Oldhattery

Caribou - Brahminy Kite

Bossa Nova All - Laurindo Almeida & The Bossa Nova All-Stars

I have never wanted a martini more in my god damned life.

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To My Boy - Tell Me Computer

I think I’d really love to hear a cover of this.

Carolina Chocolate Drops - Hit ‘Em Up Style

Fucking amazing cover.  Way better than the original.

Joel Plaskett - Through & Through & Through

This has been stuck in my head since Wednesday, when I heard an AWESOME Ukulele cover of it.  Great song.

Everywhere - Bran Van 3000

Glee was probably my most listened to album in 1997-1998.  Sadly, most people only know the song Drinking In LA by them from the same album.  

Sweet Music Man by Waylon Jennings

Earlier in the week a certain day hit.  That day marked one year after a breakup that left me feeling a lot more broken and gutted than I thought I’d be.  Long story short he loved someone else more than me, and to an extent loved being with quite a few other people that weren’t me and despite seeing how hard a time I was having towards that revelation, he said nothing.  It was the first time I had been…I hate to say betrayed, because it sounds too dramatic, but something like that.  I crashed hard. Lost a lot of friends (mutual) and stayed in most of the time.  It’s taken a long time to move on from that moment and even then, I haven’t quite gotten over that breach of trust.

But then the day hit and I looked back on what I had been doing lately and the progress I’ve made as a person.  I’m something of a photographer, I’ve made friends of my own and have been continuously gobsmacked by how much I’ve changed since January let alone last July.  And the realization came that while I haven’t quite gotten over that crap, I have moved on from it (and there IS a difference).  

I listened to this song quite a bit during that time last year.  He was a singer and Waylon Jennings is a bitter bastard, even when he’s covering this Kenny Rogers song.  But it’s an interesting landmark of a distant, yet not quite so far away time (if that makes any sense).

Enjoy.

Link Wray - Raw-Hide

If you haven’t heard Link Wray before now (and you probably have with his infamous song Rumble, which was an instrumental that actually got banned in some areas of the US) then you should feel lots of shame.  Brilliant, brilliant guitarist.

Short Change Hero by The Heavy

Since picking up the album THE HOUSE THAT DIRT BUILT I have had this song and a couple of others on constant loop.  Wonderful song giving back a good ‘ol fashioned R&B feeling.  Listen and enjoy.