( Sevens , a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.) Multiple versions of songs are often one of the more exciting things about watching an artist at work. […]
Category: Sevens
Sevens :: You Goin’ Miss Your Candyman
( Sevens , a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.) My friend Mike may have departed L.A. for Brooklyn at the beginning of ’09, but that is not […]
Rehashing Red Hash & Rare Bert Jansch Reissues
Beardo. As I mentioned last week while discussing Death’s For The Whole World To See , the Drag City label is no stranger to digging up and releasing the long lost and nearly forgotten. In 2005 the label pulled . . . Only the good […]
Sevens :: Cheap Trick, Surrender
( Sevens , a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.) We spend a lot of time discussing the elements of the music that moves us, whether it’s lyrics […]
Sevens :: Kris Kristofferson – Sunday Morning Coming Down
( Sevens , a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.) In 1995, through an unusual series of connections involving Coretta Scott King , my mother and high colonics, I got to […]
Sevens :: Savion Glover, P.O.S
(Sevens, a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.) Politics and hip-hop go like peanut butter and jelly and on one of this year’s best hip-hop albums, Never Better , […]
Sevens :: House We Used to Live In
( Sevens , a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.) “A house divided against itself cannot stand,” Abraham Lincoln famously said, and a house as metaphor for a […]
Sevens :: I Just Want To See His Face
( Sevens , a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.) Due to storage, or the lack thereof here in my L.A. abode, the majority of my vinyl […]
Sevens :: What Do You Want the Girl to Do?
( Sevens , a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.) Masterful songwriting often leads to reinvention. Sometimes a song so is so approachable, so adaptable, that to cover […]
Arthur Lee :: Everybody’s Gotta Live
(Sevens, a new feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.)If icons of ’60s-era psychedelic rock were counted, Love probably wouldn’t be among them. Certainly, even casual music fans would recognize […]
Sevens :: Rick Nelson, Garden Party (1972)
(Sevens, a new feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.) This song has been a go-to mix tape/cd staple for years. Similar to last month’s Sevens entry on David […]
Warren Zevon :: 1976 S/T Debut (Reissue)
“And if California slides into the ocean, like the mystics and statistics say it will, I predict this motel will be standing until I pay my bill.” – Warren Zevon, Desperados Under The Eaves Some […]
Sevens :: David Bromberg: Sharon
( Sevens , a new feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.) Some songs feel like a carnival. Some songs feel like a saloon. And some songs manage to convey […]
Sevens (Politiko) :: A Change Is Gonna Come
(This concludes the Politiko series of Sevens : a feature on Aquarium Drunkard that pays tribute to the art of the individual song. Go vote.) Sam Cooke was astounded by Dylan’s ” Blowin’ in the Wind. ” Seriously. “Geez, a white […]
Sevens (Politiko) :: Pete Seeger, Turn! Turn! Turn!
( Sevens , a feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song. From now through the November 4th election, Sevens will focus on political songs) Protest songs and politically framed […]