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I've seen where Monsters of Folk, The National and Band of Horses will be on this season as well.

Most definitely "Decoration Day" by Drive By Truckers. A song about two feuding families knocking each other off.

It’s Decoration Day.

And I’ve a mind to roll a stone on his grave.

But what would he say.

“Keeping me down, boy, won’t keep me away”.

It’s Decoration Day.

And I knew the Hill Boys would put us away,

but my Daddy wasn’t afraid.

He said “We’ll fight till the last Lawson’s last living day”

I never knew how it all got started

a problem with Holland before we were born

and I don’t know the name of that boy we tied down

and beat till he just couldn’t walk anymore.

But I know the caliber in Daddy’s chest

and I know what Holland Hill drives.

The state let him go, but I guess it was best

cause nobody needs all us Lawsons alive.

Daddy said one of the boys had come by

the Lumber Man’s favorite son.

He said, “Beat him real good but don’t dare let him die

and if you see Holland Hill run.

Now I said, “they ain’t give us trouble no more

that we ain’t brought down on ourselves”

But a chain on my back and my ear to the floor

and I’ll send all the Hill Boys to hell.

It’s Decoration Day

and I’ve got a family in Mobile Bay

and they’ve never seen my Daddy’s grave.

But that don’t bother me, it ain’t marked anyway.

Cause I got dead brothers in Lauderdale south

and I got dead brothers in east Tennessee.

My Daddy got shot right in front of his house

he had noone to fall on but me.

It’s Decoration Day

and I’ve got a mind to go spit on his grave.

If I was a Hill, I’d have put him away

and I’d fight till the last Lawson’s last living day.

I’d fight till the last Lawson’s last living day.

I’d fight till the last Lawson’s last living day.

New song!!! This really bodes well for the new album. I'm one that really didn't like the middle of Evil Urges either.

All this arguing between The National and Arcade Fire will prove to be pointless when a certain album comes out in October and kicks both of their asses for album of the year!!

http://www.billboard.com/news/kings-of-leon-announce-new-album-come-around-1004107585.story#/news/kings-of-leon-announce-new-album-come-around-1004107585.story

I can't wait for the marketing push on this one. Just love their drinking stories in every interview and award acceptance they do. You would think they were underagers that had never drank before. Do you think they stack their empty cups under the full one and carry them around at keg parties?

Back to the subject, I'm just happy to have AF and The National when I see how KOL and other bands have evolved. Like Suburbs on the first listen and think it will be a grower. May go see them at Lolla with the wife.

Just a natural tendency to push back against, in my view, unjustified praise. It doesn't mean I would like the album less. I would just be more apt to talk poorly about it when I encounter someone saying how great it is.

I won't hear Suburbs until next Tuesday, but I totally understand your feelings. I felt the same way about Fleet Foxes when both critics and fans went nuts. I liked it okay, but didn't understand the overflowing praise. I feel the same thing getting ready to happen with Mumford and Sons as they get more popular (from a fan standpoint, not critic).

That being said, I can't wait to hear The Suburbs, as AF has only grown on me over time.

I know there are some Liam Finn fans on here so I thought I'd post this announcement that came through email today. Seeing his opening set for Wilco in Iowa City last year was definitely one of the highlights of my concert-going history.

http://www.reverbnation.com/c./fr5/artist_51491?eid=4708925_20367527&fid=20367527&fsc=e0c75581045

The mutant love child of southern hemisphere it-kids Liam Finn, Lawrence Arabia, Eliza-Jane Barnes, Connan Mockasin and Seamus Ebbs, BARB is what happens when five passionately creative friends lock themselves in a world-class studio for a month with no plans and plenty of wine. On a break from their successful primary solo careers, the band had no expectations other than simply, making music. “We just booked the studio for a month, which is quite daunting in a way. It was just a complete risk and an unknown. We didn't have any songs or anything written,” says Finn of the sessions. Musically, one can hear Liam’s avant-garde leanings as well as Arabia’s (James Milne) moody melodicism taking center stage, underpinned by a collective obsession with their own irreverent version of American soul music. Finn chuckles, “I'm not sure what's happening to us - we're all white but we're all trying to be black and make funky soul music.”

STREET DATE: August 24th, 2010

Definitely "Star Spangled Banner" from Woodstock by Hendrix.

"Freedom" by Hendrix as well.

I love me some Explosions in the Sky, specifically the album "The Earth is not a Cold Dead Place" during fireworks shows.

My wife is sick of me saying "wow, what a great show" after every episode. The last few have been very moving. Billy Riggins has been cracking me up lately. First, when he was threatening the funeral director and this week when he was reliving the glory days. He captures that character so well. Also loved the pacing of the final scene last night when Tim Riggins told the girl to "shut up" and then calmly swigged his beer in silence. So many heartfelt scenes, especially with the Taylor family, and always great music. Someday I must own all of these DVD's.

Hope you get to go, that was our plan until this Atlanta show was announced. Should be a great weekend.

 

I had tickets for their show in Atlanta in 2007 and had to give my tickets away when a friend bailed. Coincidentally, that friend ended up marrying me, so we agreed that if they came anywhere within a reasonable driving distance, we'd be there.

Cool story. I'd say if she bails again, it's...

Oh yeah, she likes them more than I do (And they're a top 5 current band for me). They are playing Lollapalooza on her birthday, I was thinking about trying to take her to that, but Atlanta's much closer for us (though still not particularly close. The Arcade Fire must really despise Florida.)

My wife and I have a deal where we like to take weekend trips to local cities in the midwest. We base it around a concert I want to see and then she gets to shop the rest of the weekend. It's not that she hates the bands I want to see, she's just usually indifferent.

However, she is a pretty big Arcade Fire fan and I'm using this to try to talk her into an anniversary trip to Chicago with a Sunday at Lolla to see Arcade Fire. Supposedly The National, Frightened Rabbit, Mumford and Sons, Antlers and Soundgarden are on the same day.

I'd have to add the lead singer of Wilderness to this list.

I'll be driving to the Atlanta show. It's 3 days after my wife's birthday, so I'll have a gift for her.

Does your wife actually like Arcade Fire, or is this like Homer Simpson buying Marge a bowling ball with "Homer" on it for Marge's birthday?

This list is more about vibe and rhythms than it is lyrics. Hope this gives you some ideas.

Islands On The Coast 3:34 Band Of Horses Cease To Begin

High Head Blues 4:02 The Black Crowes Amorica

Sinister Kid 3:44 The Black Keys Brothers

Goin' to Acapulco 4:59 Calexico & Jim James I'm Not There (Music from the Motion Picture)

Honey In The Sun 5:45 Camera Obscura My Maudlin Career

(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais 4:01 The Clash The Singles

Bankrobber 4:35 The Clash The Singles

Goin' Home 4:57 Dan Auerbach Keep It Hid

Fools 4:43 The Dodos Visiter

Catch The Sun 4:48 Doves The Places Between : The Best Of Doves [Disc 1]

Rise 2:38 Eddie Vedder Into The Wild

One Day Like This 6:34 Elbow The Seldom Seen Kid

Two Weeks 4:03 Grizzly Bear Veckatimest

Back to This 3:34 The Helio Sequence Keep Your Eyes Ahead

Lovesong Of The Buzzard 4:26 Iron & Wine The Shepherd's Dog

House By The Sea 4:22 Iron & Wine The Shepherd's Dog

Boy With A Coin 4:06 Iron & Wine The Shepherd's Dog

Zebra 3:57 John Butler Trio Sunrise Over Sea

D'yer Mak'er 4:23 Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin [Disc 2]

World News 4:32 Local Natives Gorilla Manor

Paper Planes 3:25 M.I.A. Kala

For The Actor 4:34 Mates Of State Bring It Back

Phone Went West 8:59 My Morning Jacket Celebración De La Ciudad Natal [EP]

Mahgeeta 5:57 My Morning Jacket It Still Moves Rock

Off The Record 5:34 My Morning Jacket Z Rock

This Too Shall Pass 3:08 OK Go Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky

Lost Coastlines 5:32 Okkervil River The Stand-Ins

Comfy In Nautica 4:05 Panda Bear Person Pitch

Take Pills 5:24 Panda Bear Person Pitch

Buster Voodoo 4:24 Rodrigo Y Gabriela 11:11

Don't You Evah 3:37 Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga

Eddie's Ragga 3:40 Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga

Holiday 2:18 Vampire Weekend Contra - (2010)

Taxi Cab 3:56 Vampire Weekend Contra - (2010)

Run 3:53 Vampire Weekend Contra - (2010)

Horchata 3:27 Vampire Weekend Contra - (2010)

Island In The Sun 3:20 Weezer Weezer (Green Album)

Surf Wax America 3:07 Weezer Weezer

I put together a good playlist for a cruise to the Bahamas last summer. I don't have my ipod on me, but I'll try to report back later. For now, here are a few I remember:

Goin' To Acapulco - Jim James and Calexico (I'm Not There Soundtrack)

Off The Record - MMJ

Phone Went West - MMJ

Island In The Sun - Weezer

Islands on the Coast - Band of Horses

Goin' Home - Dan Auerbach

Lovesong of the Buzzard - Iron and Wine

I was just fine with the finale. What they have accomplished with this show over six years and 121 hours is staggering. People get emotionally invested and want it to end their way, but you have to respect the degree of difficulty here. With, the depth of the characters that has been developed and the many layers of the story, what they have done is next to impossible.

Maybe. Perhaps the reviewer doesn't share your opinion on how many songs don't completely rule. I still need to listen to this. Is it worth buying the CD for whatever surprise there is, or should I just download it?

If you want to know the surprise, look here and decide for yourself whether it's worth purchasing. It's 7.99 at Best Buy this week. I know it's not indie, but hard to pass up at that price.

Anyone get the physical cd yet? What a cool surprise!! In the thousands of discs I've handled in my life I have never seen this done before.

CCR - Who'll Stop the Rain

Zep - When the Levee Breaks

SRV - Texas Flood

Ok, "Runaway" just floors me! absolutely gorgeous!

 

Album is really good. At first listens, doesn't quite hit me like Boxer did. but still really great stuff...

Only on my second time through, but I think "Runaway" is my new "Start a War", beautiful.

The problem here is that the babies are defenseless to make that choice for themselves......oh wait, that's an argument to another topic.

 

What was it exactly that Sayid said to Jack? I couldn't quite make it out.

 

About symbolism in last night's episode.

I don't think I've ever even heard of The Black Keys, but the chatter in this thread makes me want to check them out.

Make sure you also check out Dan Auerbach's solo album, "Keep It Hid", one of my absolute favorites of 2009. The song "Real Desire" rips my guts out every time. I'm holding off on "Brothers" until it comes out on the 18th, but reading all this stuff is killing me.

Any one excited about this? I heard Tighten Up and a little bit of another song on NPR. I think I like it, I like that they are using other instruments and the studio more!!

Super excited about this one. I've read it is more along the lines of the Auerbach solo album, which was one of my favorites of 2010. Auerbach might be my favorite right now, so much soul. I am also glad that they are trying new things in the studio, things were getting a little stale by the time Magic Potion came out. However, I think their preference is still to keep it stripped down and raw for the live show. Here is some info posted on another forum that is from an interview with Mark Neill, a guy involved with the recording. I dare you to read this and not get even more pumped for this album!

"I’ve noticed on your forum somebody said ‘What do you mean this is their first soul record?’ People don’t understand what soul means. That’s not a slam, that’s a compliment. Soul music is very difficult to play. The people who played on soul records were not amateurs, they were not indie rock musicians, they were professional seasoned players who could probably play jazz proficiently. Barry Beckett, Roger Hawkins, David Hood, Jimmy Johnson, these guys were fantastic musicians – they had the timing of a swiss watch – they were so good. The Black Keys to go in and play soul RnB music, which is the music of the area, which is something The Black Keys have always done, but to make an album of that kind of feeling, this is the first time their intentions were this focused on a project like that. I feel like they were so good as artists that they were sensitive to the area’s vibe makes you feel that way. I compliment Pat for being tactful, but being really direct – “I’m not sure what this is, it’s hard to describe and we’re still working on it” – that is dead accurate. When we’re all done with it maybe people will call it a heavy metal record, who knows? [laughs]So, is it generally a heavier sound?

It’s the heaviest record they’ve ever made. ‘Keep It Hid’ is heavy, this is heavier.

Like a ‘Thickfreakness’ sound, raw, straight up rock record?

No, it’s heavy in that way…how can I describe it. It’s heavy in the way a bass or kick drum plays a note you can hear the decay in the whole instrument. There’s that much space. Which is to say it’s not mashed together and treble-ly, it’s very spaced out and deep. They don’t have a bass player because they are a two piece. They didn’t de-tune their guitars to D or some low tuning, or C, and it’s heavier than most of the bands that do that [laughs]. Most bands when they want a big heavy sound they tune down to some ridiculously low tuning and they did not do that. They stayed up to standard tuning. In their craft they are making a record heavier than most of those bands make.

Some of the recent albums (Attack and Release) have delved into piano lines and mixture of elements, were there those kind of influences?

Let me say this about the way they did it before. The way they did it before I liked, but it sounded more like over dubs of those elements. This record is seamless. Sometimes you think a guitar is a keyboard, sometimes you think a keyboard is a guitar. I’m proud about what we were all doing in one room together because there was a natural ability for everyone to be on the same page without talking about it much. Pat did a lot of keyboard work on it but sometimes it sounds like a guitar.

This is the thing that is amazing about those guys, I have been quoted as saying I think these guys have been ready to make this record songs-wise. After ‘Keep It Hid’ I was convinced the next Black Keys record was going to be a monster because look what ‘Keep It Hid’ sounded like. All you have to do is add Pat to that equation an imagine how great that’s gonna be. The only reason Pat and Dan haven’t made a record like ‘Keep It Hid’ is because when you’re a big band and you’re in the music industry you have tonnes of people telling you ‘that’s a great direction’, ‘this is what radio is doing’, ‘this is what we expect’, so they don’t really listen to these people that much but they do a little bit, and it’s just enough to keep them from doing exactly what they want to do. I’ll qualify that by saying I’m pretty sure, knowing that those guys are moving targets, the two of them know what they want [laughs].

Can you explain how the tracks were laid down. Was it just the guys getting in there and feeling the vibe, having an idea and then bouncing off?

One of the production techniques I’ve always used which is really simple is if you are sympathetic to the band’s cause, and you have a record collection of 45s like I do which goes back to the 60s when I started collecting, and if I know that Dan wants to play some bass on the record and we talk about some of the incredible moments in rock n roll or rnb, I get a a feel. I brought some strange records that had bass on them. Those 45s are played in the studio and they themselves have a ton of stuff stockpiled on their iphones, all kinds of stuff. So everyone was bringing in music and playing it. Nothing in particular was influencing one particular bass line. It was just a soup being boiled. That’s what we would talk about from day to day, how far in one direction we should go.

The Black Keys are incredibly talented at assimilating a feeling and making that into an identifiable riff. I’m extremely happy those guys were hell bent on making sure none of it was similar to anything. Most people copy records they like, copy the lick. Dan and Pat on this record did not do that. We had a feel thing going on where you played a 45 or off their iphone before we got going on these huge Voice of the Theater Altec Speakers, that’s actually louder than the band, it was very easy to get excited playing a really wierd record in there really loud. But we just used the feels, we were never interested in using any direct extraction of a lick or a motif or anything.

You’ve mentioned that Dan sounds like Otis Redding with the emotion coming through his voice?

I think that Dan has been for many many years misunderstood as being quote ‘King of the indie rock, soulful, bluesy, but you know from the wild and crazy Black Keys’. They wildly under-estimate the artistic aspects of Pat’s contributions and the fact that Dan is a drag out soul singer, he can sing soul music. Not that many white kids from middle class Akron can do that [laughs], in fact none of them. I mean it as a total compliment to him that he can do it naturally and not as an imitation, he doesn’t imitate anyone that I can tell.

I know a lot of people are fans of your recording style. On this record, tell me about the recording set up, did you have just one microphone or a simple set up?

I hope no one ever tries to mix any of this [laughs] because a lot of it was captured on 1 or 2 microphones, here or there. The reason why is because when me and Dan and Pat had talked about going down there was to capture what they sound like in a given room. The way Joel Hamilton describes it about capturing different eras of music, technology and microphones, my view is just make a decision. Dan and Pat made a decision to go to the South in a cinder block old building and to capture them in that room. If you set up a Neumann microphone within a couple of foot of a source you’re going to get as good a sound as that microphone can give you. Adding more tracks and microphones is not going to help you later unless you intend on having it re-mixed by a dozen engineers. Which is not the way we designed this. We specifically designed this not to be mixed by anybody but me. But having said that we have had some discussions about radio mixes hear and there and we’ve accommodated that, but I feel sorry for the person who has to mix this [laughs]. Even over dubs are done in groups, where there are several people playing or singing into one microphone."

Photo Courtesy of David Doyle: Mark Neill and The Black Keys in the studio

Count me among those who consider Band of Horses to be a big plus for this tour. I've been wanting to see them for a while now.

 

That said, it looks like I'll be trying for Cleveland during the Ten Club sale. I'm annoyed that they appear to be skipping Pittsburgh again and I'm sure tickets are going to cost much more than I want to pay. But I guess the guys are getting older, so might as well give in and travel a little bit while the opportunity is there. If they add a Pittsburgh show later on I know someone who will probably be willing to pay for the tickets, so that's a plus.

How much are ticket prices these days? Other than Lolla, I haven't seen them since the Riot Act tour.