kirchen's record has the same faults as his show i saw this fall. he's real good for about two songs. his supposedly awesome guided tour of pop where he interpolates all the licks he knows is actually pretty great, but seemed empty even with a couple beers in me. you kind of wish he'd go johnny guitar watson and write more songs about more interesting and perhaps raffish reality. the songs blur in my mind. the curse of reverence and "americana" and all that, but he's been at it for a while just like nick lowe, who used to write about more interesting and raffish reality but now is a very good genre artist. we all love arthur alexander, man. (i love nick lowe, but the last record of his i found remotely interesting was "party of one," which is what, 1990?)
― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Sunday, 19 November 2006 15:14 (seventeen years ago) link
(Hey Frank brought the album up! I guess I should put all this on the world music thread too. I'm not sure what it has to do with country, though yeah, there's a twang in the music now and then, and didn't one of you guys vote for Gogol Bordello in a Nashville Scene poll once? This CD belongs on a shelf near them, Kultur Shock, Balkan Beatbox, etc, unless like me you file in alphabetical order.)
And my new maybe-favorite on Kirchen's CD is "Skid Row in My Mind."
― xhuxk (xheddy), Sunday, 19 November 2006 15:19 (seventeen years ago) link
ha ha, for me it was labour of lust in 1979! (though i guess i gave nick the knife or whatever a fairly mixed review for my college paper in missouri when it came out, a few years later.)
― xhuxk (xheddy), Sunday, 19 November 2006 15:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― xhuxk (xheddy), Sunday, 19 November 2006 22:45 (seventeen years ago) link
ghostfinger, a nashville (actually murfreesboro, tn.) band, does really cool country-rock pastiches. the singer sounds like jagger or arthur lee or some white guy trying to be soulful, and it's mostly funny. they get doleful and sometimes the rockers don't quite work, but "moon" alternates sections of fake-rock and country-rock quite effectively. can't make out what it is they're exactly trying to express, but get the feeling they're a bit more than the usual history lesson. it's been a good year for nashville pop bands--lone official, the features, ghostfinger and i guess lambchop, too, have all released good records. certainly, lone official's "tuckassee take" made my no depression top 20 new releases.
and i have to say that i've listened to neko case's record (which also made my ND list) as much as i have anything this year; the songs are better than i initially thought, and she sustains a *mood* throughout that sorta skirts desolation--the line about driving past the beautiful flooded fields resonates as they say with my experience. and it's one of the great records in 6/8, a time signature she manipulates savvily and which suggests, i guess, the timelessness (or the immersion in memory) she's going after.
― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Monday, 20 November 2006 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Monday, 20 November 2006 20:34 (seventeen years ago) link
So this Dixie Chick flick, Shut Up and Sing, is playing in town. Should I go? That whole brouhaha seems like decades ago.
― Roy Kasten (Roy Kasten), Thursday, 23 November 2006 02:50 (seventeen years ago) link
did the ND Ballots go out already?
― pinkmoose (jacklove), Thursday, 23 November 2006 11:42 (seventeen years ago) link
Do we know yet if the Scene poll is dead? Is Himes gonna do it elsewhere? I mean, he's got the rolls...
And I know this has been chattered about elsewhere, but I never got a clear answer: what's to become of Pazz n Jop?
― Roy Kasten (Roy Kasten), Thursday, 23 November 2006 15:09 (seventeen years ago) link
New George Strait album Twang. The First single "Living For The Night" is so classic. Any thoughts?
― Jacob Sanders, Friday, 14 August 2009 17:10 (fourteen years ago) link