 

Kicking off the dust...

OK!  A mere three years after my last post here, I guess it's about time to freshen up the blog, especially since I am once again starting to occasionally host The Songcircle on KBOO, and because dozens of peeps commented on my LocalCut review of Adam Lambert's concert and may follow the link here.  So, hello if you have, sorry about the bare-bones blog, and I'll start posting here more regularly, or trying to..!

Meanwhile, I have been sharing rare music on my spiffier other blog, The Rare Stuff.  Feel free to stop by and have a look around!

Thanks,

Jeff

Howdy again

Hello to any newcomers who followed the link over from LocalCut. Pour a cup and have a seat. I know the digs aren't too spiffy around here right now but pardon our dust, etc. Scroll down and you'll still find a couple of worthwhile things to read. And definitely click on the Archives for June of '06 for my Thorn Festival Hit Parade of songs about P'town. The article actually dates back to 2004 however.

I promise I'll post tomorrow's playlist promptly, as well as last month's and what I can reconstruct of the Neil Young special too, as requested by the commmenter to the March show's list. I'll also post the list on the KBOO site for the first time.

Tomorrow I welcome not only Portland's great Richmond Fontaine, but Virginia's swell Devon Sproule. I'll also touch on Memorial Day as well as tributes to Bob Dylan's birthday and the 10th anniversary of Jeff Buckley's death, not to mention of my arrival in Portland.

Join the Circle!

Songcircle playlist, 3/29!

Well, that was a fun show! Came nowhere near my fundraising goal, but that's no fault of the music I played.

Patti Smith -- Gimme Shelter -- from her forthcoming covers album Twelve out 4/17
Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers -- God Gave Me a Gun -- Americano -- coming to town in the next week or so

Dad's Gonna Kill Me -- Richard Thompson -- from his forthcoming Sweet Warrior out 4/10, "Dad" is soldierspeak for Baghdad
Randy Newman -- A Few Words in Defense of Our Country -- iTunes single
Graham Parker -- Stick to the Plan -- great post-Katrina satire from GP's new Don't Tell Columbus

The Roots -- Masters of War -- from NYC Dylan tribute early this year; first verse sung to the tune of Star Spangled Banner, end quotes from Jimi's "Machine Gun" -- absolutely brilliant!
Solomon Burke -- Maggie's Farm -- from the master as a young man
Dylan Hears a Who -- Green Eggs and Ham/Tombstone Blues -- internet-posted recording
Schvere Togedike Nacht -- Glenn Tenney -- Yiddish Klezmer version of A Hard Day's Night -- big fun (happy passover)

Hamell on Trial -- Values -- clean version of song from Songs for Parents who Enjoy Drugs; Mississippi Studios tonight 3/30!
Avett Brothers -- Shame -- forthcoming album Emotionalism; Avetts return to the Pickathon this August!
The Gourds -- Education Song -- from their Heavy Ornamentals album; new disc out soon; Doug Fir on 4/8

... and that's about it, short show cuz of pledge drive! Any questions?? Neil Young special next week 4/5!!!

Setlist! SongCircle, 2/22/06

Hallelujah, it's a new SongCircle setlist! Yesterday's show had a lot of brand new music, much of it by women. Good stylistic diversity, too (though nothing by the Stylistics). * is a new release, ** an '06 release.

Bruce Springsteen - Bring Em Home (live) - The Seeger Sessions: American Land Edition**
Old Crow Medicine Show - I Hear Them All - Big Iron World**
Tom Russell - Who's Gonna Build Your Wall? - Hightone single**
Martyn Joseph - How Did We End Up Here? - Deep Blue*
Patty Griffin - No Bad News - Children Running Through*

Rickie Lee Jones - Falling Up - The Sermon on Exposition Boulevard*
Kristen Hersh - Winter - Learn to Sing Like a Star*
Shawn Colvin - These Four Walls - same**

TV on the Radio - Province - Return to Cookie Mountain**
Michael Franti and Spearhead - Yell Fire! - same**
Sierra Leone Refugee All-Stars - Livin' Like a Refugee - same**
Solomon Burke - Up to the Mountain - Nashville**

Harry Nilsson - The Cast and Crew - Skidoo! (to promote the film screening)

Lucinda Williams - Words - West*
Ruthie Foster - Phenomenal Woman - The Phenomenal Ruthie Foster*

Norah Jones - My Dear Country - Not Too Late*
Rickie Lee Jones - I Was There - The Sermon on Exposition Boulevard*

I'll be catching up on posting previous playlists just for the heck of it. Today I returned a message about last month's show by a listener who was enchanted by Emily by Joanna Newsom and needed to know her name to track it down. I pointed him Ys-wards even though the version I played was a live one.

Any questions? : )
Jeff

Return of the grumpy old man?

Well, after my curmudgeonly last post months ago, I've gone and come across as a boring old fart in the comments to the post about the Rocket on localcut. [EDITOR'S NOTE: Jeff is 38.] But hey, maybe I can at least welcome a new reader or two here, and futher bloviate on related matters, blah blah blah. More to come.

Man, that was annoying.

I just walked out of the Bonnie "Prince" Billy concert after just three songs. No, he didn't suck, exactly. He struck me as a bit of a self-indulgent performer, like the show was kinda some private joke between him and his band, and maybe a few people in the audience. But, not being familiar with his material already, it was difficult for me to get engaged with it since the stupid, drunken, twentysomething hipsters populating the Mission Theater saw fit to talk, and talk and talk, throughout the performance (well, at least throughout those three songs). I really don't understand the point. Obviously, I'm one of the few who didn't pay to be there. And, while he was accompanied by a band instead of solo, it's not like this was some kind of loud rock n' roll concert -- don't these idiot kids realize they're seeing a singer-songwriter? That he's crafted lyrics, not to mention lyrics that have been celebrated for their literary mojo, which he's attempting to communicate to his audience? The rudeness and self-defeating stupidity of these people boggles my mind. Oldham isn't the singer with the clearest diction around, and the not-used-to-music venue resulted in a muddy mix, so it was already a bit of a challenge to make out the words. With the added chatter, it was impossible for me to focus, so I left. I've tried to get into Will Oldham's stuff before and fallen short so far. Maybe now I'll at least have a better reference point to what he's all about when I listen to his discs in the future. I'm just glad I didn't pay for a ticket tonight. Also, it's a Sunday night -- why the hell would you wait until 11 PM to put your headliner on? Bah, humbug, kids today, etc.