Hello, is this thing on?

Life has been in the way and I have let the blog go. I'm going to try and get back on it. I've been doing a column for the Fenway News. The new editor is friend of mine and he was astounded how little music coverage the paper was doing given that we are surrounded by music schools. So if you are in the neighborhood, pick up a Fenway News and read more of my ramblings.

I had two recent shows that were lots of fun to put together. Two weeks ago I did a show about Cities. All songs had to have a city name in the title. The trick was that I didn't want to repeat any cities and I also had a 3 hour show that day, as I was filling for Chuck U. and his Free of Form show.I made two exceptions--I did 2 NY songs, after all it is New York, New York and the opening song was the Talking Head's Cities. The funny thing was I had such indecision on my Boston song that I kept holding it back and never got to it, as I ran out of time. Here's the playlist
for your perusal.

As always I tried to find interesting songs not the same ones that everyone puts on this types of lists. Some of my favorite discoveries were NRBQ's Paris, The Avett Brothers Pretty Girl From Annapolis and a great little Bix Beiderbecke recording, Baltimore.

I want to thank my friend Clay for making some great suggestions.



Yesterday's show was in honor of the Oscar's coming up Sunday night. I'm not much of an Oscar person, but it seemed like a good excuse for a theme. So it was all songs from movie soundtracks, songs about movies and even some movie scores. There's some really rich music involved with movies and I really love directors that can make the music a seamless part of the film.

Some of the fun discoveries here-- John Lurie's music for the film Manny and Lo, Nick Cave and Warren Ellis (from Dirty Three) haunting score to the Assassination of Jesse James and the border music of John Sayle's Lone Star.

Here's the playlist

Hopefull, I will be able to keep up on this better. See you soon.