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Michael Jackson – ‘rest in peas’

Trevor Cook — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:55:25 +0000

Yes peas. That’s what a hand-written sign held by a US mourner, and featured prominently on Channel Ten’s news coverage, said. Did wacko have a thing for small green vegetables?

Another great tracklist from the Dog

Trevor Cook — Sat, 09 May 2009 02:14:04 +0000

It’s amazing, week after week this guy keeps on delivering wonderful shows:

This week’s Track List:
** Australia
1. Rocky Jackson (What Kind Of Justice Could This Be) CD ‘Squeeze Here’
2. Bob Dylan (Beyond Here Lies Nothin) CD ‘Together Through Life’
3. Champion Jack Dupree (Income Tax) CD ‘Complete Blue Horizon Sessions’
4. ** Crystal Thomas N Flowers Of Evil (Tom Foolery) CD ‘Crystal Thomas N Flowers of Evil’
5. Son Volt (Ten Seconds News) CD ‘Trace’
6. Damon Sawyer (Reaching Easy) CD ‘Struttin’ South’
7. ** Liz Stringer (Over The Sea) CD ‘Pendulum’
8. Alvin Youngblood Hart (The Worm) CD ‘Motivational Speaker’
9. JJ Grey N Mofro (The Sun Is Shining Down) CD ‘Country Ghetto’
10. Seasick Steve (St. Louis Slim) CD ‘I Started Out With Nothin’ And Still Got Most Of It Left’
11. ** Matt Walker N Necessary Few (Hard To Find) CD ‘Navigational Skills’
12. Drive-By Truckers (Every Mothers Son) CD ‘Rare Tracks’
13. ** Ivan Zar (See That My Grave Is Kept Clean) CD ‘Deltatones’
14. Bonnie Raitt (Trinkets) CD ‘Souls Alike’
15. Jeff Beck (Rosebud) CD ‘You Had It Coming’
16. Kevin Welch (Full Moon Over Christiana) CD ‘Beneath My Wheels’
17. ** Kara Grainger (Sky Is Falling) CD ‘Grand and Green River’
18. Justin Townes Earle (Far Away In Another Town) CD ‘The Good Life’
19. Tab Benoit (Cross The Line) CD ‘What I Live For’
20. ** Harper (Never Changes The Way She Feels) CD ‘Glass on the Stepping Stone’
21. Little Willies (It’s Not You It’s Me) CD ‘Americana’
22. Jesse Winchester (Evil Angel) CD ‘Gentleman Of Leisure’
23. Buddy Miller (Don’t Tell Me) CD ‘Best of the Hightone Years’
24. Robben Ford N Blue Line (I’m A Real Man) CD ‘Robben Ford N Blue Line’

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R L Burnside: Rollin’ and Tumblin’

Trevor Cook — Fri, 08 May 2009 08:07:37 +0000

This is one of the great blues standards. An ideal juke joint tune. It was recorded by Canned Heat on their debut album in 1967. And by Bob Dylan on Modern Times 40 years later. It never loses it’s appeal. Here it is being played by the legendary R L Burnside. Burnside was convicted for murder and infamously said: “I didn’t mean to kill nobody … I just meant to shoot the sonofabitch in the head. Him dying was between him and the Lord.”

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Pete Seeger turns 90

Trevor Cook — Fri, 01 May 2009 21:21:32 +0000

A good reason to see Seeger and Springsteen doing “This land is your land” at Obama’s inaugral a few months ago.

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See coverage: Variety, Houston Chronicle, Inside Higher Ed and many, many more.

Ruthie Foster – People Grinning in Your Face

Trevor Cook — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:15:29 +0000

Ruthie is the real deal.

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Mundy Galway Girl – a real classic

Trevor Cook — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 06:35:14 +0000

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Yahoo: organising the web’s music content

Trevor Cook — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 02:32:12 +0000

From readwriteweb: ”Yahoo introduced a new version of its Yahoo Music artist homepagestoday, which now include links to YouTube videos, Pandora radio stations, Last.fm, and photos from Flickr. Yahoo also plans to open up its API so that others can build applications for Yahoo Music, and, at a later point, artists will be able to create their own customized pages on Yahoo Music as well. Thanks to its drag-and-drop interface, users can easily customize the new artist homepages to their own liking.

Yahoo killed its own music subscription service last year, and besides giving users more options to explore new music on its site, the company is clearly also thinking about cutting costs by promoting other services without having to worry about licensing costs itself. Indeed, as Eliot Van Buskirk points out, this brings Yahoo back to its core mission of organizing the Web’s content.”

Neil Young’s “Fork in the road”

Trevor Cook — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:35:21 +0000

Neil Young – Fork In The Road

Lyrics to “Fork in the Road”

  Got a pot belly.  It’s not too big.  Gets in my way  when I’m driving my rig.  Driving this country  in a big old rig,  things I see  mean a lot.  

My friend has a pickup.  Drives his kid to school.  Then he takes his wife to beauty school.   Now she’s doin’ nails.  Gonna get a job.  Got a good teacher.

 There’s a fork in the road ahead.  I don’t know which way I’m gonna turn.  There’s a fork in the road ahead.

Forgot this year,  to salute the troops.  They’re all still there  in a fucking war. It’s no good.  Whose idea was that?  

I’ve got hope,  but you can’t eat hope.  I’m not done.  Not giving up.  Not cashing in.  Too late.

There’s a bailout coming but it’s not for me.  It’s for all those creeps watching tickers on TV.  There’s a bailout coming but it’s not for me.

I’m a big rock star.  My sales have tanked,  but I still got you.  Thanks!  Download this.  Sounds like shit.

  Keep on bloggin’ ’til the power goes out,  and your battery’s dead.

Twist and Shout.  On the radio.  Those were the days.  Bring ‘em back.

There’s a bailout coming but it’s not for you.  It’s for all those creeps hiding what they do.  There’s a bailout coming but it’s not for you.  Bailout coming but it’s not for you.

Got my new flat-screen.  Got it repo’d now.  They picked it up.  Left a hole in the wall.  Last Saturday.  Missed the Raiders game.

There’s a bailout coming but it’s not for you.  There’s a bailout coming but it’s not for you.  It’s for all those creeps hiding what they do.

Looking forward to seeing Ruthie Foster at the Basement tomorrow night

Trevor Cook — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:19:21 +0000

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Eliza Gilkyson at the Basement in Sydney this friday

Trevor Cook — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:28:33 +0000

Eliza Gilkyson is currently on her first Australian tour. She is considered to be one of the best folk artists of our time. Folk is frequently ‘political’ and Gilkyson is no exception. She is no fan of former US President Bush:

The cowboy came from out of the west
With his snakeskin boots and his bulletproof vest
Gang of goons and his big war chest
Fortunate son he was doubly blessed
Corporate cronies and the chiefs of staff
Bowing to the image of the golden calf
Startin’ up wars in the name of God’s son
Gonna blow us all the way to kingdom come
Man of God, man of God
That ain’t the teachings of a man of God
(From “Man of God” by Eliza Gilkyson)

Here she is playing Hard times in Babylon off her latest album

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