Drive By Truckers - Lookout Mountain (Zombie Version) (Vid)

I hadn't intended to post anything else today, but when I saw this vid that TwangNation (http://www.twangnation.com/) posted on twitter, well I just had to post it here.

Roky Erickson - Night Of The Vampire (Acoustic) (Vid)

Roky Erickson has been dominating my speakers for the past 2 weeks as he does every year around this time. If you don't have it, I highly recommend picking up The Evil One (Plus One) which includes his Evil One/I Think Of Demons album plus a radio show that has some killer interview segments in addition to early versions of the songs.

Heed the warning of this song: If it's raining and your running don't slip in mud cause if you do you might slip in blood tonight......is the night of the vampire

A Truer Halloween Part 2: ...Revenge of The Witch Puppy

Witch puppy is back and he's pissed! Spooky Spooky x 2!

1. Rabid Monkey - The Sadies
2. Dark Night - Flat Duo Jets
3. Wicked Old Witch - John Fogerty
4. Vampire Lake - The Builders & The Butchers
5. The Plank - Devil Makes Three
6. Am I Demon? - Bonnie Prince Billy
7. The Curse of The Little Bastard - Dexter Romweber
8. Walking On My Grave - The Cartwrights
9. Graveyard Song - I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch In the House
10. Vampires & Failures - Grandpa Boy
11. The Haunt - Roky Erickson
12. Ghost On The Highway - The Gun Club
13. Hell's Gate - Jason & The Scorchers
14. Vampire - Bap Kennedy
15. Werewolves Of London - Magnolia Electric Co.
16. Devil's Stomping Ground - Southern Culture On The Skids
17. Walkin' With Scary Hillbilly Monsters - Dexter Romweber
18. Hanged Man - The Meat Purveyors
19. Mr. Undertaker - Angry Johnny & The Killbillies
20. It's A Monster's Holiday - Buck Owens
21. Pardon This Coffin - Jon Rauhouse
22. Night Walk - The Country Gentlemen
23. Werewolf - Michael Hurley
24. The Hellbound Train - Those Poor Bastards
25. The Lost Soul - The Handsome Family

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A Truer Halloween 2

Free Music Alert: Lost Highway Records Sampler

The folks over at Lost Highway Records have decided to make a sampler of some of their artists free through Amazon.com. Sampler included tracks from the latest releases of Willie Nelson, Lyle Lovett, Robert Earl Keen, Ryan Bingham, and one of my favorite artists to emerge this year, soul man Black Joe Lewis (he's damn good folks). Did I miss anyone.....oh yeah, this sampler also includes an unreleased Hayes Carll track!

Get it while it's free

http://www.amazon.com/Lost-Highway-Sampler-Texas-Tennessee/dp/B002T9ZI70

From The Archives: A Truer Halloween

It's that time of year again folks. Vol. 2 coming up later this week


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This just in, a special halloween edition sampler for your hearin' ears. Spooky spooky!!

01-The Sadies-The Creepy Butler
02-CCR-Sinister Purpose
03-Frank Carlier-Hellbound
04-Supersuckers-Sleepy Vampire
05-Blanche-Superstition
06-David Childers and The Modern Don Juans-Burning In Hell
07-David Alan Coe-The Ride
08-Drive-By Truckers-Demonic Possession
09-Freakwater-Cloak of Frogs
10-The Meat Purveyors-I Have A Devil In Me
11-The Sadies-Lucifer Sam (with Gary Louris)
12-Southern Culture on the Skids-Tombstone Shadow
13-Wil Ridge-Devil's Toenail
14-Trailer Bride-Ghost on the Highway
15-Hank III-Satan Is Real/Straight To Hell (Medley)
16-The Sadies-Locust Eater
17-Tony Joe White-Conjure Woman
18-Blue Mountain-My Wicked, Wicked Ways
19-Bobby Bare-Marie Laveau
20-William Elliott Whitmore-Diggin' My Grave
21-Split Lip Rayfield-Devil
22-Songs Ohia-I've Been Riding With The Ghost
23-Christa Meyer & Jon Langford-The Hangman's Song

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A Truer Halloween

Wayne Hancock - Live on KUT '94 & 10-10 Demo

You ever get a hankering for some classic sounding honky tonk music? The kind of country that sounds like it's being played in some post-WWII juke joint full of ex-servicemen drinking their GI Bill away. Well I just might have the cure for that, and it's called Wayne "The Train" Hancock. To compare Wayne Hancock to Hank Williams would be the easy way out....but really....it's the best comparison. He has THAT sound. Hank III said of him "Wayne Hancock has more Hank Sr. in him than either I or Hank Williams Jr. He is the real deal."

He is a man born 40 years too late, had he been recording in the 50's no doubt he would have been hanging out at Tootsie's with Ernest Tubb in between his Opry performances and on the top of the "hillbilly" charts.

This set is a radio show from '94, and a demo tape that was circulated in 95. Both predating his first album (and my personal favorite) Thunderstorms & Neon Signs released in 1995. Sound quality on both is excellent, and the band is in top shape. A must have recording for fans of hard core honky tonk. Also fans of Justin Townes Earle's throwback country sound may want to check this out as well.

Wayne has a new album out this year called Viper Of Melody, and if you like this you will certainly like the new album. Wayne is pretty consistent with his releases, they always scratch that classic country itch.

MP3

Wayne Hancock - KUT '94 & 10-10 Demo

Free Music Alert: Sons of Bill - Live at The Windjammer

This was brought to my attention by Twangville via The 9513. You guys have heard me talk about Sons of Bill on here before, and one day I will get around to writing a real review of their newest album One Town Away. The band has decided however to make available a live show from August 16th of this year on their site. No registering, just a straight download (you can stream it too).

Download Live at The Windjammer here

They have also made available for folks who support them by coming to their shows, another live download from a show on Sept. 15th if you have the password that is given out at their concerts. Even if you don't have the password, they still make two tracks from that show free for download.

Seasick Steve - Never Go West (Vid) & Free EP alert!

Oh man I just found out that Seasick Steve released a new album this week! Very excited about this, his album Started Out With Nothing (And Still Got Most Of It Left) was a favorite from last year. His new album is called Man From Another Time and expect it to be just as killer! I don't think I've talked about Seasick Steve on here before, but I know you guys would dig him. Especially you folks who dig Scott H. Biram. Seasick Steve is to Scott H. Biram, what The Flying Burrito Brothers were to The Eagles....that is, a purer form of the same art.

While you are on his site, you can click to recieve a free live EP from earlier this year (just register your email). I just got mine and it's something you are going to want to download!....can't beat the price anyway!

Here is a clip from earlier this week of one of the new songs.....man I love the hell out of this guy!

Concert Report: James McMurtry @ Attitudes in Blacksburg, VA 10/17/09

Well let me do a quick write-up about this. For those who have seen McMurtry perform you folks already know it was a killer show. Everyone I've ever talked to as a matter of fact who has seen McMurtry live all say he is amazing. This concert, friends, was no different.

A rare treat for us in the New River Valley to have a performer of this caliber come to town, and also my first McMurtry show. James said he had been trying to get down to Blacksburg for years, as he grew up in Loudon County Virginia, and he said half of his friends went to college at Virginia Tech. We are glad he finally got here. The place was small and in a holiday inn (or was it a mariott) and there were only maybe 70 people there, but every one of them was a McMurtry fan. Some came from West Virginia, Roanoke, North Carolina, even Kentucky. It was a pretty good mix of people from intellectuals familiar with McMurtry's NPR features, to old hippies from Floyd, VA, to rowdy hell raisers happy to partake in the $1 PBR special (this being the camp I myself most closely fell). One group suspiciously absent though were students...hmm...their loss.

When McMurtry and The Heartless Bastards took the stage as a power trio, the dance floor filled and the band kicked into Bayou Tortous (Tortue??) [watch a clip of Bayou Tortous].

The energy of the show was incredible, and later in the show we found out why. During his rousing (and I mean ROUSING!) rendition of crowd favorite (by crowd I mostly mean me) Choctaw Bingo he riffed that they had just gotten back to the states from the UK the day before, and it's good to see some people moving their asses for a change! He then tagged on "they're good people they just don't move". Everyone was moving at this place, in fact Choctaw built to such a climax he could have easily lead us all happily dancing and grooving into the mouth of a fiery volcano....it was that kind of concert! [watch a clip of Choctaw Bingo]

While the concert was mostly a rowdy ass rock show including killer versions of Red Dress, Too Long in The Wasteland, and my new favorite Lobo Town, (which goes with my theory that the rowdiness of a show is inversely proportional to the price of beer at said show), he did play a couple slow ones. These were Ruby and Carlos, which he played solo and Hurricane Party. Mostly though it was high octane McMurtry and The Heartless Bastards, who he quipped were going to have to change their name because "that band from Ohio has gotten too big". He then dubbed the band James McMurtry and The Motherfuckers, which he didn't think was taken yet. Someone in the crowd yelled "Go Motherfuckers go!", and that's the best way to sum up this show.....Go motherfucker go!

Here is a full clip of Hurricane party, the only song I captured in full (click the other links above to see short clips)

Album Review: Wrinkle Neck Mules - Let The Lead Fly [10/20 Lower40 Records]

Well here is probably my most anticipated album of the year. You guys have heard me talk about for a few months now, ever since I found out about it no less. Well I'm here to tell you, if you are already a fan of Wrinkle Neck Mules this album does not let down! It is everything a Wrinkle Neck Mules album should be....teemed to the brim and overflowing with sweet americana (or whatever they are calling it nowadays) sounds that are as unique as they are familiar.

Now this may not be the most objectionable review, fact is I love the Wrinkle Neck Mules. I think they should be at the top of the american/alt-country whatever heap, and the fact that they are not still baffles me. These guys, and this album is a damn fine representation of that....they should win awards for this album! Get some wider recognition at the very least. The instrumentation, the songwriting, the arrangements, all of it top notch.

Now let's talk about the songs a minute here. The tracks alternate pretty consistently between what I like to call smooth twangers and rugged twangers. I wish I could tell you who's singing what songs, but I just don't know. The one guy has the rugged southern drawl, and the other has the smooth southern drawl, and I'm pretty sure there is a third guy in there too. Regardless, the sequencing plays like a great boxer continuously hitting you with one-two punches. Let The Lead Fly picks up where 2007's Wicks Have Met left off, while also bringing back some of the more traditional aspects of 2006's Pull The Brake. The result is a damn fine album, with songs like "Fortune Fades" recalling "Cadillac Limosine", "Catfish & Color TV's" recalling "Okeechobee", and "Before The Rise and Fall" recalling "The Wicks Have Met". But that is greatly simplifying things. Fact is this is a band consisting of many talented individuals who somehow manage to pull themselves together as a single band and make albums that keep getting better.

I said earlier in this review that this album is everything a Wrinkle Neck Mules album should be....I would like to recant that and say that Let The Lead Fly is everything an AMERICANA album should be! So if you are a fan of classic alt-country like Uncle Tupelo & Son Volt, a fan of good old fashioned country rock like the Byrds and The Burritos, a fan of bluegrass and country that's not afraid to rock, or just a fan of damn good music in general.....this album is for you. It's a damn fine album and I'll stand by that!

Buy Let The Lead Fly here (out tomorrow, first 100 pre-orders get a special "lead-ed" edition)

Official Site - Myspace - Facebook

Listen to Wrinkle Neck Mules - Waters All Run Dry here

Listen to Wrinkle Neck Mules - One Hand In The Furnace here

Listen to Wrinkle Neck Mules - Before The Rise and The Fall here

Goin' to see McMurtry tonight - Fireline Road (Vid)

so for those who can't make it, here's another of my McMurtry faves:

From The Archives: Manassas - Live In Amsterdam 1972

I'm re-posting this because there is a new Manassas album out you may not be aware of. It's called Pieces, and it consists unreleased tracks and outtakes from the sessions of Manassas' only two albums, 1971's Manassas, and 1972's Down The Road. Word is the album is part of a series that Stephen Stills (Manassas' front man) started releasing with last years Just Roll Tape, and will include a box set and even some session recordings with Hendrix.

This news and Neil Young archives means it's a great time to be a country rock fan!

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I'm pulling this from another blog, I found it in the archives a while back.....and man this is just a phenomenal bootleg. Manassas was a vastly under-rated country rock band consisting of most notably, the mighty Stephen Stills and Chris Hillman (ex-byrd, founding member of the burrito brothers) . This is their inaugural concert as the band Manassas according to the insert (which is not in the download, but can be found here). They run through some of the Manassas songs, some Stills songs, some CSNY songs and even a Byrds song, a Burritos song, and a Buffalo Springfield song. Download this if you like vintage country rock sounds, you will not be dissapointed. (and a thanks to Zen Archer @ The Clock That Went Backwards for this one)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manassas_(band)

Manassas - Live In Amsterdam 1972

Guy Clark post shut down = Guy Clark news, & more news

• I was asked to pull down the Guy Clark post because Dual Tone is actually planning to release a proper pro mixed version of that show at some point. Can't wait for that to come out, and hopefully it will have a DVD with it!

• The other day I mentioned that Scott Miller was going to be releasing a new song on his site to help fund his new album (similar to what he did with Appalachian Refugee Demos). Well it's going to be a series of songs and the first, Lo Sienta, Spanishburg West Virginia is now available for $1.49. The Scott Miller newsletter included a great essay about this song which I can't seem to find on the site. Anyway, just know it's very much in the vein of the Appalachian Refugee Demos and it's about a real town called Spanishburg. Hey Scott, how bout next time your drive up to Athens, WV you stop off and do a show in Princeton? Even better drive 30 min. east to Pearisburg and the beer's on me! (not that we would have any place to drink other than my basement)

• This is just news I forgot to include in the other days post. The much anticipated new Gillian Welch album is not happening. What? Well we are getting a Dave Rawlings Machine album instead. Can't say what the difference will be, perhaps dave is taking more lead vocals. Anyway, that album is called A Friend of A Friend and will be out Nov. 17th. Pre-order at Amazon

Guy Clark - The Belcourt Theater (Nashville, TN 9/23/09)

So as most are probably aware Guy Clark has an album that just came out called Someday The Song Writes You. I haven't spent much time with the album but I really like the lead single The Guitar. Really cool song about finding a guitar of destiny in an old pawn shop. This show here is Guy Clark running through all the songs on the new album, and a few old standbys. The sound is about a B+, nowhere near as good as the Keepers Outtakes, but still damned fine and worth listening to if you are interested in his new album. For a well written review of this show, look no further than No Depression's own Peter Blackstock who was in attendance for this show. And here is another review from fellow blogger Too Much Country who was also at the show.

Download removed per request (see here)

Extremely belated album review: The Fox Hunt - America's Working Hard So We Don't Have To

I promised an album review to these guys well over a few months ago. Since then they have actually released a self-titled EP, and are in the midst of making their third studio album. I look extremely forward to that new studio album, and the track I've heard off that EP was great.

This album however, released earlier in the year does not contain any new material. No it is a string band album front to back. Very old time sounding. I would call it timeless sounding. Like hopping in a time machine and catching a hoedown in post-civil war Appalachia. That's what this album is, old time mountain music. West Virginia mountain music I'm sure the band would be quick to point out. You know those songs Alan Lomax went around recording on poor equipment back in the 20's and 30's, those old scratchy sounding songs that still manage to evoke so much power. These are well produced versions of those same songs by a band who plays them with so much reverence you would swear they were from another time.

The album pretty consistently alternates between singing songs and instrumentals, and I don't know which ones I like more. I will say after revisiting this album for this review it is a perfect album for this fall time of year. Now that may just me being sentimental as I have many fond memories of going to the "Lumberjackin' Bluegrassin' Jamboree" every October as a child at Twin Falls State Park in The Fox Hunt's home state of West Virginia. And that's what this album reminds me of. So if you passed on this album back in the spring, or did happen to pick it up but haven't gave it a listen lately, DIG IT OUT AND LISTEN TO IT! This is perfect fall, leaves turning, mountain music!

Here is what a guy who writes better reviews than me thinks of it

Visit The Fox Hunt website

Buy the album here

Vid of Hang Me off this album

Listen to Fox Hunt - Picked Up A Hammer here

Listen to Fox Hunt - Little Rose here

The Bottle Rockets - Hard Times (Vid)

Here is a killer in-studio version of one of the songs off the new Bottle Rockets album Lean Forward

McMurtry winner, Ray Wylie Hubbard movie, Wrinkle Neck Mules, new Scott Miller track, Carolyn Mark & NQ Arbuckle, etc

• jridgeway was the winner of the McMurtry CD/DVD. Thanks all for commenting and entering. Some great lyrics posted, some I have overlooked and will now be listening to more closely

• Ray Wylie Hubbard's Last Rites of Ransom Pride has found a distributor and is getting close to having a release date. Unfortunately they are tweaking the soundtrack, does this mean no killer Ray Wylie soundtrack? God I hope not!

• Wrinkle Neck Mules latest album Let The Lead Fly was pushed back to to October 20th release date. That's next Tuesday. It says in that story that it's a great album for fall driving through the mountains.....true statement, as I have come to the same conclusion.

• Scott Miller has a new track that will be available for download on his site and help fund his upcoming album. I don't have the specifics cause dammit I lost the email. In the meantime, enjoy some of the killer vids he has made on his site.

• Just wanted to give a heads up for the Carolyn Mark and NQ Arbuckle album Let's Just Stay Here which comes out tomorrow. Carolyn is half of canadian supergroup The Corn Sisters (with Neko Case), and as you know, NQ Arbuckle made one of my favorite albums of 2008. The album also features an unexpected cameo from fellow canadian Corb Lund.

• In Drive By Trucker news, according to Patterson they have recorded material for 2 upcoming releases. Can't wait

James McMurtry CD/DVD Giveaway

Want to win a copy of the new James McMurtry CD/DVD Live in Europe due out next Tuesday? Well just leave a comment on this post with your favorite James McMurtry lyric and some way to contact you (Email, Twitter, etc...) . Winner will be chosen randomly and announced next monday.

This is a great album although rather short, and lacking the fiery excitement of Live in Aught-Five. That's not to say it's not any good, more of a testament to how good Live in Aught-Five is. This one is worth picking up for the DVD alone, which as far as I know is the first time a James McMurtry DVD has been released. One of my favorite parts on the DVD is when Jon Dee Graham comes out and flips off the "biggest music critic in all of Amsterdam" right before kicking into a blazing version of Laredo. Watch a clip from the DVD here

Album is also available on LP with a CD & DVD insert for $18 which is a great deal.

Also worth mentioning is McMurtry will be in Blacksburg on the 18th....That means I WILL be going.

For what it's worth, here is one of my favorite McMurtry lyrics (that's not from the song Choctaw Bingo):

Some insurance man biker is yelling out for one more beer

but a part time pirate just can't get much respect around here

we got our problems too man

and we'll get to you in just a minute

sit your drunk ass down

and there's no one to talk to

when the lines go down

-Hurricane Party

Random Records: Linda Ronstadt - Heart Like A Wheel

Well you guys talked me into making this a recurring feature. Luckily I keep my records fairly organized (in a chaotic fashion that only makes sense to me of course), so I can assure the first few won't be complete duds. I'll wait till this feature gets established before I start reaching into the other shelfs. So what does that get us this week. It gets us Linda Ronstadt's 1974 album Heart Like A Wheel. One of her best albums no doubt, though I prefer 1977's Simple Dreams to this one.

Heart Like A Wheel was the album that propelled Ronstadt to superstar status, hitting number one on the Billboard charts, the country charts, and also earning her a grammy.

The biggest single off Heart Like A Wheel was undoubtedly "You're No Good", made famous a few years later by an up and coming band called Van Halen you may have heard of. This album like her earlier albums featured a plethora of musicians from the Laurel Canyon area of L.A. including JD Souther, Don Henley, Glen Frey, Emmylou Harris, Herb Pederson, Dave Lindley, Sneaky Pete Kleinow, etc... Laurel Canyon in the late 60's early 70's was a nexus of country rock artists, starting with The Byrds and Buffalo Springfield and culminating years later with The Eagles and Jackson Browne. Ronstadt was square in the middle of this movement with The Eagles themselves as her backing band on her earlier albums.

This is also the album where Ronstadt established herself as a master interpreter of others songs. Including what I like to think is a tribute to recently deceased Gram Parsons with her version of "Dark End Of The Street", which of course was recorded by The Flying Burrito Brothers on their first album. Other covers include "You're No Good", originally an R&B hit for Dee Dee Warwick, The Everly's "When Will I Be Loved", Hank's "I Can't Help It I'm Still In Love With You" (which features some beautiful harmonies with Emmylou), and my favorite off this album, her version of Little Feat's "Willin" (featured in one of the best music scenes ever a few years later in the movie Abyss). This album is a masterful blend of country, rock, r&b, and just enough Pop to take it up the Billboard charts to #1. Cosmic American Music indeed.

Listen to Linda Ronstadt - Willin' (Download link removed, stream here)

Truesounds - Fall '09

Allright, so let's get back to the music here. You guys had to endure not one, but TWO posts about FLAC files so I hope this more than makes up for it! Lots of new but plenty of familiar on here. Hope you guys enjoy.

01. BettySoo - Who Knows

Off her excellent new album Heat Sin Water Skin. See my review here

02. Jimbo Mathus - Fallen Angel

Got a Jimbo post coming up in the near future. This twanger is off his latest Jimmy The Kid

03. Corb Lund - Horse Doctor, Come Quick

Off Corb and guy's latest Losin' Lately Gambler. See my review here

04. Chuck Prophet - Hot Talk

Funky song of Chuck's latest Let Freedom Ring. An album Chuck calls "protest music for people who hate protest music"

05. DADDY - He Ain't Right

Tommy Womack + Will Kimbrough = DADDY, off the album For A Second Time

06. Kieran Kane - More To It Than This

Americana legend Kieran Kane snuck in an amazing album this year called Somewhere Beyond The Roses. This song is off it

07. Sarah Borges & The Broken Singles - Ride With Me

Great song off her new album The Stars Are Out

08. Drive-By Truckers - Rebels

DBT's take on an obscure Tom Petty tune. Off their excellent latest The Fine Print

09. Sons of Bill - So Much For The Blues

I promised more on these guys, and I still intend to follow through with a whole post dedicated to VA bands. Until then enjoy this song off their latest One Town Away

10. Mud, Blood, & Beer - Lucy

Off this NYC band's self titled debut. Read a review here

11. Gabriel Sullivan - Tip Back The Bottle

Press release describes him as Tom Waits meets Black Keys. That's a good place to start, but I hear a little bit of William Eliott Whitmore in there too. Off his debut By The Dirt

12. Chuck Ragan - Let It Rain

Former Hot Water Music frontman returns with new album Gold Country

13. Tom Russell - Mississippi River Running Backwards

Others are calling Blood and Candlesmoke the album of the year. I am inclined to agree. Read Tom's Blog with insights into the album here

14. Scott Miller - I'm Right Here My Love

Scott gets a little help from Patty Griffin on this song from his latest For Crying Out Loud. Here is a good interview explaining the inspiration of the song

15. The Pines - Spike Driver Blues

Off their latest release Tremolo

16. Chris Unck & The Black Roses - Rosalina

Lower 40 turned me on to this album Ridiculous!! Ridiculous!! to tide me over till the new Wrinkle Neck Mules album comes out. Really liked this song

17. Dexateens - New Boy

Off the new Dexateens disc Singlewide

18. The Devil Makes Three - For Good Again

Cool song off the new Devil Makes Three album Do Wrong Right

19. The Avett Brothers - Tin Man

A song off the highly anticipated I and Love and You

20. Slaid Cleaves - Cry

The lead off track from Slaid's newest Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away

21. The Bottle Rockets - Solitaire

Alt Country institution The Bottle Rockets return this year with one of their finest albums since the 90's, Lean Forward

MP3 @ 160

Truesounds - Fall '09

Flac vs. MP3 Part 2: Electric Boogaloo

Well I wanted to wait a week to post a response to the Flac vs. MP3 post. I did this for a couple of reasons, 1. to see the poll results and 2. to take in all the comments. Thanks all for commenting BTW.

Now I thought about responding with snarky name calling and insults, for instance I was called a cheat and a traitor for converting to lossy MP3s, and I could retort with calling you a cheat and traitor to the artist for not wanting their music proliferated. I could point out that the artists themselves who allow taping do not stipulate a format, and I could also point out that if mp3's are so inferior soundwise to FLAC files there should be no worries of spotting them with your superior hearing ears when they have been converted back to FLAC. But I won't do that ;-), because nothing will be gained from it except another argument on the internet.

I would like to say that I now understand the FLAC purists stance a little better. They are concerned that their pure files are not preserved for future generations. Again, a valid source of concern. I would like to point out though....to use corporate speak....that their business model is fucked. You are passing on something you care about (preservation of pure music files) onto your customer base (that would be those of us who just want to hear the music). There is bound to be a better way to go about this than posting your files on the internet, then hoping everyone follows your unwritten rules of how they should listen to those files. Seems to me, the archiving of the pure files should be a seperate act from the distribution of the music. Are you tapers not backing up your own files? Are you depending on the internet to do your job for you? I will reiterate, that's a fucked business model, and if your main concern is keeping a pure lineage of a taped show, you should not be posting it to the internet in the first place. I'm not telling you folks what to do, but I would propose 2 areas, an archival area for the purest of pure files that only the elite can access (that's you guys), and a distribution area where the files can be downloaded by those who are more interested in the music than the lineage (that's us).

One of the commentors compared preserving these live shows to preserving Kafka transcipts, but I prefer a different comparison. In the middle ages, pre-printing press the bible was only read by the elite monks, and it was only read in latin. After the invention of the printing press, the bible was translated to many languages and it was suddenly available to anyone who wished to read it. The elite monks were not happy about this, and thought that the bible should only be read in latin. However because of the translations more people than ever were reading the bible and they were reading it in the most prevelant language of their area....their preferred language if you will. I guess my point here is that elitism has it's place, we would not want the translated mass produced bibles to replace the original handwritten latin ones, but was it not also beneficial to the non-elites to have a readable translation so they didn't need to learn latin and ride their mule up to the top of Mt. Cristo just to read the bible?

Music in a similar way, should be enjoyed by any who wishes to enjoy it, not just the elites up on Mt. FLAC.

Suburban Home Launches Digital Store, Offers Free Sampler

Suburban Home and Vinyl Collective have launched their digital music store. Along with offers of getting every album they release for life in either digital or vinyl format, they are offering a free sampler featuring Drag The River, Two Cow Garage, Cory Branan, Jon Snodgrass, Tim Barry and many others.

Claim your free Suburban Homes sampler here, and check out the rest of the store while your in there.