| The
Crossing - February 2008
If you’re like me, you were
probably watching the Grammys the other night. Why would you be doing such
a thing? Well, it’s obvious really. You know you’re gonna see the best
music artists going! Some of the artists you would bet the farm on seeing
would include: Pierce Pettis, John Gorka, Over The Rhine,
The Waterboys, Black 47,
Bill Mallonee, Glen Phillips, King’s X, Marillion. The list would go on
and on... It was just gonna be a matter of who was performing and who was
gonna present the awards? The big guns would be there: U2 (standard), Bruce
Springsteen (of course), a simulcast from Australia with The Church, (you
can bet on it), the highlight was gonna be Karin Bergquist of Over The
Rhine singing atop a piano! Everything was set. The stars were aligned!
We ‘did’ see Feist. And it
‘was’ great to see Tina strutting her stuff. We saw a Beatle (Ringo) present.
We even saw Jeff Tweedy (Wilco) in the audience. Oh well... Maybe, next
time.
Small change: all movies/films
and music DVD’s are now denoted with a ‘+’ sign.
Recently released and not
mentioned in last edition:
* Pat Dinizio - S/T
* Glen Phillips - Secrets
of the New Explorers (website EP.)
* Airbourne - Runnin’ Wild
* Sara Bareilles - Little
Voice
* Blitzen Trapper - Wild
Mountain Nation
* Damien Rice - Live from
Chapel Union
* The BoDeans - Live in
Boulder, Colorado (website album.)
* Mary J. Blige - Growing
Pains
+ Restless Natives (indie
Scottish comedy from 1986 with lone star Ned Beatty; soundtrack by Big
Country.)
2/5
* The Hooters - Time Stand
Still (Official US release)
* Lenny Kravitz - It is
Time for a Love Revolution
* Jack Johnson - Sleep Through
the Static
* Sheryl Crow - Detours
* K.D. Lang - Watershed
* Bob Mould - District Line
* Nada Surf - Lucky
* Air Traffic - Fractured
Life
* Iron Maiden - Live After
Death plus History of Maiden: Vol.2 - 2 DVD set
+ Across the Universe
+ The Assassination of Jesse
James...
+ Elizabeth: the Golden
Age
+ The Brave One
+ The Jane Austen Book Club
+ Feast of Love
+ Fierce People
+ Descent
+ Great World of Sound
+ Snow Buddies
+ The Aristocats
2/12
* Carrie Newcomer - The Geography
of Light
* Natalie Grant - Relentless
* Michael Jackson - Thriller
(25th anniversary before he lost his mind Deluxe Edition w/DVD.)
* Robert Pollard - Superman
was a Rocker
* British Sea Power - Do
You Like Rock Music?
* Widespread Panic - Free
Somehow
* Doug Hoekstra - Blooming
Roses
* The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
- Medium Rare
* Simple Plan - S/T
* UFO - a few remastered
and expanded reissues
+ In the Shadow of the Moon
+ Gone Baby Gone
+ We Own the Night
+ I Could Never Be Your
Woman
+ No Reservations
+ Becoming Jane
+ Romance & Cigarettes
+ Tyler Perry’s Why did
I get Married
+ Introducing the Dwights
+ Dedication
+ Martian Child
2/19
* Ray Davies - Working Man’s
Cafe (Frontman of The Kinks; US release w/DVD.)
* Allison Moorer - Mockingbird
(Covers project.)
* Gary Louris - Vagabonds
(Singer of The Jayhawks; coproduced by Chris Robinson of The Black Crowes.)
* Porcupine Tree - Nil Recurring
* Seven Mary Three - Day&Nightdriving
* Mike Doughty - Golden
Delicious
* Kula Shaker - Strange
Folk
* American Music Club -
Golden Age
* Donita Sparks - Transmiticate
* Mountain Goats - Heretic
Pride
* Flowers Forever - S/T
* Grand Archives - S/T
* Morcheeba - Dive Deep
* Paul Thorn - A Long Way
from Tupelo
* Nick Lowe - Jesus of Cool
(reissue.)
* Chuck Berry - Johnny B.
Goode: his Complete 50’s
Chess Recordings (box set.)
+ In the Valley of Elah
+ Michael Clayton
+ American Gangster
+ Rendition
+ 2 Days in Paris
+ Lust, Caution
+ Margot at the Wedding
+ Redacted
+ For the Bible Tells Me
So
+ Terror’s Advocate
+ Angels in the Dust
+ Kurt Cobain: About a Son
2/26
* Tift Merritt - Another
Country
* Sam Phillips - Don’t Do
Anything
* Missy Higgins - On a Clear
Night
* Beach House - Devotion
* Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree
* The B-52’s - Funplex
* The Afters - Never Going
Back to OK
* Maria McKee - Live at
the BBC
* Dolly Parton - Backwoods
Barbie
* The Cowboy Junkies - Trinity
Session Revisited (w/DVD; Special guests Ryan Adams and Natalie Merchant.)
+ Beowulf
+ The Darjeeling Limited
+ Death at a Funeral
+ 30 Days of Night
+ Goya’s Ghosts
3/4
* Michael McDonald - Soul
Speak
* The BoDeans - Still (produced
by T-Bone Burnett.)
* Black 47 - Iraq
* Kathleen Edwards - Asking
for Flowers
* Jim White - Transnormal
Skiperoo
* The Black Crowes - Warpaint
* Flogging Molly - Float
* Bauhaus - Going Away White
(reportedly their final album.)
* Stephen Malkmus - Real
Emotional Trash
* Tangent - Not as Good
as the Book
* Gutter Twins - Saturnalia
* The Waifs - Sundirtwater
* The Oaks - Songs for Waiting
* Tenspoke Indie - Blinded
by the Sound
* Steve Stevens - Memory
Crash
* Carlene Carter - Stronger
* Alan Jackson - Good Time
* Jackson Browne - Solo
Acoustic, Vol.2
* Whiskeytown - Strangers
Almanac (2 CD Deluxe Edition.)
* Elvis Costello - This
Year’s Model (2 CD Deluxe Edition.)
* Lynyrd Skynyrd - Street
Survivors (2 CD Deluxe Edition.)
+ Soloman Burke - Everybody
Needs Somebody
+ Into the Wild (new date.)
+ Mr. Magorium’s Wonder
Emporium
+ My Kid Could Paint That
+ Things We Lost in the
Fire
+ I’m Not There
+ Mrs. Doubtfire - 15th
anniversary
+ 12 Angry Men - 50th anniversary
+ 101 Dalmations
3/11
* Van Morrison - Keep it
Simple
* The Presidents of the
U.S.A. - These are the Good Times People
* Shawn Mullins - Honeydew
* Mark Bryan - End of the
Front
* Mike Patton - A Perfect
Place
* The Vines - Best of
* The Cranberries - Gold
(2 CD best of.)
* Simon & Garfunkel
- Live 1969 (Starbucks exclusive.)
+ No Country for Old Men
+ Bee Movie
+ August Rush
+ Dan in Real Life
+ Nancy Drew
+ Lake of Fire
+ Sleuth
+ Hitman
+ Awake
+ Tin Man
3/18
* Fish - 13th Star (possible
US release.)
* Adam Green - Sixes &
Sevens
* The Kills - Midnight Bloom
* Ours - Mercy
* Muse - Live from Wembley
* New Found Glory - Hits
+ Enchanted
+ Love in the Time of Cholera
+ Stephen King’s The Mist
+ Revolver
+ Trigger Man
+ Southland Tales
3/25
* The Counting Crows - Saturday
Nights & Sunday Mornings
* Daniel Lanois - Here is
What is
* Panic at the Disco - Pretty.Odd
* Plants and Animals - Parc
Avenue
+ Joy Division - Control
+ Jimmy Carter: Man from
Plains
4/1
* R.E.M. - Accelerate
* Matthew Ryan - Matthew
Ryan vs. the Silver State
* Moby - Last Night
* The Black Keys - Attack
& Release
* Sun Kil Moon - April
* Joe Satriani - Professor
Satchafunkilus and the Musterion of Rock
* Dream Theater - Greatest
Hit (...and 21 other pretty cool songs.)
+ Resurrecting the Champ
+ The Good Night
4/8
* Rush - Live on the Snakes
& Arrows Tour (2 CD set.)
* Colin Meloy - Solo Acoustic
Live (Singer of The Decemberists.)
* P.O.D. - When Angels &
Serpents Dance
* The Breeders - Mountain
Battles
* The Long Blondes - Couples
* Someone Still Loves You
Boris Yeltsin - Pershing
* Eric Avery - Help Wanted
+ Lions for Lambs
+ Reservation Road
4/15
* Child Ballads - Cheekbone
Hollows
+ Before the Devil Knows
You’re Dead
+ I Want Someone to Eat
Cheese With
4/22
* Billy Bragg - Mr. Light
& Justice
* Blind Melon - For My Friends
(4 original dudes w/new singer Travis Warren.)
* Flight of the Conchords
- S/T
+ Walker
4/29
+ The Great Debaters
+ The Red Balloon
LYRICS of the MONTH:
The river gleams at night,
stars shiver and sigh
A tracer rips the ceiling
out of the sky
Johnnie is hurt, his
blood soakin' the dirt
Hey Medic man, don't
let my only friend die
'Cause we've been through
good and bad
From Ramadi to Baghdad
Johnnie had my back like
it was his own
In the heat and the dust,
the sweat and the rust
Nothin' was ever gonna
stop the both of us goin' home
So hoist up the Stars
and Stripes, gonna break out tonight
Johnnie, hold on, man,
whatever you do don't let go
Hey, President Bush,
what are you doin' to us
We've been through hell,
man, it's time we went home
The captain he yelled
out, "sniper in that house"
Then the RPG blew him
to blue blazes
Johnnie, hold on, chopper
be here at dawn
Just one more hour, babe,
then you and me goin' home
The Hummer took the bend
at forty plus and then
The IED cut the door
and the driver to pieces
Nothin' to do but squeeze
a picture of you
And pray to god you're
still waitin' when I get home
So hoist up the Stars
and Stripes, gonna break out tonight
Johnnie, hold on, man,
whatever you do don't let go
Hey, President Bush,
what are you doin' to us
Johnnie on fire, man,
that kid just wanta go home
The stars have disappeared,
I can smell the fear I'll hear those AK-47s forever
Johnnie don't cry, we're
gonna make it home I swear it, guy,
Just gotta hold on, man,
the sun soon be dawnin'
The corporal he got hit,
fell into a ditch
Hold his head up, man,
don't let him sink under
Then a thunderin' breeze
split the skeleton trees
Sweet hum of that chopper,
last sound I remember
So hoist up the Stars
and Stripes, gonna break out tonight
Johnnie, hold on, man,
whatever you do don't let go
Hey President Bush, looks
like you missed the bus
Johnnie's in heaven,
man, better take that kid home.
Larry Kirwan of Black 47,
the song ‘Stars & Stripes’ from the forthcoming album Iraq.
To paraphrase Bob Marley...
One good thing about March
(music)...when it hits, you feel no pain.
See you next month!
Chris Barlow
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