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  • One of my worst kept secrets is my love for Diana Pequeno’s Mistérios. It’s no mystery that it hits all the points I love about music: it’s dreamy, it’s complex but easy going, it’s the product of an artist going out on a limb (in a way most wouldn’t expect). Most importantly, the reason Mistérios…

  • From Germany, via the intriguing mind of Düsseldorf-native, multi-instrumentalist Uwe Ziß, comes this unlikely marriage of AOR, balearic, post-disco, funk, R&B, Krautrock, southern boogie, and soft rock. Perfect for days, much like this one, when your loyal blogger has very little time to actually write/keep up with my own set, writing deadlines. Nothing gets closer…

  • What’s there to say about an unheralded classic? The origin story is already there for the taking: in 1972, fresh of recording their revolutionary Kazemachi Roman, pioneering Japanese band led by musical visionaries like Haruomi Hosono, Eiichi Ohtaki, and Shigeru Suzuki, travel to Los Angeles in hopes of recording an album more in tune with a huge source…

  • Isn’t this always the toughest post to create? Normally, for your first post, you try to give a call to action, or provide some kind of direction, to whatever kind of journey/experience you want to take your readers through.

  • Bert Jansch – 1974 Sometimes you need a bit o’ change to right a trajectory. By 1974, many of the great English folk-rock artists of past had been either disbanding or watering down. One steady man had always been Bert Jansch. Maybe because of it, he’d always find ways to keep his group, the Pentangle,…

  • Little Feat’s Lowell George I can’t believe I forgot to highlight Little Feat during my Southern rock review series! That theme is over but I can’t help but share with y’all one of the greatest odes to truck drivin’ or just driving in general. “Willin’” from 1971’s Little Feat album has perhaps one of the…

  • JJ Cale – 1974 Whew, how about that August? Looks like this year we needed more of a break from some of its dog days than others. Reflecting on this most summery of months, it seems that most of what we try to do, is use our economy of thought/time to maximize pockets of enjoyment…

  • New Riders of the Purple Sage This is the second part of my driving playlist, its the songs for when we have to come on home. It sucks that summer has to end, and that we’ve had to fight corporate big wigs to actually have a day we can call our own…but at least we’ve…

  • Sailcat – 1972 Looks like I’ve made it. This is what the August theme, “End of Summer Driving Songs”, was building to…an actual playlist I’ve made with all the tracks I’ve built up starting on the 1st. This two parter, starts first with songs that are great for when you want to go somewhere. It…

  • The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and Linda Ronstadt There’s something special about this three song stretch from The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s Symphonion Dream. The first song, “Ripplin’ Waters”, is quite possibly, in this author’s humble opinion, the prettiest song ever made. It’s a song I’d pitch to replace “This Land is Your Land” by…

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