Truesounds - Summer '08

What would a comeback be without a music post? So here's a sampler to (hopefully) make up for the 3 months of downtime.



1 A Ghost To Most - Drive By Truckers
Best song off the DBT's latest?.....you decide

2 Tiger Tom Dixon's Blues - Rod Picott
A recent discovery for me via Slaid Cleaves. Song is off his 2001 album of the same name

3 Lowlight - Wrinkle Neck Mules (ft.Will Oldham)
Still love the mules my friends, this song has been bouncing around my brain for a while now....I didn't even realize it was Will Oldham singing on this one till I got a hard copy of the album.....great, great song here....further solidifying my love for the mules. Off "Pull The Brake" from 2006.

4 She's Gone - Langhorne Slim
Frantic folk? This ones got so much energy when you play it in your car your fuel economy goes up (wow that was a bad joke....). Off his new self titled label debut album.

5 Into the mystic - Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
Most people aren't aware that Jason Isbell and his band The 400 Unit recently put out a live EP called "Live at the Twist and Shout". Well he did, and it's good....this song is off it

6 I've Got A Plan - Scott Miller & The Commonwealth
Man I just love this song....the way he sings it...that one errant chord after he says "the cod and the bean"....this song is one of his best in my opinion. Off 2003's Upside Downside


7 No One Told Me - Kane Welch Kaplin
Just a groovin' little song off their self titled album from last year.

8 Defy The Moon - Drag The River
Another new discovery for me. These guys ain't half bad, and this is off their latest 2008 album "You Can't Live This Way"

9 Frankie's Gun! - The Felice Brothers
Geez, is there a buzz about this band or what?....This is probably their most popular song, but it's also my favorite so I just threw it on here. Off their self-titled 2008 album

10 Queenie 's Song - Guy Clark
My God I love this song, It's been popping in my head here recently as there is a local pizza joint called "Queens" that I drive by daily, so I threw it on here. Off his 2002 album "The Dark".

11 Beaumont - Hayes Carll
Most of you probably already know that Hayes Carll's latest album "Trouble In Mind" is pretty damned good....here is a sampling of it.

12 Color of a Lonely Heart Is Blue - Old 97's
This is off Old 97's latest long awaited album Blame it on Gravity. If you liked their last album...you'll probably dig it (or vice versa)

13 Ain't Glad I'm Leaving - Justin Townes Earle
Sleeper/surprise album of the year?.....I think so. Off his latest "The Good Life" which rings through the speakers like they are channeling 1963 (yeah I said it)

14 I Make The Dough, You Get The Glory - Kathleen Edwards
The Canadian Lucinda? Maybe. Off her newest "Asking for Flowers"...which is a pretty damned fine album

15 Blue Side of the Mountain - Steeldrivers
What happens when you get a bunch of well travelled Nashville session musicians together to record an album?.....they make some damned fine bluegrass apparently. Off their 2008 self titled debut album....bluegrass album of the year?

16 Fireline Road - James McMurtry
Our friend Mr. McMurtry has another damn fine album out this year called "Just Us Kids". It's good.

17 Days Aren't Long Enough - Steve Earle(with Allison Moorer)
Pretty good love song and duet with his wife off last years much lauded "Washington Square Serenade".

18 I'll Be Glad - Bonnie Prince Billy (with Shannon Stephens)
What's this, Will Oldham has a new album out too....yes, and it's one of his best in my opinion. Some great, great tunes on there

19 Amsterdam - Jon Dee Graham
Word is Jon Dee Graham recently had a bad accident and is struggling with his medical bills. If you like this song, it's off his killer Live album from last year "Swept Away"

20 Things Ain't Like They Used to Be - The Black Keys
Probably stretching the boundaries I have set for this site a little, but hell I'm willing to bet more than a few of you are Black Keys fans. To my ears, this is the song of the year. I just can't get enough of it. Off their stylisticaly departed new album "Attack and Release"


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