I just love the CBS Sunday Morning music critic. His choices are always right up my alley- I don’t know if it is because everything he picks is just “good,” or because I fit the focus group that will have a certain type of taste in music, or maybe both, but that Lizz Wright album sounds amazing and I will definitely pick it up. As well as the Mudcrutch.
*** Update ***
Defying conventional wisdom that it would be Brokaw in Russert’s seat, Brian Williams is filling in for the deceased host.
Tom
That Mudcrutch album is pretty good. But the best thing I’ve heard in years is the Fleet Foxes album. You’ll hear a lot of comparisons (My Morning Jacket in particular because the guys sounds a lot like their singer), and you can hear their influences (the Beach Boys Brother-era especially), but they really have created a new sound. Great album.
ambboogie
Hey John,
B. Williams is sitting in on MTP today but Tom Brokaw will take over after that.
Check the press release here: http://thepage.time.com/nbc-release-on-brokaw-and-meet-the-press/
montysano
My recent top five:
– John Mayer Trio Live: Try. Yeah…… I know, but this is a different Mayer, and he really shines in a bluesy power trio setting;
– Iron and Wine: Shepherd’s Dog;
– Andrew Bird: Armchair Apocrypha;
– The Raconteurs: Broken Boy Soldiers (can’t wait to hear their new one);
– Nick Drake: Fruit Tree. This is a box set of his three original albums. Amazing stuff.
I can’t tell you how happy it makes this 50-something guy that all of the above were bought on shiny, brand-new vinyl!
Rosali
Just picked up the CD “19” by Adele, the latest Britsh import. I love her raspy soulful voice. Think Amy Winehouse without the drugs and drama.
Punchy
See if you can find Split Lip Rayfield’s “Should have seen it coming”. You’ll find yerself dancing around in your car.
Krista
Happy Birthday, John. :)
BongCrosby
Mudcrutch has been one of my go-to albums for my hour-plus commute in the mornings. It’s a damn fine album and
is rapidly becoming my favorite “Tom Petty” album.
I’d also recommend James McMurtry’s new CD, “Just Us Kids.” “Cheney’s Toy,” about a certain U.S. President, is a six-minute kick in the nuts. Definitely not an album to listen to if you prefer being happy after listening to music.
You could also do worse than give the “Walk Hard” soundtrack a spin or two. Don’t remember where I read it, but some random music critic described it as both ridiculous and sublime, and it’s absolutely a spot-on description.
Dork
Good music? Check out Kings of Leon.
Say what?
mcmillan
Tom:
Funny to see Fleet Foxes mentioned, it’s been interesting to see them come up here in Seattle. I first saw them in a little bar after hearing some stuff in the news and thought it was pretty likely for them to get popular quickly. Still I was a little surprised when they ended up selling out a venue a couple days before the last show. First one I’ve missed in town since I first saw them.
pinola
Sunday Morning Music Critic? Jeebz, you *are* an elitist DFH!
4jkb4ia
I missed the brouhaha over here. Even considering that our esteemed host will not take seriously anything I say, I would like to assure him that the equally esteemed Ms. Wheeler very, very rarely gets that angry. As I wrote over there, EW and a few libertarians are the only people I know who did not automatically think that immunity was enough to sink this bill and wrote about the other issues. Even I did not mention them when making emergency phone calls. Obama could reasonably think that if he mentioned only immunity, he could placate many of us DFHs. It pains me that the two of them disagree, but it is not being “part of the crowd” to have read the bill, to see the flaws in it, and to ask for stand-up qualities from anyone in Congress, even if this is the best bill that could be gotten with the current membership. I also agree with John that Obama may be smart to let someone like Feingold or Leahy lead the charge.
Absolutely, What Hilzoy Said.
I have been hearing good things about Lizz Wright for many years.
Tom
mcmillan:
yeah, I think they’ll be pretty big soon. “big” of course being a relative term. they’re playing a free show in millennium park here in chicago next month. i was hoping it would be an “under the radar” show, but am starting to give up hope on that prospect.
demimondian
Oh, look! Another wheel is coming off the Maverigged Bid Express. “Naive good government” my arse, McCain
JenJen
Oh wow, Fleet Foxes! Their stuff is achingly beautiful.
So thrilled to pop on here to read about our Awesome Liberal Media getting the vapors over Obama’s decision to abandon public campaign financing, only to have it reinforced that John Cole’s commenters are the best on the interwebs, for reasons having nothing to do with politics.
Fleet Foxes!!!
montysano
Thanks for the tip on Fleet Foxes. I checked it out, and think I shall need to own it. “Blue Ridge Mountains” reminds me of David Crosby’s first solo album, which is high praise indeed.
Available as 2 LPs for $14.00; whatta deal!
Amen to that.
Tom in Texas
Yeah Broken Boy Soldiers is still probably my favorite song of theirs (although Hands is really good to). The new album is teeth jarringly, eardrum rattlingly, head smackingly good. Slide guitar and horns everywhere, old school ROCK at its best. Great stuff that I can’t stop listening to.
4jkb4ia
Papelbon blows a save.
Just Some Fuckhead
I still think Chuck Todd is gonna get the job. They prolly got him in training right now, teaching him the ins and outs of the cocktail circuit, how to inform a White House official when yer taking a conversation “on the record” and boring filler stuff to do in the office while yer waiting for the phone to ring.
flyerhawk
So the concern trolls over at TL are experiencing the vapors over Chris Bowers’ decision to Google bomb John McCain.
Their ability to blame Obama for everything and relentlessly defend McCain all while claiming to be Democrats is breath taking.
Kathy
I-tunes is a wonderful thing. I went there and looked up Hayes Carll after that Sunday Morning spot. The song “my girlfriend dumped me for Jesus” is one of the funniest things I ever heard.