What Are You Listening To? February 2021

[Ojai Sam]

Neil Young & Promise Of The Real - Paradox (soundtrack, Special Release Series 2018)

Having a filmmaker as a girlfriend must be a mixed blessing. I have visions of Daryl Hannah following Neil around the house saying "WHEN are you going to finish that soundtrack for me?" Based on its Rotten Tomatoes score of 29%, he needn't have bothered. Actually, this modest, offhand collaboration with Willie Nelson's kids creates a sparse but atmospheric sonic landscape that wafts out of my speakers like a Texas prairie wind.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

The William Loveday Intention - The Bearded Lady Also Sells The Candy Floss (2021)



This band is named after another member, but they're not fooling anyone. The star of the show is Billy Childish.

 

[axolotl]

Neil Young & Promise Of The Real - Paradox (soundtrack, Special Release Series 2018)

Having a filmmaker as a girlfriend must be a mixed blessing. I have visions of Daryl Hannah following Neil around the house saying "WHEN are you going to finish that soundtrack for me?" Based on its Rotten Tomatoes score of 29%, he needn't have bothered. Actually, this modest, offhand collaboration with Willie Nelson's kids creates a sparse but atmospheric sonic landscape that wafts out of my speakers like a Texas prairie wind.

Is it any good? Does it waft more like a zephyr or like a fart?

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Is it any good? Does it waft more like a zephyr or like a fart?

C'mon. Like any professional review, you're not supposed to know whether the critic actually likes it by the end of it.

 

[axolotl]

C'mon. Like any professional review, you're not supposed to know whether the critic actually likes it by the end of it.

As the song sez: "Perhaps OjaiSam will remember, the MG needs crib notes to follow him around, anyhow."

 

[Ojai Sam]

Is it any good? Does it waft more like a zephyr or like a fart?

Sorry but my actual opinion is available only on MG Prime for $6.99 per month. Only the platitudes are on the free site.

 

[axolotl]

Sorry but my actual opinion is available only on MG Prime for $6.99 per month. Only the platitudes are on the free site.

I will withhold my critical remarks pertaining to where one can locate your critical remarks.

 

[Ojai Sam]

I will withhold my critical remarks pertaining to where one can locate your critical remarks.

For you, it’s $7.99 per month.

 

[axolotl]

For you, it’s $7.99 per month.

I can probably buy all the songs for that amount.

Now, I have to figure out where to put my money.

 

[axolotl]

Pablo Ziegler ~ Quintet for New Tango (1999)



Tango Nuevo

 

[Unsomnambulist]

The Cure - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me (1987)

 

[Ojai Sam]

Doug Sahm - Crazy Crazy Feelin': The Definitive Early Doug Sahm (rec. 1955-61, Jasmine comp. 2020)



Doug Sahm led the Sir Douglas Quintet to Farfisa fueled fame in 1965 but he had already been performing for 15 years by then. His early recordings made for a scattering of regional Texas labels have been anthologized before but this collection deserves to call itself "definitive". From the politically predictive "A Real American Joe" in 1955 to "Mr. Kool" six years later (waxed with an electrifying 9 piece horn band), all of the early singles are here. Many of these songs would reappear later on his SDQ and solo albums.

As a youngster growing up in San Antonio, Doug spent time on both the Eastside assimilating black music and the Westside for Tex-Mex, while simultaneously playing steel for traveling country musicians including Hank Williams, Webb Pierce and The Maddox Brothers and Rose. His ability to fuse all these diverse influences reached the point of genius in his late 1970's work, but it all started here while he was still a teenager.

Indispensable.



Little Doug meets Ol' Hank, 2 weeks before his death.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Mystic Siva - s/t (1971)

 

[axolotl]

Little Doug meets Ol' Hank, 2 weeks before his death.

Is that the real Son of Sahm?

P. S. Or, did they call him the Spawn of Sahm?

 

[Nickyboy]

Doug Sahm - Crazy Crazy Feelin': The Definitive Early Doug Sahm (rec. 1955-61, Jasmine comp. 2020)

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Doug Sahm led the Sir Douglas Quintet to Farfisa fueled fame in 1965 but he had already been performing for 15 years by then. His early recordings made for a scattering of regional Texas labels have been anthologized before but this collection deserves to call itself "definitive". From the politically predictive "A Real American Joe" in 1955 to "Mr. Kool" six years later (waxed with an electrifying 9 piece horn band), all of the early singles are here. Many of these songs would reappear later on his SDQ and solo albums.

As a youngster growing up in San Antonio, Doug spent time on both the Eastside assimilating black music and the Westside for Tex-Mex, while simultaneously playing steel for traveling country musicians including Hank Williams, Webb Pierce and The Maddox Brothers and Rose. His ability to fuse all these diverse influences reached the point of genius in his late 1970's work, but it all started here while he was still a teenager.

Indispensable.

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Little Doug meets Ol' Hank, 2 weeks before his death.

"Mendocino" is still on regular rotation at our house.

 

[Ojai Sam]

"Mendocino" is still on regular rotation at our house.

Here too! Life’s such a groove you blow your mind in the morning in Ojai as well.

 

[Ojai Sam]

When you’re driving from Rhode Island to Mendocino, you better stop off in Nuevo Laredo.

 

[lpfreak1170]

Black Dresses - Forever In Your Heart (2021)

Love that cover.

 

[axolotl]

Fret Not ~ Hundredfold (2001)



Bluegrass, Gospel

ETA: http://www.fretnotgospel.com/presskit.html

 

[Nickyboy]

Racer X- Technical Difficulties (2000)