Sunday Evening OPB Radio Playlist

Sunday evening after a Trail Blazes loss and the realization that this team is in trouble that has caused me to be discouraged with watching basketball preceded by my obsessive eagle in the park photo session that turned out mostly blurry, so a little good music is in order.

• M Ward - Me and My Shadow ….. Just caught the last thirty seconds but something about this says Bob Dylan to me.
• Lord Huron - Lonesome Dreams *****
• Kishi Bashi - Philosophize In It! Chemicalize With It!
• Angie McMahon - Keeping Time ***** ….. Thought that I need to purchase this one, went to iTunes and discovered that I already had.
• Shearwater - A Long Time Away
• Nico - The Fairest of the Seasons ….. Instantly recognizable. A voice I love!! "I want to know, do I stay or do I go?"
• Animal Eyes - Mushroom Hunter
• Black Belt Eagle Scout - My Heart Dreams *****
• Frankie Cosmos - A Joke (live version)
• Kathleen Edwards - Asking for Flowers ***** ….. In my collection. Reminding me that I need to dig the album out and get reaquainted. "Don't tell me you're too tired, ten years I've been working nights."
• Cat Power - Woman (featuring Lana Del Rey)

Saturday Evening Radio Playlist

Saturday evening. Too wet and chilly to be running about outside. So a little Oregon Public Broadcasting music stream is in order. Always with some new and different sounds mixed with a few classics for these aging ears.

• Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside - God's Away On Business
• The Devil Makes Three - All Hail
• Daniel Norgren - Dandelion Time
• STRFKR - Open Your Eyes
• Dan Dan - Circuit
• David Bowie - The Stars (Are Out Tonight) *****
• Andy Shauf - Things I Do
• Jeff Tweedy - Family Ghost
• The Prids - Summer Cult *****
• Alvvays - In Undertow
• Lala Lala and WHY? - Siren 042
• Saintseneca - The Awefull Yawn
• Toro Y Moi - Girl Like You
• Tommy Alexander - Time and Time Again
• She-Devils - Hey Boy

I keep saying to myself: "Time to end this and move on to whatever's next in my evening …. But maybe just one more song." Because the alternative tonight was watching my list of Twitter followers go up and down.

• Bon Iver - Naeem
• Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Heavy Metal
• Dana Buoy - Bloom
• Corridor - Junior *****
• La Luz - Cicada

Playlist For a Friend

• Gordon Lightfoot - Beautiful ..... Because incredible beauty needs to be acknowledged.
• Warren Zevon - Empty Handed Heart
• Robert Palmer - One Last Look
• Peter Himmelman - Woman With the Strength of Ten Thousand Men

Playlist

Listening to online radio …. OPB Music.

• Great Grandpa - Mono No Aware
• Roselit Bone - Proving Grounds
• Jay Som - Nighttime Drive
• Caroline Rose - More of the Same
• Cold War Kids - Hang Me Up to Dry
• Wilco - Love Is Everywhere (Beware)
• Bahamas - Alone
• Sunflower Bean - Come For Me ….. I hate it when a song reminds you of something or someone but you can't quite recall what or who.
•  The Hello Sequence - Downward Spiral
• The Decemberists - We Both Go Down Together ….. This one I can easily identify what it reminds me of. REM's, 'Losing My Religion.'
• Khruangbin - Maria Tambien …..  Not even going to attempt to pronounce the bands name.

Fred Neil

A collection from 2009 bringing together two of his albums from the 1960's. The ultimate singer/songwriter!! Classic 60's Folkie!!

You don't know the name …. How about his song, 'Everybody's Talking'? Surely you've heard that song at some place and time on some radio station in your lifetime. Someone else may have been singing it but you've heard it. It's one of those timeless classics.

Playlist

• Uncle Tupelo - Sandusky ..... Discovering Son Volt in the mid-90's led me to Uncle Tupelo. Not exactly chronological order. Instrumental tune revolving around a mandolin.
• Son Volt - Back Into Your World .....My Introduction to Son Volt, who already had a couple albums out at the time. Apparently I'm late to everything. It became my anthem and prayer for awhile.
• Greg Copeland - Pretty Girl Rules the World ..... Being a fan of Jackson Browne in the 1970's you would eventually read or hear the name, Greg Copeland, one of his early songwriting mentors.
• Neil Young - Cowgirl In the Sand / Cinnamon Girl
• Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here ..... The first time I flew, I heard this song the previous evening played live in Borders by a couple of local guys. I was extremely nervous about flying the next morning and thinking this might be my final worldly task. I was also sending a message through the waves, "Wish you were HERE!" I really didn't want to board that plane in the morning. 

Thirteenth Floor Elevators

Groovy, hip and far out 1960's Psychedelic Rock.

Stumbled across the four disc/album box set in my local record store. The Monday/Tuesday evening store guy told me that he had his eyes on it for some time. Well you should have snapped it up, I thought. I felt a little badly for taking something he may have wanted but I'm over it now. Music collecting can be ruthless at times.

He informed me that the individual vinyls are difficult to find.

Weekend's End Playlist

Because the weekend is nearly over. One needs a playlist for that occasion right? Via OPB Music …..

• Low - Just Make It Stop
• Aan - Cause and Effect
• Stars - Ageless Beauty
• Reptaliens - Olive Boy
• Wild Ones - It's Real ….. Has a Portlandia, girl band feel to it. Assuming I know that sound when I hear it.
• Black Belt Eagle Scout - Loss and Relax
• Sharon Van Etten - Kevin's
• Kings of Convenience - Misread *****
• Daniel Norgren - Dandelion Time
• Elliott Smith - Condor Ave. ***** ….. About as Portlandia as it gets!!
• Alabama Shakes - Hold On
• Midlake - Head Home *****
• A Tribe Called Quest - Dis Generation 

Big Star

'Nothing Can Hurt Me' by Big Star

Soundtrack to a documentary film featuring the band from the 1970's. They should have been a lot more popular in their time.

Frightened Rabbit

New sounds to my aging ears. Heard on Oregon Public Broadcasting Music's, online overnight stream. From 2008. 'The Midnight Organ Fight' by Frightened Rabbit.

From Scotland. The lead singer sounds like I know his voice from some other place.

I mean, I need to be sleeping as I type these words but this album is keeping that from happening. Why is this incredible eleven year old record just being heard and enjoyed for the first time?

Sadly, I read that the groups frontman, Scott Hutchison, passed away last year.

A Little Longer Playlist Than Yesterday, Playlist

Just a side note ….. I'm becoming less a fan of the Jazz saxophone (soprano especially) and more of a fan of the Jazz trumpet.

• Alex Lahey - Don't Be So Hard On Yourself
• Lucius - Almost Makes Me Wish For Rain
• Souvenir Driver - Kiss You Close
• Jamila Woods - ZORA
• The Felice Brothers - Frankie's Gun ….. The lead vocalist sounds in spots like he's channeling Bob Dylan.
• Josh Ritter - Good Man ***** ….. Did I switch over to 'Folk Alley'?
• Froth - Laurel

Short Playlist

OPB Music. An aborted listening session due to the interrupting requirements of the moment ….

• Courtney Barnett - Everybody Here Hates You ….. I sure hope not!!
• Sunflower Bean - Crisis Fest ….. Another where you could switch the song title and band name and nobody (except fans of the band) would know.
• Sleater Kinney - Entertain

Streaming OPB

Playlist: OPB Radio Stream …. For a Sunday evening.

•  Local Natives - Sun Hands
• tUnE-yArDs - My Country
• Black Lips - Starting Over ….. Sounds to me like The Byrds meets The Rolling Stones meets The Replacements meets The Cure
• Better Oblivion Community Center - Dylan Thomas
• Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Let The Day Begin
• Frightened Rabbit - Good Arms vs. Bad Arms ***** - Sounds a bit like The Avett Brothers to my ears.
• Sea Wolf - I Made a Resolution
• Shadowgraphs - Another Time
• Bright Eyes - Road to Joy ….. I'm sure these guys are talented musicians with a huge following but they're just not a group I can appreciate.
• The Tallest Man On Earth - Weather of a Killing Kind

Do you ever wonder how music would have evolved if todays voices had been on the scene in the 1960's and The Beatles, Rolling Stones, etc., came along today?

If The Beatles came along in 2019, would I most likely not listen to them because I am from three or four generations earlier. Would they breakout and would the same songs become hits?

• Blossom - Career Suicide
• Pavement - Major Leagues *****
• The Afghan Whigs - 66 *****
• Adia Victoria - Different Kind of Love
• Snail Mail - Heat Waves *****

Afternoon Playlist

Another OPB Playlist. This time late afternoon/early evening listening …..

• Marika Hackman - I'm Not Where You Are
• Tracy Chapman - Change
• Fruit Bats - The Bottom of It
• Midlake - Head Home
• Crooked Still - Can't You Hear Me Calling
• Amelia - Between the Bars
• Phantogram - Into Happiness
• Sparklehorse - Piano Fire *****
• Post Animal - Ralphie

Return to Folk Alley

Streaming Folk Alley online radio playlist ….

• Wilco - Impossible Germany *****
• Beppe Gambetta - Slade Stomp ….. Acoustic guitar instrumental.
• Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Yitho Umillo Ovuthayo ….. A little World Music.
• Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder - Spam Jelly ***** ..... An instrumental Newgrass neck bobbin' toe tapper! Great banjo and mandolin solos.
• Vienna Teng - Whatever You Want *****
• Mark Erelli - Before I Knew Your Name ..... My old friend, Suzie comes to mind. She's a huge fan of Mark Erelli.
• John Prine - Other Side of Town ..... How could a person not love John Prine? I've been a fan since I purchased 'Common Sense' in 1975 because I saw Jackson Browne was singing on it.
• Dean Magraw - Seventh One ..... Another acoustic guitar instrumental.
• Tracy Chapman - Remember the Tinman
• Iron & Wine - My Lady's House

Dinosaur Jr.

'I Bet On Sky' by Dinosaur Jr.

New sounds for me. I guess I'd seen the name previously but had no idea. Then a few nights ago I heard the song, 'Watch the Corners' on the OPB Music overnight radio stream. Delighted to find that not only did I enjoy that one song but I enjoy their body of work which is pretty extensive. Either under this band name or solo efforts by J Mascis.

I love it when that happens!!!

And the bonus of great album artwork!! Worthy of framing.

Discovering Gold

OPB Music overnight streaming ….. turning me on to new sounds and causing sudden trips to the record store. This is from three evenings ago.

• Craig Finn - When No One's Watching
• Geographer - I'm Ready
• Wye Oak - Before
• Beirut - Gallipoli ***** …… I'm obsessed with the trumpets on this. I'd heard it once or twice before but it was this listen that opened my ears to the beauty of the trumpets.
• Dan Black featuring Kid Codi - Symphonies ***** …..  Leading to a download.
• Other Lives - Take Us Alive
• Nilufer Yanya - Paralyzed
• Boreen - Lovely
• Aan - Cause and Effect
• Dinosaur Jr. - Watch the Corners ***** ….. Research, followup research and two trips to the record store. Good amount of music to discover under this name or the band's frontman, J Mascis. .
• Babehoven - Lena
• Pavement - Stereo

And a few from the current early morning listening session …..

• Damien Jurado - Allocate ..... Been following his music for the past ten years. Loving the violins used. 
• Generationals - When They Fight, They Fight ***** ..... Has a 60's era feel to it.
• Booker T. Jones featuring Sharon Jones and Matt Berninger - Representing Memphis *****
• Dirty Projectors - Cannibal Resource
• The National - Apartment Story *****
• Emma Ruth Rundle - Fever Dreams *****
• Blind Pilot - Keep You Right *****
• Jonathan Something - For All My Life ..... "I brought my donkey to a horses show" I'm not saying he sounds like George Harrison but that's who came to mind as I listened.

Night Listening

Another late night radio playlist ….. because I'm always listening and searching for something new and exciting.

• Nilufer Yanya - Thanks 4 Nothing
• Angie McMahon - Keeping Time *****
• The Shaky Hands - Another World …..  A few introductory notes that brings to mind CSNY's song, 'Shadow Captain.'
• Bahamas - Lost In the Light
• Blood Orange - Clipped On
• Peter Gabriel - Digging In the Dirt ….. You don't hear a lot of older classics on this music stream. A longtime favorite.
• Photo Ops - Once Around the Town Square
• Saint Seneca - The Awefull Yawn
• Ellen Jewell - Sea of Tears
• Just Lions - Paper Cage
• Palehound - Aaron
• Ten Fe - Won't Happen

Late Night Radio Playlist

OPB Radio Playlist, Number 3547. Sunday Night .....

• Babehoven - Lena ..... Ever since The Beatles, it's been partially true ..... nowadays more than ever you have difficulty, when seeing a playlist, knowing which is the band name and which is the song title.
• Pavement - Stereo
• Palehound - Aaron
• Thee Oh Sees - Hang a Picture
• Radiohead - Morning Mr. Magpie
• Sharon Van Etten - Seventeen *****  ..... "I used to be seventeen, now you're just like me."
• Quasi - The Curse of Having It All
• Reptaliens - Shuggie
• Laura Marlling - False Hope

Tuesday Night .....

• Andrew Bird - Fallorun ..... Something about the first few notes I heard when I joined this programming and song already in progress caused me to think of The Smiths.
• Broken Bells - No Matter What You're Told
• Babehoven - Out of This Country
• Kevin Morby - Aboard My Train
• The Black Keys - The Length's ***** ..... A far away slide guitar
• Strange Ranger - Leona
• Phantogram - Into Happiness
• The National - Hey Rosey
• Sufjan Stevens - Love Yourself
• LVL UP - She Sustains Us *****
• Shy Girls - Hallelujah *****
• The Spinanes - Reach V. Speed *****

Finding My Mojo

Music sampler disc that came with the June issue of Mojo Magazine.

One Bob Dylan recording. One Dylan cover. Mostly Americana offerings from musicians who have some sort of association with or comparison to Dylan.

Like a great radio station with no commercials.

Highlight for me, 'New Partner' by Will Oldham.

Additional Highlight: 'You'll Miss It When It's Gone' by The Skiffle Players.

Gary Clark Jr.

Gary Clark Jr. - This Land. 

A few months ago (bought it on my birthday), upon first and second listens, other than the opening song, 'This Land', I was disappointed. Tonight's listening experience was much different. Thankfully first impressions are not always the final word. Right place and time again!!

It rocks in a lot of places!!! It's R&B and soulful in some spots and there's even a heavy reggae influence in one song. Great guitar playing.

Delayed birthday gratification!!!

5/28/19 UPDATE: Listened to this again!! I must have been suffering from temporary sensory impairment not to love this on first listen.

John Doe

John Doe - 'A Year In the Wilderness. 

One of those recordings I found at the Friends Store in the public library. A $2.00 price tag so I took a chance.

The thing is, I should have known John Doe's music. Another huge gap in my collection (and knowledge).

Aimee Mann and Kathleen Edwards contribute voices on it.

I had it in the CD player and it started playing. After a few minutes, I was like: "Who is this?" By the time the tenth song started I had to open up the player and discover its identity. I must have begun listening once before without an impression being formed ..... Sometimes it just needs to be the right place and time before greatness is discovered.

I Am Easy to Find

The new album by The National. I could hardly wait to get my hands on it. The noticeable difference between this album and their previous recordings is the addition of female vocalists, which in this case I love. The highlight for me is the final song, 'Light Years'. I've felt the need to listen to the entire record four times since it came out so I guess you could say that I'm highly recommending it!!!

Past 24 Hours

Just a few things that I've listened to in the past twenty-four hours ..... Andrew Bird - "My Finest Work Yet", Neko Case, k.d. lang & Laura Veirs - "Case / Lang / Veirs" and Beth Gibbons and the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra - "Henryk Gorecki: Symphony No. 3"

Old Dude's Playlist

The playlist of an unidentified old dude, Though if anyone really needed to know, I might admit to knowing said dude ....

• Neil Young - Old Man ..... I've reached a point where I need to hear this at least once a week. The song never grows old.
• Neil Young - Heart of Gold .... See above.
• Pedro the Lion - Bad Diary Days
• The Church - Under the Milky Way ..... One of the last vinyl records I bought before the transition to compact discs before the full circle and triumphant return to vinyl.
• Crosby, Stills & Nash - Helplessly Hoping ..... When I sing along at home I think that I add a needed fourth harmony to their three part perfection. Not sure that CSN would see things quite the same.
• Steely Dan - FM (No Static At All) ..... Nothing reminds of high school days quite like Steely Dan.
• Grand Funk Railroad - I'm Your Captain ..... Read a great story about this song. A guy returning home after five years overseas in the army. No money. No advance word to his family that he was on the way and worried that it had been so long that no one would recognize him when he arrived home. He managed to hitch a ride with a guy who was playing this song on the car stereo. When he arrived at home, everyone went wild!!
• Donovan - Atlantis ..... I have memories of hearing this in the 7th or 8th grade on a tiny record player in Catholic school. Maybe the nuns of those days believed in the existence of Atlantis? 
• Chicago - 25 or 6 to 4 / Saturday In the Park

Friends and Neighbors

Listening to a KLCC-fm (Eugene, Oregon) radio broadcast of their "Friends and Neighbors" program. Actually a podcast of a past program. Mostly singer/songwriter and folk music sounds. When I remember the day and times, I try to tune in for this program and their "Front Porch" program. Podcasts make it all convenient. It's nice to have a few music programs remaining on the radio.

There's also a program called, "The Mist Covered Mountain" that has Celtic Music themes. Years ago I used to record selected parts of it from reel-to-reel tape onto cassette tapes. Still have those cassettes in a shoe box in my closet.

Billie Holiday

This was last evening's listening experience. A pleasure. Billie Holiday ..... Not something that I would have listened to as recently as ten years ago. Fortunately I've since managed to evolve beyond an apparent state of clueless. Jazz vocals from the 1940's and 50's.  A compilation of recordings. One of the greatest voices in history. Some of the songs were recorded on 78's and sound a bit scratchy but that only adds to the ambiance.

The great Jazz bassist, Charles Mingus is playing on some of the tunes.

I found the compact disc earlier in the day at the public library's annual book sale. Fifty cents for great music!! A bargain!! Note that her first name was spelled incorrectly on the album cover.

Delaney and Bonnie

1960's Blues-Rock. Vocals that sound like they were influenced by Gospel music. Sounds ahead of its time to my ears. Not what comes to mind when I think of the late 1960's. Very soulful.

I don't actually own this record. (An omission that I'll look to correct very soon.) Listening to individual songs from the album on YouTube. It's from 1969. Delaney and Bonnie, "Accept No Substitutes." Classic sounds!!

Uncle Tupelo

Uncle Tupelo's last show. May 1, 1994 in St Louis. Out of the bands breakup, Son Volt and Wilco were formed. I'm extremely partial to the Jay Farrar / Son Volt sound.

This is a bootleg recording with decent audio quality that I cane across five years ago in a thrift store. You just never know where treasure is waiting to be found.

Alternative Country or Americana, whichever you prefer..

Sad to say that I didn't know of Uncle Tupelo until after I discovered Son Volt when they played a song or two on an MSNBC news magazine television program. The song "Back Into Your World" is what grabbed my attention that day. A little research led me to Uncle Tupelo. Or maybe it was the record store owner, who was a huge fan mentioning the previous existence as Uncle Tupelo? Whatever it was, I did eventually stumble my way into this great music.

Random Playlist

OPB Music Playlist, Late night, weekend edition.

• Mimicking Birds - Subsonic Words
• Shadowgraphs - Another Time
• The Walkmen - On the Water ..... There's something in the delivery at the end of several vocal lines that sounds like a Bob Dylan influence.
• Elliott Smith - Say Yes ..... Less than twelve hours ago, I was gazing at a Elliott Smith album and pondering purchase in the record store.
• Andrew Bird - Fiery Crash *****
• The Morning Benders - Promises
• Shannon Shaw - Coal On the Fire ..... I detect a small mid-1960's influence here.
• Yo La Tengo - Be Thankful For What You Got
• case lang veirs - Best Kept Secret
• The Mynabirds - Generals
• The New Pornographers - Challengers
• Portugal. The Man - When the War Ends
• Shearwater - Rooks
• Faye Webster - Kingston
• Talking Heads - Burning Down the House ..... Nothing needs to be said about this classic tune. Just enjoy it!!!
• Avi Buffalo - So What
• Radiation City - Foreign Bodies *****

Nation of Heat

Singer/Songwriter Joe Pug and his record, "Nation of Heat." Just his acoustic guitar and voice ..... and occasional harmonica. What else does a troubadour need?

Discovered recently while hanging around the iTunes store trying to look cool and clicking on unfamiliar things. Sounds of Americana. Powerful songs. I'd sing along if I only knew the words!!

American Songwriter Magazine - The Miseducation of Joe Pug

Blow My Mind Peter Buck

Flipping through the "new arrivals" vinyl bins in my record store, about to call it a day as I'm finding nothing of interest when suddenly I come across this .....

Peter Buck's (R.E.M.) "I Am Back to Blow Your Mind Once Again." From 2014 and recorded in Portland. Patterson Hood (Drive-by Truckers) takes lead vocals on one song, Corin Tucker on another.

All Music Review
Pitchfork Review

Big Harvest

Vinyl record from 1989. "Big Harvest" by Indio. Apparently Indio is a man named Gordon Peterson. His name appears to be the only common denominator on each song. There's sounds and tones that bring to mind Peter Gabriel.

Maybe one of the last records purchased before my transition to compact discs. It would be years before I found my way back to vinyl.

Cover art that's suitable for framing.

The Balancing Act

Digging further into the most remote regions of my vinyl record collection. From 1987. One of those records that failed to give a positive impression on the first listen thirty-two years ago, then ended up filed away, buried and never heard again ...... UNTIL TONIGHT!!! I had high hopes and I love it!! Like I've expressed before, sometimes it just takes a different perspective, a different time, from a different angle and with different, more evolved, open and appreciative ears.

Acoustic based, six song EP. A little quirky in one or two spots but in a good way. Peter Case's involvement as producer makes perfect sense. If assigning a genre is required, maybe Folk-Rock. Definitely will be surviving the current personal record collection purge taking place.

I've no recollection of what led me to this record in 1987. Maybe I was simply drawn to the cover art and a less expensive price tag for an EP?

What's next? Research to discover if the band has additional recordings.

All Music Guide Review

Mickey Newbury

Another 70's Singer/Songwriter. Mickey Newbury's, "'Frisco Mabel Joy" from 1971.

The purging of my vinyl collection and the elimination of records that I no longer have any interest in has led me to other records buried deep in the stacks of vinyl that have been waiting in near eternal hibernation to one day be heard again. I'm finding a new appreciation for many of these sounds. It's amazing what time can eventually reveal!!

All Music Guide Review

Michael Dinner

On vinyl!! One of the great Singer/Songwriter albums to come out of the 1970's. From 1976.

The song that initially caught my attention all those years ago was the closing song, "Pale Fire." ..... An anthem. A letter to a girlfriend left behind without an explanation in pursuit of dreams.

Vinyl Playlist, The Next Night

More vinyl playlist mania for a late Saturday night on my 62nd January of life ..... About fifty-five of those years listening to music. I don't recall the first seven years too clearly.

• John Prine - Come Back to Us Barbara Lewis Hare Krishna Beauregard (1975)
• Steve Goodman - The Dutchman (1973)
• Ralph McTell - Streets of London (1975)
• Peter Himmelman - Salt and Ashes (1987)
• Tim Hardin - Lady Came From Baltimore (1967)
• Tim Moore - A Fool Like You / Second Avenue (1975) ..... "If a fool like you could listen to a fool like me ....."
• Meisburg & Walters - Love's A Easy Song (1977)
• Fairport Convention - Who Knows Where The Time Goes ..... Sandy Denny's voice!!

Vinyl Playlist

No theme. No specific genre. Hoping around. Going wherever I'm led. This playlist will be populated primarily (if not totally) by songs, pre-1990, which is when I gave up the good fight and made the soul draining leap and transition from vinyl records to compact discs. It was probably twenty years later before returning to my vinyl roots.

• Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street & Waiting For the Day (1978) ….. When I bought the album it was for the song, Baker Street which was a big radio hit back then and which I listened to exclusively. It wasn't until years later when I discovered how great the rest of the album is.
• China Crisis - You Did Cut Me (1985) ….. Heard this on the radio and learned of some connection to one or both central members of Steely Dan, which for the life of me I now can not recall.
• John Hiatt - Learning How to Love You (1987) ….. Discovering a great songwriter!! Destroying my previous erroneous preconception that John Hiatt was a punk rocker.  
• John Hiatt - Drive South & Slow Turning (1988) ….. What was this? A musician releasing records in back-to-back years? Until then it seemed like all my favorites had three or four years between releases. His performance of Slow Turning on Saturday Nite Live was a great moment!! I've always loved his line: "Now I'm in my car, I got the radio on, and I'm yelling at the kids in the back seat 'Cause they're bangin' like Charlie Watts."

John Hiatt on David Letterman's program playing Slow turning. And that guy in the background playing slide guitar would years later become a favorite ….. Sonny Landreth!!!

• Jackson Browne - Walking Slow (1974) ….. Freshman year and I'm "Walking Slow down the avenue" in front of my dorm (Sacket Hall) at Oregon State University and the guy on my floor across the hall and down a few doors from me, who I had seen around but hadn't formally met yet, had his speakers in his window playing Walking Slow with the volume turned way up. I raced upstairs, overcame my shyness, knocked on his door introduced myself and was invited in. A fellow JB fan!!
• Noel Pointer - Night Song (1977) ….. Jazz violinist. Initially heard late one night on a Portland's, KINK radio program called "Lights Out." Pretty sure that I had to travel to Portland to find the record. 
• Van Morrison - Wavelength & Kingdom Hall (1978) …… An Oregon evening. Radio in the garage. Raining outside. Soaking wet and shooting hoops in the driveway while Wavelength is playing. My first Van on vinyl purchase. Had some catching up to do.
• Leo Kottke - Vaseline Machine Gun (1969) ….. Saw him in concert in Corvallis. It sounded like there were two or three guitarists on stage. He was all alone!!!
• Phil Ochs - Outside Of a Small Circle of Friends (1967) ….. Awake late at night while mom, dad and siblings slept. Listening to a transistor radio. I didn't grasp at the time what the lyrics were saying. 

Here Is What Is

I love when music arrives in my mailbox!! I'm generally in highly anticipatory mode just moments after ordering. Then when it's delivered, I get all giddy with happiness.

Daniel Lanois - "Here Is What Is"

I've always enjoyed his ideas and contributions to other people's records. Specifically as producer on U2's recordings. But he also makes his own music!!!

I especially love the guitar work on the song, "Duo Glide."

Safe As Milk

A recent (three days ago) vinyl find. A reissue of the original from 1967 yet new sounds to my ears. Psychedelic and Blues Rock. Captain Beefheart was Don Van Vliet.

It boggles my mind to think these sounds were made over half a century ago.

Ry Cooder was a guitar player for Captain Beefheart. But this sounds nothing like modern day Ry Cooder. Nor 1970's Ry Cooder.

I wouldn't say the music sounds "Safe As Milk."

I've developed a liking in the past two or three years for 1960's Psychedelic Rock and I think of these records from that era as being treasured and valuable historical documents. It would be wrong to let any sounds fade away.

OPB Music Playlist

Late night, because I'm dead freaking tired but don't want to go to bed yet and would rather listen to the radio playlist as spun by DJ Doug .....

• The Books featuring Jose Gonzalez - Cello Song *****
• David Byrne - Good and Evil
• Eels - Prizefighter
• Pond - Elegant Design
• George Harrison - Any Road ..... I've been hopelessly in love for the longest time with the sound of a slide guitar and George's playing has an especially beautiful tone.
• Lord Huron - Lonesome Dreams
• U.S. Girls - Velvet 4 Sale
• Ty Segall - Diversion
• My Morning Jacket - All the Best
• Death Songs - Let This Body Go ..... I generally avoid anything with the word, "death" in the title.
• TV On the Radio - Wolf Like Me
• Spindrift - The Legend of God's Gun ..... Has a little bit of a 1960's Surf Rock meets Garage Rock with narration sound. I'm thinking this would be a cool addition to the vinyl collection.
• Aesop Rock and TOBACCO - Corn Maze ..... Hip Hop
• Here We Go Magic - Hard To Be Close
• Stevie Wonder - Boogie On Reggae Woman ..... Heard this song dozens of times over the years but never knew its name. 
• Shuggie Otis - Strawberry Letter 23

Once I start listening I often have issues of separation and abandonment with turning off the music for concepts like getting sleep. The inner voices keep resolving: "Just one more." 

• Wye Oak - Symmetry
• Clinic - The Second Line

I fell asleep sitting at my desk with the lights turned down low and missed a few songs. Back now to the mystic fuzzy world of the barely awake aging dude of the late night!!

• Richard Swift - Lady Luck
• Daniel Lanois - Where Will I Be? ***** ..... (A sudden visit to Amazon to order the album.)
• Paul Simon - I Know What I Know
• Floating Action - Dying Punch ..... Reminding of David Lindley and Wally Ingram recordings.
• Desaparecidos - City on the Hill
• Yeasayer - I Remember