Category: Music

Soothes the savage beast.

Sunday music: Chris Smither

Finally, some music that might actually have something to do with gardening. In Origin of Species, Chris Smither starts off in the garden and later actually rhymes cabbage.



And here’s No More Love Today, (audio from New Hampshire Public Radio), a song inspired by the call of a New Orleans produce vendor. Be ready for a rhyme with okra. Graham will like this one more, as Smither does more with his feet.

Because in the end no one will sell you what you need.
You can’t buy it off the shelf. You got to grow it from the seed.

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Sunday music: Gogol Bordello

Gypsy punk is definitely an acquired taste. (If this is too much, try techno-gypsy: Balkan Beat Box.)

Two songs from Gogol Bordello’s latest CD, Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike, live on Jools Holland Show. Fun fact: Front man Eugene Hutz starred as the translator in the 2005 flick Everything is Illuminated. The band had a small cameo.

Language warning. Heck, the whole thing is pretty subversive.

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More great dead plants – Sunday music

Another arrangement
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Another arrangement from the dead plants I didn’t cut back this fall. It was too big to find a home inside. But it cheers up the otherwise cluttered porch on the way in to the house.

Too cold today to go out and ID all the plants in there. But if you want to know what’s in there, let me know.

See more arrangements here.

This week, I was one of the finalists in a contest over at Crooks and Liars to create a music set including Ricky Lee Jones latest release, falling up. The set is a fall and a rise. Unfortunately, I didn’t win the tickets to her concert. I tried to keep it to music folks might be familiar with. Here’s the set:

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