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will you wake me without warning some jingle-jangle morning

photo by david mcmahon

morning, all. in case you missed it, i am holding a lil contest to win matthew sweets new record, sunshine lies, here. the contest ends at 12 pm et on saturday, btw.

in other news, good friends of captains dead, the line of best fit is up for the peoples choice award at the bt digital music awards. if you could take time out of your precious day and help em out by voting it would be much appreciated. it would take ya all of 20 seconds. gracias! line of best fit has also started up the tlobf community, which seems to be kinda rockin already. check it out. you will find yours truly over there, if that does anything for ya.

here is a lovely mary lou lord show from music mellenium in portland, or on 10.4.97. thanks to the original taper!

1. talk

2. western union desperate

3. chit chat

4. she had you

5. he’d be a diamond

6. your new thing

7. his lamest flame

8. helsinki

9. i figured you out

10. 1952 vincent black lightning

11. talk

12. down along the lea

13. talk

14. camden town rain

15. talk

16. lights are changing

17. talk

18. polaroids

some jingle jangle morning

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you wasted my clearisil on another picture of thor?

sup peoples? if you have not noticed i have had to disable the music player that usually accompanies all posted tracks. there has been some unscrupulous activity going on behind the scenes and until i ban all the ip’s, which is about half of china, that are causing all the issues, the music player will remain down. you can, of course, still download the stuff as usual and if you want to stream it just click on the track. a new window should open up.

for those in the atlanta area, lucero is playing at the earl tomorrow evening. unfortunately, i will not be in attendance due to scheduling conflicts. they are coming back sometime in october though.

two other atlanta shows i wanted to make mention of, and are both free, are jason isbell at the park tavern on 9.9 and the apples in stereo, also at the park tavern on 9.23. its part of 99x’s unplugged in the park series.

have you folks heard of caleb boddicker, or boddicker for short, as of yet? its wunderkind’s like this that just make me sick. the story goes that at 16 he recorded a 22 track demo in his bedroom and ended up sending up 1000 copies of it. of course, his run of good luck doesnt end there. if it did i probably wouldnt be talking him now would i? isaac brock ended up getting his paws on a copy and passed it along to the folks at sub pop. fast forward 4 years and he is doing a 3 week recording stint, which would result in his official debut record big lionhearted and the gallant man, with my man brian deck at engine studios. it would seem that this pairing of boddicker and deck was a no brainer if not a match made in some weird alternate universe. boddicker’s brand of microphones/califone/sparklehorse brand of disjointed pop is a deck specialty. check it!

mississippi

when i go out

big lionhearted and the galant man is coming out via banter records on 10.2

boddicker site / banter records

there is no sweeter voice in all of music than the one owned by mary lou lord. couple her voice with her choice song selections and in my mind there is no reason she isnt more popular. i just dont understand it?! anyway here she is peforming in portland on 10.4.97

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mary lou lord live in boston 9.9.05

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there is no sweeter voice in all of music than the one owned by mary lou lord. even with all her voice’s sweetness there is a hint of sadness in just about every song she sings. i guess thats why i really connect with her and her choices of songs she covers, because even the greatest moments in ones life are filled with a little bit of melancholy.

she doesnt write too many songs, but the ones she has are pretty solid - see what was supposed to be a breakout record, got no shadow for proof. the songs she covers are grade A and often will include the works of springsteen, elliot smith, teenage fanclub, richard thompson, and her favorite go to guy, the much unappreciated nick solomon aka the bevis frond. i cant stress enough the awesomeness of nick saloman and his work. unfortunately, his records can be hard to come by but they are well worth the hunt.

for those that are not up on the history of miss lord, please check out her wikipedia page and if you are feeling up to it here is some info on mr saloman.

here is mary lou performing at the first act guitar studio in boston on 9.9.05

1. intro

2. western union desperate

3. flood warning

4. its a wonderful life

5. the wind blew all around me

6. stars burn out

7. he’d be diamond

8. forty-three

9. my own worst enemy

10. bewitching me

thanks to the original taper.

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