Patterico's Pontifications

6/5/2009

Friday Music

Filed under: General,Music — Patterico @ 7:32 am



Last night on Twitter, Rainn Wilson (Dwight from “The Office) linked a Jayhawks song called “Blue,” which happens to be the first song our family plays on a long roadtrip. (We all sing along.)

I thought it might be nice to share another Jayhawks song with you. Maybe I’ll make sharing music a Friday tradition. It’s a big part of my life and always has been. Enjoy:

18 Responses to “Friday Music”

  1. And here I thought I was one of the few that had even heard of them – such is the state of the music industry these days. BTW, do you also like the stuff from Uncle Tupelo?

    Dmac (1ddf7e)

  2. As I tweeted last night, the Louris/Olson song catalog was one of the best things in the 90’s. Though the Jayhawks split, Louris & Olson are back together, as you can see and hear at The Current.

    Karl (f07e38)

  3. After Mark Olson split he started a band called the Harmony Ridge Creekdippers (from memory). Live shows are highly recommended, assuming the band isn’t dead.

    I’m a big fan of alt-country and the early Jayhawks albums are classics of the genre. After Olson split they got their Beatles freak on – good stuff but not alt-country. I like quite a few obscure acts but for mainstream alt-country, at the melodic end of the scale as this genre has quite a bit of Uncle Tupelo crunch too, all of Emmylou Harris’ records since Wrecking Ball are excellent.

    EBJ (2fd7f7)

  4. Dmac,

    I’m a big Uncle Tupelo fan — and in fact, after Karl posted on Twitter that he likes the Jayhawks, I learned through Karl’s other site that Son Volt has a new album coming out. I pre-ordered the album and T-shirt, and got the wife and me tickets to the July show at the Wiltern.

    Karl, I didn’t know about the Louris-Olson reunion. I saw one Jayhawks show years ago at the Troubadour and it was evident that they weren’t getting along. They split shortly thereafter.

    Patterico (788599)

  5. Patterico: I never heard how you enjoyed (or did not enjoy) the recent “Unplugged and Unwigged” show? Hope you liked it.

    Eric Blair (0b61b2)

  6. I’m a big fan of alt-country and the early Jayhawks albums are classics of the genre

    Me, too – there’s a fledgling national network of radio stations that specialize in that genre and also rockabilly/bluegrass – although most of them are in rural areas and are served via remote satellite. Here’s an example of one I heard with my wife on our way to Peoria – I was surprised as hell, it really is in the middle of nowhere:

    http://wwhp.com/

    BTW, any fans here of the late and lamented punk rockabilly? I still listen to my old Rank and File albums, and I’ve seen Alejandro Escovedo live here – he’s still got the chops.

    Dmac (f7884d)

  7. all of Emmylou Harris’ records since Wrecking Ball are excellent.

    Wrecking Ball is an exquisite album. Between Emmylou’s honeyed voice and Daniel Lanois’s unique production, they really created a jewel of an album.

    Dana (aedf1d)

  8. Patterico,

    After all this time I just had to make a return visit. I was recently reminded of how our relationship was launched some years ago (check your archives) after you had turned my observation (on someone else’s blog) that George W. Bush had done more harm to America than the terrorists into nearly a week’s worth of red meat for your oh-so-patriotic regulars. I was curious if you and your droogs would react in similar high minded fashion this week after leader of the pack Limbaugh told his 20 million listeners: “If al Qaeda wants to demolish the America we know and love, they better hurry, because Obama’s beating them to it.”

    Hm. Not a word, I see.

    It’s really a wonder you folks don’t choke to death on such a steady diet of hypocrisy.

    Asinistra (e648d2)

  9. That “Blue” song is one of the most beautiful songs I’ve ever heard. I wonder who they stole it from because nothing else they did comes close.

    jcurtis (9cb5b3)

  10. If this were the proper thread to respond to your comment, Asinistra, I would make 4 very simple points:

    1) I had not heard Limbaugh’s comment. (But thanks for asking if I had before denouncing me!)

    2) If I had, I would not be inclined to criticize it, as I believe it is essentially correct.

    3) Obama is not G.W. Bush. And most important:

    4) Rush did not say Obama was *more* dangerous than al Qaeda, so it’s not an apples to apples comparison.

    Luckily, I need not make these points, as a) this is a music thread, and b) you are a 9/11 Truther and therefore insane and not worth my time in any event.

    Patterico (1b631c)

  11. Driving home from a golf tourney listening to (in random shuffle) Bush, Live, Josh Groban, Toby Keith, Elton John, and Alabama. I am odd.

    JD (d467d3)

  12. It is essentially correct, and the “we know and love” part is a lot key. Barack Obama intends to make of our little country a piteous and contemptible thing steeped in grievance and dependency and lethargy and waste. I don’t know about “more dangerous” but he’s vastly more ambitious.

    happyfeet (2d133f)

  13. I think the Leftists listen to Rush more than we do.

    JD (d467d3)

  14. “Asinistra”…Isn’t that a Female of the Left, in Italian?

    AD - RtR/OS! (b0c533)

  15. I read that as assinastraw and it made me laugh.

    JD (d467d3)

  16. JD, you know the Dennis Miller bit about Elton John, right?

    Elton John said some nasty stuff about Miller’s politics. The newspeople, ever ready to look for semi-celebrity fighting, asked Miller what he thought about Elton’s gibes.

    “Not much,” Miller said. “It’s not like it was Bernie Taupin, after all.”

    Ouch.

    Eric Blair (0b61b2)

  17. ok they block that at work so here I am at home doing the hearing of the Jayhawks. oh. I did that youtoob up there first and I thought gosh these ones sound a little hippy dippy for me. So I went and found the Blue one. And that one it was also very hippy dippy, but a bit better than the one about how everybody is stumbling through the dark. Cause I am so not stumbling through the dark not even metaphorically cause me I have clarity to spare really so it’s hard for me to relate to that one.

    But cause I couldn’t listen at work I ended up with this one in my head all day which, I love that one a lot. That whole cd lived in my car for a long time I remember. oh. Here’s their song what they wrote about their Playstation. That’s so cool.

    You know who rocks?

    Europeans.

    They’re also not bad spellers.

    happyfeet (2d133f)

  18. Sharing. Safe. I’ll translate the lyrics for you if you like the music.

    nk (c788b4)


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