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    Almost that time of the year. Top 10 albums of 2016

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    Pretty much in order....

     

    American Band/Drive-By Truckers

    Teenage Hallelujah/Dexateens

    Blackstar/David Bowie

    Mudcrutch 2/Mudcrutch

    Okey Dokey/Natural Child

    The Rarity of Experience/Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band

    Schmilco/Wilco

    Of Course You Are/Robert Pollard

    Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not/Dinosaur Jr.

    Freetown Sound/Blood Orange

     

    I need to spend more time with the new Alejandro Escovedo & Hiss Golden Messenger records.

     

    My favorite new discovery of an older artist in 2016 was Todd Rundgren.  It was a fun plunge down that rabbit hole.

    Hiss Golden Messenger

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    Welp, I've officially been missing out on this band. I listened to the new album today, it's great. Is there anything else I should check out by them ASAP? 

    Poor Moon is absolutely essential.  After you work through HGM's catalog, you might want to check out MC Taylor's old band, The Court & Spark.

    New Drive-By Truckers

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    Great record...but I do have one philosophical issue. It is too topical to have any lasting relevance. Very topical records don't seem to have a long shelf life (outside of Neil Young's OHIO). The political songs on TDS, ABAAC and even SRO have a timelessness that make them more 'timeless'. I think Patterson and Cooley hit it out of the park musically with what may be their strongest record, but I'm not sure I will play in three years from now. It is a record that needed to be made, but will it be relevant later?

    The more I listen to this record and absorb it, the more I disagree with this.  The types of issues touched upon on American Band have been going on for generations and generations.  The opening track, Ramon Casiano, is a 'topical' song about a 1931 murder committed by the seventeen year-old future V.P. of the NRA, Harlan Carter.  Casiano was a "suspicious Hispanic teenager" whom Carter claims he killed in "self-defense".  Carter is widely-recognized as the man who helped transform the NRA into the radicalized, right-wing organization it has become today.  Unfortunately, the Casiano murder has proven to be 'timeless' and maintains incredible relevance in recent events.  As Yaz Rock points out above, once 'they' banned Imagine in the 70's.  Oh yeah, 'they' (Clear Channel) did it again in the early 2000's in the aftermath of the September 11th attack and the Iraq War - "We had our heart strings dangling ripe for the yanking and lot of reasons Grabby was good.  Poor huddled masses singing "Boots Up Their Asses" giving Grabby what he needed to pull."

     

    American Band is certainly a topical record.  It's also a timeless classic.  The more I listen to it, the more I love it.  I used to be a pretty big Truckers fan, but I drifted away in recent years.  Part of it was the spotty material the band was putting out, another part of it was me and life and changing tastes and whatnot.

    New Drive-By Truckers

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    Great record...but I do have one philosophical issue. It is too topical to have any lasting relevance. Very topical records don't seem to have a long shelf life (outside of Neil Young's OHIO). The political songs on TDS, ABAAC and even SRO have a timelessness that make them more 'timeless'. I think Patterson and Cooley hit it out of the park musically with what may be their strongest record, but I'm not sure I will play in three years from now. It is a record that needed to be made, but will it be relevant later?

    I agree that many, if not most, topical songs/albums struggle to maintain long-lasting relevance.  I may be wrong (and time will ultimately tell), but I have a feeling my favorite songs on the album - Ramon Casiano, Darkened Flags, Guns of Umpqua, Ever South and Once They Banned Imagine - will be enjoyed years down the road, too.

     

    Are you now or have you ever been in cahoots with the notion that people can change?

    When history happens again if you do or you did you’ll be blamed

    From baseless inquiry

    To no knocking entry

    Becoming the law of the land

    To half cocked excuses for bullet abuse regarding anything browner than tan

     

    Cause once they banned Imagine it became the same old war its always been

    Once they banned Imagine it became the war it was when we were kids

    Neil Young

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    Neil managed to reissue the lost LPs on vinyl without anyone noticing.  Now everyone can get On the Beach on LP.

     

    LouieB

    Time Fades Away, too.

     

    If I'm not mistaken these were originally reissued on a much smaller scale as part of RSD 2014.  I already have all four on vinyl, but being a Neil sucker, I caved and bought the reissues as a bundled package.  Got a pretty good deal though (particularly when it comes to Neil) --- $85 + free shipping.

    Blue Mountain Reunion Shows

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    Thanks, Analogman.  I thought so, but wasn't 100% sure.

     

    Looks like it is a double record that replicates the 2008 remastered & reissued CD.

     

    1. Mountain Girl
    2. Let's Ride
    3. Blue Canoe
    4. Soul Sister
    5. Wink
    6. Slow Suicide
    7. A Band Called Bud
    8. Epitaph
    9. ZZQ
    10. Eyes of a Child
    11. Jimmy Carter
    12. Let's Go Runnin'
    13. Hippy Hotel
    14. Special Rider Blues
    15. Broke Down & Busted
    16. Song Without a Name
    17. Westbound
    18. Hermit of the Hidden Beach
    19. My Wicked, Wicked Ways
    20. To a Toad

    Neil Young

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    Ronnie and Neil

     
    Church blew up in Birmingham
    Four little black girls killed for no goddamn good reason
    All this hate and violence can't come to no good end
    A stain on the good name.
    A whole lot of good people dragged threw the blood and glass
    Blood stains on their good names and all of us take the blame

    Meanwhile in North Alabama, Wilson Pickett comes to town
    To record that sweet soul music, to get that Muscle Shoals sound

    Meanwhile in North Alabama, Aretha Franklin comes to town
    To record that sweet soul music, to get that Muscle Shoals sound

    And out in California, a rock star from Canada writes a couple of great songs about the
    Bad shit that went down
    "Southern Man" and "Alabama" certainly told some truth
    But there were a lot of good folks down here and Neil Young wasn't around

    Meanwhile in North Alabama, Lynyrd Skynyrd came to town
    To record with Jimmy Johnson at Muscle Shoals Sound
    And they met some real good people, not racist pieces of shit
    And they wrote a song about it and that song became a hit

    Ronnie and Neil Ronnie and Neil
    Rock stars today ain't half as real
    Speaking there minds on how they feel
    Let them guitars blast for Ronnie and Neil

    Now Ronnie and Neil became good friends their feud was just in song
    Skynyrd was a bunch of Neil Young fans and Neil he loved that song
    So He wrote "Powderfinger" for Skynyrd to record
    But Ronnie ended up singing "Sweet Home Alabama" to the lord

    And Neil helped carry Ronnie in his casket to the ground
    And to my way of thinking, us southern men need both of them around

    Ronnie and Neil Ronnie and Neil
    Rock stars today ain't half as real
    Speaking their minds on how they feel
    Let them guitars blast for Ronnie and Neil

    (Hood / DBT)

    Neil Young

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    I think The Monsanto Years is a very good album.  Is it as good as some of his classic stuff from the 1970's?  Of course not, but not much is.  Then again, as goofy as it is, I love Americana.  And that "Horse Back" video that was released a few years ago to drum up excitement for the return of Neil Young & Crazy Horse was excellent.

    Now Playing: 2016

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    Nice!  Had it spinning earlier.  I bit the bullet and picked up the first 7 seven Kinks records on vinyl.  The first four were a bundle package on Pop Market.  Something Else, Village Green & Arthur I sprung for individually.  They did a great job with the reissues.  They sound fantastic!

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