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Panties In Your Purse – Drive By Truckers A couple of months ago, I had the awesome experience of seeing Mike Cooley of the Drive-By Truckers play a solo acoustic show at Eddie’s Attic in Decatur, one of the coolest shows I’ve ever been to. If you’ve followed the blog for a while, you know… Read more
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Any Day Now – Cop Shoot Cop Another one that just randomly reappeared in my library when I hit shuffle, I actually have two songs saved by the noise rock band Cop Shoot Cop. A quick Google search shows that these guys had a pretty cool 9-year run, touring with the likes of Iggy Pop,… Read more
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What Is and What Should Never Be – Led Zeppelin I recently picked up a copy of Led Zep II for my dad to replace his lost one, and gave it a complete re-listen for the first time in a long time. It’s funny, Zeppelin is one of my favorite bands and has been forever.… Read more
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What Difference Does It Make? – The Smiths What Difference Does It Make? by The Smiths from their self-titled debut album opens with one of my all-time favorite guitar riffs, played by one of the absolutely coolest guitarists of all time, Johnny Marr. Written by Marr and Morrissey, the lyrics can be quite haunting, but… Read more
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Rock Salt and Nails – Tyler Childers Another song covered by so many artists, and written by, but never performed or recorded by Utah Phillips, “Rock Salt and Nails” is one of the most haunting country songs of all time. Performed by Tyler Childers, the song seems to take on a whole new level of… Read more
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In Circles – Sunny Day Real Estate Sunny Day Real Estate‘s 1994 album Diary is one of the most underappreciated and often overlooked rock albums of the 90s, often credited with helping to define the genre that would become “midwest emo.” It features two future Foo Fighters, bass player Nate Mendel and drummer William Goldsmith.… Read more
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Never Been to Spain – Three Dog Night / Waylon Jennings Originally written by Hoyt Axton and covered by the likes of Elvis, Cher, Ike and Tina, and Waylon Jennings among others, I think I actually like the Three Dog Night version of “Never Been To Spain“. As I write that, I think I may… Read more
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Foo Fighters – Foo Fighters Per usual, I’ll highlight my three favorite tracks from the album with potential bonus tunes. At the time of writing, (1/14) today is Dave Grohl‘s birthday! The Foo Fighters have long been my favorite band, second only to the Beatles. In honor of his birthday month, I decided to feature… Read more
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Sao Lam Plearn – Chaweewan Dumnern Continuing with yesterday’s theme of world music, here’s some Thai psychedelic folk from the 60s or 70s. (couldn’t track down a release date) I have zero ideas about how this song ended up in my library, but with a riff that seems to take inspiration from The Stones “Jumpin’… Read more
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Amidinine – Etran de L’Air They’re back! And probably will be in the future too. Etran De L’air continues to blow me away. The family band (brothers and cousins) from Agadez, Niger, in West Africa, has been playing for over 25 years and is a star on the Nigerien wedding circuit. Their music is a… Read more
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