I don’t know how Woody could ever look at him and be like “Yep, my kid, totally not Sinatra’s at all.”

It should also be pointed out how New Orleans piano blues and r&b, especially Fats, was so important in getting the ska and rocksteady scenes in Jamaica going. Those kids were picking up these faint radio signals and then started covering r&b songs and adding horn sections sometimes and realized, “Goddamn, this really…

Is anyone in the AV Club’s target demographic going to see this film? Why even bother reviewing it?

Man, that’s a great road trip lineup.

New to me this week

Stuff I listened to for the first time this week and liked. Kind of a light week for me.

We probably won’t get an obituary but Godspeed Don Williams, one of the most underrated country singers of the 70s and early 80s. Yep, it was pop schmaltz sometimes, but goddamn was he good at it.

Have you ever seen Isbell do “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking”? Unsurprisingly, it’s fucking amazing.

I’m venturing out of my comfort zone in the last week or so and listening to a lot of African influenced (or straight up African) music.

I got to see Baseball Project last year play a coffee shop in my town and had them all sign a vinyl copy of “Volume 2" for me. Tossing a beer back with Mills while we discuss meeting influential musicians was a pretty meta moment.

I saw him do “Elephant” for maybe the first or second time live ever. He was doing an acoustic tour, small, maybe a half dozen gigs, opening for Todd Snider and we were the first or second night of the tour and he was testing the “Southeastern” songs on the road for the first time. I had seen him live once before,…

Stuff I liked this week

I haven’t yet, he’s actually my favorite songwriter, so I’m planning on making it my “Fall” record.

Some people like the sounds of angry goats.

Yep, it is. Buddy and Julie Miller are on the harmonies on that one. FWIW it’s a Steve Earle tune, one of his best.

Is this thing on?