Toadcast #3 – With Added Americana
It’s all gone a bit American this week, Toadlings. I have no intention of putting out a series of strictly themed podcasts, but it’s still early days and there are so many massive chunks of my music collection I want to poke about in that this may happen a couple of times before things settle down. So I started with a couple of vaguely American-sounding tracks this week and before you know it I ended up with a podcast with a definite Americana theme.
I’m quite happy with how it’s all turned out though, I must confess – a nice combination of classics and small, small bands, so the playlist is working quite well by itself. And actually handling the microphone is getting easier as well. I am quite liking this podcasting business, I’d say!
Toadcast #3 – With added Americana
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1. The Band – The Weight (02.16)
2. Hem – Half Acre (09.18)
3. Elvis Perkins – While You Were Sleeping (12.38)
4. Cherry Ghost – Mathematics (20.27)
5. The Holy Modal Rounders – Hey Hey Baby (25.30)
6. Night Jar – Sweet Annie Lee (28.30)
7. Caramel Jack – Lincoln Jackson Incident (33.45)
8. The Builders & the Butchers – Spanish Death Song (39.27)
9. Willard Grant Conspiracy – Ballad of a Thin Man (49.51)
10. Rick Redbeard – Blood (54.06)
11. Billie Holiday – Georgia on My Mind (59.26)
12. Night Jar – Big Black Horse (64.05)
13. Broken Records – Lies (71.45)
14. DeVotchka – The Enemy Guns (77.57)
toad, I thank you on broken records. I am going to write a raving bastard of a post on them soon.
And if I wasn’t trying to write an essay right now, I’d be listening to the podcast.
jaysus, toad, i haven’t even listened to number 2 yet!
this one looks good, tho, what with the broken records and the devotchka. so maybe i’ll listen to this one first. ooh, i’m such a rebel!
Not listened to last week’s? Marcy, you’re divorced! I like this one better anyway
i should clarify–i meant not finished with last week’s.
i can explain, too. and this is good. see, after the demise of my ipod, i inherited my daughter’s nano, which, as you know, has shit for storage capacity. 7 lousy gb or something ridiculous like that. seeing as i like to put stuff on my ipod and then listen to it whilst doing other crap, i’m finding it hard to choose what to take off in order to fit more stuff on–does that make sense? i know all things toad should take priority, but it’s hard, i tell you, hard to decide! : )
2 gb–thing’s only got 2 measley freakin’ gb–so you can see why i’m having problems.
2GB???? That’s no use to man nor beast!
Aaaaah. I’ve finally listened to this little beauty, twice in fact (once on the train to work and again on the train home). Really great stuff. You may not know this, but in light of your splendid rant about Fergie I found it kind of ironic that the American insurance company Liberty Mutual uses Hem’s “Half Acre” in one of its TV ads. Not quite the same as working “Liberty Mutual … for the home, business, or auto” into the title track of their new album, but still.
The Elvis Perkins is great as well, reminds me a bit of Jason Molina from Songs:Ohia fame. I did a little extra reading and discovered that Elvis Perkins is in fact the son of Anthony “Norman Bates” Perkins. Weird. I think the best tune on here was the one from The Builders and The Butchers. What a romper-stomper that is, and that voice! “It came across the land, like the Spanish influenza.” Not too shabby at all.
I also quite enjoyed the Willard Grant Conspiracy’s menacing Dylan cover. Venomous is the right word. It has a similar feel to Nick Cave’s blistering “John the Revelator” from the Harry Smith Project Live CD.
All in all another excellent installment. Perhaps you should continue to focus on beer in the future when toadcasting. Save the gin for the regular posts. Spare the liver, but vent the spleen!
Cheers C&B – I am going to have to start making your comments into entire posts.
Hem letting someone buy their songs to sell shit is not the same as altering the content of your artistic output. Allen Lulu had some fine words to say on the subject, which actually changed my mind a little on the topic. Read his comments on this post, they’re quite interesting.
And once again, you’ve given me more songs to go and find. And I’d agree with you about the Builders & the Butchers – what a scorcher!