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Hard Travelin’ – Ramblin Jack Elliot & Woody Guthrie

I was working a little (against my will) this morning. I had my corporate-devil digital music player selected to play the last few albums I’ve downloaded when the Ramblin’ Jack Elliot album, Hard Travelin’: Songs By Woody Guthrie And Others chimed in. This is a GREAT collection of folk songs, even for people who don’t…

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Downloaded Music – January 2008

This is a new section I’m thinking about doing. Every month I get 90 downloads from emusic. Sometimes I just don’t know what to pick, so I fish around till I find something I might like. This month I downloaded some pretty cool stuff and I’d like to share… L’autre Bout Du Monde by Emily…

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Childish Music, A Collection of Songs

Childish Music is a compilation of songs loosely aimed at superhip, progressive people (aka babies) and maybe not even aimed at kids, as the title implies. Nontheless, it’s a hefty compilation with some really great tracks. I found it through a search on Devendra Banhart because [I’m obsessed and] he has a track on the…

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Daniel Johnston

  He might be my new hero.

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The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same

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Happy MLK Day

I wanted to post something for MLK Day and as I was considering writing a blog the song Fuel by Ani DiFranco came on. So that’s all kismet and stuff because the song itself is kind of political and today is a political holiday but also AdF is playing at Lupo’s tomorrow night! So I…

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Alexei Aigi – One Second Hand Kinetic Theater

If anyone has any more information on this artist, please pass it my way. I learned about Alexei Aigi through my dear friend Yevgeniy about 2 years ago when he and his wife Anna came to visit Justin & me in California. I’m not going to bore you with how much I miss my friends,…

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Devendra Banhart

My newest musical obsession: Devendra Banhart. The music is quiet, passionate, sincere and obscure, if not on occasion bizarre. It’s a really welcomed change to the norm, and I hope to get a chance to see him live in the coming years. Devendra, the persona, is interesting in its own right: a melody of Argentinian…

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Bird is the Word

It is Thursday, November 29, 2007 and I have just had an art-of-body experience. Justin & I made our way to Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel in Providence to see Andrew Bird, violinist extraordinaire, and his experimental band of gypsies perform. I’m writing about it here because I believe what I experienced tonight was less of a…

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The Donnas!

“Get Rid Of That Girl” See that boy he looks so fine But he’s got a girlfriend my oh my Go Go Go I’m gonna hit her in the head I’m gonna knock her down I’m gonna drag her by the hair all over town I’m gonna get get get get rid of that girl…

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Damien Jurado – Fuel

I murdered the law here /I took on God hereso in place of your sins I bring you Judas So mother, burn my body for fuelOh, mother, burn my body for fuel So mother, burn my body for fuel

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No Tutti Frutti!

I don’t want no tutti-frutti, no lollipop/ Oh, come on baby, just rock, rock, rock!

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You’re No Rock ‘N’ Roll Fun

You’re no rock n’ roll fun / like a party that’s over before it’s begun You’re no rock n’ roll fun / like a piece of art / that no one can touch And all the boys in the band / know how to get downfill our Christmas socks /with whiskey drinks and chocolate bars…

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Armchair Apocrypha

We were all basically alone / Despite what all his studies had shown / What was mistaken for closeness was just a case for mitosis This is a great freakin’ album.