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NPR: Neil Young Returns with Prairie Wind

Weekend Edition  · Neil Young extended audio interview with NPR's Scott Simon. "The creation of Neil Young's latest album, Prairie Wind, was punctuated by a life-changing "medical event" for the singer-songwriter. As he was preparing to record the song "The Painter" in Nashville, Young was diagnosed with a brain aneurysm. He recorded eight of the songs before . . .

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Sounds Like Fall :: The Wolf Is At The Door

September of 2005. With less than four months left, it's shaping up to be a pretty strong year for new music. If you read here with any regularity you'll notice I love the quiet as well as the loud. Such is the case with Sounds Like Fall's debut release The Wolf is at the Door. A vehicle for midwestern folkie, Joe Young, the album seamlessly . . .

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Rolling Stones: Vintage Rarities

With the Stones on (another) tour supporting their latest album, it only seemed appropriate to post some Mick 'n Keef material. But don't worry, the below isn't from their new album as I'm neither a sadist nor a masochist. No, instead check out these rarities of excellent vintage Stones' goodness.DOWNLOAD:

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All Good Things: Garcia Solo Collected Works

Last year Jerry Garcia's solo material got a serious overhaul/facelift in the form of the All Good Things box set. I've really dug . . .

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Greetings From Arizona

Part III of my ongoing 50 states project, in which I am pairing my interest in retro travel-postcards with music indigenous to each state. This time out the Drunkard enlisted a little help from AZ music blogger Kevin from So Much Silence. Kevin was good enough to pick out some AZ artists and provide some brief commentary on each. Enjoy, and stay tuned for

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The Kinks’ Ray Davies On New Orleans

The Kinks' lead singer, Ray Davies, shares his thoughts on New Orleans and the importance it has played in shaping modern music. Incidentally he was shot in the French Quarter last year. Ouch.

"But the reality is that without its music New Orleans would have been a forgotten city long ago. The music of the American South . . .

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Bloodkin – Out of State Plates

The pimping continues....Athen's Bloodkin get little to no love in the blogging community, actually make that the world outside the state of Georgia, or the immediate Southeast. A real shame. Daniel Hutchens lyrics are some deep shit coupled with Eric Carter's Stonesy riffs. Rock & Roll bar-band poetry. The two tracks below are off the band's 1999 third album Out of . . .

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OUR BAND COULD BE YOUR LIFE

Picked this up at the bookstore last week. Great read for anyone interested in the independent music scene pre-Nirvana. Some favorite segments of mine were the well documented look at Minor Threat, Black Flag, Fugazi & Dinosaur Jr. Keeping with the theme, below is a track from Fugazi's last album, 2001 . . .

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The Roots of Bubbapalooza

DOWNLOAD:MP3: Drive-By Truckers - The Living Bubba "In 1997, Drive-By Truckers played Bubbapalooza for the first time. An annual festival at Atlanta’s immortal Star Community Bar in Little Five Points, Bubbapalooza was a three-night showcase for a tragedy-laden little movement called “The Redneck Underground.” The movement was named and originally led by a performance artist named Deacon Lunchbox, who . . .

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Hunter S. Thompson’s Final Note

Rolling Stone magazine reports on HST's final words, entitled "Football Season Is Over," prior to his suicide earlier this year.

"No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67 . . .

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Pop Romantique: French Pop Classics

I am overdue to plug this collection of French pop tunes covered by indie artists. The Web-radio to your right has had Luna's contribution La Poupee Qui Fait Non in it's rotaion for at least four weeks. Other notable artists on the . . .

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Treetop Flyer – Stills Inspires LaMontagne

I own the first few Stephen Stills solo albums including the amazing Manassas lp, which I consider to be his creative peak. Having said that, I know next to nothing about the songwriter's career past that point (only that I hadn't liked the little I had heard). So I a was a little surprised to . . .

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