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- Fri May 14, 2021 10:13 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: New Album: Electro Melodier
- Replies: 46
- Views: 214480
Re: New Album: Electro Melodier
"until December"...I think the surface meaning is "after the Electoral College makes the election official" and the deeper meaning would be, like Tokyo Fan said, "until the situation is resolved". Jay said he's concentrating on melody this time around, and he's written many good ones, but Reverie is...
- Fri Mar 05, 2021 10:11 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Brian Henneman Retirement
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3577
Brian Henneman Retirement
There's a nice retirement speech at www.bottlerocketsmusic.com
- Tue Apr 14, 2020 11:42 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: If Jay covered Prine
- Replies: 9
- Views: 17109
Re: If Jay covered Prine
Nobody suggesting "Lake Marie", my favorite, because really only John Prine could sing it. An Indian legend, a relationship starting and ending, a gruesome murder, peaceful waters, sausages sizzlin, narcs narcin...good songs somehow being greater than the some of their parts..."It's a mystery"
- Fri Mar 27, 2020 5:52 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Murder Most Foul
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8817
Re: Murder Most Foul
Wow, thanks for posting.
Check out the lyrics.
Was watching a 30s version of Midsummer Night's dream on TCM yesterday, I thought: That writer had a way with words. So does Bob. Hope this isn't his swan song.
Check out the lyrics.
Was watching a 30s version of Midsummer Night's dream on TCM yesterday, I thought: That writer had a way with words. So does Bob. Hope this isn't his swan song.
- Fri Mar 20, 2020 12:51 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Next Concert You Are Going To
- Replies: 327
- Views: 459462
Re: Next Concert You Are Going To
So no concerts for a few months, a little inconvenient for us. But most of the musicians that people on this board go to see have already been pinched by free access to recordings via the internet, and make their living on tour. Also the next gen musicians who play once/twice a week, that we meet at...
- Mon Mar 02, 2020 1:03 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Next Concert You Are Going To
- Replies: 327
- Views: 459462
Re: Next Concert You Are Going To
James McMurtry, Mar 29, saw him last year but he was in the 45-minute leadoff spot for Jason Isbell, not quite enough to stretch out.
- Fri Feb 23, 2018 11:01 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What are you reading now, playas?
- Replies: 420
- Views: 356807
She is queen undisputed of mind beauty
Reckless Daughter, a Biography of Joni Mitchell, by David Yaffe I rarely read biographies of successful musicians, there so much else to learn (and so little time) and the stories are similar. But: I followed her music from the late 60s to the late 70s and she was a genius and I wanted to know how t...
- Wed Jan 31, 2018 10:36 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Next Concert You Are Going To
- Replies: 327
- Views: 459462
James McMurtry/Jason Isbell 1/29 Pittsburgh
If you get a chance to see Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, take it. They are at a creative peak. His songs are musically and lyrically satisfying, and the band and performance are confident and tight, every instrumental break worked. Amanda Shires had just rejoined the tour. They played 1h45m. The ve...
- Fri Oct 13, 2017 9:37 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Next Concert You Are Going To
- Replies: 327
- Views: 459462
- Fri Oct 09, 2015 9:45 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Jason Isbell
- Replies: 36
- Views: 38754
Sometimes what's popular is popular because it's good, e.g., Godfather 1 and 2. There's a lot to like about Jason Isbell's last two albums. He combines interesting stories, clever, polished lyrics and (for the most part) melodies that are different than you've heard before and stick with you. Over a...
- Sun Aug 09, 2009 9:07 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Anybody going to any upcoming Son Volt shows?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 14221
Son Volt at Hartwood Acres amphitheatre, 8/9/09, 7:30 PM. 1000s attended, weather warm, not too humid ACD. Dynamite, Down to the Wire, Dust of Daylight (chicken soup for the twang-infested soul), When the Wheels (good and heavy), No Turning Back, Pushed Too Far, Exiles, Strength and Doubt (no Sultan...
- Thu Jul 30, 2009 12:10 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Hope & Change
- Replies: 116
- Views: 73403
- Wed Jul 22, 2009 6:17 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Key changes
- Replies: 25
- Views: 15659
I also can't think of any other songs where Jay uses key changes. Agree that when the songwriter jumps up a whole step it's usually a sign that the song's running out of gas, eg, Mama's Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys. Jay is not using the modulation in that manner, though. I think he wa...
- Fri Jul 17, 2009 5:33 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Roll On
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6016
I agree. Roll On is to SV 2.1 as Creosote is to SV 1.0. Also: Chaos Streams is to JF as In My Life is to John Lennon. Cahokian (or Barstow) is to decline of a society as Out of the Picture is to decline of an individual. No Turning Back is to JF as It's a Long Way to the Top is to ACDC... OK well ma...
- Fri Jul 10, 2009 8:25 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: American Central Dust
- Replies: 444
- Views: 163116
-Been singin Roll On all day today, it's Creosote for the 21st century, the electric guitar instrumental break is my favorite bit of sound right now, the CD could have used a few more -The songs all hang together as a collection like Trace and my other favorite albums, but like Tonight's the Night i...