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“I’ve always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they’re basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I’d make for you at home.” — Quentin Tarantino
For this weeks Soundtrack Enthusiast we visit the world of filmmaker Quentin Tarantino who, in regard to his choice of music in his growing oeuvre, has been quoted as saying […]

Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS, channel 26 Left Of Center, can now be heard twice, every Friday - Noon EST and then an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. Below is this week’s playlist.
SIRIUS 012: Devandra Banheart - Seahorse ++ Pink Mountaintops - Cold Criminals ++ Microphones - I Want Wind To Blow ++ […]

Follow contemporary American roots music? If so you need t get to know AA Bondy, whose debut solo release American Hearts drops next month (Sept 18th) on the Superphonic label. The former frontman of the now defunct Birmingham, AL rock & roll outfit, Verbena, Bondy strikes a rural folk-laden chord on his debut.
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Off The Record is a recurring, feature here on the Drunkard that will marry two of my greatest interests; music and travel. Having a locals perspective when visiting a new locale is the difference between experiencing it through the lens of a tourist and of that of a native.
Off The Record gathers some of my […]

Back in the early ’70s Frank Zappa entitled one of his Mothers of Invention albums: Just Another Band From L.A., as a wry and sarcastic wink to the staggering amount of artists coming out of L.A. at the time. The same could easily be said for L.A. in the here and now of 2007.
Having […]

Jack and Meg tackle one of our favorite, old school, Dolly Parton jams. Dig.

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MP3: Dolly Parton :: Jolene
MP3: White Stripes :: Jolene (cover)
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Amazon: Dolly Parton - Jolene
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We just recently discussed Rod Stewart’s work with the Faces, and his career trajectory, here on the Drunkard; you can read about that here (it is actually recommended before preceding to the rest of this post). If you are still reading, than you must be into the Faces, and if this is the case, […]

Per Monday’s Foamfoot post, in case anyone was in need of some perspective in regard to the band’s set list and its significance (read: greatness), the following are the original tracks that the band covered at the 1994 Troubadour show.
Oh, and as an extras treat, in keeping with the Faces related posts, watch […]

Wilmington, NCs David Dondero returns to the retail shelves this week with his second LP for the Team Love label entitled Simple Love. Also - Dondero will be touring later this year with Richard Buckner, which is just about a perfect bill in terms of like minded musicians sets complimenting one another’s work.

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MP3: David […]

If you consider yourself a serious Black Crowes fan you probably already own this. The first thing you should know about Foamfoot is that it is a cover band, a damn fine cover band at that, playing mostly Southern Rock and ’70s staples. Formed and fronted by Chris Robinson in Los Angeles in the […]

The Lightning Bug Situation’s new LP A Leaf: A Stream at times feels like a bedroom-indie, American interpretation of early ’70s piano driven Pink Floyd, all gauzy and wrapped in some sort of cotton psychedelic headspace. Or, as one of their fans noted, in a parrelel universe it could have been the soundtrack to director […]

More often than not, whenever I spin Man Man’s cover of Etta James’ “I’d Rather Go Blind,” someone, whether in the studio, or a listener via email, invariably inquires one of two things: a) the source of the cover, or b) who the band is covering Etta James. I think this phenomenon, like all […]

I originally found these tracks on Muzzle of Bees in 2005, listened to them incessantly, and then promptly misplaced them…until now. Consider the following required listening for National fans with material taken from the Cherry Tree EP and, mainly, Alligator, which they were touring in support of at the time.

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MP3: The National :: All […]

I recently stumbled upon this old, rough, Whiskeytown demo, from 1995, while gently resurrecting an old hard drive that I hadn’t fired up in a roughly a year and half (also see: upcoming National post).
This version of the song can be found on the Drunken Confessions bootleg collection that gathers up old, rare, […]