More Blood On The Tracks

Just released!!! Bob Dylan's - :More Blood, More Tracks" The latest in his Bootleg Series.

From my understanding the original recordings made in New York City of Dylan's great 1975, "Blood On The Tracks" album. He later reconsidered and made new recordings in Minneapolis that were used on the album.

This is mostly solo Dylan singing, playing his acoustic guitar and harmonica.

When Blood On The Tracks was released it became an instant favorite in my mind. I was a Freshman in college, lonely and away from home. The record and songs were a constant companion back then. Hearing these alternate versions of all the songs brings forth waves of visual memories from those days .... old friends, new friends, falling in love for the first time, having my heart torn apart. What else is there in life for an eighteen year old?

I had Dylan's Greatest Hits, Volume Two album (which I gave minimal attention to) prior to Blood On The Tracks but this is the record that made me a true fan.

I'm taken by a song from the 2016, Jesu & Sun Kil Moon album ..... "Last Night I Rocked the Room Like Elvis and Had Them Laughing Like Richard Pryor." ..... Yes that's the songs title.

Also from the album, the song, "Father's Day." 

I always get sucked in by Mark Kozelek's voice.

November Radio Playlist

Saturday evening, late. Blazers, Ducks and Beavers games over. Falling back an hour tonight. Makes for additional time for music. OPB Music radio playlist …..

• Frightened Rabbit - Scottish Winds
• The Go! Team - Mayday ….. Horns that sound like they came from a Rocky movie and rally squad-like vocals.
• Broken Bells - Vaporize
• Garbage - Milk
• J Mascis - See You At the Movies ….. It is a movie kind of night. 
• Saintseneca - Ladder to the Sun

Autumn night in November. Raining earlier. Feels relatively warm and breezy outside. Leaves still falling from the trees. Wish I could bottle it all and save it for the chills of January and February.

• Nik Freitas - What a Mess
• Mimicking Birds - Another Time
• Buck Meek - Ruby
• The Clientele - Everyone You Meet
• Cate Le Bon - I Can't Help You

Listening to these songs and remembering times spent listening to AM radio hits in my younger years. 1968 is the year that always stands out. Then the early 70's and making the jump to FM radio. I had seen the FM dial on my parents television/stereo system but there wasn't much there. Then a classmate told me about KINK-fm in Portland. I always think of The Eagles and "Peaceful Easy Feeling." Like possibly that's the first song I heard on fm radio.

• Pete Krebs & the Gossamer Wings - Distant Lights of Home
• Black Moth Super Rainbow - Windshield Smasher ….. If only I could collect unique names for groups and songs to go with all the other items that I collect.
• Mitski - Nobody

Thinking about the past fifty years and the progression of music during that time. If I was sitting in this same place fifty years from now, what would I be listening to? And how would the hundred year old classics be thought of?

• Wye Oak - If You Should See …… Saw this band on "CBS This Morning: Saturday" a few months ago.
• Gary Numan - Metal ….. And then there's the music of the 1980's!!! 1979 actually.
• Shame - One Rizla ….. This must be a OPB favorite. I've heard it a few times on these late evening musical excursions.
• Spiritualized - Electricity

Comeback Kids

My favorite album that's been released in the past year or two is "Paging Mr. Proust" by The Jayhawks. An entire record of great songwriting. Been listening to the song, "Comeback Kids" a great deal lately. Proof of greatness is in the video.

Return to Folk Alley

A "Folk Alley" playlist. Many names I recognize here in this place along with new names and music to get familiar with….. 

• Lori McKenna - You Won't Even Know I'm Gone
• Tobias The Owl - All The Way Home
• Amos Lee - Crooked
• Rosanne Cash - The Walking Wounded
• Hush Kids - Goodbye Rain ….. One of those songs where you're not sure which is the song title and which is the groups name.
• The Jayhawks - Bird Never Flies ….. I hear so many reminders of The Beatles in their music.
• Lori McKenna - Young and Angry Again
• John Prine - Caravan of Fools
• Mary Gauthier - Brothers
• Birdtalker - Looking For Love
• We Banjo 3 - Light In the Sky *****
• Tobias The Owl - The Open Sea
• Amos Lee - No More Darkness, No More Light
• Ana Egge - Dance Around the Room With Me
• Eric Bibb - We Don't Care
• Caitlin Canty - Onto You
• The Brother Brothers - Frankie
• Ray Lamontagne - Such a Simple Thing

Cello Sounds

I don't listen to much Classical music but I do love the sounds that come from a cello. So when it's the featured instrument .....

If for no other reason I likely would have purchased this for the artwork alone. Not just the pretty face but the visual design and use of varying shades of gray and black and the feel of the albums artwork. Frame worthy if found on vinyl or in a poster!!

Jazz Playlist

• John Coltrane Quartet - Central Park West ….. I came across the album, "Coltrane's Sound" one Saturday at a local flea market. I didn't realize at the time, the beauty I was about to hear. 
• Chet Baker - Every Time We Say Goodbye
• Bill Evans - Remembering the Rain ….. I recall hearing a few seconds of this song at the conclusion of an episode of the television sitcom, WKRP In Cincinnati. Had to get the recording after that.
• Miles Davis - Concierto de Aranjuez ….. From the "Sketches of Spain" album.
• Chick Corea - The Hilltop ….. I discovered this song via a video on VH-1 back in the days when MTV and VH-1 actually played music videos. Turned out that I already had the album. I love it when that happens.
• Bill Frisell & Thomas Morgan - Small Town
• Django Reinhardt - I'll See You In My Dreams
• Oregon - Witchi-Tai-To ….. I first heard the Rachel Faro version of this song in the 1970's. (I think it was written by Jim Pepper.) Years later I discovered the Oregon cover version.
• Oliver Nelson - Stolen Moments ….. Feels like the theme song to every movie from the 1960's that I've loved.
• Billy Childs - One Fleeting Instant

Sunday Night Radio Playlist

• Frank Turner - I Am Disappeared 
• Gold Connections - Bad Intentions
• Alex Lahey - I Love You Like a Brother
• Haley Heynderickx - No Face
• Craig Finn - I Was Doing Fine (Then a Few People Died)
• Reptaliens - If You Want
• Hurry Up - You Just Wait ….. Portland band.
• Gaz Coombes - Walk the Walk …… There's a guitar riff (or maybe it's a bass) running through this song that reminds me of "Digging In the Dirt" by Peter Gabriel.
• Kim Baxter - Intelligent Lovers
• Sharon Van Etten - Comeback Kid
• Strange Ranger - New Hair ….. How long did I wish for some new hair? Now it's way down on the wish list.
• Eyelids - I Can't Be Told
• Great Grandpa - Teen Challenge
• Kurt Vile - One Trick Ponies
• Yowler- Angel
• Whiskeytown - Houses On the Hill ….. Ryan Adams group before going solo. Assuming that everyone knows Ryan Adams. Probably a wrong assumption. Great songwriter!!
• Editors - Ocean of Night ….. I was kicking myself just yesterday while thinking of another song and being unable to remember this bands name.  

This OPB Music Stream ….. I don't think it's aimed at the sixty-two year old listener. But I find much of it to my liking. But then I think most people my age stopped paying much attention to current sounds after they turned thirty. Most forty, fifty and sixty-somethings are still stuck on the music of their youth. And it's like for them, all music stopped there. 

Or maybe it's just that in the last five years, I've developed an appreciation for genre's and sounds that I never would have given a chance previously. 

After Midnight Radio Playlist

• Shadowgraphs - Sun Is Rising …. A late 60's era sounding organ.
• Cool American - Focus
• Portugal The Man -  So American
• M. Ward - I'm a Fool To Want You
• The Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You *****
• Vince Staples - Big Fish
• Steady Holiday - Nobody's Watching
• The Black Keys - The Only One
• The Velvet Underground - White Light White Heat
• Spoon - Everything Hits At Once
• Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Little Blu House

Playlist

I had this folded up sheet of paper lying around with this playlist from August 23rd …..

• Buffalo Tom - Three Easy Pieces ….. I have an issue differentiating between Buffalo Tom, Grant Lee Buffalo and Grant Lee Phillips. I guess though, all that matters is I enjoy the music.
• Buffalo Tom - You'll Never Catch Him
• Neil Young - Tell Me Why ….. I've been listening to this song since 1970. I've never tired of it. It's always been my 'go-to' Neil Young song. I doubt that I've ever gone more than a month or two without playing it. Qualifying it for Desert Island Disc status.
• Neil Young - Southern Man ….. Of course I can rarely listen to "tell Me Why" without listening to "Southern Man." Being that they are on the same album and all. I play air piano during the instrumental part in the middle of the song and again as the song fades away.
• Richard Buckner - Town ….. "It's how it is when everybody knows more than everything. The dying ring. the passing line, the missing wing." I don't know what it means but it does paint an abstract visual for me.
• Willard Grant Conspiracy - How To Get To Heaven
• The Rolling Stones - Ruby Tuesday
• Son Volt - 6 String Belief

The Proposition

Music soundtrack for the film, "The Proposition" by Nick Cave & Warren Ellis. Picked up at the Salem Public Library used book sale. Has me wanting to see the film now. It won the Best Original Music Score at the 2005 AFI Awards.

After listening, "brooding" is the word that comes to mind.

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Griffin House

The album, "So On and So Forth" by Griffin House. From 2016. Singer/Songwriter type that a friend turned me onto. (Thanks Suzie!!)

"Little by little they try to keep testing me
Little by little you try to get the best of me" ..... From the song, "Yesterday Lies"

Speaking In Tongues

I've been reading the book, "Hoop" by Brian Doyle. Short essays on just about every angle and aspect of basketball. In one he writes about using the song, "This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)" by The Talking Heads as pregame warm up music. Of course I had to go and check it out. All leading to seeking out their "Speaking In Tongues" album. A little embarrassed that I didn't have this record in my collection. Anyway, I do now. From 1983. My vinyl record collection just became a whole lot cooler.