These are some of the things I’ve read in 2016, it’s been a very busy reading-year. More novels than usual, less music books and less graphic novels. A lot of classics and a few photography books.
Here are my favourites.
Continue reading “Hallgeir’s 2016 part 2: Best Music Books and other readings”
| Released: August 26 , 2016 Producer: Rob Schnapf, Cass McCombs & Dan Horne Label: Anti Records |
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| “Mangy Love makes itself distinct from its predecessors with its outright jazziness and ethereality. Wit’s End was a traipse though the densely forested hills of solitude; Big Wheel and Others was a road trip through odd, nameless American sub-societies,; and Mangy Love is Cass McCombs in outer space.” – Dustin Lowman (Drowned in Sound) |
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| This album really made me listen to the lyrics, I was fooled by the sweet melodies – but the lyrics are tough, hard, rough poems about love,sex, life and death. McCombs knows how to play with words (Switch): Turn you on, you light up the room Turn you off, it’s dark as a tomb– Hallgeir |
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| Best songs: Opposite House, Bum Bum Bum and Switch |
Continue reading “The Best Albums 2016: 20 to 11 (part 2/3)”
We’ve collected some of the best new videos out at the end of March 2016, enjoy!
We had so much fun hunting down these gems, it will be a returning series of posts.
Here are the first collections: Feb 2016 Part1, Feb 2016 Part 2
Loretta Lynn – Lay Me Down (Duet with Willie Nelson):
Hege Brynildsen – If You Have To Cry from her album, When My Man Comes To Town, released jan 29 2016. She sounds a bit like Dolly Parton, wonderful song:
We’ve collected some of the best new videos out at the start of February 2016, enjoy! We had so much fun hunting down these gems, it will hopefully be a returning series of posts.
Lucinda Williams – The Ghosts of Highway 20 (Nic Harcourt’s TRANSMISSIONS):
John Prine with Amanda Shires, Jason Isbell – Unwed Fathers (one of my favourite Prine songs!):
Amy Helm – Good News:
John Moreland – Break My Heart Sweetly (live at Colbert)
Buddy Miller with Watkins Family Hour – All My Tears (Cayamo 2016 music cruise):
– Hallgeir
