Saint Jude

After digging on the Cochella live feed of Grace Potter and the Nocturnals I went looking for one of the songs she performed (Medicine off the last album) and in the comments section some guy mentioned Saint Jude claiming that Ron Wood and other UK icons are digging on the lead singer Lynne Jackaman.
The first thing I played, I didn't like: The lyrics seemed lamely constructed. I did keep looking though and found a few things that are promising.






Their first album is on eMusic, so I'll check that out later this week, but I think I'll burn through my reload on Monday since there are other ladies needing my attention with that aforementioned Grace Potter track, Alabama Shakes (speaking of HYPE and singers) and the new Bonnie Raitt out as well.

Bridge Over Troubled Waters

There is a theater inside the Rock Hall that plays the full 25th anniversary show on a loop. Art Garfunkel gives me chicken skin at the end of this and was stoked to find it on Netflix:

http://movies.netflix.com/Movie/Rock_Roll_Hall_of_Fame_The_25th_Anniversary_Concerts/70213067?trkid=2361637

been cleaning the apartment today with this on TV as a soundtrack.

Thirty For Thursday 18 - back again

Today's Thirty brought to you by the letter B. B is for Brauerhouse Beverages and also the Buzz that they created that made last night's drive home so fun. I had a playlist worked out for this week on Monday, but that now gets pushed to next week since last night's iPod was fun.

If you don't remember...Thirty for Thursday is 30 minutes of music on random Thursday's. It's all one track.

You can listen here:



or if you right-click and save on THIS, you can download the MP3 and play it later. The tracks for this week are as follows:

1. Breadfan - Metallica (Pandora at Brauerhouse had spit out several Metallica songs while we were there and I was digging it all - this one was the only one on my iPod last night
2. Boom Boom - John Lee Hooker
3. Brujeria - El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico
4. The Bump - The Haggis Horns
5. But You Saved My Life - Andrew Ripp
6. By Any Shmeeans Necessary - Lettuce
7. By The Numbers - Jamaica

and as I pulled into a parking space at home, we switched to "C" and this was too fun to not include since I was sitting the car, enjoying the Doors groove and thinking about Darius Rucker dropping the third verse of this at a Hootie & The Blowfish concert at the Waikiki Shell in a medley they were singing.

8. The Cactus - 3rd Bass

17 out of 50

Haven't done any Thirsty's lately since I wasn't getting feedback on them.
Today was a youTube kind of day...well...at least it turned into one.

I went through Andy Langer's 50 songs you should hear from 2011 (May) since he has recommended some good stuff in the past (always thankful to him for Ray LaMontagne)
and youTube is the best way to hear stuff so I made a play list of the stuff I liked.



I've never shared a play list before, but it looks like they will just play in order? There are 17 songs.
You can also go to Esquire's page and listen to all the songs from the list and also a video of Heather Morris from Glee dancing to 5 of them.

Thirty For Thursday Volume 17

hittin you with some soul this time:

1. Beautiful World - JJ Grey & Mofro (as promised)
2. They Say I'm Doing Just Fine - Michael Kiwanuka
3. I Still Care - Pieces of Peace
4. L-O-V-E (Jackmaster Hawk Re-edit) - SugaRush Beat Company
5. Dedication to My Ex (Clean version) ft Andre 3000 - Lloyd (the dirty version is a bit too dirty to include, but hilarious since the song is so upbeat and funky)

6. On A Cloud - Platinum Pied Pipers (PPP)
7. My Girl Josephine - Taj Mahal and the New Orleans Social Club (Fats Domino tribute album)

8. Wade In The Water - Ramsey Lewis (heard this as a soundbed under a WBEZ piece about how the beaches on the South Shore here in Chicago were integrated back in the day)



Download link (right click & save-as)

Happy New Year - Thirty for Thursday Volume 16

back for 2012 and I'm already almost missing my Thursday deadline...jeez....
It's here though, thankfully I started this on Monday and just finished now while getting ideas on the way home.

So this one started because I realized how the intros of the first 2 songs sounded remarkably alike. I haven't shared much Hawaiian stuff so far since I wasn't sure if some of my newer friends would dig it, but it seems right this week...mostly because Frank Orrall shared a Penguin Cafe Orchestra song and I found another one on the album that I dug. I kept the ukulele thing for a minute, but then didn't want to kill you with it.

Here's the player



and you can download it here (right click)

1. Paul Simon - Loves Me Like A Rock
2. The Brothers Cazimero - Ho'okipa Hawaii
3. Penguin Cafe Orchestra - The Ecstacy of the Dancing Fleas
4. Ingrid Michaelson - Be O.K. (more ukulele and she is just so damned sexy)
5. Ka'au Crater Boys - Noho Pai Pai (you can't say ukulele and not have the boys on here...LOVE this jam)
6. Smokey Robinson & Darryl Hall - Being With You (live from Darryl's house) - thanks to XL for recommending this show
7. Coldplay & The Buena Vista Social Club - Clocks
8. Cesaria Evora - Isolada (so sad to hear of her passing)

Thirty For Thursday 15

as we close out the year....

No retrospective here, just a bunch of songs based around New Years Day by U2. I started there and the rest of the songs fell into place...mostly upbeat Alt/Rock numbers.

Listen to it:




or download it (right-click)

Here's what you get

1. New Year's Day - U2
2. A-Punk - Vampire Weekend
3. 1901 - Phoenix
4. When We First Kissed - Hello Goodbye
5. Bushwick Blues - Delta Spirit
6. Lonely Boy - The Black Keys
7. Story of My Life - Social Distortion
8. Gold Guns Girls - Metric