Update from yesterday

So I didn't quite make it out to fingerprints yesterday, but I did find this guy selling records for a dollar a piece down by the canals. I picked up Willy Nelson and Merle Haggard's duet album Pancho and Lefty as well as a album by country rock supergroup The Souther, Hillman, Furay band... so yeah... come over sometime... we can listen to them... that would be fun... and nice.

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Seven Inch, EP, or LP... that is the question.

As the year comes to a close, I think to myself what good music has been released in 2009. My natural thought is to think back to what albums I have purchased this year, and I find myself thinking of quite a few seven inches. So I make a quick tally:

Seven Inches:
Tom Waits "Glitter and Doom"
Leonard Cohen "Live in London"
The Fling "Wanderingfoot"
The Parson Red Heads "Orangufang"
Tape Deck Mountain "Scantrons"
Three Mile Pilot "Planets"

EP's
Deep Sea Diver "New Caves"
Cold War Kids "Live from Fingerprints"
The Romany Rye "Highway 1, Looking Back Carefully"

LP's
Two Guns "Two Guns"
David Serby "Honkytonk and Vine"

First thing I realize, is it's pretty pathetic that I've only bought 11 releases this year (four of which were purchased on record store day), and second is that, wow more then half were seven inches. It reminds me something read once in a Rocket From the Crypt bio, here is the excerpt:
"They had so much music that they started putting out tons of seven-inch singles. Almost at the rate of one a month. It was through these seven inches that their notoriety began to spread. You see, the economy was in shambles back then (1992), and kids just didn't have enough money to buy full albums of new bands they didn't know much about."

As we all know it's 2009, and our economy is now once again back in shambles. I for one can relate to spending less money, just this week while in the record store, I had to choose between the new Three Mile Pilot seven-inch or the new Old Canes record, If you were paying attention to my above tally you will know which one I purchased. Oh I wish I could just buy all the records I want, or at least more than 11. I'm gonna try and swing by fingerprints, I hear the new live Tom Waits record is pretty good.

+W

Behave Yourself

Teaser for the new Cold War Kids EP :)

Dr. Ralph Stanley and Cherryholmes

Last night I went to the Poway Center for performing Arts to see Ralph Stanley. Ralph Stanley's new book, 'Man of Constant Sorrow: The Life and Times of a Music Legend', was released on October 15th, and he is on tour promoting the book as well as his many hit releases.

The opening band was Cherryholmes, consisting of Mom, Dad, Two Sister, and Two Brothers. All of them had so much talent, it was quite amazing. The only thing that was distracting me was their odd choice of wardrobe for the set. It looked as if they all were given clothes by the same company earlier that day and decided to wear whatever they were given. It was very glittery, and did not seem to fit their personality at all, but they did a cover of The Flying Burrito Brothers "Christine's Tune (Devil in Disguise)", which more than made up for their cheesy clothes.

Ralph Stanley opened his set with "Man of Constant Sorrow". This is the third time I've seen Ralph Stanley, and his shows are always fun. Now that he is 82, he does not play the banjo or sing as much, he leaves most of it up to his backing band, The Clinch Mountain Boys. The highlights for me were his a capella version of "O' Death", and his duet with Ralph Stanley II of "Katy Daley". He ended the night by calling Cherryholmes back out on stage for a heartwarming cover of the Carter Family Classic "Will The Circle Be Unbroken", ahh what a great way to end the night.

Here is some classic Dr. Stanley for you listening and viewing pleasure:

This looks fun

I'm not familiar with Glen Hansard, but I guess he played at fingerprints not to long ago, and before the in-store he played a song to the crowd in line. I have waited in that line many a times waiting for in-stores, so I found this pretty cool, and the song is really good too. I love Long Beach.

Free time

Taking this free time I have to update my blog.

So, you wanna hear about my week? good.

Monday was the third installment of The Fling's residency at the Detroit Bar. I walked into the bar during the first song of Sam Outlaw and The Country Band. They were doing one of my favorite Louvin Brothers songs, "The Christian Life". I've had the privledge of seeing Charlie Louvin live a couple times, even got my picture taken with him once.



Not quite sure how to put this, but for me to go up and ask you if I can get a picture with you, you have to be pretty important to me, and so far Charlie Louvin is the only person I can think of that I've ever done that to.

But to continue on with the set, Sam Outlaw continued to play hit after hit of his original songs, ending the set with another cover, Merle Haggard this time with "The Bottle Let Me Down".

We Barbarians were awesome, Quon's stage presence was on true form, and it was good to see Derrick and Nathan as always.

The Fling was up next, and this was by far the most packed of their three residency's. It is great to see they are bringing back both the fans from the first two shows along with new fans eager to hear the jams. This was one of the best shows I've ever seen at the Detroit Bar. After their set they invited Sam Outlaw and Luke from The Romany Rye up to play a few covers by The Byrds, Bob Dylan, and Gillian Welsh. What a way to end the night.

Today I stayed home from work because I had a Doctors Appointment. I woke up, chatted on the phone for a bit, went online, where my friend Jared posted about an artist named Bob Martin, and his album "Midwest Farm Disaster", I listened to a couple tracks, and was in love. You can hear the tracks here.

I got dressed and walked down to Bagatelle's (one of my favorite record shops), unfortunately they did not have any Bob Martin, but I did pick up a Merle Haggard double LP.

I can spend hours in record shops, today I was able to chat with the owner of Bagatelle's for a good 30 minutes about music. He can be a difficult guy to crack, but once you've done it he will tell you story after story, and I love me some stories.

Went home, listened to the first two sides of my new Merle Haggard, who BTW I'm seeing in April, and you should come too. Then I took the bus to the Medical Center, where the doctor told me "I have nothing wrong with me", well that's good I guess. I think I'm done with Doctors, they don't do anything, but tell you that you should see another Doctor. But this blog is not a Health Care rant, so I will stop now.

When I came home, I put on the final two sides of my new Merle Haggard, went online, where I found that Sam Outlaw has his own Blog check it out: It Might Kill Me.

I also found one of those "Hitler reacts" videos, I should be tired of these by now, but I still laugh at everyone, if you think this one is funny also check out how he reacts to Oasis breaking up, or not being able to log onto a Paramore chat on absolutepunk.



Upcoming Events:

Looking forward to possibly seeing "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" on Monday November 2nd, I'm trying to get a ticket to the US premier. If you have not seen the preview check it out here:


Then on November 5th, The Romany Rye is having their CD release show at the Detroit Bar. You will not want to miss this, I've heard the new CD and it's so refreshing and catchy I was singing along to every song, after just a couple listens. You can stream tracks on Myspace. I look forward to actually owning a physical copy, and this show will be our first chance. I hope to see ya there, and look at this artwork!


So Good, So Long, Goodbye, Adios,
+Wyatt (like the cowboy)

Merle Haggard, Ray Price, The Avett Brothers, Brooks and Dunn. Looks like this will be four years in a row for me!