Mazzy Star have two new songs on a Record Store Day single. One is “Things,” and the other is “I’m Less Here.”
Check out the trippy video for “I’m Less Here”:
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Monthly Archives: April 2014
Video: Neil Young Releases ‘A Letter Home’ With No Pre-Release Hype
I first reported in mid-January of this year that Neil Young’s next album would consist of all covers and that he was “collaborating” with Jack White.
I speculated that songs on the album would likely include Phil Ochs’ “Changes,” Bert Jansch’s “Needle of Death,” Gordon Lightfoot’s “Early Morning Rain,” Ivory Joe Hunter’s “Since I Met You Baby” and Tim Hardin’s “Reason To Believe.”
Today the album, A Letter Home, was released with none of the usual pre-release hoopla, and it includes all of those songs, plus Bob Dylan’s “Girl From the North Country,” Bruce Springsteen’s “My Hometown,” a second song by Gordon Lightfoot, “If You Could Only Read My Mind,” plus songs by the Everly Brothers and Willie Nelson.
Jack White not only recorded the album on his 1947 Voice-o-Graph vinyl record recording booth at Third Man Records in Nashville, but he’s released the album on Third Man Records, is credited along with Young as the album’s co-producer (actually it says on the back cover “Reproduced by Jack White and Neil Young) and plays on two tracks.
“[It’s] a phone booth,” Young told Spin. “It’s all acoustic with a harmonica inside a closed space, with one mic to vinyl … It’s a funky old machine, it sounds like Jimmy Rogers or something.”
For Record Store Day tomorrow, the album will be available on vinyl in limited quantities at select record stores around the country.
TRACKLIST:
01 “Changes” (Phil Ochs)
02 “Girl From The North Country” (Bob Dylan)
03 “Needle of Death” (Bert Jansch)
04 “Early Morning Rain” (Gordon Lightfoot)
05 “Reason To Believe” (Tim Hardin)
06 “On The Road Again” (Willie Nelson)
07 “If You Could Only Read My Mind” (Gordon Lightfoot)
08 “Since I Met You Baby” (Ivory Joe Hunter)
09 “My Hometown” (Bruce Springsteen)
10 “I Wonder If I Care As Much” (Everly Brothers)
Here are live performances of some of the songs.
“Reason To Believe” at Farm Aid 2013:
“Changes” at Carnegie Hall 2014:
“Early Morning Rain” at Farm Aid 2013:
“Since I Met You Baby” at Farm Aid 2013:
“Needle of Death” at Carnegie Hall 2014:
“If You Could Read My Mind” at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, 2014:
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Audio: Joanna Gruesome Do Galaxie 500’s ‘Tugboat’
I love this British band, Joanna Gruesome.
Although Joanna Gruesome pulled an unofficial video directed by their drummer, David Sanford, for “Tugboat” that Pitchfork briefly posted earlier today, I thought you might dig hearing the song, which is the flip of the group’s single, “Sugarcrush.”
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Audio: Neil Young Plays Acoustic Show In Dallas, April 17, 2014 – 8 1/2 songs
Neil Young at Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas TX, April 17, 2014.
And there are more videos from this show here.
“Harvest Moon”:
“Heart of Gold”:
“After the Gold Rush”:
“Southern Man”:
“Old Man”:
“Mr. Soul”:
“Ohio”:
“Thrasher”:
“Pocahontas” (partial):
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Audio: Bob Dylan Sings ‘I Rode Out One Morning,’ ‘House of the Rising Sun’- April 12, 1963
These two songs, recorded a little over 51 years ago, were taped at the home of Eve and Mac McKenzie. Dylan met the McKenzies at Gerde’s Folk City in early 1961, according to Isis Magazine. He was “introduced to Mac McKenzie by Woody Guthrie’s wife Marjorie. ”
Isis:
Folk enthusiasts, the McKenzies had an apartment north of the Village where some of the young would-be folk musicians often met up. Dylan became a regular visitor and soon a houseguest too, sleeping on the couch in the family’s living room. The middle-aged couple, generous down-to-earth folks, were among the first to adopt Dylan. Mac was a hard working, hard-drinking longshoreman, Eve, an ex-Martha Graham dancer, described Dylan as looking like a character out of Dickens, with long coat and cap.
Dylan recorded many songs at the apartment.
Below are two songs Dylan recorded at the Mckenzie’s apartment on April 12, 1963 (according to bobdylan.com).
The first song, “I Rode Out One Morning,” is an obscure one that Dylan only performed once, and you’re about to listen to that the one tine he played it.
“I Rode Out One Morning”:
“House of the Rising Sun”:
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Audio: Listen to Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Hurry Up Sundown’ off ‘American Beauty EP’
For Record Store Day this Saturday April 19, 2014 Bruce Springsteen is releasing a four-song record, American Beauty EP.
The EP includes three unreleased tracks recorded during the High Hopes sessions — “American Beauty,” “Mary Mary” and “Hey Blue Eyes” — plus the single, “Hurry Up Sundown.”
Springsteen played all instruments on “Hurry Up Sundown” except drums, which are handled by Josh Freese (A Perfect Circle, Devo, Nine Inch Nails).
Listen to “Hurry Up Sundown” right now right here.
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Previously Unreleased Hank Williams’ Radio Broadcasts from 1950 Coming On Record Store Day – ‘Lovesick Blues,’ ‘Oh! Susanna’ & More
Ok, this I gotta hear!
Hank Williams live on-the-air performances that were broadcast back in 1950 but have never before been released on record or CD or any other format.
On Saturday, April 19, you know, Record Store Day, Omnivore Recordings is making available The Garden Spot Programs, 1950 — Extended Play.
10″ EP Track List:
Side 1:
1. THE GARDEN SPOT JINGLE (Show 4)
2. I DON’T CARE (IF TOMORROW NEVER COMES) (Show 10)
3. LOVESICK BLUES (Show 4)
4. CLOSING/OH! SUSANNA (Show 10)
Side 2:
1. FARTHER ALONG (Show 10)
2. MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS (Show 9)
3. FIDDLE TUNE (Show 4)
4. CLOSING/OH! SUSANNA (Show 11)
Then on May 20, 2014 comes The Garden Spot Programs, 1950, “featuring 24 performances,” according to Omnivore, “unheard for 64 years, from the one and only Hank Williams!”
Here’s what’s on the Omnivore website:
Rescued from obscurity, these shows originally aired over 6 decades ago, and The Garden Spot Programs, 1950 collects material from the four of them now known to exist.
From hits to standards to songs rarely (if ever) performed, this is pure Hank Williams, including playful, between song banter. Fully restored to incredible quality, The Garden Spot Programs, 1950 is more like being in the studio when they were recorded than actually listening to them on the radio!
The CD packaging contains rare photos from the collection of set co-producer and Williams biographer, Colin Escott, as well as new liners. Also available on LP, the first pressing will be on limited-edition, translucent red vinyl (with black vinyl to follow), and contains Escott’s informative notes and a download card.
Any music from Hank Williams is worth celebrating. Discovering material that has been unheard for generations is monumental.
“It’s incredible to me that we’re still finding new recordings by my dad, Great ones, at that! No one even suspected that these recordings existed.
We partnered with Omnivore Recordings for this release, and I especially love it that they’re taking my dad back to vinyl.” — Jett Williams
Track Listing
• Unheard for 64 years
• Available on CD/LP/Digital
• First LP pressing on translucent red vinyl
• Rare photos and informative liner notes
1. The Garden Spot Jingle
2. Lovesick Blues
3. A Mansion On The Hill
4. Fiddle Tune
5. I’ve Just Told Mama Goodbye
6. Closing/Oh! Susanna
7. The Garden Spot Jingle
8. Mind Your Own Business
9. Lovesick Blues
10. Fiddle Tune
11. At The First Fall Of Snow
12. Closing/Oh! Susanna
13. The Garden Spot Jingle
14. I Can’t Get You Off Of My Mind
15. I Don’t Care (If TomorrowNever Comes)
16. Fiddle Tune
17. Farther Along
18. Closing/Oh! Susanna
19. The Garden Spot Jingle
20. I’ll Be A Bachelor ’Til I Die
21. Wedding Bells
22. Fiddle Tune
23. Jesus Remembered Me
24. Closing/Oh! Susanna
Tracks 1 – 6 taken from NAUGHTON FARMS GARDEN SPOT PROGRAM: SHOW #4
Tracks 7 – 12 taken from NAUGHTON FARMS GARDEN SPOT PROGRAM: SHOW #9
Tracks 13 – 18 taken from NAUGHTON FARMS GARDEN SPOT PROGRAM: SHOW #10
Tracks 19 – 24 taken from NAUGHTON FARMS GARDEN SPOT PROGRAM: SHOW #11
Video: Bob Dylan, Bonnie Raitt, Play ‘Million Miles’ Live
Two live versions of Bob Dylan playing “Million Miles” (off Time Out Of Mind) plus a live take on the song by Bonnie Raitt.
Bob Dylan at the Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, ON, Canada, October 29, 1998:
Bob Dylan at the Theater, Madison Square Garden, New York, NY, January 16, 1998:
Bonnie Raitt at Amager Bio in Copenhagen, Denmark, July 21st, 2013:
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Video: The Band Live in Asbury Park, NJ. July 1976 – full hour 20 minute set
This is a great set from The Band at Casino Arena, Asbury Park, NJ, July 20, 1976.
The video is pretty faded but the audio is terrific and The Band sound great.
Robbie Robertson – Lead Guitar
Rick Danko – Bass & Vocals
Levon Helm – Drums & Vocals
Richard Manuel – Piano & Vocals
Garth Hudson – Organ & Keyboards
1. Introduction 0:00
2. Don’t Do It 1:09
3. The Shape I’m In 6:01
4. It Makes No Difference 10:13
5. The Weight 17:16
6. King Harvest (Has Surely Come) 22:00
7. Twilight 25:36
8. Ophelia 29:22
9. Tears of Rage 33:03
10. Forbidden Fruit 38:45
11. This Wheels On Fire 45:00
12. The Night They Drove OI’ Dixie Down 48:53
13. Genetic Method 52:53
14. Chest Fever 57:12
15. Stage Fright 1:01:54
16. Up On Cripple Creek 1:06:30
17. The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show 1:12:07
18. Life Is A Carnival 1:15:44
Thanks for hipping me to this Aquarium Drunkard!
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Audio: Led Zeppelin’s ‘Good Times Bad Times’ / ‘Communication Breakdown’ Live In Paris, 1969
This kicks ass.
“Good Times Bad Times” / “Communication Breakdown,” live in Paris, 1969.
This is from the upcoming expanded rerelease of Led Zeppelin’s debut album, Led Zeppelin
There’s not much of “Good Times Bad Times,” but you’ll likely dig “Communication Breakdown.”
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