11.03.06
Posted in back catalogue - November 3rd, 2006 at 6:11 pm by Cricket
So, you’re going through life, doing your thing. If you’re me it involves watching Friday Night Lights and seeing commercials you’d probably never see otherwise. There’s that horrible Chili’s commercial, the whole baby back ribs song thing makes me insane, and suddenly you think… Man, I can’t believe that Chili’s is using some faux-Old 97s in their commercial.
Then you realize: oh shit, that is the Old 97s. Well clearly the world is ending, but what to do now? There’s nothing to be done for it but to drown yourself in Old 97s goodness and try to pretend the commercial never happened.
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11.02.06
Posted in some albums we done liked others we ain't - November 2nd, 2006 at 1:31 pm by Mimi
Willie Nelson–Songbird and Teatro
Cric sent me Songbird with the one sentence remark: “You are morally obligated to review this album.” Due to the truth of this remark, I will. I really do not want to say the things I have to say about it, but, Christ on a cracker, okay, I’m doing it.
My one sentence summation of Songbird is this: It hurt my soul.
On the surface, this record was expressly made for me, and, as is the nature of such god-sends, the pudding is singularly lacking. The album is a collaboration between one Mr. Ryan Adams, and the demi-god of country music, Willie. Since Willie has had a very good run of collaborative records (see: Teatro), one would have expected Songbird to be another seminal album from a legend.
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11.01.06
Posted in cricket spazzes, random - November 1st, 2006 at 9:22 pm by Cricket
We’re up to podcast six now! But I don’t know if we’re making what you guys want. Sure we get emails, but how do I know if those are representative of the masses? So tell us, c’mon now! Do you love the ‘casts? Do you want more talking? More music? Free candy with each download? Now is your chance to ask for anything you want. Comment here or email us. Hell, don’t limit yourself to podcasts, tell us what you like and don’t like about the site in general.
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Brown Country by Nikky Finney is a very intense poem about country music and race issues in the US. Take a second and read it. I’m not going to comment on it, you just take from it whatever you find in it, okay?
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