The energy level about this record and tour continues to build. I can hardly stand it. I’ve had the record for a few days now and am just dying to tell my music pals about it.
Anyway, it’s a vacation day and me & TheWife™ sat around sipping coffee while Bruce and company banged out a few tunes on the Today Show. Fun stuff.
I had fun last night watching the live updates. Man, some people can find a reason to complain about anything. Now it’s that there are too many songs from Darkness On The Edge Of Town.
My only complaint is that I wasn’t there.
And please Bruce, Rosie?
1. Radio Nowhere
2. Prove It All Night
3. Lonesome Day
4. Gypsy Biker
5. Magic
6. Night
7. She’s the One
8. Livin’ The future
9. Promised Land
10. Town Called heartbreak ( Patti Scialfa song )
11. Darlington County
12. Born In The Usa
13. Devil’s Arcade
14. The Rising
15. Last to Die
16. Long Walk Home
17. Badlands
18. Girls in Their Summer Clothes
19. Thundercrack
20. Born To Run
21. American Land
It’s seems like we’ve been waiting a long time for this. The good news for vinyl-lovers is that Magic was released in that format yesterday, a whole week before the CD.
Here are my first thoughts on the record.
This brings to a conclusion the Groundtruther trio of Latitude, Longitude, and Altitude. I hate to use the word “conclusion” because this time around, Charlie Hunter and Bobby Previte have brought the fab John Medeski along for the ride. These guys were meant to play together.
And what a ride it is.
Despite the fact that I got shut out of both Boston shows, I spent part of the evening monitoring setlist updates.
Man, I wish I’d a been there. Thundercrack?! Holy smokes!!
1. Radio Nowhere
2. No Surrender
3. Gypsy Biker
4. Empty Sky
5. Something in the Night
6. Girls in Their Summer Clothes
7. Night
8. Promised Land
9. Livin’ in the Future
10. Devil’s Arcade
11. Candy’s Room
12. She’s the One
13. Lonesome Day
14. My Hometown
15. The Rising
16. Last to Die
17. Long Walk Home
18. Thundercrack
19. Born to Run
20. Darlington County
21. American Land
Community means different things to different people. The Internet has changed that a little, but the basic ideas have survived.
So read a little tale about how two old friends finally meet. That, and there’s the fantastic music of Greg Brown. What? You don’t own any Greg Brown? What the heck’s the matter with you?!
I was getting a haircut yesterday and I looked up at the mirror and I thought…
I scored two tix for the tour opening show in Hartford on October 2nd!!!!
Nanner, nanner, naaaaahnerrrrr!!!
(Gee, that wasn’t very nice of me. Sorry)
Do you have any “strange attractions”? These aren’t necessarily guilty pleasures, but things that you like to read/watch/listen to that make no sense given the person that you are?
Well, I do. It’s fashion.
Matthew Shipp, as curator (as they say) of the Thirsty Ear Blue Series, has produced some spectacular recordings over the past few years. Some of them have been in the electro-acousic vein, with all manner of blurpy electronic noises added to the mix.
For this time around, Shipp has gone back to the basic piano trio. The music though, is anything but basic. Check out Piano Vortex.