Richard & Mimi Farina - Another Country
From Celebrations For A Grey Day, one of my favorite and vastly underrated records.
Sez Allmusic: “Appalachian-like instrumentals that put the dulcimer to the fore alternate with strong contemporary folk compositions, which are by turns mournful and high-spirited.”
And to be clear about this: if you don’t already own it, you should download this classic album for only $5 at Amazon this month.
You can download this classic album for only $5 at Amazon this month.
Uncle Tupelo - I Wanna Be Your Dog (Stooges cover)
So interesting. So different.
Nirvana - School
Sometimes I think that out in the ether somewhere there is this oil well of artistic creativity and greatness, and you’re lucky to get a few drops of it here and there over the years. I also think that, even given all the bullshit that came later, for about 18 months in 1989-1990 Nirvana mainlined directly into the motherlode of this oil well. “Bleach” could be, probably is, the greatest debut record ever. Punkmetal stoner rock to its fullest expression.
many hearts
rach:
I know this makes me solidly entrenched in an elderly and caucasian foxhole from which there is limited escape, but I heart them. Maybe it just makes me Irish.
bass line ftw
Ambrosia - “Biggest Part Of Me”. In addition to providing immortality, the food-of-the-gods apparently grows your hair to ridiculous lengths and enhances your blue-eyed soul street cred. I’ll grant them that the song is timeless. The hair, not so much.
Ofege- It’s Not Easy
Great, great track from the equally wonderful new compilation Forge Your Own Chains: Heavy Psychedelic Ballads and Dirges 1968-1974 on the Stones Throw/Now Again label.
Ofege were a bunch of Nigerian afro-funk high school students who recorded this in the early 70s.
“Besides, being managed by Hell’s Angels and named after a brand of LSD, Blue Cheer was the absolute antithesis of the Zeitgeist, singer Dickie Peterson later commenting: “We were the ugly stepchildren. Everybody of the San Franciscan scene was all ‘kiss babies’ and ‘eat flowers’. We were sort of ‘kiss flowers’ and ‘eat babies’; we weren’t peace and love.” No shit, Sherlock!”
Julian Cope, The Godlike Genius of Blue Cheer
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