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212: “Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac” by Dizzy Gillespie

July 28, 2011 Leave a comment

Sweet cheeks.Here’s a fun Dizzy Gillespie recording. It’s a live version of a song that shows off Dizzy’s sense of humor. Listen to the whole song.

From 1967’s Swing Low, Sweet Chariot. Enjoy sweet cheeks himself.

Song: Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac
Artist: Dizzy Gillespie
Album: Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac
Label: Impulse! Records
Buy from: Amazon | iTunes
Watch: YouTube

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211: “Kupanda” by Mice Parade

July 25, 2011 Leave a comment

Airbrush out my neck and chin.An amazing range of sounds comes out of this NYC-based band, led by percussionist and founding father Adam Pierce. Mice Parade is an anagram of his name.

Caroline Lufkin is the beautiful Okinawan-American singer who prominently portrays the feminine on most of the tracks on Mice Parade’s latest album, What It Means To Be Left-Handed (2010). The album is diverse, delicately sculpted, and every track is a unique experience.

You have to listen closely to understand lyrics, and sometimes I wish they’d speak up, but I guess being partially legible is part of the color they’re painting.

This one, “Kupanda,” can be enjoyed without one word being understood, mama way.

Song: Kupanda
Artist: Mice Parade
Album: This Is What It Means To Be Left-Handed
Label: FatCat Records
Buy from: Amazon | iTunes
Watch: YouTube

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210: “Boombox” by The Mosquitos

July 21, 2011 Leave a comment

So far out he fits right in.From Mosquitos‘ self-titled debut album in 2003, “Boombox” is hard not to enjoy. Portugese and English combine on the lovely lips of JuJu Stulbach.

West Nile virus can suck it.

Enjoy.

Song: Boombox
Artist: Mosquitos
Album: Mosquitos
Label: Mosquitos
Buy from: Amazon | iTunes
Watch: YouTube

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209: “Song Up In Her Head” by Sarah Jarosz

July 19, 2011 Leave a comment

The weeds always inspire me to my best picture-readyness.17 when she recorded her debut album Song Up In Her Head (2009), Sarah Jarosz is young, and fresh as the dew on a newly blossomed lily, glistening in the enchanted moonlight of a sweetly-scented Texas mid-summer night… and so on.

Here’s the title track of that debut, from a live recording from the 2010 Americana Music Festival in Nashville.

Enjoy.

Song: Song Up In Her Head
Artist: Sarah Jarosz
Album: Song Up In Her Head
Label: Sugar Hill
Buy from: Amazon | iTunes
Watch: YouTube


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208: “The Old Rugged Cross” by Rob Ickes

July 15, 2011 Leave a comment

Smile, you say?Do you have a tenacious, love-scarred, and constantly-beating chunk of muscle in your chest cavity, keeping you alive by pumping oxygenated liquid to miraculously-orchestrated body parts that are consequently energized by the infusion of said oxygenated liquid?

Well, then I think you’ll like this song, inside and out.

By Rob Ickes, “The Old Rugged Cross” is something he’s been known to play alongside Blue Highway.

And if you fart every day, you would probably also like Rob’s version of the Blind Faith classic, “Can’t Find My Way Home.”

Enjoy.

Song: The Old Rugged Cross
Artist: Rob Ickes
Watch: YouTube

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207: “Sundust” by Bill Frisell

July 13, 2011 Leave a comment

Engage.Interesting video backdrop and prelude to an interesting tune by existential guitarist Bill Frisell.  Kenny Wolleson on drums, and Hal Willner making the other sounds.

Sounds like music that just couldn’t help but happen.

Enjoy it like mustard and cheese on ham.

Song: Sundust
Artist: Bill Frisell
Album: Unspeakable
Label: Nonesuch Records
Buy from: Amazon | iTunes
Watch: YouTube

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206: “So You Want It To Rain” by Doyle Bramhall II & Smokestack

July 11, 2011 Leave a comment

I forgot your name.Speaking of your mom, why not get your face rocked by this song?

Doyle Bramhall II & Smokestack kicked it like stinky cheese down your boulevard, on Welcome (2001).

Solid, inspired, and funky… like your mom on a steamy, summer night.

Enjoy the tribute.

Song: So You Want It To Rain
Artist: Doyle Bramhall II & Smokestack
Album: Welcome
Label:  RCA Records
Buy from: Amazon | iTunes
Watch: YouTube

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