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Ever heard Bonnie Prince Billy's "Brokedown Palace?" It doesn't surpass the original, but it deserves to exist.
I wish Vijay Iyer was doing something other than "King Solomon's Marbles," he's one of my favorites right now. I'll be interested to see what Bill Callahan does with "Easy Wind," and The Tallest Man on Earth with "Ship of Fools."
I was pleasantly surprised with the debut. I don't hear it mentioned too often as a "must have", but I'm glad I got it. There are some really good tunes there.
Listening to this for the first time -- and I agree! I love the '60's pop production value -- you definitely wouldn't hear this and expect the Dead to become the live band they'd become. The prominence of Pigpen's organ seems unique to this record, and Garcia's soloing is crisp and in the foreground -- very "live" sounding. I also like that Jerry is credited as "Captain Trips." The '60's were weird.
if i had to pick a top 15 at this particular moment:
help on the way/slipknot franklins tower loser bird song fire on the mountain black muddy river west la fadeaway lost sailor/saint of circumstance standing on the moon uncle johns band dire wolf deal touch of grey china cat sunflower/i know you rider althea
US blues Dark star Shakedown street
Hit edit on this by accident
Meant to repost with 3 songs that how the hell did I forget
The jam coming out of "Comes A Time" is improvisational music of the finest vintage -- one of those moments where you find yourself thinking, "Wow, I didn't know this song could go to these places."
Yeah, I was totally blown away at how good this Red Rocks show sounded. I remember trying to check it out years ago, but it never clicked. It must of been a shitty source or something, cause this set kinda rules. And yes, DP18 is very good too.
I like Kurt Vile's "Box of Rain" and Courtney Barnett's "New Speedway Boogie." Bonnie's songs are okay, but pretty straight. Tallest Man on Earth's "Ship of Fools" is shit.
A lot of these songs just don't survive the aesthetic conversion that most of these artists impose on them. You gotta meet a cover song halfway, and for a lot of these artists it just seems like more than they're prepared to do.
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Yeah, that Callahan track is gorgeous. I'm not a huge Dead fan, so I'm really only in it for the artists I like. They released LP details today and I'm not even a little tempted.
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