miamizsun wrote: Watch the cover.
Those Cholla are brutal.

 Steely_D wrote:
all apologies for the late review and please pass the grey poupon

numbers reminded me of elp/emerson
five o'clock sort of a ghostly opera/musical
nuclear apathy simply great progressive rock and probably my fav on this effort
rachel's song hits notes of dylan ballad, great tune
joytown to me is oddly therapeutic/confessional (don't ask why...)
your move is cool and a fantastic song, sung this tune more times than i can count
4 out of 5 like off balance and oddness got together on a poetry slam
the apocalypse song is haunting and beautiful, another fav
holyland/todd is always welcome, a catchy pop b-52-ish quality
burial scene is
my love is alive by joan is very listenable, because spooky t/gary fan and i love joan

really nice mix with pleasant surprises!
also i admire the efficiency of the digital delivery

 KurtfromLaQuinta wrote:

prickly playlist in house!

 KurtfromLaQuinta wrote:
Mine blew in like a tumbleweed!

 ColdMiser wrote:
You are the special one.
That, and for some reason, USPS won't deliver "Media Mail" to you.

 KurtfromLaQuinta wrote:
my copy made the 2,667 mile journey unscathed. Thanks for spending the extra few sheckles on me!

 ColdMiser wrote:
I did it yesterday.
Trying to get them out before the months over.

 KurtfromLaQuinta wrote:

i'm behind, i haven't posted on sd's effort
much less lazy's
however i would send them when you want
business has been nutty
and i'm due some med procedures in the first couple of weeks of april
so fire at will amigo

 KurtfromLaQuinta wrote:
DO IT!

Who hasn't reviewed Lazy's music yet?
Come on! I'm anxious to get mine out. 

I might just mail them the beginning of next week.
It'll take time for the guvment mail service to deliver anyways.

 Lazy8 wrote:
Thanks for teaching me on the "Bluegrass" issue. I kinda lumped those songs in a genre because of the instrumentation I guess.
Call it Soft Bluegrass? 

And the same with the no didgeridoo...  I had no clue.

Sat down to do some web work last night and had the latest submission on. Man, that was fun. 

Lots of stuff that stood out as interesting and pleasant and wanting more attention. A couple in there that elicited a WTF, like the Missy Elliot. 
Liked that Cosy Sheridan as well as the BASSNECTAR; some of it might be the production, but still enjoyed.
Not a fan of the DJ Vadim or Kate Tempest, but didn't mind listening.
Loved hearing the RL Jones. I remember that tune from way back. 
Really liked the Shabazz Palaces and the Schlagel. The latter reminded me of McMurtry, of course.
And finishing off with the Cosy Sheridan was nice - so nice that now I'm thinking "wait - TWO Cosy songs that I like. Must figure her out now."

Many thanks!

 KurtfromLaQuinta wrote:
My work here is done. 

Oh wait, we're only at track 2!

Almost. I had literally just dropped that stack of discs in the mail when I heard this song in concert and thought "That would have been perfect!"

And this sounds a lot...older, calmer, less flashy than bluegrass. Yeah, it's got banjo and mandolin and guitar, but they're there to support the singer rather than impress you with how fast they can pick.

Do I sound disappointed with most bluegrass these days? Guess so.


There were other cuts on this disc I liked better but they were a lot longer, and I figured I'd be trying the audience's patience with this genre as it was. Glad this worked for somebody!


This band deserves to be famous. I hope they find an audience that appreciates them.

With the—ahem—crowd so small at their show we got to have a very interesting Q&A session at the break. One question they asked us was "What genre would you say our music fits into?" and none of us could think of a handy bin to put them in. Does it matter? I didn't think so, but in the words of their cellist "Spotify begs to differ." A dilemma Bob Dylan didn't have to face.


The musicianship is next-level, but its purpose is to match the phrasing and tempo of contra dancing. You can hear the fiddler (Noah VanNorstrand, he's also doing foot percussion and a bunch of other stringed instruments too) in a couple of other touring dance bands.

These guys are local (and one of the duo is a friend of mine) so I get to hear them pretty regular. Never on my front porch, but a guy can dream. Heard this in a hundred year old theater accompanied by the sisters of one of them on cello and violin in front of a home-town crowd. Pretty magical.

From a Christmas album, this is a traditional Catalonian carol, translated by the musicians.

There's a Jew's harp, two-string horsehair fiddle, and a shamisen-like instrument. What you might be hearing as didgeridoo is actually throat singing. These guys brought the house down live.

His lyrics have a sorry-for-himself quality that I found hard to take at album's length but it worked fine one tune at a time.

 ColdMiser wrote:
They're singing in Georgian. Got this disc after seeing their CD release concert online. Ordered it from an Israeli company and it shipped from Italy. They've been on a few of my past mixes.


Saw them live on a tour leading up to their latest album release. All of 4 people in the audience—we just barely outnumbered the band (guitar, cello, & drums). Debated which song to include because this one fit better but it doesn't really capture their sound as well as some others. And I take issue with the "bury the vocals in the mix" approach to recording, but if you turn it up loud and have good equipment the lyrics are quite nice.


I wish! Been trying to hire this band for a dance weekend that kept getting postponed from Covid, then the piano half of the band stopped touring for health reasons. I've heard the other half before, and he's simply amazing.

They're from Mongolia. Saw them live but didn't get this CD; a friend was shedding her music collection and I snapped it up.


What? What?


Me too. Another garage sale find. Pretty rare there's a Neil Young record I don't have, but I missed this one.


Crushes me like a bug every time I hear it.

If you're tuned into KGLT on April 29th I can see what the options are! Last time it was strictly come & get it, but how about a nice tote bag?

 Lazy8 wrote:
Nice to hear you dedicate your time  to your local institute of higher learning.  I dabble occasionally in the some of our local offerings when I can tune them in on the car stereo. Sometimes I'm surprised by what I hear. Your mix was very diverse and that is what one can expect from a college experience (except in Florida anyway ;-). You always challenge us MCC members, but then again the title has "culture" in it. So many cultures, so little time (hehe, see what I did there?). Anyway thoughts along the way as I delved in with my new head phones.

Trio Mandilli - I don't know what they are singing about but they have great harmony
Cosy - digging the banjo work here. 
Collapsing Stars - Had a Rocky Raccoon kinda intro. The singer sounds familiar but I can't put my finger on who he reminds me of. I like em! Nice band name as well.
Muscles/Ride the Wheel - This is Lazy 8 special! I'm assuming you got this at a live show. 
Erge-Sholee Biste Turda - Some interesting sounds here (was really cool on headphones) many odd instruments and the vocals almost had a Yips-Muppet sound to them.
Missy Elliot - RRHOF? Really?
This Old Guitar - I'm hearing Harvest Moon on this one. 
RLJ - Stellar live performance of a beautiful song. Great CD, in my collection as well. 
Demeter in the Underworld - Good closer track, sweet vocals and good lyrics. 

Good job multi-tasking by clearing out your in box and getting your mix out simultaneously.  Your eclectic collection just got more broad, if that is possible. I'm wondering if they would deliver that load of gravel to New Jersey? 

 Lazy8 wrote:
And the kitchen sink!
Well that was quite eclectic. Which I anticipate from the great State of Marty!
Lots of groups I've never heard before... once again. 
Some of my highlighted favorites.

2. Broken Circuit.   Anuska .  Wow! That was very Poppy. Yes. You surprised me right into the beginning of your mix.
3. Pretty Bird. Cosy Sheridan.  Is this an outtake from your "Songbird" Mix? Nice bluegrass thing there.
4. You & Me. BASSNECTAR. I liked this one. And I'm not much of an Electronica guy.
5. Relapse. Collapsing Stars. I liked this one too! Some familiar, friendly sounds.
6. Muscles/ Ride the Wheel. Buddy System. Yee Haw! More bluegrass... w/ juice harp! Almost a genre thing going on here?
7. Cold December Flies Away.  Storyhill. Seems we entered a small, backwoods Appalachian community and mellowed out on the front porch... for a moment.
9. Quit Wasting Time. Hippie Sabotage. That was quick. I suppose it didn't take those hippies long to sabotage the whole song.
10. Erge- Sholee- Bistse Turda. Hunn- Hurr- Tu. Okay. That blew up my spellcheck. I love didgeridoo's in songs.
13. This Old Guitar. Neil Young. Hey! I've heard of him before. And I know this song. Good ol' Neil. That is all.
14. Stewart's Coat. Rickie Lee Jones. I like Rickie. I like this one. I really need to dig into her catalog more.
16. The Haunting. Steven Thoams Schlagel.  This kind of reminds me of Nick Cave... along with the sad lyrics. But I liked it.

An interesting challenge! And heard somethings new for sure. I really liked your sleeve and title. That was a big "load of gravel"... with a lot of different types of rock!
I've been there many times trying to satisfy my habit.
Great job putting this together. And thanks for your work.

The inspiration for this disc came from the teetering pile of CDs on the little table next to the rocking chair where I keep my laptop, and the teetering pile came from...

Some live shows
Some internet shopping
A garage sale
A radio gig

The latter requires some explanation.

Every year I help out at the local college radio station fundraiser. For various donation levels you get t-shirts and hats and totebags and such, but they also put together incentive packages. Area businesses go all out to donate these things, from restaurant meals to whitewater rafting trips to (not kidding) a load of gravel.


The station itself puts together music packages as well, and since I'm in the booth I get first pick. I help out on an Americana/bluegrass show so the packages we push are mostly acoustic string band music, but lately I've been challenging myself. I picked genres I don't normally listen to (hiphop, ambient, poetry, techno) for my CD choices in an attempt to expand my tastes.

So I built up quite a pile of CDs I hadn't yet listened to and decided to go thru them with an eye toward picking a song from each for a mix disc. I didn't quite succeed; some discs just didn't have anything I could use, so I kept it to a single disc's worth. Cosy Sheridan got two cuts because they came from different discs and I really liked both and it's my disc so neener neener.

Since I was challenging my tastes I expect some of this will challenge yours. Hopefully that doesn't ruin it for you; if I didn't want to hear anything new I'd just listen to my own collection and never acquire another note, but that would be boring, wouldn't it? Can't have that.

I  know I have next month.
Have things compiled somewhat. I just need to find one more song. And I forgot the name and artist on my extensive playlist.
I've been listen on shuffle for over 3 weeks and it hasn't played yet. 

 ColdMiser wrote: Yep. Time is an issue.
And I listen to music all the time. It's hard to hear it all. 

So much music, so little time. Recently I took on the task of re-organizing my music collection. I recently retired from work and felt it was time to get ears on things that have been gathering dust over time. I have in the neighborhood of 600 CDs, 1000 vinyl records, countless downloads and over 100 mixed discs from the RPMCC, and of course there's Radio Paradise.  

I've carved out time to enjoy RP and the vinyl most days and hooked up an old 5 disc changer in my exercise room to listen the CD's. What to do with the mixed discs? I hit upon the idea of utilizing the 110 disc changer I have and letting it play on shuffle. While it goes against the spirit of the mix theme intent I figured it's a good way to get them into my listening routine. I'm looking forward to hearing the selections from past members (RMGman, SirD, Mary T and even a few from Scott from Wyoming!) that have moved on from the club along with the current rotation.  

Life is so much sweeter with song in it