Pink Chiffon
Girls In Short Short Dresses
"She has club feet & thick calves". For some reason that struck me as one of the funnier things Veronica wrote to me during what has been, as of this writing, several weeks of back and forth in preparation for this ongoing review column. Everything had been going so smoothly until the time came to select a decorative image to add to the very page you're now reading. Isn't that always the way though?
What does that have to do with anything you might ask? Fair enough; Veronica knows her music, and is not afraid to call a club foot a club foot. I like this about her. It's also my not so humble opinion that in this day and age of the most completely mediocre and micro-pressed second or third tier records being hailed as the next big…. well, micro-pressed second or third tier records, that it is exactly what we need in music criticism, damn it.
My prediction is as the feature progresses there'll be a little bit of everything. This is exciting to me as I'm eager to see the website shake off its' perceived bias toward music that is weird for weirdness's sake and branch out beyond the strange politics of rare records. It is in that spirit I present to you Veronica's selections. I sincerely hope you will all enjoy this column as much as I have enjoyed assisting in it's creation. Here's to new things, and here's Veronica…
-Jeff ~ January '07
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| Bob Dylan: Modern Times A long time ago I said when Bob Dylan turned 50 he'd go back and make an acoustic Lp & effectively start over… |
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| John Cameron Quartet - Off Centre Ready for a hard days night and hitting a fave spot, the band's already in action on arrival ripping through a high energy romp… |
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| The Beatles: Love IT'S ALL IN THE MIND Y'KNOW… and what you're doing. For George Harrison and Guy Laliberte, the founder of Cirque Du Soleil it meant creating a soundscape…. |
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| Jack DeJohnette: Sorcery A lot of sounds wafted through the trees around Woodstock in the 70's but the longtime locals mighta been scratching their heads this time….. |
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| Dale Hawkins: Wildcat Tamer and for the next 2:09 it's like he never wandered off into the woods 30 years earlier with a dynamite reduex of the hit title number….. |
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| Grateful Dead: Fallout From The Phil Zone & his picks from what he dubs 'rarer material' for this dbl date show he's no slouch. Doesn't matter what you think of 'em, for the 7:34 it took to work thru….. |
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| Alan Sondheim: Ski/NN what with the spate of solo acoustic guitar Lp's inspired by his 'breakthrough' 3rd one which eventually led to that dreadful Windham Hill scene…… |
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| Hank Dogs: Bareback when this homegrown 2 girls/1 guy trio actually do sound haunted. Sure, a handfull from over there make the right moves…… |
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| Los Perdidos: S/T along with his pals from this Philadelpha Main-Line Blueblood private school and the circle skirts/crew-cut wax crowd can't help but pair off and whoop it up……. |
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