Friends, if you live in California and want an evening of pure joy this October, please go see a performance by my dear friends from Big Sur. Fountainsun + Fletcher Tucker (who used to call himself Bird By Snow) are coming to a town near you, so check out the dates above and grab your car/bike/skateboard/magic carpet and get on out there.**If you're in LA, come and give me a high-five at either concert.
Range Of Light Wilderness
Friends in California! If you're going to be around Big Sur, Berkeley, SF, LA or Ojai, go and support one of Cold Splinters' favorites, Range of Light Wilderness. They're doing a few record release shows at some pretty nifty places. Go have a beer, listen to/watch some music and then sleep under them West Coast Stars. Dreamy.
Lewis: L'Amour
Light In The Attic does their thing again. This one is the toppermost. The story. The music. All of it. Go.
Benmont
Benmont Tench (second from the left, above) is obviously the coolest of Heartbreakers, playing organ not only behind Tom Petty but for a million other people as well. Last week he was on Marc Maron's WTF, so listen to him talk shop on Petty, Johnny Cash and his new album. He's fantastic.And I suppose it's fitting to mention that tonight is a full moon and he DID NOT play on Tom Petty's solo album, Full Moon Fever, despite begging Petty to do so. He talks about it in the podcast.
Dylan's Gospel
The always amazing Light In The Attic Records are rereleasing the Lou Adler produced Dylan's Gospel, a 1969 record by The Brothers and Sisters, a choir of LA session singers. That's the short of it, but there's a lot going on in this record. Read more about here and watch the Making Of Dylan's Gospel here. And when you're doing doing that, buy everything that LITA has ever put out. It'd be silly not to.
R.I.P.
We'll miss you, Pete Seeger.(From the New Yorker. One of our favorite stories. Ever.)
Jack London Anime
Recently dug up Jack London's classic Call of the Wild as interpreted by Japan's Toei Animation (1981).Weird smooth jazz over glitchy animation, with the wisdom of your grandfather's father. Find it on VHS in some dusty, northwoods thriftstore and watch it in a yurt during a polar vortex.Or, watch it on YouTube now.