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Saturday, May 03, 2008

That Means Someone Is Talking About It

This was going to be a post about Stephen King's latest Top 20 list in the May 9th issue of Entertainment Weekly (that I can't find a link to anywhere, unfortunately) but then I listened to a lot of the songs and they were far too honkytonk for my taste. Well, except for two of his picks:

LCD Soundsystem: Yeah.mp3

Billy Bragg and Wilco: California Stars.mp3

Happily, I got sidetracked and discovered the music of Alejandro Escovedo (he looks like Garry Shandling in that picture, no?) singer of King's 4th most listened-to song, Castanets. He's done several covers including a Lonesome Dove-ish version of one of my all-time favorite songs, Pale Blue Eyes. This will be something like the 3rd cover of Pale Blue Eyes I have in my library; others love it, too.

Escovedo's other more bluesy bar songs remind me of another beloved album from long ago that no one talks about anymore (I've got the feeling I've already posted on this before...) Robert Cray's I Was Warned . And that got me thinking about another wonderful and forgotten album from around the same time, Michelle Shocked's Arkansas Traveller.

Alejandro Escovedo: Pale Blue Eyes.mp3

Alejandro Escovedo: Man Who Sold the World.mp3

Alejandro Escovedo: Beast of Burden.mp3

Alejandro Escovedo: Velvet Guitar.mp3

Alejandro Escovedo: Last To Know. mp3 (my fave pick)

These are both fantastic:

Robert Cray: I Was Warned.mp3

Michelle Shocked: Come_A_Long_Way.mp3

(thanks to behearbenow)

Posted by stopokaygo at 07:10:04 AM

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