Bob Dylan: Live 1966 – The “Royal Albert Hall” Concert

Bob Dylan:  Live 1966 – The “Royal Albert Hall” Concert
Jordy: It has always been difficult for me to listen to the man-and-his-guitar format.  Rock, in the end, is how a small group of musicians produces a singular, simultaneous sound.  Dylan’s acoustic set on the “Royal Albert Hall” Concert is the former yearning to be the [...]

Modest Mouse: The Moon & Antarctica

Modest Mouse – The Moon and Antarctica (2000)
GLENN:
I had such high hopes for The Lonesome Crowded West. But it turned out to be a droney, overlong, emoish Pixies ripoff. I dug a few tracks, but soon filed it away and returned to Fugazi.
A few years later my friends were talking about “this great new band, [...]

So Well Remembered….not what you remembered

Friends,
For over two years we’ve offered mp3s and commentary on the songs of our lives. We met some fine people along the way and generally had a good time sharing our musical lives with you, one song at a time.
However, something seemed to be missing. This blog was formed by four friends who loved music, [...]

“I’m all strung out on heroin on the outskirts of town”

Warren Zevon doesn’t get the credit he deserves for being a great songwriter.  He was well-respected among other musicians, and his songs are often covered by the likes of Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, and others.  As a teenager, Zevon briefly studied modern classical music with Igor Stravinsky, and in the 1970s, he was the touring keyboradist [...]

Who is this man

Simon Joyner – “The Drunken Boat” from Out Into the Snow (2009)
Pardon my absence once again, but you don’t want excuses, you want results.
What we have here is an anomaly, an anachronism, a man out of time. A Billy Pilgrim, if you will. The warm sound of tape, the warm lap steel,the electric guitar tone, [...]