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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 4, 2019 11:10:31 GMT -5
Most listened to songs of 2018
#50 - "We're Gone" - Mike and the Moonpies
Mke and the Moonpies are back with the final track on their most recent album...appropriately named. Fun rockin' honky-tonk song.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 4, 2019 11:11:31 GMT -5
Most listened to songs of 2018
#49 - "Alabama Pines" - Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
Ummm...get used to Jason Isbell showing up.
This is off one of his earlier albums with the 400 Unit. I think that "Here We Rest" was the first of Isbell's albums I latched on to (I definitely knew his work from the Drive-By Truckers) and then back tracked to the self-titled album.
This was where I first really began to notice his lyrics and his point of view.
"No one gives a damn about the things I give a damn about
The liberties that we can't do without seem to disappear
Like ghosts in the air
When we don't even care, it truly vanishes away"
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 4, 2019 11:12:37 GMT -5
Most listened to songs of 2018
#48 - "Rose Hotel" - Robert Earl Keen
REK is up again. Love the imagery this song evokes. Another album from 2009 that really stuck in my mind...particularly this title track.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 4, 2019 11:15:31 GMT -5
Most listened to songs of 2018
#47 - "Errol's Song" - Adam Carrol
This one was new to me and I wasn't familiar with Adam Carrol. But this song really spoke to me. It reminded me of going out duck hunting with Jim and Uncle Doug early on a winter morning. That was in Southern Idaho and not Louisian, but there are plenty of similarities.
Great nostalgic sign. And remember "When When you're out of Schlitz, you're out of beer."
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 4, 2019 11:39:42 GMT -5
Most listened to songs of 2018
#46 - "Indianapolis" - The Bottle Rockets.
A song about car breakdowns. If it hadn't been this one it likely would have been "1000 Dollar Car"...also by The Bottle Rockets. I spent a lot of years with vehicles you didn't really trust to get you where you were going.
This is a fun song. Makes my feet move and has meaning. And it slags on John Cougar...and that's always a good thing.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 4, 2019 12:00:28 GMT -5
Most listened to songs of 2018
#45 - "Hemingway's Whiskey" - Guy Clark
I'm not convinced anyone has ever written more convincingly about the act of writing...of putting words and lyrics on the page than Guy Clark.
"You know it tough out there a good muse is hard to find
Living one word to the next and living one line at a time
Now there more to life then whiskey theres more to words than rhyme
Sometime nothing works sometimes nothing shines"
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 4, 2019 18:30:09 GMT -5
Most listened to songs of 2018
#44 - "Milonga Triste" - Gato Barbieri
I first came across Gato in a jazz sampler cd. I was able to track down a few of his albums. I hadn't listened in a number of years. But when I was putting together a jazz playlist I listened to quite a bit of his discography. I really do love the tone he gets from his sax.
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Post by beccabear67 on Jan 5, 2019 1:12:35 GMT -5
Never heard of Mike and the Moonpies before.  Makes me think of Doug & The Slugs or Martha & the Muffins. Listened to the last Badfinger/Pete Ham demos I was going through while rereading a book about them/him, and then listened to Gene Clark Sings For You for only the second time. It's a set of 1967 recordings intended for a second solo album by the Byrds founder but never released back then. It's release with a few other demos of the time, all original Gene Clark written songs, was one of the big events of 2018 for many. Thoughts while listening to that... on a couple tracks Gene sure sounds a lot like John Stewart, but this was before Stewart had recorded any solo albums! |
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Post by Confessor on Jan 5, 2019 10:41:38 GMT -5
Never heard of Mike and the Moonpies before. Makes me think of Doug & The Slugs or Martha & the Muffins. Listened to the last Badfinger/Pete Ham demos I was going through while rereading a book about them/him, and then listened to Gene Clark Sings For You for only the second time. It's a set of 1967 recordings intended for a second solo album by the Byrds founder but never released back then. It's release with a few other demos of the time, all original Gene Clark written songs, was one of the big events of 2018 for many. Thoughts while listening to that... on a couple tracks Gene sure sounds a lot like John Stewart, but this was before Stewart had recorded any solo albums! I'm a big Byrds and Gene Clark fan, but I still haven't gotten around to getting the Sings For You CD yet. I really must sort that out. There was also a RSD vinyl release in 2018 called Back Street Mirror, which collects more demos by Clark from roughly the same 1966/1967 era as Sings For You, I believe. Have you heard that? I wasn't able to get a copy at the time and prices are extortionate now. |
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Post by Confessor on Jan 5, 2019 13:36:31 GMT -5
I'm currently listening to Mazzy Star's second album So Tonight That I Might See from 1993. Love their hypnotic, stoner, dream pop cum singer-songwriter music and Hope Sandoval's gorgeously laid back voice. I sometimes forget how much I like this duo.  |
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Post by beccabear67 on Jan 5, 2019 14:23:40 GMT -5
I'm a big Byrds and Gene Clark fan, but I still haven't gotten around to getting the Sings For You CD yet. I really must sort that out. There was also a RSD vinyl release in 2018 called Back Street Mirror, which collects more demos by Clark from roughly the same 1966/1967 era as Sings For You, I believe. Have you heard that? I wasn't able to get a copy at the time and prices are extortionate now. I think I assumed Back Street Mirror was a 7" EP with tracks from the Gene Clark: The Lost Studio Sessions 1964-1982 set Sierra put out a couple years ago (I got the 2LP version which came with some mini CD extras). Don't Let If Fall Through and Back Street Mirror are on that. I know I've heard Yesterday, Am I Right though, but I did also have some bootleg type fan-circulated sets of demos of variable quality. I may have to add this release to my list where I didn't think I needed it before. The Sessions set was loaded with some great originals in best quality, and I'm glad I got it, though there were a lot of delays in it coming out... I waited many months after pre-ordering. I'd definitely put Sessions ahead of Sings For You. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 7, 2019 21:34:32 GMT -5
Most listened to songs of 2018
#43 - "Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way" - Waylon Jennings
As I recall, Spotify told me Waylon was one of my top five artists for 2018. But this is the only song by Waylon on the list. So I guess my listening of Hoss was pretty broad.
This is a great song. A statement on what the Outlaw movement was trying to accomplish in the 70s. If there's one thing that's consistent it's that mainstream music will always be more chaff than wheat.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 7, 2019 21:35:26 GMT -5
Most listened to songs of 2018
#42 - "Blue in Green" - Miles Davis
We are back to Kind of Blue. I recently watched a little video that showed a bit about the change that Davis & Co. went through int the evolution from Bop to the Modal sound in Kind of Blue. It really helped this poor non-musician understand some of the complexities of the music.
This is just a gorgeous song. It's one that has grown on me over the years. Bill Evans' (rumored to have written or co-written this song) piano work here is transcendent.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 8, 2019 0:15:18 GMT -5
Most listened to songs of 2018
#41 - "Flowers in Your Hair" - Dale Watson
I love me some Dale Watson. Dale was another one of those guys I came across when I was discovering alt-country/americana. I really loved this album and this is my second favorite track from this album. Just a great ode to a great woman.
If I had any complaints about Dale it's that the guy is almost too damn prolific. It's a bit hard to keep up with the music that he puts out.
I am a bit sad I couldn't find a live version with decent sound.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 8, 2019 10:47:43 GMT -5
Most listened to songs of 2018
#40 "Get Together" - Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore
I was surprised and pleased when Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore did an album together in 2018. I had a checkered history with both of them. I liked a lot of what The Blasters did and some of Alvin's solo stuff. But I wasn't a huge fan. Gilmore was a longer journey. I came to him via Joe Ely and the re-release of The Flatlanders classic album. I initially did not like Gilmore's voice. But it grew on me and I understand its appeal now.
The album the two put together "Downey to Lubbock" was one of my more listened too LPs of the year. This was, to my mind, the stand-out track. Just a great cover of the Youngbloods classic. Perfect coming from an old hippy like Gilmore.
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Makes me think of Doug & The Slugs or Martha & the Muffins.