morning to you all. the great show rub out continues, but here is another one of my favorites. its a  lovely recording of jeff buckley @ mercury lounge in ny on 12.31.95. one million thanks to the original taper! fyi, anything older than 4 months is gone or going. so, if you been putting off grabbing something i would probably do it within the next 24-48 hours….

1. new years prayer
2. lover, you should’ve come over
3. curtains
4. kick out the jams
5. grace
6. mood swing whiskey
7. woke up in a strange place
8. last goodbye
9. lost highway
10. mojo pin
11. the other woman
12. so real
13. dink’s song
14. alive
15. 3 is the magic number

sometimes i just wanna be coddled, either via a serious head rub or taking in the tones that only a lovely lass can provide. usually, and/or sadly, i have to rely on the latter, but that’s a matter that i must take up with my lady. usually i hit up the usual suspects, chan, neko, lucinda, mary lou, etc to wrap me close to their bosoms and take my pain way, but i may have found another to add to my collection of ladies. canadian emma lee has the pipes that hearkens me back to simpler days. days when my gramma-ma would crafted her locally famous apple pies near an open window, and the smells of said pies and the sounds of her zenith am radio would waft in the air and through the fields as i played. that does sound a like lovely time, but sadly never happened. although, if i were ever lucky enough to have experienced such a rockwellian experience, i think i would want emma lee playin in the background.

never just a dream is being released on 3.3.

never just a dream

bruise easy
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emma lee site / myspace

as i sit here deleting show, after show – which actually pains me, btw, – i am going to spare a few of my favorites and repost them as they will eventually go bye bye. here is the first one, it’s spoon on 1.23.08 @ the enmore theatre, in newtown, sydney, australia. it’s a fm broadcast, fyi.

1. don’t you evah

2. you got yr cherry bomb

3. stay don’t got

4. the ghost of you lingers

5. i turn my camera on

6. the beast and dragon, adored

7. me and the bean

8. don’t make me a target

9. i summon you

10. jonathon fisk

11. the underdog

How To Wax Your Floors Without Slipping And Severing Your Spine

oh dear lord, i spit out my beer…

morning, ladies and gents. here is nick cave @ the berlin tempodrom, germany, 5.21.08. its an fm broadcast, btw.

1. night of the lotus eaters
2. dig, lazarus, dig
3. tupelo
4. todays lesson
5. red right hand
6. midnight man
7. deanna
8. lie down here
9. moonland
10. we call upon the author
11. papa wont leave you henry
12. more news from nowhere
13. get ready for love
14. hard on for love
15. the lyre of orpheus
16. into my arms
17. the mercy seat
18. stagger lee

on my way back from atlanta the other week i, for some reason, brought a book of cds in addition to my ipod. this practice vanished years ago, but i knew there was some stuff in that book that wasnt on the ipod, and i just felt the need to maybe mix shit up. as it turns out i did indeed listen to a bunch of stuff that hadnt been heard in years, which was quite refreshing. one record during my drive that i re-discovered was mike johnson’s year of mondays. mike has worked with just about everybody in “indie” rock – most notably, playing on most mark lanegan’s early solo records and playing bass in dinosaur jr. as you may have already guessed by the title, year of mondays is a bit of a downer record. its not a depressing record, its just that johnson’s vocals, somewhere between lanegan and stephen merrit, make it difficult for the mood to rise above the doldrums. sadly, since my return i have been unable to locate year of mondays to provide a few tracks, via up, for you sampling pleasure, but here are a few from his other, most excellent releases. will keep on attempting to locate mondays, though…

all there is off i feel alright

world hadn’t gone insane off gone out of your mind

arise off what would you do

mike johnson myspace

alela diane, never heard of her until today, but so far me likes what me hears. the first single from her sophmore record, to be still, is a lovely little folkish type song ala joanna newsom and the like, and i can only hope the rest of the record is much of the same. good stuff…. the nevada city native’s to be still is being released via rough trade on 2.17 and is embarking on a tour with blitzen trapper.

white diamonds

tour dates..

Feb 18 Cedar Cultural Centre w/ Blitzen Trapper Minneapolis, Minnesota
Feb 19 Empty Bottle w/ Blitzen Trapper Chicago, Illinois
Feb 20 Magic Stick w/ Blitzen Trapper Detroit, Michigan
Feb 21 Horseshoe Tavern w/ Blitzen Trapper Toronto
Feb 22 La Sala Rossa w/ Blitzen Trapper Montreal
Feb 24 Bug Jar w/ Blitzen Trapper Rochester, New York
Feb 25 Pearl Street Nightclub w/ Blitzen Trapper Northampton, Massachusetts
Feb 26 Paradise w/ Blitzen Trapper Boston, Massachusetts
Feb 27 Bowery Ballroom w/ Blitzen Trapper New York, New York
Feb 28 Music Hall of Williamsburg w/ Blitzen Trapper Brooklyn, New York
Mar 1 First Unitarian Church w/ Blitzen Trapper philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Mar 2 Black Cat w/ Blitzen Trapper washington DC, Washington DC
Mar 4 40 Watt Club w/ Blitzen Trapper Athens, Georgia
Mar 5 Orange Peel w/ Blitzen Trapper Asheville, North Carolina
Mar 6 Mercy Lounge w/ Blitzen Trapper Nashville, Tennessee
Mar 7 The Bottletree w/ Blitzen Trapper Birmingham, Alabama
Mar 8 Hi-Tone Cafe w/ Blitzen Trapper Memphis, Tennessee
Mar 9 The Opolis w/ Blitzen Trapper Norman, Oklahoma
Mar 10 Jackpot Saloon w/ Blitzen Trapper Lawrence, Kansas
Mar 12 Hi Dive w/ Blitzen Trapper Denver, Colorado
Mar 13 Kilby Court w/ Blitzen Trapper Salt Lake City, Utah