Allow me to, again, gush over another Pretenders reissue. This time it's their 1981 second album appropriately entitled Pretenders II. The short-lived band led by guitarist become a member or log in.
2006 Year In Review, Pt 2 :: The 12 Albums
Part Two of our Year In Review...Part One can be found HERE.The following list is comprised of my favorite 12 albums released in 2006. Take note that this list is in flux, and could be very different a month from now. For example, last year I declared Sufjan Steven . . .
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2006 Year In Review :: Part One
Best 2006 Reissue :: Pavement - Wowee Zowee (Sordid Sentinels Edition) Matador continued their excellent Pavement reissue campaign in '06 with the Wowee Zowee: Sordid Sentinels Edition. Like it's reissued predecessors, become a member or log in.
Live Upload Series :: A Perfect Echo Vol 1.5
Veteran readers will note this one is a long time coming. Last February I posted the first half (1967 - 1971) of the Neil Young soundboard derived live collection, A Perfect Echo Volume 1, and recently a kind soul, and A.D. reader, sent me the second half (1974 - 1976) to complete the set. As promised I now share it here with you.
For those interested in the . . .
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Wagner & Rouse :: The Chester EP
Until this week I hadn't listened to Kurt Wagner's collaborative EP with Josh Rouse, Chester, all the way through in a couple of years. I'm happy to report it holds up extremely well seven years after it . . .
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Vince Guaraldi :: A Charlie Brown Christmas
It's (somehow) December again...a quick year indeed. For the first Holiday post of many, let's begin with Vince Guaraldi's classic score for the 1965 Peanuts TV special "A Charlie Brown Christmas." Nostalgia inducing holiday instrumental jazz at it's best, this CBS soundtrack is as familiar as the cartoon itself . . .
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The London Howlin’ Wolf Sessions :: 1970
Although suffering from poor health in the spring of 1970, Howlin' Wolf agreed to travel to Europe to record with the who's who if British rock royalty; namely the Stones rhythm section (Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman), Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood. Produced by Norman Dayronthe, the sessions capture an interesting snapshot of a blues legend passing on some of his secrets . . .
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Lucinda Williams :: Car Wheels On A Gravel Road (Reissue)
1998's Grammy award winning genre classic, Car Wheels On A Gravel Road, is Lucinda Williams opus -- it's her absolute masterpiece. These meticulously crafted sad, southern stories and instrumentation ultimately took three different cities, and three different producers, to get right. Beginning in Austin, then moving the recordings to Nashville with Steve Earle helming the controls, and finally setting up shop in Los Angeles with producer Roy Bittan. It's the L.A. sessions that became the final album we know today. This two disc reissue, some eight . . .
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Revisiting :: Zabriskie Point Sessions Pt II
A number of readers have requested additional tracks off The Zabriskie Point Sessions, so here is another excerpt from the cream of the crop. Per the comments in the original post, yes, the sparse piano track later became "Us And Them" found on 1973s Dark Side of The Moon. **Part one . . .
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Neil Young Archives :: Live – Fillmore East
After years of speculation and anticipation, Neil Young has finally released the first artifact from his legendary archives. The six track album is culled from the March 6th & 7th, 1970 performances at Bill Graham's famed Fillmore East. While the material itself is fantastic it does beg the question of . . .
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Revisiting :: The Zabriskie Point Sessions
When Radiohead's Ok Computer was released, one of the finest and most appropriate appraisals was that of deeming the band the '90s Pink Floyd. I was reminded of this recently while listening to the Floyd sessions for the soundtrack to the 1970 film become a member or log in.
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Now Podcasting :: Episode 19
Welcome to Episode 19 of the podcast edition of The Aquarium Drunkard Show; airing live every Wednesday 2-4 p.m. PST at the Little Radio studios in downtown L.A. As requested, below is the tracklisting order for this week's podcast.-------Scotty - Draw Your brakes ++ The Clash — Mustapha Dance ++ The Meters - Keep on Marching (Funky Soldier) ++ Carleen & The Groovers - The Thing ++
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Chavez :: Better Days Will Haunt You
Last month Matador Records released the three disc Better Days Will Haunt You, a clearing house for all things Chavez related. Bless you, Matador. Chavez, along with Guided By Voices, Pavement, and a whole slew of others too countless to name . . .
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One By One I’ll Knock Ya Out…
You may recall that a couple of months ago I derided Beck's output post Sea Change; you can read that here if you like. The gist was that the last two commercial releases seemed like tired re-treads of his older material. Now press . . .
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Paleo :: is david andrew strackany…
THE SONG DIARY - Long Story Short: 365 songs in 365 daysMorgan at Yer Bird introduced me to the sounds of Paleo last April, but I had almost entirely forgotten about the artist until last week when I received a sampler from Paleo's ongoing song diary project. In a world of post-Sufjan's 50 states project, I'll admit the undertaking sounded . . .
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