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Loading... Earthworks – Up North
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Loading... Transatlantic – Bridge Across Forever
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Loading... Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers w/Edie Brickell – Pretty Little One
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Loading... National Health – The Collapso
Canadian prog group with a pretty faithful live performance (minus the spastic intro; I do miss the dog barking though)
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Loading... Brian Eno – There Were Bells
beautiful new music from Brian Eno
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Loading... The Seekers – Georgy Girl
RIP Judith Durham
Here's also a short little documentary on the song, and as you can see (besides dropping the key slightly, because older) she still absolutely pwns it.
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Loading... Los Lobos, La Marisoul, y Los Cenzontles – México Americano
La Marisoul is the front lady of Los Angeles’ La Santa Cecilia. Los Cenzontles are doing the important work of preserving and promoting Mexican roots music from their base, which includes an academy, in San Pablo, CA. Los Lobos need no introduction, of course.
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Loading... Xixa – Cumbia del Paletero
We’re headed out to the Sonoran desert now, via Route 111, Route 86, and the curiously-named census designated place called Mecca. A shambling, trippy, psych & surf tune about a popsicle vendor seems appropriate for the heat coming our way down at the Salton Sea.
When I was at the Ski-Inn* late one night, sucking down pints of Mango Cart to replace the water my body has lost in its effort to keep my insides from cooking during the day, I got to chat with a few local folks. One fella told of a recent summer night in which he went to bed in 115° F heat at midnight, and got up for work before sunrise to find it had cooled off to 110°.
Yes, that makes two cumbia tunes in one week. If we’re playing Bacon rules, three bands I’ve played this week share a common connection to a fourth. Sergio Mendoza leads Orkesta Mendoza & plays keyboards in Calexico; Joey Burns & John Convertino co-founded Calexico; Xixa is fronted by Brian Lopez, a guitarist in Calexico, and Gabriel Sullivan. Lopez & Sullivan also play in Giant Sand, while Burns & Convertino are former members of that band.
* Don’t miss the patty melt, which is made with wonderfully sweet locally-grown onions. If it was good enough for Tony Bourdain, it is good enough for me
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Loading... Calexico + Gaby Moreno – Cumbia de Donde
Time to get back on our way. Back on Route 62, we’ll pass the site of my first rodeo in Yucca Valley, then shed about 2000 feet of elevation on our way back through the fields of wind turbines in the lower desert and then on out to Palm Springs, Cathedral City, Indio, and Thermal, where we’ll drop to 138 feet below sea level. A road groove is what we need. Where we are headed is a constellation of no-places with names trading on dreams never realized.
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Loading... Gram Parsons & Emmylou Harris – Big Mouth Blues
I don’t think two voices were ever meant more for each other than those of Gram Parsons & Emmylou Harris. This video can’t convey the quality of their vocal mix, but thankfully we have Grievous Angel to document the exquisite blend the achieved. That we have any live footage of them at all is close to a miracle; video recording of any performance not intended for television broadcast was pretty darn rare in 1973. This is not the tune I would’ve chosen had any of my favorites been available, but beggars can’t be choosers.
While I was out in the Mojave, I stopped at a site I’ve passed an uncountable number of times, but never properly visited: the Joshua Tree Inn, the place where Gram departed from this plane of existence. The clerk at the desk was very gracious and let me wander through the public spaces, which have a variety of GP memorabilia, and, after obtaining a promise that I not knock on the door of Room 8, let me go out to pay my respects at the shrine outside the place where Gram spent his last days.
I’m glad I stopped. Grievous Angel is one of my favorite albums, and Gram came out to his beloved Joshua Tree after finishing the recording sessions that ultimately became that album. I put it on after exiting I-10 onto Route 62. The rest of the story from September 1973 is bizarre and more than a little sad; if you’re going to read about it, choose a reputable source. Gram’s musical dream lives on through people like Emmylou, Dwight Yoakam, Steve Earle, Robbie Fulks, and (particularly, in my mind) Sturgill.
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