Thursday Evening

Done for the evening with watching basketball and dinner. Kicking off my shoes and socks. What I'm listening to. Probably listed these here before. Songs that I revisit regularly .....

• The Bats - Sir Queen
• Stereolab - Mountain
• Lou Barlow - Privatize
• Austin Lucas - Already Dead / Kith and Kin
• Chris Whitley - Accordingly / Poison Girl
• Willy Porter - Unconditional

Monday Night Playlist

Monday night and just clicking on random songs in my itunes library. Maybe the best way to construct a playlist ....

• Hiss Golden Messenger - Pittsboro Farewell (Two Monarchs) ..... A catchy, instrumental tune with fiddle, acoustic guitar and banjo. 🟊🟊🟊🟊🟊
• J. Paul Jr. & the Zydeco Nubreedz - Right Now / Stronger ..... Dancing along in the dark.
• John Hammond Sr. - Big Black Mariah
• John Prine - In Spite of Ourselves ..... Duet with Iris DeMent. Always causes me to smile and chuckle.
• Johnsmith - Kickin' This Stone ..... Singing along.
• Keith Frank & the Soileau Zydeco Band - Casanova
• Keane - Crystal Ball
• Keb' Mo' - My Baby's Tellin' Lies
• Kurt Vile - I'm an Outlaw ..... I recall hearing this for the first time in my local record store. I ran up to the counter to check out the 'Now Playing' display.
• Lake of Stew - Free Medicine ..... A front porch, Americana tune with several harmonizing voices.
• Leif Vollebekk - Elegy

Flashing Back Once Again

I tend to flashback. Twenty, thirty, .... heck fifty or sixty years. Long ago I was accused by a friend in the middle of a driveway basketball game of H.O.R.S.E. of being overly nostalgic. I guess it's true. And I suppose that's why songs become 'classic.' Anyway, here's just another flashing back playlist .....

• Wheat - Don't I Hold You .... I wonder if this qualifies for the list? Though it certainly causes me to reflect on a seemingly past life. Seems too recent though if I stopped to look up the year I'd likely discover it's been at least twenty years.
• Wheat - More Than You'll Ever Know ..... Appropriate for someone un-named, though very special to me.
• The Church - Under the Milky Way ..... I'd like to go outside at this moment and search the sky but it's too damn cold tonight and I'm too damn old to withstand it. But I suppose that's all in ones attitude.
• The Psychedelic Furs - The Ghost in You ..... Once upon a time, we'd stay up into the latest hours of the night watching music videos on television. 
• Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill
• Yes - Owner of a Lonely Heart
• Dire Straits - Down to the Waterline / Sultans of Swing ..... At least I'm flashing back in an orderly manner. 1990's, 80's, 70's, etc .... Getting closer to where I entered. 
• Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Even the Losers
• Jesse Colin Young - Four In the Morning
• The Youngbloods - Quicksand ..... One of those songs that I didn't truly appreciate, or stop and listen to, until fifty years later but it brings back the memories anyway.
• Ringo Starr - Photograph
• Rolling Stones - Angie ..... Heard this evening while fueling up at the gas station. Kids working the pumps listening to classic tunes.

The Rounders

 'Little Bitty Can of Worms' by The Rounders. From 2003. Americana with plenty of electric Blues influence and heavenly slide guitar moments with a Texas or southwest feel. A later album was released on Blind Pig Records ..... if that's any indication.

Not sure how I discovered this band. Most likely would have been while record store crate digging for cd's and coming across the colorful art on the album covers. I may have made one blind buy and returned for more. The more I ponder the question, the clearer the vague memory becomes.

Exploding Stars

On the turntable. From 2010. 'Stars Have Shapes' by Exploding Star Orchestra. Avante-Garde jazz. A group led by trumpeter, Rob Mazurek. 

Diving deeper into the abstract and further out into space as I move deeper into my senior years.

This may just lead me to giving another chance to the final two or three John Coltrane albums. Maybe I can better understand and appreciate.

In the Moment

It's plenty cold outside tonight. Inside though, relaxing with 'In the Moment' by jazz drummer, Makaya McCraven. A 2015 release. Live improvised performances taking my imagination to different and unknown places. One of the records that sparked my search for different jazz sounds.