Somnambulist

Like seeing Jeff with the Ric.

Oddly, Howard Stern has mentioned that he is a huge Phoebe Snow fan. I think he even knew her personally. I'm sure he'll have an interesting take on her passing on his show.

Picked this up on a whim at the local used CD store. Been humming the tunes all week.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x85he7oCge8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0OcFgTBYLg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Da9sc6YDBo

XTC - Thanks for Christmas Actually, Raul Malo had a nice Christmas album out a few years ago. Growing up, I loved John Fahey's Christmas Album.

Jens Hannemann

Always liked this one as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_R3yazUat8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkvXyYhZcdw

Love this band as well. Looking forward to 01/11. I tend to go through phases where all I listen to is Cake for a few weeks.

I was watching the Ken Burns Baseball 10th Inning movie and in the section on Boston winning the 2004 World Series, the background music was Phish. I thought it was a nice touch with Phish being from New England.

A number of years ago The Smithereens had an album called A Date with the Smithereens. Lou Reed played guitar on two of the tracks. I read an interview around the time where Reed said something like, hey, I'm not a huge fan of these guys and I'm not a great guitar player but they asked me to do it so I said yes. I'm sure The Smithereens were thrilled with that one.

Holliston Stops documentary/Astronaut Now defunct band from LA but this is a clip from a documentary about them. The look on their faces when they walk into Air studios is priceless. The piano player is the songwriter. Also, The Dodos "Time to Die" has been getting a lot of plays at my house.