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    2012 Year in Music - So far

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    Sun Kil Moon - Among The Leaves

    Father John Misty - Fear Fun

    Guided by Voices - Class Clown Eats a UFO

    Advance Base - A Shut-in's Prayer

    Jay Farrar/Will Johnson/Jim James/Anders Parker - New Multitudes

    Rufus Wainwright - Out of The Game

    David Myhr - Soundshine

    Chuck Prophet - Temple Beautiful

    Smash Palace - Do It Again

    Damien Jurado - Maraqopa

    Peter Bruntnell - Ringo woz ere

    Counting Crows

    in Someone Else's Song

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    Here's the track list. Looking forward to hearing there take on that Dawes track.

     

    1. "Untitled (Love Song)" by The Romany Rye

    2. "Start Again" by Teenage Fanclub

    3. "Hospital" by Coby Brown

    4. "Mercy" by Tender Mercies

    5. "Meet On The Ledge" by Fairport Convention

    6. "Like Teenage Gravity" by Kasey Anderson & The Honkies

    7. "Amie" by Pure Prairie League

    8. "Coming Around" by Travis

    9. "Ooh La La" by The Faces

    10. "All My Failures" by Dawes

    11. "Return of the Grievous Angel" by Gram Parsons

    12. "Four White Stallions" by Tender Mercies

    13. "Jumping Jesus" by Sordid Humor

    14. "You Ain't Going Nowhere" by Bob Dylan

    15. "The Ballad of El Goodo" by Big Star

     

    Of older bands they were in, they've apparently pared it down to Tender Mercies and Sordid Humor. The rest, they went with all the "big guns" so to speak.

    Aimee Mann

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    I am a recent convert to Aimee Mann.

     

    After listening to her music on grooveshark, I decided that my first purchase would be "I'm with stupid", which I just received from amazon, although "Bachelor No. 2" was a close second choice.

     

    I'll eventually get all of her records, I suppose, and I'm especially looking forward to seeing her perform live with The Wilderness of Manitoba.

     

    I think she could be perceived as an "old" artist (just as R.E.M.) in the sense that her top selling album Lost in Space is from 2002 while I'm with Stupid is from 1995.

     

     

    Over time I've come to feel that 'Lost in Space' is as good as 'Bachelor #2' and sometimes surpasses its genius.

    Per her FB page, she completed her new record a couple of weeks ago, finishing up with a duet with James Mercer of The Shins.

     

    If I had to rank'em :

     

    Bachelor #2 / Lost In Space

    Smilers

    Magnolia

    Whatever

    Forgotten Arm

    I'm With Stupid

    Top 5 albums of 2011 so far

    in Someone Else's Song

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    Top Tier

     

    Peter Bruntnell - Black Mountain UFO

    Daniel Romano - Sleep Beneath The Willow

    Hayes Carll - Kmag YoYo

    Robert Pollard - Space City Kicks

    The Phoenix Foundation - Buffalo

    Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues

    Rafael Saadiq - Steam Rollin'

    The Booze - At Maximum Volume

    The Red Button - As Far as Yesterday Goes

    Gillian Welch - The Harrow and The Harvest ( this will begin its ascent soon I'm sure)

     

     

    The following are rekkids that contain a few tracks I enjoy, but as a whole, come up short.

     

    Vetiver - The Errant Charm

    Woods - In Sun & Shade

    Jonny - S/T

    The Insomniacs - Just Enjoy It

    Sloan - The Double Cross

    Destroyer - Kaputt

    Sonny & The Sunsets - Hit After Hit

    Low - C'mon

    PJ Harvey - Let England Shake

    James Blake - S/T

    Bibio - Mind Bokeh

    Young Montana - Limerence

    Mars Classroom - theory of everything

    Lifeguards - waving at the astronauts

    Kurt Vile - smoke rings

    Smith Westerns - Dyed in Blonde

    Brent Cash - how strange it seems

    Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside - dirty radio

     

    Compilation

    Chris Mills - the heavy years (2000-2010)

     

    Disappointment Pile

    Title Tracks - In Blank

     

    Patiently waiting on :

    Richard Buckner - our blood

    Richmond Fontaine - the high country

    Fountains of Wayne - sky full of holes

    Daniel Tashian - (of The Silver Seas) - arthur

    Wilco

     

     

    Intrigued by

    Charles Bradley

    Mount Mariah

    The Official Bob Dylan Thread

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    Here's a Dylan two-disc starter collection I put together a few years ago for a friend looking to find out what all the fuss was about.

     

    DISC 1

     

    Girl From The North Country

    Don't Think Twice, It's All Right

    Masters Of War

    The Times They Are A Changin'

    Only A Pawn In Their Game

    One Too Many Mornings

    Subterranean Homesick Blues

    She Belongs To Me

    Love Minus Zero/No Limit

    Maggie's Farm

    It's All Over Now, Baby Blue

    Like a Rolling Stone

    Tombstone Blues

    It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry

    Ballad of a Thin Man

    Highway 61 Revisited

    Desolation Row

    Positively Fourth Street

     

    DISC 2

     

    Odds and Ends

    Tangled Up In Blue

    Pledging My Time

    Simple Twist Of Fate

    Million Dollar Bash

    Visions Of Johanna

    Million Miles

    One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later)

    Goin' to Acapulco

    I Want You

    Most Of The Time

    Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat

    If You See Her, Say Hello

    Just Like A Woman

    Please, Mrs. Henry

    Not Dark Yet

    I'm Not There

     

    Happy 70th Birthday Mr Zimmerman

    Richard Buckner

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    Pretty good list, though way heavy on "Since" in my opinion.

     

    I'd include a couple songs off "Impasse"...an album that many seem to think is one of his inferior records. "Impasse" was made by Buckner at his home, playing all instruments, including synthesizers, except for his wife on drums. 'Loaded at the Wrong Door', 'And The Clouds Have Lied' and 'Count Me In On This One' would all be suitable for a Buckner "Best Of."

     

    Also, Buckner has a great tune on a Bloodshot compilation. It's called 'Do You Wanna Go Somewhere'.

     

    Nice inclusion of 'The Last Ride'.....one of Buckner's absolute best. "Bloomed" has other greats like '22' and 'Six Years'. It's impossible to chop Buckner down to just 24 songs.

     

    I put this comp together a few years ago when Impasse, in my opinion was not the equal of Rick's other records. I've since changed my stance a bit and have warmed up to some of the songs, including a couple you mentioned. As for Bloomed, both songs you mentioned for anyone else would be a career best. They're that good. Also, I do concur that it's impossible to scale Rick's oeuvre down to a mere 24 or thereabouts. I've been a fan since I say him fronting The Doubters in Berkeley circa '95 or so.

     

    Do You Wanna Go Somewhere from Sir Dark Invader vs. The Fanglord ? Great record. I need to revisit

    Richard Buckner

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    how have i never heard of this guy??

     

    quick, tell me which album to start with...

     

    Welch79 -

    For the uninitiated, I have a 24 song collection I can send you later tonight if you're interested.

     

    Goner With A Souvenir

    Lil Wallet Picture

    The Ocean Cliff Clearing

    Faithful Shooter

    Ariel Ramirez

    4am

    Jewelbomb

    When Love Is Gone

    Julia Miller

    Fater

    Town

    Blue & Wonder

    A Chance Counsel

    Firsts

    A Goodbye Rye

    Numbered

    Coursed

    Emily Sparks

    Boys, The Night Will Bury You

    The Tether and The Tie

    Song of 27

    The Last Ride

    Elizabeth Childers

    Once

     

    #1,3,4,5,7,17,19,24 - Since

    #2,6,10,15,21 - Devotion & Doubt

    #9,18,23 - The Hill

    #11,16,20 - Meadow

    #12,22 - Bloomed

    #13,14 - Dents & Shells

    #8 - Real (Tom T Hall Tribute)

    Richard Buckner

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    http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2011/05/09/richard-buckner-the-ad-interview/

     

    Aquarium Drunkard favorite Richard Buckner is one of America’s greatest living singer-songwriters, but he’s been awfully quiet for a while now. We recently caught up with Buckner, prior to his show, in the parking lot of The EARL in Atlanta. Buckner gave us the skinny on his silence and the lowdown on the his new record, Our Blood, due out August 2nd on Merge Records.

     

    AD: It’s been five years since you’ve put out a record. What have you been up to?

     

    Richard Buckner: Well, you know, for years I was putting out a record at least every two years. I’d tour, make a record, tour, make a record…Around six years ago a guy contacted me and he was trying to make a film and wanted me to do the score for it. So I did it and it took, like, a year and a half after my last record, which is usually when my next record would have come out. I thought I’d do some weird little instrumental tour based on the soundtrack and then make my next record. Well, between the lawyers and everything else, this thing never came out and I had nothing to tour on and I didn’t have a new record to make because I had spent all my time on this soundtrack. So I moved to Upstate New York and started working day jobs until I could get my next record out.

     

    AD: You’re a notorious nomad. Does this finally feel like home?

     

    Richard Buckner: It never does. I mean, my girlfriend and I will look at each other and say, “What are we doing in Kingston, New York?” We just moved up there because she got a job on a sheep farm and we’ve got this place–this weird old grange hall–which for me would be perfect for recording because it’s got these really high ceilings, but we just moved up there kind of sight-unseen. We’re still not sure what we’re doing there.

     

    AD: So you’ve lived in every corner of the US and even spent some time in Canada and you’ve never really felt settled?

     

    Richard Buckner: Not really. I guess since I grew up in the Central Valley, the delta part of California, that sort of feels like home, but I can’t afford to live there.

     

    AD: And you’re still working day jobs?

     

    Richard Buckner: Yeah. Different stuff. I was driving a forklift in a warehouse for a while. Before that I was holding a road sign for Con Ed in while they were working on the power lines in the Upstate. January in the Catskills with snow banks and dead deer next to me. I worked for the census last year. Before that I was working at a school for autistic kids. So, wherever will take a freaky longhair who hasn’t had a real job in years.

     

    AD: So many people hold you in such high regard as an artist, it’s tough to sort of justify that with the your reality of working these crappy jobs to get by. How do you see yourself?

     

    Richard Buckner: It’s funny because I remember when I was holding the road sign for Con Ed it was, like, zero degrees and you’re in your thermals and had your hand-warmers but you could really only be out there for forty-five minutes or an hour and then they’d let you go sit in your car and warm up. And I was sitting there one day and listening to NPR and they were doing a story on the Berlin Film Festival and that film had come out with that soundtrack and I’m like, “My god, they’re talking about my film score on NPR and here I am out holding a sign in the snow next to a frozen animal carcass.”

     

    AD: So life as professional singer-songwriter in America in 2011 is…

     

    Richard Buckner: Really rough. Not only are there fewer labels and fewer booking agents, but people are just sharing files and not buying records anymore, and people aren’t going out as much anymore–or when they do they’re not buying as many drinks at the club. So everyone is affected. It‘s more of a struggle than it was when I first started. The whole, sort of, paying musicians thing still hasn’t been figured out. The same thing is happening to the book industry now. They just haven’t figured out how to pay artists for their work, how to restructure the system. So it’s difficult on a lot of levels, but that makes people more inventive in a lot of ways, too. Like last year I did some house concerts with a guy named Will Johnson [of Centro-matic and South San Gabriel]. So there are alternatives, but you have to keep thinking. The only money comes from touring. There’s no money in making records. This latest record that I’ve recorded I did entirely at my house. I would have loved to gone into the studio and bring a band in there like I did in the beginning but it’s just not possible anymore.

     

    AD: And you typically tour solo or with just one other musician, rather than with a full band. Is that a purely financial decision, or at least partly artistic?

     

    Richard Buckner: Well, I tour in my pickup and I can only fit one guy in there. But I’ve done a couple of band tours that were disasters on a bunch of levels. The kind of money clubs pay me, I can’t afford to bring a band out. I’m not going to pay somebody $50 a day–you can’t live on that. I just ate at Waffle House and it was, like, $9 or $10 for a meal. They should pay you that for eating there [laughs]. But it’s like prices are up everywhere except for musicians. The same clubs are paying me the same amount of money for a gig as I was making sixteen years ago. Still, I feel lucky in a lot of ways in that I can tour for a while and then not have to work for six months, where some people you see are stuck in the same shitty job for life.

     

    AD: So what’s your definition of success?

     

    Richard Buckner: I’m still alive. I can still pay my bills. And I have a label. I have a load of very talented musician friends who don’t have a label and I can’t understand why I do and they don’t. I got lucky with Merge. They’re honest. Most of they labels I’ve been with aren’t honest. You can’t get your statements, you can’t get paid, they disappear…If you really want to meet a bunch of fucking scumbags, be a musician. But Merge is just straight up and they’re the sweetest people. You want talk about success: If I have a label that I can trust and they’re nice and they care, then I’m the luckiest guy in the world.

     

    AD: Your next record, Our Blood, is out on Merge August 2nd. Any particular inspirations for it?

     

    Richard Buckner: It’s kind of a long story, but in the last three or four years things around me happened, and I’m talking mostly about people, friends and family, dying or going crazy or disappearing for various reasons. The songs have a thread through them that I haven’t really been able to explain to myself yet. Writing’s so prophetic. You never realize what they’re really about until years later. words/ j kress

    Richard Buckner

    in Someone Else's Song

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    Since is a masterpiece, don't argue it.

     

    How can I argue. It's in my Top 100 all time. Master'effin' piece.

     

    I would rank the rest as follows :

    Devotion & Doubt

    Bloomed

    The Hill

    Dents & Shells

    Impasse

    Meadow

    Best Records of 2010

    in Someone Else's Song

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    Best of 2010

     

    the silver seas | chateau revenge

    spoon | transference

    mike stinson | the jukebox of my heart

    robert pollard | we all got out of the army

    twin shadow | forget

    elvyn | the decline

    the sadies | darker circles

    free energy | stuck on nothing

    john cunningham | 1998-2002

    smoke fairies - through the light and trees

     

    pernice brothers | goodbye, killer

    the national | high violet

    teenage fanclub | shadows

    marah | life is a problem

    the len price 3 | pictures

    volebeats | volebeats

    sunrise highway | s/t

    drive by truckers | the big to-do

    outrageous cherry | seemingly solid reality

    mary gauthier | the foundling

    The Blue Shadows

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    This record is truly fantastic, chock full of great songs, harmonies & vibe. It also stands shoulder to shoulder with ANY of the so-called classics of the alt-country (or whatever you want to call it) genre.

     

    RIYL - modern day Everly Brothers, Bakersfield Sound, Good songs

    The Blue Shadows

    in Someone Else's Song

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    Thanks for the recommendation. I gave Disc One a couple of spins last night and I'm enjoying it quite a bit. It definitely has that Everly's/Jayhawks/Bakersfield thang going on. Interesting how this predates Tomorrow The Green Grass by a couple of years.

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