This started out as a regular podcast, albeit one with a theme. The theme was knives and cutting, and after putting it together I thought it would work better as a Wednesday podcast. I'm not sure why, but I've done it anyway. So I have put together sets with knives, then sets with cuts. I think it works out pretty well.
So, let's listen to Peter Murphy, Echo & the Bunnymen, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, P.P. Arnold, Alison Moyet, Dire Straits, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, the Who, the Smithereens, Koko Taylor, Rockpile, Robyn Hitchcock, Albert King, and Neko Case.
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The chill winds of November have changed the weather in the area from unseasonably warm to very cool, if not downright cold. Hats and gloves have been pulled out as we get accustomed to the new season - Fall has arrived.
What does Fall mean to you? My birthday is on October 22 - I swam in the ocean at Rye, New Hampshire on one birthday, and watched the snow fall on at least one other birthday. November has always been cold as I recall - with generally crappy Thanksgivings in my memory (looks like rain is forecast right now for this year). November and its holidays make way for December, which can be snowy or rather snow-free. I have some travel in December, so I am hoping for little to no snow that month. Let's hope that if we do get snow, it's more of a January and February phenomenon.
Lets's stay toasty this November with some warm songs on today's podcast, which includes The Rolling Stones, Roy Orbison, Martha & the Vandellas, the Animals, Terry Stafford, Jeff Simmons, They Might Be Giants, the Pretenders, Urge Overkill, Patti Smith, John Lennon, James Brown, Tower of Power, the Silos, and the Mavericks.
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How was your Thanksgiving? I had a good Thanksgiving, thank you. Had a 35-pound turkey that we dug into. Afterwad my wife and I took our son back to Boston so he could work on Friday (restaurant industry only had a brief respite). The Thanksgiving crowd came down to have brunch at my son's restaurant on Friday, and we went to the Mt. Auburn Cemetery for a walk (it's a beautiful, Central-Park like area of 175 acres in Cambridge and Watertown, MA). Later we walked to Harvard Square for some hat shopping.
I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving - a respite in an increasingly maddening world. It was a wonderful break for all of us to re-connect with family.
Today's podcast tries for a similar respite in your week. Listen to the Tubes, Joe Jackson, the Smithereens, Guadalcanal Diary, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Erasure, the Bohicas, Little Richard, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Tones, Shuggie Otis, Bob & Earl, Hot Chocolate, Joe Cocker, and Santana.
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Hey, time to drop another jazz podcast. These are mostly upbeat, happy tunes to get you moving. We all need a little motivation on some days, and maybe this will be good to get you motivated to do whatever needs to be done.
So join me in listening to the Christian McBride Big Band, Johnny O'Neal, Eddie Gale, Curtis Fuller, Benny Carter, J.J. Johnson & Kai Winding, the LOunge Lizards, Cannonball Adderley, Al Cohn, and Zoot Sims.
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We've moved into the time where I drive into work in the dark and come home in the dark. The seasons don't seem to change quickly: it is a gradual change that comes up slowly, but then once enveloped, one feels that it has always been that way. "Remember when it was 60 degrees," stops being a sentence, and "Oh, it's going to be cold again" becomes that statement most uttered. It has always been winter.
I kid myself that it is late summer in my body when it has become autumn. Oh, there are still warm days when I feel like it's still summer, but it's an Indian Summer. Like hibernating animals, I have become much bigger in preparation for winter, but there is no true hibernation, so I do not lose the weight. I have a bad upper back, but it has been surprisingly good lately. By this time I was supposed to have had surgery on my back, but it has held up and hasn't been giving me much problem. My knee, though: "classic" osteoporosis - this will be replaced soon. I had a cortisone shot that made it better for awhile, but it's time for another shot - oh, aging.
Let's not think about aging today - let's listen to music. There's some new music sprinkled in with the music of our youth today, with World Party, Joni Mitchell, Steely Dan, Grin, Leon Russell, Jonathan Richman, Alison Krauss, Aretha Franklin, Chairmen of the Board, Beirut, Samantha Fish, Spinning Coin, the Grateful Dead, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, and Laura Nyro.
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017 was a surprisingly strong year for music. I didn't find any transcendent albums, but there was a lot of good music. So much so, in fact, that my end of the year podcasts will be expanded to at least 3 different podcasts - we'll start with this one.
Many of these songs came form the bigger artists of the year: Beck, St. Vincent, LCD Soundsystem, etc. There are some artists that haven't been played on the podcast yet - their time will come, but they're later additions that have come my way.
Let's celebrate a good year (for music, anyway), starting with Beck, St. Vincent, the War on Drugs, Sharon Jones, Thundercat, Yasmine Hamdan, Zara McFarlane, Joe Goddard, LCD Soundsystem, Frankie Rose, Michael Head, and Alien Stadium.
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Had our first snow yesterday. I know that I should curse the gods and think about my back, but I love the first snows of the year (as long as they're of a reasonable amount - looks like about 3 or so inches- if it were a major snow storm...). The snow does look beautiful - makes me glad that I live in a place that has real seasons. I think I used to feel like I'd want to be in southern California, where people are battling wild fires right now, but no. give me some snow in December.
Time to find my boots and winter jacket. As I do, I'll be listening to the podcast, which today has Christine & the Queens, Cults, the Clientele, the Rings, ZZ Top, Ohio Players, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Eurythmics, Traffic, the Band, Sharon Jones, the South Side Movement, Jr. Walker & the All-Stars, Stevie Wonder, and Don Gardner.
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Hello from the frozen tundra. We really did have freezing rain after a couple of inches of snow - actually, once you get past the crust (easily broken up by walking around a bit), it's easy to shovel away. No snowblower for me today (and hey, I always forget how much easier the snowblower starts and works after I change the oil - not sure I do it enough - tip for the rest of you). It's cold and windy around here - good, I have to spend some time outside these next couple of days - brr.
As promised, this is part 2 of the 2017 year in review for music. Lots of good stuff here, including some blues in the second set. Lots of good music this year - let's take some time and listen to Coco Hames, Dan Auerbach, Robyn Hitchcock, Real Estate, the Cash Box Kings, Samantha Fish, Otis Taylor, Wire, the New Pornographers, the Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Future Islands, Guided By Voices, Peter Perrett, Beach Fossils, and Hurray for the Riff Raff.
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Ho-ho-ho. Old Santa Claus here with an early gift for y'all. I decided to put together a Christmas song podcast for all my friends, and I did it with mostly a traditional song theme - no weird tunes on this year's edition of the pod. So when you trim your tree (what, you didn't do it immediately after Thanksgiving, did you?), or serve some holiday egg nog, put this on and enjoy the season.
Many of your favorite stars helped out, including Barbara Streisand, Johnny Mathis, Elvis Presley, Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby, Bob Dylan, Greg Lake, Lou Rawls, Al Green, Hank Ballard & the Midnighters, the Jackson Five, the Ronettes, Bob-B-Soxx and the Blue Jeans, Mabel Scott, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Tony Bennett, Patty Page, and Louis Armstrong. So enjoy the podcast. I'll be listening as I clean up my list of who's been naughty and who's been nice, and who'll be getting coal this Christmas (and not that clean coal, either!).
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Well, Christmas is a week away. Is everyone ready? I am, but that's because we don't buy a lot of presents, or do much to celebrate. I have to help with a breakfast this coming Friday, so I'll prepare my menu and buy what I need today (and Thursday). We're heading up to Vermont for a family Christmas at my wife's brother's house - that should be fun, but we need to be armed with our appetites only (although I'll be ready and happy to help if needed).
We haven't decorated the house in a bunch of years (we have traveled on many Christsmases), but yesterday my wife whispered to me that after she retires she wants to decorate the house for the holidays in a traditional, old fashioned way. That's fine - go for it. She wants to host people at different get-togethers (with me cooking everything - that's fine with me). Retirement isn't that far off anymore (for my wife, anyway).
When we host, we'll have music. Music can help lighten the mood. I have tons of Christmas music (some of which I shared on Friday), but any type of music is good. Today's podcast looks back on music's past, starting with the year 1966 and going from there. So listen to the Animals, Bob Dylan, the Blues Project, ? and the Mysterians, the Sleepover Disaster, Rod Stewart, Jethro Tull, the Black Hollies, Crazy Horse, Steve Earle, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix, and the Doors.
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It's still 2017 for 11 more days. This year has flown by - and who thought that would happen? To wrap up the year, I've got yet another set of music released in 2017. We start out Afro-heavy, as we spend some time in Africa(without Toto) for half the show before returning to these shores for music (fine - Great Britain, too). Hope you're enjoying the year-end round-ups - there's still a lot I haven't gotten to yet - maybe more is on the way.
Today we're playing Tinariwen, Oumou Sangarre, Vieux Farka Toure, Orchestra Baobab, Antibalas, Aimee Mann, Kevin Morby, Slowdive, All We Arem Protoartyr, Father John Misty, and Spinning Coin. Enjoy this year-end review pod.
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Merry Christmas, everyone! In lieu of cards let this post serve as my Christmas wish to all of my friends. The Northeast has had snow, freezing rain (checks weather report) - more snow to come, then a deep freeze for New Year's Day - it's winter! Hope everyone has a safe and happy Christmas, no matter how you celebrate (or don't celebrate - have fun on that day). We'll be in Vermont with Kate's family. We like to do destination Christmases - Vermont's no Costa Rica, but it'll be a nice, more traditional celebration.
Got some great tunes for this week's show, including a gospel set to get people ready for the spiritual aspects of Christmas. Listen to Nilsson, Chris Isaak, Jackie Wilson, Billy Stewart, Tyrone Davis, the Silos, the Archie Bronson Outfit, Tears for Fears, the Como Mamas, the Staple Singers, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Fantastic Family Aires, P.P. Arnold, Rod Stewart, and Michael Head.
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Happy 2018! We've made it (almost). 2017 was...something. 2018 should be better - let's all resolve to make 2018 a better year. I think that's it for me - 2018 will be better than 2017. Can we agree on this, at least? I have other individual goals for next year, but it all boils down to making 2018 better, for me and for everyone else.
Let's reflect on 2017 and move forward to 2018 with Spirit, Doug Sahm, the Who, Ray Charles, Wilson Pickett, the Impressions, Jerry Butler, Eddie Kendricks, John Prine, Wilco, Richard Thompson, Matthew Sweet, Elvis Costello, and the Rolling Stones.
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I still have 2017 music that I haven't put out on a podcast. This time: Jazz. It was a good year for jazz, and some of my favorite tunes appear on the pod today. I listen to many kinds of music, and this is music that makes me happy.
So let's reflect on 2017 and listen to Jack DeJohnette with Larry Grenadier, John Modeski, and John Scofield, the Portico Quartet, Christian McBride, Johnny O'Neal, Harold Mabern, Heads of State, the Anat Cohen Tentet, Kamasi Washington, Steve Davis, Peter Erskine and the Dr. Um Band, and Mary Halvorson.
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It's the start of a new year, and what a year it's been already. Temperatures around here have been extremely cold (someone wondered, as they were looking at temperatures, if we had switched to the Celsius scale, with highs on a couple of days remaining negative). My eyeballs almost froze yesterday as I went to get the mail - need to remember to wear glasses when I go outside. We also survived a bomb cyclone - seemed like a decent snow storm to me, but I'm old and remember years getting nailed with tons of snow. There was a bit of hyperbole in the naming the storm a bomb cyclone.
Speaking of hyperbole, I think that I'd describe myself as stable, but not a stable genius. There's one more thing that I can stop worrying about, though, having a stable genius in charge of the country. I'll sleep much easier now.
We've got more music for you in 2018 - that hasn't changed. There were some 2017 leftovers to start us off for the first podcast of 2018, with some Brazilian music tossed in and a tribute to Pat Dinizio, one of my favorite singers and composers from the Smithereens, who died last month. So during an hour , please listen to Blancmange, Gingerlys, Waxahatchee, BNQT, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Tame Impala, Primal Scream, Mosquitos, David Byrne, Bebel Gilberto, Ceu, Stephen "Tin Tin" Duffy, New Order, and the Smithereens.
This podcast is available to stream or download at brennick.net. It's now also available on iTunes - it's called brennick.net (couldn't figure out how to change the name - there you go). Thank you for taking the time to stream or download this podcast, or any of the other podcasts which are all still available at the site. Please leave comments and suggestions (I do read the comments), and share this with other like-minded friends. Thank you.
As part of my New Year's resolutions, I was going to concentrate on writing more and doing more essays here. That's yet to start, as I find it hard to come up with things to say on a weekly basis: how's the weather; what am I doing today? It doesn't help that my already bad typing skills have deteriorated, and it's a struggle to type more than ten words without having a simple spelling mistake (doing, have, and than so far). It's not even that I'm typing fast - even when I slow down I hit the wrong keys (well, the wrong order, mostly). The vagaries of growing old.
So I'll be typing more and hoping that spellcheck catches up with my mistakes. Maybe I should take a keyboarding course to increase my declining skills (would it work? could I relearn some of this stuff?). We'll see.
Today's podcast travels from the Athens scene, to early rock 'n' roll to power pop and then ends with the blues. Tune into today's pod for Dreams So Real, Turning Curious, R.E.M., the Bangles. Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley, Matthew Sweet, Bob Mould, the dB's, Redd Kross, Mavis Staples, Marcia Ball, and Shemekia Copeland.
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It's increasingly hard to stay apolitical in light of all that's going on. The US government shutdown affects some of my friends directly (unpaid leave), and may affect all of us in very direct ways. C'mon, let's get this government back in operation.
Among the many people hurt in our new anti-immigration movement are El Salvadorans, about 200,000 of which were given "temporary status" in 2001 after an earthquake, but also due to the horrible government that the United States is partially responsible for. As you may recall, we backed the far right government over the rebels (labeled Communist by the U.S.; they weren't), so the country isn't exactly a democratic utopia. The temporary status has been in existence for 16 years - with hopes that they may have been given a chance in an immigration bill to achieve permanent status (they are many business owners, and many have started families here - they've established roots here). but no, the President says go back to your s*hole country.
I also believe that Dreamers should get permanent status, that the Children's Health Insurance Plan (CHIP) should be passed, and if we throw away some money for a wall (like the deal that was hammered out earlier), then the cost is worth it.
Today's podcast starts out political as well, then devolves into just great songs. "Don't want to sail with this ship of fools" indeed. Listen to Neil Young, Marvin Gaye, Ten Years After, World Party, Galley Beggar, Waxahatchee, Lucinda Williams, Thundercat, Steely Dan, Spanic Boys, Marshall Crenshaw, Ian Dury & the Blockheads, the Band, and David Johannsen.
This podcast is, as always, available to stream or download at brennick.net. There should be more content there, and I will try to put more things up this year. The podcast is also available to download as a podcast at your favorite podcast streamer - iTunes, Stitcher, etc. The podcast is called brennick.net. Check that out sometime. I welcome suggestions and comments, too - leave them as you will. Thanks for everything you do to encourage me.
I have another jazz podcast. Really reflects a lot of what I've been listening to a lot lately. After years of listening mostly to older jazz and classic jazz artists, I've really begun to switch and listen to newer jazz artists. Most of the cuts today reflect that, although the last set features two oldies but goodies. I have other Wednesday podcasts scheduled that don't feature jazz coming soon, so this won't end up being all jazz, all the time (probably).
Today's podcast features Kenny Garrett, Billy Childs, Joel Frahm, Nicole Johanntgen, Stanley Turrentine, Ron Miles & Bill Frissell, the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, Binker & Moses, Yazz Ahmed, Chet Baker, and Willis Jackson.
This podcast is, as always, available to stream or download at brennick.net. There should be more content there, and I will try to put more things up this year. The podcast is also available to download as a podcast at your favorite podcast streamer - iTunes, Stitcher, etc. The podcast is called brennick.net. Check that out sometime. I welcome suggestions and comments, too - leave them as you will. Thanks for everything you do to encourage me.
The passage of time is flicking dimly upon the screen;
I can't see the lines I used to think I could read between.
Perhaps my brains have turned to sand.
That's from "Golden Hours" by Brian Eno. It's one of my favorite lyrics, as it captures my mood perfectly. As we age, I think that instead of gaining wisdom, we start to lose some of those lessons that we thought we learned when we were young. It's all part of simplifying - maybe life isn't as complicated as we imagined it was. Let's stay simple as we grow old (who knows, maybe I'll completely change my mindnes, the Dandy Warhols, and the Brian Jonestown Massacre.
This podcast is, as always, available to stream or download at brennick.net. There should be more content there, and I will try to put more things up this year. The podcast is also available to download as a podcast at your favorite podcast streamer next week and go on about the complexities of life. For now it's simple).
Today's podcast is a simple affair, putting together a bunch of great music for you to hear. So tune into to Donovan, Galley Beggar, Steeleye Span, Husker Du, Swans, Massive Attack, Sly & the Family Stone, Parliament, War, the Vaseli- iTunes, Stitcher, etc. The podcast is called brennick.net. Check that out sometime. I welcome suggestions and comments, too - leave them as you will. Thanks for everything you do to encourage me.
The passage of time is flicking dimly upon the screen;
I can't see the lines I used to think I could read between.
Perhaps my brains have turned to sand.
That's from "Golden Hours" by Brian Eno. It's one of my favorite lyrics, as it captures my mood perfectly. As we age, I think that instead of gaining wisdom, we start to lose some of those lessons that we thought we learned when we were young. It's all part of simplifying - maybe life isn't as complicated as we imagined it was. Let's stay simple as we grow old (who knows, maybe I'll completely change my mindnes, the Dandy Warhols, and the Brian Jonestown Massacre.
This podcast is, as always, available to stream or download at brennick.net. There should be more content there, and I will try to put more things up this year. The podcast is also available to download as a podcast at your favorite podcast streamer next week and go on about the complexities of life. For now it's simple).
Today's podcast is a simple affair, putting together a bunch of great music for you to hear. So tune into to Donovan, Galley Beggar, Steeleye Span, Husker Du, Swans, Massive Attack, Sly & the Family Stone, Parliament, War, the Vaseli- iTunes, Stitcher, etc. The podcast is called brennick.net. Check that out sometime. I welcome suggestions and comments, too - leave them as you will. Thanks for everything you do to encourage me.
I'm a coffee drinker. I drink a lot of coffee in the morning, but not as much as I used to. I was the guy in the office making pot after pot of coffee, and drinking it if no one else was drinking it. That was in the past. Now I have a cup after I get up in the morning, some coffee when I drive to work, then one cup in the office. That's usually it. Not sure if the coffee actually helps wake me up (I usually walk on the morning, and don't drink coffee until after my walk), but it actually relaxing for me. I can drink coffee late in the evening and it doesn't bother my sleep (nothing does - I'm a very solid sleeper).
In the morning the coffee usually helps me get my day organized - I think about what I need to accomplish for the day and the coffee helps stimulate that area of the brain. If they find out that coffee is bad for humans (and I believe it), I think that I could give up coffee without any withdrawal. And you?
Today's podcast is all about parties. It's Super Bowl Sunday, so parties are on the mind. Of course, a lot of these songs might not be happy party songs (it's me - how could I have a bunch of happy party songs?). Let's get into the mood with Lesley Gore, Elvis Presley, Wanda Jackson, Dicky Doo & the Don'ts, Charlie Feathers, Allen Toussaint, Esther Phillips, the B-52's, the Go-Go's, Elvis Costello, Happy Mondays, Blur, the Subways, Gang of Four, Buddy Knox, Charlie Rich, Ronnie Dawson, the Wondermints, and Bryan Ferry.
This podcast is, as always, available to stream or download at brennick.net. There should be more content there, and I will try to put more things up this year. The podcast is also available to download as a podcast at your favorite podcast streamer - iTunes, Stitcher, etc. The podcast is called brennick.net. Check that out sometime. I welcome suggestions and comments, too - leave them as you will. Thanks for everything you do to encourage me.
"The blues ain't nothin' but..." You can fill in the blank here. Like most people, I started appreciating the blues through the English guitarists of the 1960's, like Eric Clapton. For me it was a quick step to the electric blues of Chicago as characterized by Muddy Waters. Then I got even deeper into the blues, exploring the old-time blues stylings of the late 1920's - early 1930's. Great stuff, much of which was covered by The Rolling Stones, etc. When I heard the original "Outside Woman Blues" I was stunned to hear that the guitar was exactly the same as Eric Clapton's version on Cream's Disraeli Gears album. And that song was from 1928 (or abouts). Great stuff.
Today I have put together a blues playlist of mostly the electric blues of the Chicago (well, Memphis and environs) era. Lots of great stuff - songs that you may know from the rock versions done by your favorite wanna be blues musicians from England. Listen to Elmore James, Howlin' Wolf, Lightnin' Hopkins, B.B. King, Johnny "Guitar" Watson, Lowell Fulson, Roosevelt Booba Barnes, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Otis Rush, Freddie King, Son Seals, Lonnie Brooks, Albert King, Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson, and Guitar Slim.
This podcast is, as always, available to stream or download at brennick.net. There should be more content there, and I will try to put more things up this year. The podcast is also available to download as a podcast at your favorite podcast streamer - iTunes, Stitcher, etc. The podcast is called brennick.net. Check that out sometime. I welcome suggestions and comments, too - leave them as you will. Thanks for everything you do to encourage me.
Rain again. It's been another odd winter. We haven't had a lot of snow, but have had a couple of big storms. Generally they have been followed by days of rain, like this weekend. We had one big cold spell that lasted for days, but overall the temperatures have been ok, and the 10-day forecast shows a generally warm temperatures (above freezing). Early spring? I'm not counting on it. We may have a bad March. We keep thinking that when we retire we may join the snowbirds and go South to live. It becomes more intriguing with every weird winter that we have.
It's a grab bag podcast today, with many great songs by artists like Kevin Morby, the Sundays, David Bowie, Madness, the Specials, the Selector, the English Beat, Ambrosia, the Moody Blues, 10cc, John Cale, the Byrds, and Gene Clark.
This podcast is, as always, available to stream or download at brennick.net. There should be more content there, and I will try to put more things up this year. The podcast is also available to download as a podcast at your favorite podcast streamer - iTunes, Stitcher, etc. The podcast is called brennick.net. Check that out sometime. I welcome suggestions and comments, too - leave them as you will. Thanks for everything you do to encourage me.
Hmm, I did not know that "President's Day" is actually still Washington's Birthday (February 22 is his actual birthday). I thought they combined his with Lincoln's birthday (February 12) - apparently not. The Federal holiday is still called Washington's birthday, although most states have proclaimed it as President's Day. They do not share birth months with any of the last 3 presidents, so there will be no sharing there. Clinton's birthday is in January - too early to be counted.
Does everyone have the day off? It's a federal holiday, but there seems to be a lot of businesses that are working. Have a good President's Day either way.
On today's podcast we celebrate President's Day with a bunch of foreigners - Scotsmen, Aussies, Kiwis, and oh, there are some Americans. So listen up and take an hour to hear Colin Blunstone, Neil Finn, Grinderman, the Jesus & Mary Chain, the Pixies, Throwing Muses, Belle & Sebastian, Dusty Springfield, the Style Council, Fine Young Cannibals, Little Feat, the James Montgomery Blues Band, and Robin Tower.
This podcast is, as always, available to stream or download at brennick.net. There should be more content there, and I will try to put more things up this year. The podcast is also available to download as a podcast at your favorite podcast streamer - iTunes, Stitcher, etc. The podcast is called brennick.net. Check that out sometime. I welcome suggestions and comments, too - leave them as you will. Thanks for everything you do to encourage me.
Well, I don't know if you remember the joke about liking both kinds of music, country and western, but my lazy google search took me to 1980's The Blues Brothers. Thought it would be older than that. Anyway... I've put together a podcast of country music for y'all. This isn't new country, but good old fashioned country music from the past. We start with some Western Swing, that hybrid of big band music and country. I always enjoyed that music. From there we head into the 1950's through the 1970's (oh, a couple of retro songs from the 90's make it, too), as the classic period of Nashville country music is sampled.
So take a listen to all your favorite music - country and western, with the Sons of the Pioneers. Mike Nesmith, Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, Asleep at the Wheel, the Fort Worth Doughboys, Lefty Frizzell, Johnny Horton, Dwight Yoakam, kd Lang, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Guy Clark, Jerry Reed, Jerry Lee Lewis, George Jones, Glen Campbell, David Houston, and Loretta Lynn.
This podcast is, as always, available to stream or download at brennick.net. There should be more content there, and I will try to put more things up this year. The podcast is also available to download as a podcast at your favorite podcast streamer - iTunes, Stitcher, etc. The podcast is called brennick.net. Check that out sometime. I welcome suggestions and comments, too - leave them as you will. Thanks for everything you do to encourage me.
Lots of bad things going on in the world. It has ever been thus, but seems to have moved to the forefront here in the United States due to governmental incompetence. Systems are beginning to fail and we have no plan to deal with that. Let's engage in petty squabbling and screw people over(like the dreamers) because we can't address the issues.
Let's take a little break from this, though. One of my goals in putting together my podcasts is to find a way to relieve the stress in this world - take an hour out of your busy day worrying about what's happening out there and focus inward. It's helpful to me, anyway.
So, relieve the stress today with Ron Wood, Neil Young, Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen, Otis Redding, Alvvays, Atomic Rooster, Johnny Kidd & the Pirates, Del Shannon, Samantha Fish, Anna Burch, Haley Bonar, All We Are, P.J. Harvey, and Shakespear's Sister.
This podcast is, as always, available to stream or download at brennick.net. There should be more content there, and I will try to put more things up this year. The podcast is also available to download as a podcast at your favorite podcast streamer - iTunes, Stitcher, etc. The podcast is called brennick.net. Check that out sometime. I welcome suggestions and comments, too - leave them as you will. Thanks for everything you do to encourage me.
The snow has melted in my yard - only a couple of dirty snow remnants remain. Looks like we may get early spring, although there'e a hint of snow mid-week that could cover my yard for a couple of days. It's too early for spring, so we probably won't see many buds or the lawn return to green (from mud) until... the next real snow storm. It's always, "Look! There are some buds!" followed by "Look! 6 inches of snow killing all the buds." Oh, spring in New England - how joyous.
To celebrate the early good weather I've put together a spring-worthy podcast, with Martin Newell, Franz Ferdinand, the Rolling Stones, Anna Burch, the Liminanas, the James Hunter Six, Nino Ferrer, Soul Coughing, Big Star, the Beatles, Tim Buckley, Fred Neil, and Nick Drake.
This podcast is, as always, available to stream or download at brennick.net. There should be more content there, and I will try to put more things up this year. The podcast is also available to download as a podcast at your favorite podcast streamer - iTunes, Stitcher, etc. The podcast is called brennick.net. Check that out sometime. I welcome suggestions and comments, too - leave them as you will. Thanks for everything you do to encourage me.
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