“Long Time Traveller dates back to 2010, when it was issued in Japan as a very limited release from On-U Sound and Beat Records. The songwriter has a longstanding relationship with On-U Sound dating back to the earliest days of the post-punk era, when he provided occasional backing vocals for its dubplates. Nichols’ love of reggae goes back to his days with the Fellow Travellers, who fused Americana, country, and dub. As good as those recordings were, though, they don’t touch these.” Allmusic
“Alongside their showstopping instrumental version of the Kinks’ “You Really Got Me,” this was one of the standout covers on Mott the Hoople’s eponymous debut album, a characteristically evocative slice of Doug Sahm-composed Texas-centric Americana which the group reduced to a stately organ and tasteful guitar-led ballad, shaded with a mood lifted straight from Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone,” then layered with one of Ian Hunter’s own most-Dylanesque vocals. The instrumental break alone could have slipped out of a Highway 61 Revisited-era jam session. The song was a positive standout in the band’s early live set — tapes of Mott’s 1970 Fillmore West engagements are positively dominated by it.”Allmusic
“On Friday, Jan. 22, 2016, the Cactus Blossoms released their debut full-length studio album, You’re Dreaming, on the Red House Records label. The Cactus Blossoms — brothers Page Burkum and Jack Torrey — have made a name for themselves among The Current’s listeners and among regulars at the Turf Club in St. Paul.”Source
On 14 December 1979 Bowie performed TVC 15 as a musical guest on Saturday Night Live, accompanied by Klaus Nomi and Joey Arias.
No particular order. For certain some very good albums were forgotten here, but these 15 albums simply refused to leave my Cowon J3 once they arrived there:
1 Hollis Brown – 3 shots
2 Craig Finn – Faith in the Future
3 Sarah Shook & the Disarmers – Sidelong
4 James McMurtry – Complicated Game
5 Anderson East – Delilah
6 Shawn David McMillen – On the Clock with JJ & Mitch
7 Mike and the Moonpies – Mockingbird
8 Advance Base – Nephew in the Wild
9 Gun Outfit – Dream All Over
10 Happyness – Weird Little Birthday
11 T. Hardy Morris – Drownin On a Mountaintop
12 Promised Land Sound – For Use and Delight
13 Kamasi Washington – The Epic
14 Rocket from the Tombs – Black Record
15 Bob Dylan – Shadows in the night
“San Francisco DIY pop king Kelley Stoltz is a very prolific artist though his releases tend to come in spurts. (His last album was 2013’s Double Exposure.) Get ready for Stoltz overload, as he’ll have not one, not two, but three new records out this fall.
His love of Echo & the Bunnymen and The Fall rears its head on In Triangle Time which features more synthesizers than usual and will be released by Castle Face on November 6. You can check out opening track “Cut Me Baby,” which owes a little to Bowie’s Eno records…”Source
“The new line-up performed at the 1972 Reading Festival. Barcus Berry instrument pick-ups, now sported by the band’s string trio, allowed them to have proper amplification on stage for their instruments, which had previously been all but drowned out by all the sound of the electrified instruments. The band released their second album, ELO 2 in 1973, which produced their second UK top 10 and their first US chart single, an elaborate version of the Chuck Berry classic “Roll Over Beethoven”Wiki
Electric Light Orchestra – Roll Over Beethoven (Original Promo) 1973
“Sometimes it takes a bad seed to make good country music. That’s just the way it is. Just how bad Sarah Shook is probably depends on your perspective, but she was born into a good Christian home and raised in a wholesome manner that taught her to do everything in virtually the exact opposite way she eventually did it. Home schooled and only exposed to worship music at an early age, Sarah rebelled when she got the chance and her first band was named “Sarah Shook & The Devil.” Sorry mom and dad, but there was something inside Sarah that had to come out, and though this isn’t devil music by any stretch, it’s certainly not scriptures.”savingcountrymusic.com
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