Spitball Army

There are hardly any of those great used music or book stores left. I especially miss the one on Church Street, which is now a bunch of offices. Thank God there seems to still be no McDonald’s in the Square, but there are plenty of Starbucks storefronts, which is just plain odd in an area with sooooo many great small indie coffeehouses.

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Joe Cocker sings for the clear-headed:

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Ed Harcourt will be performing on The Tonight Show (hosted by Taylor Hicks’ uncle, Jay Leno) this evening! Word from the NBC website states that Harcourt will be playing a song from his amazing ”new” album The Beautiful Lie, which actually was released in 2006…it just took the United States record industry two years to get it out here.

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As discussed somewhere on this blog recently, I am today submitting to you my favorite music of the year, so far. Anyone who has frequented this website over the past several months will not be surprised by any of these choices, but here they are anyway, committed to paper, if you will.

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Wild Sweet Orange, a band hailing from right here in Birmingham, Alabama, made their national television debut on “Late Night with David Letterman” last night. Their new album will be unleashed on the public on Tuesday, July 29th. Here’s the video clip:

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The chord progression sounds remarkably similar to The Eagles’ song “Hotel California.” I found myself humming “Hotel California” this evening while within earshot of the TV, then was startled when I heard the “Aquarius” chorus join me at the end of the ad.

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“not long ago, kenny g put out a recording where he overdubbed himself on top of a 30+ year old louis armstrong record, the track “what a wonderful world”. with this single move, kenny g became one of the few people on earth i can say that i really can’t use at all – as a man, for his incredible arrogance to even consider such a thing, and as a musician, for presuming to share the stage with the single most important figure in our music.”

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My post of January 21st, 2008 was admitedly weak, consisting of only a YouTube link to a video that Ryan Adams created while noodling in the studio. Sadly, someone decided to remove the video from YouTube, so that the video link on the post leads nowhere now.

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It was a busy day today, and I was on the move for most of it. The constant? My iPod was working overtime, and though I did listen to a couple of albums full through, it was mostly a Shuffle-All-Songs day. The little random song machine did a bang-up job of entertaining me. Here are some of the day’s lesser-known musical highlights that you might enjoy as well as I did:

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She sat, firm as a kettle drum,
As the Asian college girls lay on blankets at her feet
Studying organic chemistry.

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