| The
Crossing - February 2009
Winter...cold...ice...sleet...snow...blah...blah...blah.
Have you ever met these people who say they actually like cold weather?
Do not trust these people. These people are nuts! You know who you are.
;-)
What a spectacular Super
Bowl! Maybe the best team won...maybe they didn’t. Guess we’ll never know.
;-) Okay, hats off to the Stealers, er Steelers! It WAS a tremendous game.
Incredible 4th quarter! And that half-time show wasn’t too shabby either.
Of course, it’s impossible to get the full essence of a Springsteen show
crammed into twelve minutes. But, they sure tried and it looked like they
were having fun!
February is well underway
and what that really means is that March is almost here. The days are getting
longer and the music is getting louder. The gear up to Summer can’t be
far off. The Oscars will soon be given out and the Grammies, well...is
it just me, or is Sir Paul McCartney sorely out of place at that show?
What in the wide world of sports is he doing there? Sure glad they showed
U2 perform right off the bat, I was able to soon after change the channel.
And, just for the record,
jury’s still out on the new U2 song.
Okay, new month, new music,
new dvd’s...let’s get to it:
Recently released and not
mentioned in last edition:
* Bill Mallonee - WPA Vol.
2 (download only.)
* Over The Rhine - Live
from Nowhere, Vol. III
* Otis Gibbs - Grandpa Walked
a Picketline
* Jeb Loy Nichols - Parish
Bar
* Tift Merritt - Buckingham
Solo: Live in England
* Modern Skirts - All of
Us in Our Night
* Menew - Of the Future
* Antony and the Johnsons
- The Crying Light
* Omar Rodriguez-Lopez -
Old Money (Live EP.)
* My Bloody Valentine -
3D
* The Guggenheim Grotto
- Happy the Man
* Beth Hart - 37 Days (Import.)
* Lauren Harris - Calm Before
the Storm (Daughter of Steve.)
* Edguy - Tinnitus Sanctus
* The Oysterband - The Oxford
Girl and Other Stories
* Paul McCartney - Amoeba’s
Secret
+ Emerson, Lake & Palmer
- Live at Royal Albert Hall
+ The Family that Preys
+ Space Buddies
+ Igor
2/3
* The Fray - S/T
* The Bad Plus - For All
I Care
* Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
- Lonely Road
* Wavves - S/T
* Toy Matinee - S/T
* Melinda Doolittle - Coming
Back to You
* Ben Kweller - Changing
Horses
* Dierks Bentley - Feel
That Fire
* Heartless Bastards - Mountain
* This Ending - Dead Harvest
* Young Dubliners - Saints
and Sinners
* Mat McHugh - Seperatista
* Two Tongues - S/T
* The Phantom Band - Checkmate
Savage
* Willie Nelson - Willie
and the Wheel
* Wynonna Judd - Sing
* Ruthie Foster - The Truth
According to...
* Joe Jackson - Live at
the BBC
* Graham Nash - Reflections
(Box set.)
+ Nick and Norah’s Infinite
Playlist
+ Secret Life of Bees
+ Zack and Miri
+ Hounddog
2/6
+ Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
2/10
* Michelle Branch - Everything
Comes and Goes
* Red - Innocence &
Instinct
* Lily Allen - It’s Not
Me, It’s You
* India.Arie - Testimony,
Vol. 2
* Ben Lee - Rebirth of Venus
* Dan Auerbach - Keep It
Hid
* Miranda Lee Richards -
Light of X
* Van Morrison - Astral
Weeks: Live at the Hollywood Bowl
* Annie Lennox - Collection
(CD/DVD.)
* Roger McGuinn - Live at
the Basement (CD/DVD.)
* The Cars - Heartbeat City
(Deluxe Edition.)
+ The Barenaked Ladies -
Barenaked Truth
+ The Blindness
+ Miracle at St. Anna
+ W.
+ Nights in Rodanthe
+ The Guitar
2/17
* Steve Kilbey - Pain Killer
* Jason Isbell and the 400
Unit - S/T
* The Cranes - Loved
* M. Ward - Hold Time
* Robyn Hitchcock - Goodnight
Oslo
* William Elliott Whitmore
- Animals in the Dark
* Tommy Keene - In the Late
Bright
* Sutton Foster - Wish
* The Acorn - Heron Act
* Watson Twins - Live at
Fingerprints
* ...Trail of Dead - The
Century of Self
* Vetiver - Tight Knit
* Thursday - Common Existence
* Architecture in Helsinki
- That Beep
* Lionel Richie - Just Go
+ Various Artists - Secret
Policeman’s Ball (3 DVD’s.)
+ Body of Lies
+ Choke
+ Changeling
+ Quarantine
+ Religulous
+ Flash of Genius
+ How to Lose Friends and
Alienate People
+ High School Musical 3
2/24
* Tom Rush - What I Know
* JJ Cale - Roll On
* Clem Snide - Hungry Bird
* Morrissey - Years of Refusal
* Steve Wilson - Insurgentes
* Laura Barrett - Victory
Garden
* Joe Bonamassa - Ballad
of John Henry
* Nosound - Lightdark
* Shawn Phillips - Live
at the BBC
* Place Vendome - Streets
of Fire
* Yes - Symphonic Live
+ What Just Happened
+ Haunting of Molly Flatley
+ Dear Zachary
3/3
* U2 - No Line on the Horizon
* Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
* Buddy & Julie Miller
- Written in Chalk
* Justin Townes Earle -
Midnight at the Movies
* Molly Jenson - Maybe Tomorrow
* Raul Malo - Lucky One
* Diana Krall - Quiet Nights
* The Answer - Everyday
Demons
* Prodigy - Invaders Must
Die
* Boston Spaceships - Planets
are Blasted
* Thin Lizzy - Still Dangerous:
Live at the Tower Theater, Philadelphia 1977
* Rush - Retrospective 3
(1989-Present; 2 CD and 1 DVD.)
+ Fountains of Wayne - No
Better Place: Live in Chicago
+ Australia
+ Lake City
+ Beverly Hills Chihuahua
(did I just type that?)
3/10
* Luka Bloom - Eleven Songs
* Chris Cornell - Scream
* Starsailor - All the Plans
* Ballas Hough Band - BHB
* New Found Glory - Not
Without a Fight
* Handsome Furs - Face Control
* All the Saints - Fire
on Corridor X
* Alice Peacock - Love Remains
* Madeleine Peyroux - Bare
Bones
* Steve Earle - Live at
the BBC
* Taylor Hicks - The Distance
* David Knopfler - Anthology
1983-2008
* The Band - S/T (Deluxe
Edition.)
+ Porcupine Tree - Arriving
Somewhere
+ Rachel Getting Married
+ Role Models
+ Ben X
+ The Boy in the Striped
Pajamas
+ Pinocchio (70th anniversary.)
3/17
* The Decemberists - Hazards
of Love
* Great Buildings - Apart
from the Crowd
* Pearl Jam - Ten (Deluxe
Edition.)
* Stevie Nicks - Live in
Chicago and Soundstage Sessions
* Kelly Clarkson - All I
Ever Wanted
+ This Is Spinal Tap (Blu-ray.)
3/24
* Blue October - Approaching
Normal
* Lotus Plaza - The Floodlight
Collective
* Swan Lake - Enemy Mine
* Sarah Burges - The Stars
Are Out
* Indigo Girls - Poseidon
and the Bitter Bug
* Papa Roach - Metamorphosis
* Radiohead - a few Deluxe
Editions
+ Quantum of Solace
+ Twilight
+ Bolt
3/31
* Queensryche - American
Soldier
* Peter Bjorn & John
- Living Thing
* Steve Forbert - The Place
and the Time
* The Wallflowers - Greatest
Hits
4/7
* Sara Watkins - S/T
* Rascal Flatts - Unstoppable
* Vienna Teng - Inland Territory
* Europe - Almost Unplugged
4/21
* Depeche Mode - Sounds of
the Universe
4/28
* Madina Lake - Attics to
Eden
LYRICS of the MONTH:
A very rockin’ wall-of-sound
track...not sure if all the facts are correct. Was John Henry really not
able to read??? A crushing lament on the decay of the American auto industry.
“I watched the rain, it
settled in. We disappeared for days again.
Most of us were staying
in, lazy like the sky.
The letters flew across
the wire filtered through a million liars.
The whole world smelled
like burning tires the day John Henry died.
We knew about that big
machine that ran on human hope and steam.
Bets on John were far
between and mostly on the side.
We heard he put up quite
a fight. His hands and feet turned snowy white.
That hammer rang out
through the night the day John Henry died.
When John Henry was a
little bitty baby nobody ever taught him how to read.
But he knew the perfect
way to hold a hammer was the way the railroad baron held the deed.
It didn’t matter if he
won, if he lived, or if he’d run.
They changed the way
his job was done. Labor costs were high.
That new machine was
cheap as hell and only John would work as well,
So they left him laying
where he fell the day John Henry died.
John Henry was a steel-driving
bastard but John Henry was a bastard just the same.
An engine never thinks
about his daddy and an engine never needs to write its name.
So pack your bags, we’re
headed west and L.A. ain’t the place to rest.
You’ll need some sleep
to pass the test, so get some on the flight.
And say your prayers
John Henry Ford ‘cause we don’t need your work no more.
You should have known
the final score the day John Henry died.”
Jason Isbell (Drive-By Truckers),
the song “The Day John Henry Died” off the album The Dirty South
released in 2004.
See you in March.
Chris Barlow
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