06.18.09

Gone fishing

Posted in cricket spazzes, news, some albums we done liked others we ain't - June 18th, 2009 at 3:57 pm by Cricket

If you are feeling up to it, feel free to write a country song about me:  Living in the swampy, hot south, plagued by severe storms and tornadoes.  Lost a tooth (trust me it’s a story you don’t want to hear).  Lost my man.  Am all bruised up (related more to the tooth and not at all to the man).  I’m hanging it up for a while.  Sitting on the porch, sippin’ whiskey and watching the lightning and the fireflies until I’m calm and life doesn’t feel like a utter disaster.  Hiatus.  Summer vacation.  Mental health break.

In the meantime there’s some new albums you should be listening too:

DADDY, For a Second Time (Tommy Womack & Will Kimbrough, also on tour, check the dates, go see them and learn to love Tommy as much as I do)

04.14.09

All those bits and pieces

Posted in back catalogue, cricket hates on pop country, news - April 14th, 2009 at 3:31 pm by Cricket

There’s still a day left to enter and win a copy of Willie Nelson’s Naked Willie. Contest ends at midnight tomorrow, so finish up your taxes and go over and enter!

The new podcast is also up. It’s a good listen for a grey spring day. Even if you aren’t in Nashville where the weather isn’t cooperating with the season you should still go download it and listen.

And now that I’ve got your reminders out of the way, I need to clean up some of tabs I’ve had open in my browser for weeks. Here’s some things I’ve been meaning to share with you:

03.28.09

All definitely worth more than $5

Posted in cricket spazzes, news - March 28th, 2009 at 3:02 pm by Cricket

If you are a regular reader of this blog, then you know at least two things about me: I love Lucero and I love Drag the River. The other things you may have gleaned about me from reding these pages are probably better left undiscussed.

This week I’ve been rattling around, as I do, slightly disorganized and trying to do way more than I have time for. As always I start my day by reading 624,729 blog posts from various sources. Often I make lists of things I want to share with you all and mostly I never ever get around to doing that. I swear, I’m working this I am totally going to get better about it. Sometimes I don’t share because it’s just too personally depressing. Like this post about Lucero’s Ben Nichols at SXSW. These are the moments in life that I knowing I missed them just breaks my heart. If nothing else to have heard new songs and finally have seen Last Pale Light in the West performed live [You're missin' out, lady. Although it's comparable to any time Ben closes out with an acoustic, my love of the book bumps those songs up a notch--Mick]. You know, assuming there is the possibility of a Lucero related show that I was sober enough remember. Which would totally happen at SXSW, right? Right? Yeah, maybe it’s better that I wasn’t there…

03.19.09

Well that took just about forever

Posted in cricket spazzes, news, random - March 19th, 2009 at 2:20 pm by Cricket

I know, I know, it’s been like a year, right? A year of few posts and many promises. But really we are almost there. I’m settling the last details incrementally. And doing this slow, slow, slow rolling launch of the new stuff. In the meantime, there’s like a million little things I should be telling you about.

First up, you all met Mick, right? He’s an asshole [So very true--Mick], but I kind of love him, which hopefully means you will too. I didn’t bring him in for a dissenting viewpoint or anything. I mean his musical tastes mostly mirror mine but I expect he’ll like things I won’t, and vice versa.

Nextly, we’ve got message boards. Yep, right here! I surely haven’t ironed out all the kinks yet, and they are really only a skeleton of what I am planning for the future. For now, they are there, you can register, and poke around, and post, and hopefully that will help me find and solve what problems there might be there.

09.15.08

Lucero Family Picnic version 2.0, the revenge of Arkansas

Posted in cricket spazzes, daisy spazzes, hot live action, news, rumors - September 15th, 2008 at 7:07 pm by Cricket

Daisy and I boldly braved predictions of flash flooding to drive the long, desolate hours to Batesville, Arkansas for the Lucero Family Picnic. It was worth it. So worth it. First off, before I tell you about the show, let me fill you in on the news we gleaned while there:

As many of you maybe know already, Lucero’s Brian Venable is expecting his first child any day now. He was primed to leave, even mid-show, should his lovely lady, Sam, have gone into labor. We saw ultrasound pictures of Henry, the boy they are expecting to join their family soon. So everyone keep them in your thoughts for an easy delivery. I know Brian can’t wait to meet Henry (we can’t either!). Seriously, if every expectant father was as happy as Brian appears to be, the world would be a much, much better place. [It really is just about the sweetest thing ever how excited he is.—Daisy]

08.30.08

Oh be still my pounding heart!

Posted in cricket spazzes, news - August 30th, 2008 at 11:20 am by Cricket

I’m all a-twitter over here! Giddy I tell you! William Gibson is perhaps my all-time favorite author (to date anyway, though I hope to carry the unrelenting love I have for him with me to my grave). He’s fantastic interviews. I love what he writes. And when I was in college I learned that he collects old punk rock 7″s. DREAMY! Well, it would appear that his taste has grown with mine in the last couple decades. In the NYT’s Book section today he has a playlist of songs to read his Spook Country too. The list is like something I would have written here had I been clever enough to think to make playlists to go with my favorite books. Go check it out, even if you don’t like, or haven’t read, Gibson I assure you that it’s music that you’ll love.

William Gibson’s playlist

08.28.08

Hanks, boy trouble and accidents

Posted in cricket spazzes, news, random, rumors - August 28th, 2008 at 10:23 am by Cricket

I am too tired today to go back through old posts and check what I’ve talked about before. Which is kind of ironic because usually when I’m this lazy I can’t manage to do much more than browse the internet. I am anxiously awaiting the day when I have dozens of minions to do my bidding while I sit back on the couch, drink coffee and play on the internet. Which is, uh, what I am doing right now, but I feel guilty for not being more productive. Presumably the minions would alleviate that guilt.

So I’m sitting here going through all the sites I’ve bookmarked recently, trying to catch up on the news. And by news I mean what is going on in twangalicious music this week, because watching the Democratic Convention is likely to make my head explode. Anyway, as I read it occurs to me that there’s all this stuff I should be telling y’all about.

07.10.08

rumors, news, and tours

Posted in cricket spazzes, news, rumors, tours - July 10th, 2008 at 12:17 pm by Cricket

I am full of the news of big changes here at HCT. Coming soon. See this space. Hmm, it could be coming even sooner if I was working on it, instead of posting here. But I love you guys and I don’t want you to think we’ve just wandered off and stopped posting, as we so often do (none of that in the future though, I swear). And once again, if you are interested in writing for HCT, email me. This is an unpaid, though very prestigious, exotic and exciting job. What do you get out of it? Free music to review. What do we get out of it? Your awesome, smart writing. Call me, you know you want to hook up with us.

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