Off The Record is a recurring feature here on the Drunkard that marries 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 [...]
Remember Moby? Sure you do. In the late 90s he went from a relatively obscure DJ/musician working the underground dance circuit to a bonafide mainstream pop artist. For a solid 24+ months his music could be found in what seemed like every other film, commercial and television show running. And if memory serves, the album [...]
Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XM, channel 26 (SIRIUS), and channel 43 (XM), can now be heard twice, every Friday – Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. Below is this week’s playlist. SIRIUS 123: Jean Michel Bernard – Generique Stephane ++ Vic Chesnutt – Degenerate ++ Vic Chesnutt – Everything I [...]
Whatever else Ryan was doing over the holidays, it sounds like we were listening to the same podcasts. On Guitar Music From The Western Sahara, Group Doueh and company filter trad Saharan frequencies through 60s and 70s rock, psych and funk. The fruits are a hypnotic blend of non-western otherness that scratches an itch for [...]
Yeaahh. Go ahead, take a look at who plays on this; the album’s contents are as fresh as they look. See if this doesn’t warm you up. A long time staple around here, I just dusted off “Hikky Burr” for a new mix. The savvy will note this was the original Bill Cosby Show theme [...]
I used to own this on CD; a couple of times actually, or maybe the first time, my introduction, was via a dubbed cassette from a friend. Yeah, that’s more likely. Anyway, until a couple of months ago, when I downloaded it, I hadn’t heard Workbook in years. Years. I found a cheap used vinyl [...]
Bowie’s Space Oddity LP has never ranked as one of my favorites in his catalog—and one would be hard pressed to hail it as essential—but damn if the 2nd disc of this new reissue doesn’t just keep bringing me back. Tracing various sides of Bowie’s early persona, from rough-hewn to orchestrated, the set paints an [...]
As nice as the official ‘bootleg series’ releases have been over the past 10+ years, it’s the unofficial stacks I regularly find myself turning to when looking for an off-kilter Dylan fix. Long available in trading circles (at times known as the Yesterday bootleg) the following two sessions were cut in ’69 and ’70 at [...]
“This was a show I recorded with Tom in December of 1976 that was originally broadcast on WNEW during my first sojourn at the station. I played this rare one-hour tape tonight as my contribution to the station’s “From The Archives” weekend. Tom and I (and drummer Ralph Ebler) taped this at a studio in [...]
This is it—the final entry in our Decade series. Since the beginning of October we’ve been highlighting albums released over the past ten years that made an impression—that made a difference. While we could not possibly feature all of our favorites, we did get through a good amount before the clock ran out and 2009 [...]
