Decatur, Illinois' Liverpool

FI welcomes Obscure Pop Sleuth and all around swell guy David Singer for a guest post today, as a follow-up to yesterday's Beatles post

Listen to this song. Would you believe that it isn't Paul McCartney? It's actually Decatur, IL's favorite son Emitt Rhodes, who had a couple of minor hits and then disappeared. The long and interesting story is here.

Luke Singer hipped me to his stuff, and I've managed to BitTorrent his second record, 1971's The American Dream. Great songs, amazing arrangement. He had a song on the soundtrack of The Royal Tenenbaums too - Wes Anderson is cooler than all of us.

The internet hasn't just leveled the playing field between majors and indies, but also between new music and old music - 10 years ago, I never would have been able to find this.....

Emitt Rhodes - "Holly Park"

Video Bonus! We Are The World Redux

Thanks to David Berthy for sending in this priceless video

Everyone Goes Solo In The End

After having listened to Abbey Road consistantly for the past 30 years, I recently learned something fascinating that I never knew. In the song "The End" towards the end of side two*, McCartney, Harrison, and Lennon perform a rotating sequence of three, two-bar guitar solos.I guess I always just heard it as one solo. With Ringo's drum solo at the beginning of the song, all four Beatles take a solo on what was meant to be the last song on their last album (It didn't work out that way). Its kind of fun to try to figure out who is playing what in this sequence, which begins at 53 seconds in.

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*my vote for best album side ever

Lou, Lenny, and Regina

Today's track comes from the pixie-ish Soviet born Bronx bred singer, songwriter and pianist extraordinaire Regina Spektor, who was in attendance at Chicago singer songwriter David Singer's show this past Sunday at Joe's Pub in New York City (Hows that for straight up name-dropping!). The track is a live version of Leonard Cohen's Chelsea Hotel recorded on the BBC.

Speaking of Leonard Cohen, the gravelly voiced bard was inducted last night into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame by that other gravelly voiced bard and my personal clown hero, Lou Reed.




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Cowboy Psychedelia

A genre of country pop music whose main, and perhaps only practitioner was Lee Hazelwood. Best known for having written and produced the 1966 Nancy Sinatra US/UK #1 hit, "These Boots Are Made for Walkin', Hazlewood released several albums before moving to Stockholm, Sweden where he wrote and produced the one hour television show Cowboy in Sweden, which also later emerged as an album in 1970.

Here's a clip of the show featuring the song Pray Them Bars Away


Today's track, "Hey Cowboy" is a conversation between a tall Swedish Goddess and a little cowboy, out of place in the land of the midnight sun.

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Real Emotional Trash

Here's brand new music from Lou Reed Disciple and former Pavement frontman Stephen Malkmus. While I was a huge Pavement fan up through Brighten The Corners, Malkmus's solo material has been hit or miss for me, mostly the latter. This track, though, has that old magic, especially the instrumental interlude in the middle.



The new album, was recorded in Whitefish, Montana, and features former Sleater-Kinney drummer Janet Weiss. Back in In 2007, the reigning clown prince of Indie Rock provided the singing voice for Cate Blanchett's portrayal of Bob Dylan in Todd Haynes' film I'm Not There, contributing the songs "Ballad of a Thin Man", "Can't Leave Her Behind", and "Maggie's Farm" under the name The Million Dollar Bashers.

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The Australian Beatles

The Bee Gees had a long and successful career before they became Disco Superstars in the mid-seventies. Here is the second single from their debut album in 1967, "To Love Somebody", which cracked the US Top 20 and has become a pop standard, covered by everyone from Rod Stewart to Nina Simone.

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Born Again Music

"I was blinded by the devil
Born already ruined
Stone-cold dead
As I stepped out of the womb
By His grace I have been touched
By His word I have been healed
By His hand I've been delivered
By His spirit I've been sealed

I've been saved
By the blood of the lamb"

So begins the title track from Bob Dylan's 1980 LP "Saved" the second in a trilogy of straight up Evangelical Christian gospel records, released between 1979"s "Slow Train Coming" and 1981's "Shot of Love".



Dylan toured with a gospel choir, refusing to play any of his earlier secular material. This period would produce some truly beautiful songs, "I Believe in You" and "Every Grain of Sand" come to mind.

Today's download is a live version of "Saved" recorded in Toronto in 1981. To my ears the music is tight, uplifting, and played and sung with conviction.

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Adventure Rock 101

Adventure Rock /ædˈvɛntʃər/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[ad-ven-cher /rɒk/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciationrok]- A sub-genre of Classic rock and roll relating to songs from the 1970's featuring narratives of vague and epic challenges from the natural elements or unnamed mystical forces. The best known Adventure Rock Band is Kansas, with Carry on My Wayward Son, Dust in the Wind, and Point of No Return. Other examples of the genre are Riding The Storm Out by REO Speedwagon and Come Sail Away by Styx.

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The definitive Adventure Rock Video Relic (Thank you Eva!)



BONUS!! YOU MUST WATCH THIS! YOU WON'T BE DISSAPPOINTED

To Tha Extreme

Houston Rapper Devin The Dude

Over the past couple of years I've become a big fan of Houston rapper Devin The Dude. The Dude has enjoyed a long career on Rap-A-Lot Records and first came to prominence as a guest on Dr. Dre's 2001 Album.

Stylistically, DTD is the James Taylor of Hip Hop, with his frog in the throat voice and laid back delivery. I know its crossed his mind because he covered "Handy Man" when he played Intonation in 2006 and sampled "Shower the People" on his 2004 album To Tha Xtreme.

Contentwise its mostly about smoking weed and rolling with the ladies, but something about the juxtaposition of his crass lyrical content with his sweet, relaxed style makes his music wickedly funny.

I highly reccommend both To Tha Xtreme and the 2007 album Waiting to Inhale, featuring today's download, "What a Job This Is". Listen for great guest spots from Andre 3000 and Snoop Dogg on this ode to the recording life.

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Pure Pop Pt. 2

Yes, its another pop nugget from Nick Lowe, who's just re-issued his seminal 1978 album Jesus of Cool (renamed Pure Pop for Now People for its original US release). The hook laden bevy of tunes on this record stand the test of time, sounding as fresh today as they did back in the seventies. The cover is a pretty good representation of the music, which shifts stylistically from song to song. Highly recommended! B

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Tonight You Belong to Me x 3

David Singer and Eva Yusa performed a lovely version of the ditty "Tonight You Belong To me" at The Ukulele Cabaret. It was written in 1926 and recorded many times throughout the years. The uke version was made famous by Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters in the 1979 movie The Jerk, with Martin playing the ukulele and Peters playing the cornet:



Oh and here's David and Eva Playing it (sorry so dark!):



And Fiona Apple with Jon Brion and Nickel Creek:

Hawaiian Sunset

David Berthy sent me this track prior to his terrific Elvis monologue at the Ukulele Cabaret a couple of weeks back. His reading, both funny and sad, was a first person rumination from beyond the grave about a variety of real life issues and events from Elvis including cars, karate, Richard Nixon, Colonel Parker, and more... revelaing a core of loneliness and loss as he read.

The song is from the 1961 Album and movie Blue Hawaii, and I can't stop listening to it. One thing Elvis' swindler/svengali Colonel Parker always insisted on was that Elvis record at least ten songs for every movie he made so that he would have a full album ready with every film he released.

I believe a full scale Elvis phase is on my horizon.

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Heroes and Villains

Brian Wilson & Mike Love

When I was little, my parents took me and my brother to Streetside records from time to time and let each of us pick out an album. After a few missteps (Most notably Sha Na Na Live), I scored Endless Summer from the Beach Boys, a double best of collection.

Though I wasn't hip to who was singing what at that tender age, I could tell that there were two very different things going on. On the one hand, there was a high school guy football captain type singing faux Chuck Berry songs about surfboards, chicks, hot rods, and school lockers, and on the other was the class outcast singing complicated love songs and aural renderings of a strange and beautiful inner world. They featured incredibly lush harmonies and a warm emotional center.

I didn't think of it in these terms of course, but
it was the songs of Brian Wilson I was drawn to and the songs of Mike Love I skipped:

Brian Wilson (Hero):

The Warmth of The Sun
In My Room
Good Vibrations
God Only Knows
Let Him Run
Don't Worry Baby
Caroline No
Wouldn't it Be Nice
Wendy
Surfer Girl


Mike Love (Villain):

Surfing Safari
Be True to Your School
Little Deuce Coup
California Girls
Catch A Wave
Surfing USA
I Get Around (I Like this one!)
KOKOMO!!!!!!?????

No wonder Brian Wilson eventually lost his mind!

So as I head out today for a vacation to warmer climbs, it is of course a Brian Wilson Gem I leave you with.

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PS> FI will return next Tuesday

Back in The Game

Like Syl Johnson, FI is back in the game! By way of explanation, I had decided to stop posting because I truly thought that no one was Fingerhutting. Well, you all proved me wrong, so thanks for chiming in! Let me know you're out there from time to time...

Here's a fitting track from Chicago R&B Legend Syl Johnson.
In the 70's, he recorded three albums for Willie Mitchell's Hi Records label , produced with the Hi house band ( who created that signature Al Green sound). This song, certainly not his strongest material (downright brutal actuallly), is the title track from his 1994 comeback album on the local Delmark imprint.

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DOWNLOAD A REALLY GREAT EARLY SYL SONG-DIFFERENT STROKES

Adieu, Adieu!

Well, folks, all good things must come to an end, and FI is no exception!
We're going on hiatus until further notice, so heres to many sonic adventures for us all until we meet again on these pages!

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This is the outer and inner sleeve photos from Daryl Hall & John Oates Self-titled 1975 album. Daryl Hall later said in an interview of their androgynous look that he made himself up to "look like the girl I had always wanted to go out with". John Oates looks utterly like Prince, 8 year before the purple one would hit the scene.

The hit Sarah Smile appears on this record...blue eyed Philly soul at its finest!

Ten years before his first solo #1 hit Lucille, Kenny Rogers formed The First Edition in 1967. The country rock outfit signed with Reprise Records and recorded the pop-psychedelic single "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)". Two years later tehy again hit the charts with this complex love song "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town", about a disabled veteran slowly losing the one he loves.

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Happy Valentines Day from Reggae Legend Horace Andy!

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Vision Deferred

Reading the paper, I saw a review
Said I was a visionary, but nobody knew
Now that's been a problem
feeling unseen
Just like I'm living somebody's dream

What am I doing anyway
Telling myself it's not too late

My children look away they don't know
what to say

So starts the first track "Not too Late" from Lindsey Buckingham's 2007 solo album, Under The Skin, released 34 years after his debut album with Stevie Nicks in 1973. Buckingham Nicks would be dropped from their label after the record stiffed and then join Fleetwood Mac a year later.

Buckingham is a hero of mine... as a guitar player (fingerpicker, no pick,ever), producer, singer, and songwriter. I like his willingness to lay himself absolutely bare before the listener. Hushed and direct, his voice is so close it sounds like its inside your head and his gorgeously amped up fingerpicking creates a suitably claustrophobic aura.

For my money, its one of the finer and more overlooked efforts of 2007.



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They All Look Just The Same

I've been enjoying a WEEDS marathon as of late, and never seem to tire of the theme song, Little Boxes, sung by Malvina Reynolds. For season two and beyond, the suburban sprawl ditty is performed each week by a different act, including Elvis Costello, The Shins, Regina Spektor, Deathcab and more, but its the original I like best.


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Herbie Takes Off

Congratulations to Jazz Pioneer Herbie Hancock, who beat out both Amy Winehouse and Kanye West to win the Best Album Grammy last night, an honor which hasn't gone to a jazz musician since 1964. The Album, River-The Joni Letters, is a collection of Joni Mitchell Compositons including performances by Leonard Cohen, Tina Turner, and Norah Jones who appears on today's track, Court & Spark.

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Worst is Best Vol 1

For me, there are very few artists for whom the formula is this:

The worse their music is, the more I love it.

Lou Reed tops the list by a margin of infinity

I will prove this to you periodically

lets start with a track thats only marginally terrible, so that we have somewhere to go from there later.

After his "music to slit your wrists by, Vol 1" 1973 opus Berlin, RCA begged Lou to lighten up, literally. In 1974, He died his hair bleach blond and put out an R&B record, Sally Can't Dance. I think the logic was that his "doo doo doo" back-up singers worked to make Walk on the Wild Side a hit on Transformer two years earlier, so lets try again! The results are hilarious. Lou gets funky ala Robert Palmer!


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Winterlong

my long distance dedication to Spring.
Its the Pixies covering Neil Young's Winterlong from The Bridge Tribute Album.

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Like Father Like Son

Music from Liam Finn, Son of Neil Finn of Split Enz and Crowded House Fame. From his 2007 debut album I'll Be Lightning, on which the younger Finn plays most of the instruments himself, with dad joining on bass.

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Here's to a Super Super Tuesday



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Upper West Side Soweto

I caught these guys on letterman last week and liked their mix of Indie Rock and afrobeat. Their self-titled debut came out last week.

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Superman Was a Rocker

New/Old msuic from the most prolific indie rocker on the planet. Bob Pollard, frontman of the now defunct Guided By Voices, puts out a new record every three months on average. For this one, he is said to have found some earlier instrumental tracks on cassette, to which he added new vocals. Great Title!

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World Destruction, Kaboom!

The year was 1984 and Hip Hop and Punk Icons Afrika Bambaatta and Johnny Lydon had had enough! They channeled their rage and fear into this terrific single, the first "rapcore" release ever!

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What's that? More pop you say? Alright, take it easy, I'm happy to oblige.
Here's an early UK Top Ten Hit from The Cure, The Love Cats-1983.

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Pure Pop for Now People

Let's Start the week with a 1979 pop gem from Nick Lowe, who hit the US Top Forty just once, and with this track, Cruel To Be Kind. Lowe was the in-house producer at London punk/new wave label Stiff records, and produced Elvis Costello's first three records as well as one by The Damned. He also penned (Whats So Funny'Bout) Peace Love,& Understanding, from Costello's Armed Forces LP.

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There ain't no Devil, There's Just God When He's Drunk

It was that line that caught my attention back in 1983, when I first heard Tom Waits'growl while browsing at Vintage Vinyl in St. Louis. I asked the clerk who it was and he handed me this album, which I bought on the spot. Released in 1980, Heartattack and Vine was TW's last album for Asylum. It was also the last album released before he'd make a major stylistic shift with his career defining trilogy, beginning with Swordfishtrombones in 1983 and continuing with Rain Dogs and Frank's Wild Years. This album is filled with down and dirty blues and ballads, including Jersey Girls, which Bruce Springsteen would make famous playing live.

Here is the first song and title track

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Black Mountain Hop

Brand new music today from Black Mountain, whose new LP In The Future came out this week.Fans of 70's classic rock staples like Black Sabbath, Led Zepplin etc. and their post millenia disciples Wolfmother and The Darkness should dig this.

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Kids These Days

The kids at the southside's Fuller Park after school music workshop have spoken, and they have chosen No One, by Alicia Keys, as their first band project of 2008. It fits the criteria perfectly; its clean (the song, if not the pic) and there are very few changes throughout. In fact, I think its the same progression as U2's With or Without You, a song any aspiring bass player can master in approximately 30 seconds. Since I will now hear this song everyday for the next three months, its only fitting that you all get to know it too, if you don't already.

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Good Winter

David Berthy sent this one to FI.

From Bon Iver's Myspace page:

it wasn't planned. The goal was to hibernate.

Justin Vernon moved to a remote cabin in the woods of Northwestern Wisconsin at the onset of winter. Tailing from the swirling breakup of his long time band, he escaped to the property and surrounded himself with simple work, quiet, and space. He lived there alone for three months, filling his days with wood splitting and other chores around the land. This special time slowly began feeding a bold, uninhibited new musical focus.

This slowly evolved into days filled with twelve-hour recording blocks, breaking only for trips on the tractor into the pines to saw and haul firewood, or for frozen sunrises high up a deer stand. All of his personal trouble, lack of perspective, heartache, longing, love, loss and guilt that had been stock piled over the course of the past six years, was suddenly purged into the form of song. The end result is, For Emma, Forever Ago, a nine-song album.

Bon Iver (pronounced: bohn eevair; French for "good winter" and spelled wrong on purpose) is a greeting, a celebration and a sentiment. It is a new statement of an artist moving on and establishing the groundwork for a lasting career. For Emma, Forever Ago is the debut of this lineage of songs. As a whole, the record is entirely cohesive throughout and remains centered around a particular aesthetic, prompted by the time and place for which it was recorded. Vernon seems to have tested his boundaries to the utmost, and in doing so has managed to break free form any pre-cursing or finished forms.

For Emma's tracks consist of thick layers draped in lush choral walls, with rarely more than an ancient acoustic guitar or the occasional bass drum providing structure. Vernon sings the majority of the record in falsetto, which painfully expresses the meanings behind its overt, yet strangely entangled words. This newfound vocal path acts as each song's main character and source of melody.

Despite its complexity, the record was created entirely by Vernon with nothing more than a few microphones and some aged recording equipment. This homemade aspect shows itself in sections as creaks and accidentals are exposed in the folds of the songs, but is hidden well by the highly impressive and almost orchestral sound that Vernon managed to produce by his lonesome, within the creaky skeleton of his father's cabin.

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Great Debuts-Elvis Costello

In 1977, 23 year old Elvis Costello burst on the scene with his debut album, My Aim is True. I remember seeing his new wave Buddy Holly visage posted all over the local record store and being struck by his punk-geek attitude, with his oversized glasses and knock-kneed stance. The backing band for the sessions was Clover, who later become the News, Huey Lewis's backing band. Later that year, he would recruit the members of the Attractions through newslpaper want ads.

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Life is a Cabaret, Old Chums

A Ukulele cabaret to be exact. Dust off that uke you picked up on vacation in Hawaii and join yours truly and Tony B. for the inaugural Ukulele Cabaret just after Valentines Day on Saturday, February 16. Where? you guessed it, Silvies. The theme of course will be songs of betrayal and heartbreak, lust and love.

The Guidelines:
1. Each act may play up to three songs (at least one of which should relate to the theme)
2. A uke should be played in each song, other instruments are welcome and encouraged
3. bonus points for theatricality- costumes, props, skits, beatboxes, whatever

If you don't yet play the uke, take it from me, its simple to learn and very inexpensie too (from $30 at Andy's.) Or you can just come to watch, sing along, and throw back some brown-brown.

So don't delay, put those winter doldrums to work and scare up a song or two.
Hope to see you there.

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Here's the Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra playing Hey Ya.
I'm quite sure that Brett from Flight of the Conchords is second from left

All That Scratching is Making Me Itch

That line, used in yesterday's post by the B-boys was taken from Malcolm Mclaren's 1982 hip hop influenced novelty hit Buffalo Gals, which was built around a square dance call. As far I know this track was the first record to feature scratching and its widely credited with popularizing hip hop in the UK. Prior to its release, notorious jagoff McLaren managed both the New York Dolls and the Sex Pistols.

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My Real Name is...Cookie Puss!

Three years before the release of their debut long player Licensed to Ill in 1986,
The Beastie Boys released this 12 inch single, Cookie Puss. Based around prank phone calls to Carvel ice cream store employees, it's little more than a curiosity, but a funny one at that. Steve Martin fans will get an extra kick out of it.


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Two Tone

Man, we were big into The Specials in High School. Their look-the suits, suspenders, and wing tips was both hip and elegant, and their sound was utterly refreshing amid the pap I had grown up with in St. Louis.

A Midwestern kid transplanted into the boarding scene of The East Coast, I was blessed with a roomate, Tim Smith, who was born and bred in Manhattan, and whose urbane taste in music was always spot on. Tim had the first Specials album, produced by a young Elvis Costello, which was released in 1979 and played like a greatest hits package. We played it until the grooves wore out.

Tim also had the vinyl maxi-single of 1981's non-album track Ghost Town.



The Specials were a multi-racial band who managed to flourish amidst severe racial unrest in Thatcherite England, and make it a central topic of their music. I found out recently that this track was written in response to Margaret Thatcher's policies, believed by the band to be responsible for increasing massive unemployment already present in Britain, and resulting racial tensions. It hit home for the Specials especially (like that?)as they were from Coventry, a city with unemployment at levels of 20% and higher at the time. It was also the summer of large-scale riots in Brixton, London and Liverpool, where there was alleged heavy-handed police treatment of young black men. Indeed the single was unusual in that it hit the top of the UK Top 40 at the exact time that the riots occurred. A crystalized moment where music mirrors society directly.


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Make a wish, baby

Lets start the week in a groove, yeah baby, nice and easy. We found ourselves in AM Gold Country last week and we're striking it rich, so there's no need to leave so soon.
Here's one from the California outfit Ambrosia from their 4th LP One Eighty. The track reached number three on the pop charts and garnered three grammy nominations that year.
The bands most stunning accolade came when Quincy Jones publicly declared it to be one of his all time favorite songs.

and no, that is not studio hack Michael McDonald on backing vocals, though they've replicated his trademark sound to perfection

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My head seems to be stuck in the Seventies this week. Here's one from Fleetwood Mac, before Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham joined, but after their straight up blues era. I remember hearing this song on AM radio in the wood paneled station wagon in my very early childhood. Its from the 1972 album Bare Trees. I was reminded of it when Autumn Defense covered it on New Years Eve.

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Bob Welch, Guitarist with Fleetwood Mac, Re-recorded the song for solo release in 1977, and it became a hit. This is the version I remember hearing in the car He's backed on the track by Christine McVie and Lindsey Buckingham. I couldnt find the actual track for download, but here's a youtube montage with this version of the song song. I prefer this version to the original.

For What Its Worth

Last night I had the pleasure of sitting in which Quickdraw's 60's cover band Revolution, as their drummer called in sick for rehearsal. We played three hours of 60's classics, including For What its Worth by Buffalo Springfield. As soon as we started it, I flashed on the Muppet Show version which I remembered from my Childhood.

Here you go...

Northern Lights

Yet another band spawned from the Broken Social Scene Collective, The Canadian band Stars released their 4th album, In Our Bedroom After The War, in September of last year. Here's the title track.

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AM Gold

The Autumn Defense is the other project of Wilco's John Stirrat and Pat Sansone. They played a handful of songs at the New Years Eve show and I was intrigued enough by their
nice harmonies and 70's light rock California sound to check out their record. Here's the title track from their debut album in 2003 Circles.


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Seventies pop (Fleetwood Mac, CSN) meets nineties vocal influences (Radiohead, Rufus Wainwright) with Midlake. This track is from the Texas band's 2006 sophmore album, The Trials of Van Occupanther.

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Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars

Over the holiday break jazz lost ones of its finest.
Enjoy Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars from Oscar Peterson's own covers album We Get Requests


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I Feel Fine

Here's a clip from the New Years Eve Show of Jon Brion playing The Beatles"I Feel Fine" with help from John and Pat From Wilco, Britt from Spoon, and Yes, friend and bandmate Howard Windmiller on drums!