Late Night Playlist

iPod on shuffle play and with headphones on, late night / early morning playlist.

• Colin Linden - Power On
• Delta Moon - Clear Blue Frame
• Levon Helm & The RCO All Stars - Blues So Bad
• Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - No More .... So many radio hits!! Sometimes the other album tracks don't get heard like they should.
• Pierce Pettis - All In Good Time .... Sometimes you find yourself joining in with the backing vocalists. 
• Tom Waits - Introduction to Better Off Without a Wife .... Hillarious Waits!! "Well usually about two thirty in the morning you've ended up taking advantage of yourself." 
• The Emmitt / Nershi Band - Love Is Like a Train .... Newgrass with some enjoyable toe-tapping jamming.
• The Ozark Mountain Daredevils - Jackie Blue .... Memories of 70's radio. The chorus reminds of Todd Rundgren.
• Stephen Stills - Isn't It About Time
• Nick 13 - Carry My Body Down .... Has a traveling through a endless western desert feel to it.
• Dave Matthews - Gravedigger
• JJ Grey & Mofro - Orange Blossoms

Random Playlist (Continued)

Sunday evening random playlist via my iPod. A much better activity than sitting here looking out the window keeping watch for the forecasted freezing rain to arrive and worrying if I'm going to be able to get to work in the morning blues.

• The Traveling Wilburys - Wilbury Twist ..... One of the greatest supergroups!! Dylan, Petty, Harrison, Lynne & Orbison.
• Elliott Smith - Between The Bars
• Chris Whitley - Serve You ..... The cons (or is it a pro?) of having sizeable music collections. Discovering gems that have been in front of you for years but have gone unheard. Until now that is.  
• Clifton Chenier - Ay-Te Te Fee .... Nothing like a little Cajun music to make you want to get up and start dancing. 
• Bill Morrissey - Robert Johnson .... Singer/Songwriter/Storyteller.
• Chris Knight - Bring The Harvest Home .... Some folks might call this Country Music. I'm calling it Americana.
• Little Feat - Fat Man In the Bathtub ..... "Oh Juanita.....!" A demo version with just electric guitar and a drum. And Lowell George's voice of course. Sounding especially gritty.
• The Strokes - Games
• Dry Branch Fire Squad - Our Darlin's Gone
• Peter Bruntnell - Lonesome Charlie
• Jordan Zevon - Studebaker. One of those Desert Island Disc songs that I always come back to. The first time I heard it was on a tribute album for his father. I damn near cried. Warren Zevon never included it on his records. It's one of his best songs in my humble opinion.
• Crosby, Stills & Nash - Got It Made .... Stephen Still's voice!!
• Alex Woodard - Open Road ..... From a Relix Magazine music sampler disc included with each issue. Causes me to wonder how much great music is out there that I'll never hear?
• John Prine - Quit Hollerin' At Me .... I didn't know it until it came on but this is the song that I needed to hear tonight. 
• Sparklehorse - Painbirds
• Mary Lou Lord - Cold Kilburn Rain .... Jangly guitar. A little bit of a Byrds feel.

Random iPod Playlist

It's amazing what your iPod on shuffle play will conjure up at times. Like it can read your mind, mood and emotions of the moment.

• The Posies - Love Letter Boxes
• John Mellencamp - Troubled Land .... I first heard his music when he was known as Johnny Cougar.
• Willie Dixon & Memphis Slim - Sittin' and Cryin' the Blues
• John Hiatt - Dust Down a Country Road
• The BoDeans - Nobody Loves Me
• Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone (Live) ..... Where he supposedly switched from acoustic to electric for the first time and someone in the crowd yelled out: "judas!" And Dylan replied: "I don't belieeeeeve you ..... You're a liar." I wonder how many people he won over by the time he finished the song? Seems a given now that this tune has to be electric and loud!
• Charley Patton - Screamin' & Hollerin' the Blues .... From an old and scratchy sounding vinyl. The way early Blues should sound. I don't think that I'd want to hear it with todays high tech recording equipment.
• Dave Matthews Band - Stolen Away On 55th & 3rd
• Jerry Garcia, David Grisman & Tony Rice - Guitar Space
• Tony Joe White - A Place to Watch the Sun Go Down
• Little Feat - Six Feet of Snow .... For an old lost friend. (R.I.P. Mitch) Lowell George era Little Feat. His favorite!!
• Snow Patrol - Crack the Shutters
• Bill Morrissey - Long Gone ..... There was a series of Singer/Songwriters that all seemed to come into my view about the same time. Gorka, Paul, Shindell, Kaplansky. Bill Morrissey might have had the most unique voice.
• James McMurtry - Jaws of Life .... Maybe I'm the only one who thinks so but the beginning of this song starts playing and initially I'm thinking, "Lou Reed." Even after he begins singing. But it soon becomes obvious that it's James McMurtry. Not that that's a bad thing. (Nor would Lou Reed be a bad thing.)
• Cyndi Lauper - When You Were Mine .... A friend once told me that he really enjoyed Cyndi Lauper's new album. I was a little shocked and awed at the time. I understand why now.