Shuffle-up five, describe!
- Rolling Stones - Carol. It's unmistakably a Check Berry song, and the Stones do a respectable job of it. Fun, ancient, live performance of it, in that link.
- Nod - 500 Hurts. A sing-songy yet atonal thing that devolves into feedback and anarchy - pretty standard for Nod! I wish they had more YouTube vids.
- Gillian Welch - The Way It Will Be. Love those narcotic minor key harmonies.
- Beatles - Kansas City / Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!. I'm not really familiar with their really early period, so it took me a minute to figure out who this was. Plus, McCartney's voice sounds rough and ragged and a bit deeper than usual.
- Sea And Cake - Flat Lay The Water. A snappy, breezy, tune from their first record. I could do without the flanger solo, but the verses are nice.
Easy. Now you do it.
Dylan, “Railroad Boy”. My Dylan collaction has somehow gotten heavily skewed towards early Dylan and I am happy with that. This song has a bit in common structurally with “Man of constant sorrow.” Appalachian suicide ballad.
Joe Craven, “Liberte” on steel drums and ukuleles
Robyn Hitchcock, “Where do you go when you die?” off Storefront Hitchcock. Amazed that this track is not on any of His studio records. It is a fantastic lyric and melody.
The Band, “Stage Fright”. Oh Yes!
Homegas, “Maine” Some nice psychedelic folk music to take us out…
Some non-shuffle listening you might care to check out, is a brand-new Mountain Station podcast, Kitchen Concert, 6/17 Recommended Listening!
Diane Birch – Valentino
I bought this album because one of its songs was featured as a “song of the week,” but since then I didn’t listen to it often — too much of a muchness. But as that goes, it’s pretty good, in a retro-Joni Mitchell sort of way.
Beatles – Paperback Writer
A guitar lick that ranks with the best.
Jerry Lee Lewis – All Night Long
A perfectly passable, second-tier twelve-bar piano boogie.
Pink Floyd – Paranoid Eyes
This quiet track works well in context, partly by way of contrast (it’s right after “The Gunner’s Dream,” which is louder and full of effects). The same mood dominates in The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking, which is why I’ve never really given that later album a thorough listening.
Belle & Sebastian – Asleep on a Sunbeam
A little too much production that doesn’t add enough to a pretty unremarkable instance of the standard B&S template.