Posts tagged ‘Jack White’
There’s Nothing To It: Podcast #116
Feelin’ funky tonight! I had a great time spinning some tracks for ya this week. Hope you enjoy the many moods of The Shady Groove.
These were the tracks that we played:
St. Paul & The Broken Bones – Call Me ++ Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears – Get Yo Shit ++ Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings – Stranger To My Happiness ++ Little Feat – Feats Don’t Fail Me Now ++ Robert Palmer – How Much Fun ++ The New Basement Tapes – Nothing To It ++ Fly Golden Eagle – Tangible Intangible ++ Father John Misty – Tee Pees 1-12 ++ Harry Nilsson – 1941 ++ Mark Knopfler – Beryl ++ Bob Marley & The Wailers – Stir It Up ++ Talking Heads – Puzzlin’ Evidence ++ The Kinks – This Time Tomorrow ++ Seth Avett/Jessica Lea Mayfield – Baby Britain ++ Elliot Smith – Let’s Get Lost ++ Jack White – Entitlement ++ Robert Earl Keene Ft. Peter Rowan – 99 Years For One Dark Day ++ The Gourds – Boil My Strings
Stockholm Nights: Podcast 109
Deep in the woods of Stockholm NJ a party caravan shuffles back, twists and jukes, a campsite is made, debauchery ensues, a black bear roams, and the next Shady Groove Podcast is created. Coming at you from a satellite venue, this weeks podcast is sure to please. Riddled special guests, we give you Stockholm Nights.
Here are the fresh tracks that were included:
Bob Dylan – Stuck Inside of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again ++ Booker T. Jones – Representing Memphis ++ Soulfire – Quienes Que Resolverio ++ Wilco – Heavy Metal Drummer ++ Billy Bragg – Levi Stubbs’ Tears ++ Smokey Robinson – The Tears of a Clown ++ Wang Chung – Dance Hall Days ++ Bob Segar – Hollywood Nights ++ Arthur Conley – Stuff You Gotta Watch ++ Frank Zappa – Willie The Pimp ++Alvin Youngblood Hart- Hillbilly Willie’s Blues ++ Jack White – High Ball Stepper ++ Sharon Jones & The Dapkings – People Don’t Get What They Deserve ++ Jimmy Cliff – Give The People What They Want ++ Hard Pans – Clouds ++
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2012 Year in Review (Part 3): Best Albums
This is always the toughest list to come up with.
My 5 favorite albums of 2012.
1. Alabama Shakes – Boys and Girls
You’ve really gotta love this band. Their music is rooted in 60’s blues and soul, but you could easily call them an indie rock band. They’ve build a substantial following through their rocking live shows and this debut thrust them on the scene. But its not just the fact that they are rooted in the past that makes this band and this album awesome. Its the fact that it feels like the Shakes are poised to grow into a legendary band. Boys and Girls can be played front to back without skipping a beat. There are no awkward songs to skip through. This is the best album of 2012.
2. Michael Kiwanuka – Home Again
His stripped-down acoustic folk style evokes images of Otis Redding. His soulful voice is timeless. You can’t help but get swept up in his thoughtful lyrics. Pop on this album and you’ll find yourself transported to another place. He has been compared to Curtis Mayfield and Bill Withers. I love that at its core, the sound is retro, though the music stays novel. Home again has placed itself high on the list of my favorite new albums.
3. Dr. John – Locked Down
The good doctor is back with a vengeance. Black Keys guitar player, Dan Auerbach produced this album and the results were astounding. Their collective aim was to create a modern recording that drew on the organic, spontaneous, spooky, swampy, nite-tripper voodoo elements that we heard in Dr. John’s earliest albums. It’s not a recreation of Gris Gris. It grooves with the feeling of swamp rock, but its got many new ideas and sounds. The band is tight and at times you can definitely feel the Black Keys style. Although it is not in any way a Black Keys album. Even in this age, it can be labeled as one of Mac Rebbenack’s finest.
4. Dr. Dog – Be The Void
As soon as the opener, Lonesome, begins one can tell they are in for a treat. Dr. Dog hits a home run with this album. They seem to be having a great time as they wind through raw but poppy harmonies and stripped down warm lyrics. I think they have wandered slightly away from their intricately crafted pop of earlier albums. But it seems to work as the sound is more loose and uninhibited. I love that the band keeps on growing, changing, and exploring new territories.
5. Jack White – Blunderbuss
Jack White is a powerhouse in todays music industry. Having showed us his producing chops with Loretta Lynn’s comeback album, Van Lear Rose, and with his other side projects also creating a significant buzz, Jack does what he wants and it almost always comes out good. It seems funny that this is his first solo album. He places an indelible stamp on every project he has been in from the Raconteurs to the Dead Weather, so much so that you would think those are his albums. But this one is his and only his. With contradictions and squelching guitars, electric piano, beautiful melodies, and even quieter polished sounds, Blunderbuss gets better as it gets played more.
Honorable Mentions:
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros – Here
Bruce Springsteen – Wrecking Ball
Neil Young and Crazy Horse – Americana
The Lumineers – The Lumineers
Justin Townes Earl – Nothing’s Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now
Gary Clark Jr – Blak and Blu
2012 Year in Review (Part 2): Top 12 Songs of the Year
Ahhh, the well crafted song. There’s nothing better than when musical notes and poetry come together to create a beautiful union. A good back-beat, well planned musical flourishes, instrumental solo’s, background vocals, a prefectly timed hand-clap breakdown; these are the things I look for in a great song. That and listenability, playability, and the overall feeling of the song. Regardless of how you listen, we all know a good song when we hear it. So here are my favorites of 2012. Enjoy.
Top 12 of 2012:
12. Ben Gibbard – Teardrop Windows
11. Ben Folds Five – Do It Anyway
10. Heartless Bastards – Parted Ways
9. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros – Man On Fire
8. Justin Townes Earle – Look the other way
7. Dr. Dog – That Old Black Hole
6. The Lumineers – Ho Hey
5. Lee Fields – Faithful Man
4. Jack White – Love Interruption
3. Dr. John – Getaway
2. Michael Kiwanuka – I’ll Get Along
1. Alabama Shakes – Hang Loose
Honorable Mention:
Gary Clark Jr. – Bright Lights
Neil Young – Oh Susannah
Alabama Shakes – Rise to the Sun
Dr. Dog – Lonesome
Michael Kiwanuka – Home Again
Rock and Roll with The Shady Groove: Podcast 77
These are the tracks that were included in this weeks podcast:
Devendra Banhart – Baby ++ Jack White – Love Interruption ++ Dr. Dog – How Long Must I Wait ++ Little Joy – The Next Time Around ++ Willie Nelson – Shotgun Willie ++ The Velvet Underground – Rock and Roll ++ Little Feat – Rock and Roll Doctor ++ Deer Tick – Baltimore Blues No. 1 ++ Neil Young & Crazy Horse ++ Oh Susannah ++ Monsters of Folk – The Right Place ++ Wilco – Forget the Flowers ++ The Rolling Stones – Dead Flowers ++ The Shins – New Slang ++ Tom Petty – Breakdown ++ Ringo Starr – No No Song ++ The Gourds – Don’t Pass Me By.
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