The Jet Black Berries - Macumba Love

The Jet Black Berries - from their Sundown on Venus album... very much in the vein of the Cramps or the Gun Club.. check it out.

5 months later....

and I am back to just note... as I noted before that I am still doing the podcast thing, and the youtube thing... I am still out there...

Youtube Channel and podcasts

While it has been a long while since I have posted anything big here I have been busy with a couple of things..


1st I have been filling in on episodes of the Love That Album podcast...

most recently John Ross from the Feed My Ears facebook page and I covered a album from the band Screaming Trees and the Mad Season album from 1995.

http://lovethatalbum.blogspot.com/2016/06/love-that-album-podcast-episode-91.html

the month before that Tim Merrill (of the See Hear podcast)  and I talked about Small Parts Isolated And Destroyed by Nomeansno and Feel The Darkness by Poison Idea.

http://lovethatalbum.blogspot.com/2016/05/love-that-album-episode-90-nomeansnos.html


also I have been making media related videos for my youtube channel...

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG8B9UzFqKkpkygHesiv3fQ

so this time around, just a round up of other places I have been doing stuff... but if you stop by thanks for doing so... and at some point I will get back to the blogging.

still ... still ... still

it's been a while since I have updated this blog. I am still here, and I still have plans.. but it's that time, energy and having a half way thought out and considered something to say..  so sooner or later I will have a new post.

Day Dream Albums- Alejandro Escovedo

Day Dream Albums- Alejandro Escovedo 

Note: if you want to know what this is all about check out my intro post…

Alejandro Escovedo is and artist who it took me some time to get into.. Which is strange cause I have been a fan of his earlier bands, The Nuns and Rank & File for a long time. He’s that rare animal of today’s music scene who can both rock out and also comfortably sit in with the roots rock set. It’s the mix of Glam, Punk, Folk and Country that makes him something more than just another aging punk headed towards the roots rock world.  All of which is to say if I got to work with him on a covers album, these are the songs I would bring to the table.

Drivin’n’Cryin – Toy Never Played with

Jet Black Berries- Fatherly Advice

King’s X- Summerland

(No Video)

The Divine Horsemen- Middle of the Night

(ok not the video for the song... but this will give you an idea of what they sound like)

Blood on the Saddle- I thought I heard some Thunder

Legal Weapon – Equalizer

Guadalcanal Diary- Watusi Rodeo

 

Foster & Lloyd – Texas in 1880

Stan Ridgeway – The Big Heat

Animal Bag – Cheerful Mary in the Rain

Screaming Trees- Dollar Bill

 (no video)

Gen X – Kiss Me Deadly

  (no video)

Dead Moon – City of Lights

The Hellacopters – By the Grace of God

(No video)

The Staggers – Bottom of the Bottle

Day Dream Albums- Lydia Loveless

Note: if you want to know what this is all about check out my intro post…

 One of the great new voices in Alt Country, Lydia Loveless has become one of my favorite current artists out there on the road and making records. Check out her cover of Echo & The Bunnymen: "The Killing Moon"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYqzFuborPw

lydialoveless.com

         So if you have read the past entries in the series you know how this works… these are the songs I would bring to the table if I were able to work on a covers album project with Lydia…

Legal Weapon – Like A Rose

Drivin’n’Cryin – Blue Ridge Way

(no video)

Rank’n’File – Long Gone Dead

(no video)

Jet Black Berries – Color of Your Name

King’s X – Goldilox

Atomic Opera – Justice

Velvet Hammer – Kansas

The Damned – Street of Dreams

Shakespeare Sister – Stay

Jackson Phibes – Requiem for a Bug-a-Boo

(No video)

Blood on the Saddle – One Step Away

(No Video)

Atomic Swindlers – Float

The Stooges – Gimmie Danger

Wall of Voodoo – Call of the West

The Violators – Summer of ‘81

Patricia Vonne – Rebel Bride

Pearl Jam – Porch

Fire Inc – Nowhere Fast

So there it is the list

Disclaimer: this is all a album I day dream about making, there is no plans or talks of any of this happening...

Old SXSW discoveries....

so once upon a time I was a member of mog.com and posted there often for a couple of years.... 

one of the things that I did each year was to go through the SXSW offerings and look for new bands.. here's an old list of stuff I found.. and liked

Craighead County Sky By Abalone Dots

White As Diamonds By Alela Diane

Cornbread By The Band of Heathens

One Horse Down By Baskery

Deerslayer By Black Math Horseman

Woman in Uniform By Bogart & the Addictives

They Call Me Hopeless Destroyer By Brimstone Howl

Up And Down By The Chesterfield Kings

The Plank By The Devil Makes Three

Lookout By Dexter Romweber Duo

Trouble By The Dirt Drifters

My Best Friend's Hot By The Dollyrots

Ballad Of The Red-Legged Hawk's Fountain By Eagle Winged Palace

No Home The By Ettes

Country Bat High II By Golden Boots

Troubles Like Mine By Gun Outfit

Driftwood 40-23 By Hickoids

Dead Men Tell No Tales By The Hudsons

Keep In Touch By Jaakko & Jay

Battlescar ByJohnny Goudie and The Little Champions-

GIRL AT THE END OF THE BAR By Jon Langford And The Pine Valley Cosmonauts

Midnight At The Movies By Justin Townes Earle

Gloom Doom Buttercups By Kittens Ablaze

AMONG THE SURVIVORS By The Latebirds

Angry at the Sun The By Lost Brothers

Give Em What They Want By The Love Me Nots

Portable Freak Factory By Major Stars

lonely Kind By Mitch Webb and the Swindles

Daughters Of Heavy By Murder

Wet Gold By The Octopus Project

Call and Response By Or, the Whale

Making Gestures By The Pack A.D.

Prehistoric Dog By Red Fang

I'm Your Negative By River City Tanlines

Uplifter By Thee Headliners

Dirtied Your Knees By Thrift Store Cowboys

All Shook Up By Til We're Blue Or Destroy

Through Unto The End By Trainwreck Riders

Viva La Vinyl By Twilight Hotel

This Is Our Perfect Crime By The Von Bondies

Crazy By Whitey Morgan and the 78's

Hard Times In America By Willie Nile

When Lost At Sea By The Wooden Sky