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It’s such a damn shame this crew never really blew up...

Green On Red

Happy Easter to everyone celebrating 🙂

NP: your fire burns for me...
red as grace...
the blush came easily to your face...

The Mars Volta - Roulette dares (the haunt of)

No matter how good they ever were, I’ll never regret Jason Isbell leaving Truckers.
This top-tier, sweaty Southern Americana ballad from the amazing The Dirty South is exactly why.

Goddamn Lonely Love

I’m already tearing up by the first chorus—now I'm just reaching for that Hood's rock energy and those killer riffs.

Hell no, I Ain't Happy

The other legendary Jason—the one we lost way too soon—Molina, plus that immortal Songs: Ohia classic Farewell Transmission

And here’s another dark gem from Songs: Ohia zimzelenik:
Lioness

Just like that biting winter frost... having Heaven right by your side... (while Hell is lurking inside)

A buddy of mine who’s over in Sweden working window washing sent me a message saying how much he's enjoying the season there. He mentioned that whenever he stops to think about how Texas is going to be practically a ghost town this coming winter without any tourists around, he gets hit by this wave of intense nostalgia.
Texas sun

Jamie Davis9 said:A buddy of mine from Sweden—he does window washing over there—hit me up saying how much he's loving it right now... he even mentioned that when he thinks about how we won't have any tourists down here in Texas this winter, he gets hit with this massive wave of nostalgia.
texas sun

Super interesting—at least to me—since I tend to just dive headfirst into this sound without being too critical, especially since none of the folks involved in this collaboration (which is soul-soaked, by the way) actually call Americana their "home base."

I gotta say, these Khruangbin folks probably have the most compelling bassist since the days of Tina Weymouth—so their seductive The Big Country vibe—kind of an art-country thing, also a "non-stationary" genre for Headset—fits perfectly with this thread:


Plus, everything coming off the unexpected Fear of Music deserves a standing ovation:

Man, seeing all these familiar favorites in one place—it really brings back memories!

Steven Newman50 said:I'm still thinking about that track—it’s just such a vibe! It reminds me of a rainy afternoon back in Seattle when I first heard it—totally stuck in my head. Your fire burns for me... — honestly, such a killer line. It just hits different!
Red as grace... — honestly, just such a vibe!
That flush just hit your cheeks so fast—it was almost too easy!

Wonder Quote 👍

Lawrence Ross4 said:Just spinning The Mars Volta—"Roulette" is such a trip! It’s one of those tracks that always gets me thinking about those late-night drives through the suburbs—just pure energy.

Such an incredible album—it's one of those records I used to blast back in high school, and honestly, it still hits just as hard today. I especially love Televators and This Apparatus... It’s kind of funny because I don't usually dive into this type of music—definitely a bit of a mystery for me!—but I rarely find myself reaching for their stuff, even if I love it when I do.

Dennis Hall41 said:Another legendary Jason—the one we unfortunately lost—Molina, plus that immortal Songs: Ohia classic, Farewell Transmission. Farewell Transmission—man, what a ride. Just listening to it again today and thinking about how much it hits different now.

Just another moody Songs: Ohia zimzelenik: track—definitely hitting those heavy vibes today.
Songs: Ohia zimzelenik: Lioness Lioness — such a beautiful record. It always puts me in a great mood—just pure magic!

I actually put Lioness on my list of saddest songs once—lol—it’s just such an authentic sad song... I'm glad they finally left that feeling behind.

Just let it all out—honestly, sometimes you just need a good cry to clear your head!

Thanks for the nudge about Wovenhand—honestly haven't spun them in maybe 10 or 12 years, not since I last sat through their Consider the Birds album.

Since we’re talking about sadness—you know, that deep listener's melancholy and empathy—hardly anyone earns it quite like those introverted singer-songwriters who were basically paralyzed for life.

There's one absolute legend we lost way too soon named Vic Chesnutt, and he left us with these three devastating classics:

Granny

Swelters

Virginia

👋

no biggie, just Luke Haines & Peter Buck - Jack Parsons ...

I’ve always been a huge fan of The Police—ironic, really, since I told Quart I wasn't much into reggae 😁—but this track was just stuck in my head all morning.
Staring up at this gray, gloomy sky and thinking about how messy and uncertain everything feels right now... man, this song captures that creeping anxiety perfectly.

Invisible Sun

Karma to burn

This video seriously has everything, everything!

Man, this guy was out there acting like he had no clue which band Tony Iommi actually plays in today.

h&h

Fleet Foxes played a pretty decent show at the local arena—solid, mostly—but they skipped over what’s easily the most beautiful song they’ve ever written. Instead, they just droned on through a bunch of pretentious, overblown filler from their Crack-Up album (honestly, even Helplessness blues felt more substantial than that stuff).
I bet some snob over at Pitchfork told them they needed to be more "multi-layered" or whatever in that specific track.
Sure, they threw out maybe 10 or 15 absolute bangers from their catalog—half of which are from the debut or the EP—but let’s be real, the fact that they didn't play Kept Woman makes everything else feel kind of mid.

^Both the EP and the debut album are great, but I’m totally obsessed with the "ribbon-like" flow of The Shrine/an argument! One of my favorite moments from the concert was definitely everyone singing along to Sunlight over me no matter What i do, not to mention that second half—in The ocean, washing off my name from your throat...
It runs a little long and gets a bit polished toward the end, but: Pecknold has already taken to Twitter to defend the song, saying that he feels “like it’s an important part of the record emotionally. It’s not necessarily enjoyable but we’re proud of the whole song.'' 😁
A Your Protector 😵
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I’m slowly drifting back toward Beach House lately, and honestly, this track is just pure magic—I've had it on repeat forever, it is happening again...
(Just realized Kendrick Lamar and a few other rappers have sampled them. Hey, if the pros can smell the greatness, why shouldn't we?...)

k.d. Lang - Summerfling Summery, nostalgic, carefree, yet melancholic...

Ashley Grant66 said:^Both the EP and the debut are killer, but I'm obsessed with the "messy" vibes of The Shrine/an argument! One of the best moments at the show was everyone singing along to Sunlight over me no matter What i do, not to mention that second half—in The ocean, washing off my name from your throat...
It runs a bit long and gets a little too polished toward the end, but: Pecknold has already taken to X to defend the song, saying that he feels “like it’s an important part of the record emotionally. It’s not necessarily enjoyable but we’re proud of the whole song.'' 😁
A Your Protector 😵
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I'm kind of circling back to beach house and that absolute gem of a track—the one I've played a million times—it is happening again...
(Just realized Kendrick Lamar and some other rappers sampled them. Honestly, good for them if they caught the vibe too...)

Alright, maybe I was being a bit harsh before—respect where it's due, because they really are great at what they do. That artificiality they lean into can be a bit much—maybe even pretentious—but they're definitely a band that'll end up in the history books.

Prepping a new Americana/folk/all-time-greats podcast for the COVID survivors today, but until then, here's what I'm spinning while I write this.

Hope there are still some Jayhawks-frikov left in this country—know there used to be more—and that they don't think the band was only good until Mark Olson left.

Dennis Hall41 said:It’s incredibly interesting, at least to me, since I tend to unthinkingly embrace this sound as a fan, especially considering none of the collaborators involved—this soul-drenched Americana—actually claim this as their "home base" genre.

I have to point out that Khruangbin likely boasts the most compelling bassist since the days of Tina Weymouth, so their seductive take on The Big country—a sort of art-country, which is also a pretty "unsettled" genre for Headse—will fit perfectly within the context of this thread:

And yeah, I actually enjoyed it too. 🙂
To borrow from what a friend of mine back in Sweden—who isn't just a window washer, but quite the poet—wrote in his song 'djettiberebere':

I'm shifting the colors of the spectral range, lacking any real goal or pattern, so I just move forward, adjusting the pitch and tension while watching the speedometer. And then suddenly, Hershey
sweet candies always hit the spot exactly right :_)))

p.s. Has anyone seen the movie? It isn't exactly a deep intellectual exercise, but I found it decent enough... just some lighthearted fun, dynamic and playful soundtrack... could work.

Open fire!