| The
Crossing - March 2008
It's mid-March and the sun
is fighting it out with the wind and clouds, rain and snow. But Spring
is almost here and all will be right in the land soon.
Lots of stuff coming out
this time of year. Take a careful look below and maybe you'll find your
special album of the Spring. You know, the one that goes everywhere with
you.
Plus, don't forget, the live
music season will really escalate soon, so you know what to do...get out
and hear some live music!! Purchase tickets in advance and support your
favorite artists. They will appreciate it! Some of the most memorable shows
you'll have can often be found for twenty dollars or less at a venue near
you. Some festivals may even feature free music if you do your research.
The Crossing will be back
again soon in April...
Until then, dig in!
Recently released and not
mentioned in last edition:
* Steve Lukather - Ever Changing
Times
* Pillar - For the Love
of the Game
* Nicole Atkins - Neptune
City
3/4
* Michael McDonald - Soul
Speak (covers project.)
* The BoDeans - Still (produced
by T-Bone Burnett.)
* Black 47 - Iraq
* Kathleen Edwards - Asking
for Flowers
* Jim White - Transnormal
Skiperoo
* David Wilcox - Airstream
* 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
* Firelight - Unbreakable
* The Waifs - Sundirtwater
* The Oaks - Songs for Waiting
* Tenspoke Indie - Blinded
by the Sound
* Mia Doi Todd - GEA
* Felice Brothers - S/T
* David Saw - Broken Down
Figure
* Steve Stevens - Memory
Crash
* Ashton Shepherd - Sounds
so Good
* 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
+ Mr. Magorium's Wonder
Emporium
+ My Kid Could Paint That
+ I'm Not There
+ Half Moon: a Musician's
Last Journey
+ Mrs. Doubtfire - 15th
anniversary
+ 12 Angry Men - 50th anniversary
+ 101 Dalmations
3/11
* 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
* Jaymay - Autumn Fallin'
* Farmers Market - Surfin'
U.S.S.R.
* Greg Laswell - How the
Day Sounds
* Kate Bush - a few reissues
* The Band - a few reissues
* 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
+ Sleuth
+ Hitman
+ Awake
+ Quiet Room
+ Tin Man
3/18
* Fish - 13th Star
* Bryan Adams - 11 (import.)
* The Hush Sound - Goodbye
Blues
* Adam Green - Sixes &
Sevens
* The Kills - Midnight Bloom
* Black Tide - Light from
Above
* Muse - Haarp: Live at
Wembley (w/DVD.)
* Be Your Own Pet - Get
Awkward
* The Matches - A Band in
Hope
* Ghost Buffalo - The Magician
* These New Puritans - Beat
Pyramid
* New Found Glory - Hits
* Fahrenheit 420 - In My
Prime
* Five Times August - Brighter
Side
* Pete Francis - Iron Sea
and the Calvary
* Connie Francis - Among
My Souvenirs
* Ali Eskandarian - Nothing
to Say
* Birds of Avalon - The
Outer Upper Inner EP
* Joseph Arthur - Could
We Survive EP
* Mission of Burma - a few
reissues
* Believer - a few reissues
+ Less Than Jake - People's
History...
+ Enchanted
+ Atonement
+ I am Legend
+ 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
* The B-52's - Funplex
* Daniel Lanois - Here is
What is
* Justin Townes Earle -
The Good Life (Son of Steve.)
* Mark Selby - Nine Pound
Hammer
* John Fahey - Mill Pond
* New Frontiers - Mending
* Panic at the Disco - Pretty.Odd
* Plants and Animals - Parc
Avenue
* Justin Currie - No Surrender
EP (import.)
* Lindsey Buckingham - Live
at the Bass Performance Hall (w/DVD.)
* Morrissey - Greatest Hits
* The Lemonheads - It's
a Shame about Ray (Special edition w/DVD.)
* Jesus and Mary Chain -
a few reissues
+ Joy Division - Control
+ The Kite Runner
+ Jimmy Carter: Man from
Plains
4/1
* R.E.M. - Accelerate (w/DVD.)
* The Proclaimers - Life
With You
* Dan Fogelberg - Windows
and Walls
* Van Morrison - Keep it
Simple
* Matthew Ryan - Matthew
Ryan vs. the Silver State
* Paddy Casey - Addicted
to Company
* Apples in Stereo - Electronic
Projects for Musicians
* Diesel Park West - Blood
and Grace
* Kathy Mattea - Coal
* Moby - Last Night
* Black Francis - Svn Fngrs
* 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.)
* Jars of Clay - Greatest
Hits
* Genesis - Turning It On
Again
* The Rolling Stones - Shine
A Light (2 CD soundtrack to the Martin Scorsese documentary.)
* Fall Out Boy - **** Live
in Phoenix (CD/DVD.)
+ Toto - Falling In Between:
Live
+ Ian Gillan - Live in Anaheim
+ Ani Difranco - Live at
Babeville
+ Sweeney Todd: Demon Barber
of Fleet Street
+ Resurrecting the Champ
+ The Good Night
+ Alvin and the Chipmunks
4/8
* Rush - Snakes & Arrows
Live (2 CD set; DVD to come out later this year.)
* James - Hey Ma (import;
Tim Booth and company return!)
* Over The Rhine - Live
from Nowhere, Vol.3 (pre-order at overtherhine.com)
* Colin Meloy - Solo Acoustic
Live (Singer of The Decemberists.)
* Nick Cave - Dig, Lazarus,
Dig
* Hayes Carll - Trouble
In Mind
* P.O.D. - When Angels &
Serpents Dance
* The Breeders - Mountain
Battles
* The Long Blondes - Couples
* Gnarls Barkley - The Odd
Couple
* Ashes Divide - Keep Telling
Yourself
* Fireroom - Broken Music
* Someone Still Loves You
Boris Yeltsin - Pershing
* Gavin Rossdale - Wanderlust
* Eric Avery - Help Wanted
* Blondie Chaplin - S/T
* Hall & Oates - War
Babies
+ There Will be Blood
+ Lions for Lambs
+ Diving Bell and the Butterfly
+ Walk Hard: the Dewey Cox
Story
+ Water Horse: Legend of
the Deep
+ Music Within
+ National Treasure 2: Book
of Secrets
+ Reservation Road
+ The 11th Hour
4/15
* Asia - Phoenix (All four
original members: John Wetton, Steve Howe, Geoff Downes, Carl Palmer.)
* Everclear - The Vegas
Years (covers project.)
* Phantom Planet - Raise
the Dead
* Tristan Prettyman - Hello
* Thrice - Alchemy Index
Vols III & IV: Air & Earth
* Ours - Mercy
* Brian Jonestown Massacre
- My Bloody Underground
* Child Ballads - Cheekbone
Hollows
* Crimson Glory - two reissues
+ Clash: Live Revolution
Rock
+ Juno
+ Before the Devil Knows
You're Dead
+ I Want Someone to Eat
Cheese With
+ Alien vs. Predator: Requiem
+ In the Name of the King
4/22
* Billy Bragg - Mr. Light
& Justice
* Derek Webb & Sandra
McCracken - Ampersand EP
* Blind Melon - For My Friends
(4 original dudes w/new singer Travis Warren.)
* Flight of the Conchords
- S/T
* Goldfinger - Hello Destiny
* Elbow - The Seldom Seen
Kid
* Story of the Year - The
Black Swan
* Tokyo Police Club - Elephant
Shell
* Jack's Mannequin - The
Glass Passenger
+ Walker
+ Starting out in the Evening
+ What Would Jesus Buy?
4/29
* Steve Winwood - Nine Lives
* Def Leppard - Songs from
the Sparkle Lounge
* Madonna - Hard Candy
* Portishead - Rising Down
* The Roots - Third
* Dead Can Dance - a few
reissues
* Bette Midler - Jackpot:
Best Bette
+ The Great Debaters
+ The Golden Compass
+ The Red Balloon
5/6
* 3 Doors Down - S/T
* The Barenaked Ladies -
Snacktime (Children's album.)
* Firewater - The Golden
Hour
* Brooke Fraser - Albertine
* Rachael Sage - Chandelier
5/13
* Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow
Stairs
* Jakob Dylan - Seeing Things
* Sixwire - S/T
+ Various Artists - All
You Need Is Love: 1976-1981 (5 DVD box set; documentary by Tony Palmer.)
5/20
* King's X - XV
* U2 - Boy/October/War (Each
remastered reissues w/bonus discs!)
* Alanis Morisette - Flavors
of Entanglement
* Jason Mraz - We Sing,
We Dance, We Steal Things
* Scarlett Johansson - Anywhere
I Lay My Head (the actress covers Tom Waits.)
LYRICS of the MONTH:
I pay my bills to the
time collectors
They're getting more
from me each day
I pay them off a few
words at a time
But the spur's gone from
the moment
And the moment's slipped
away
I used to feel like something
here was mine
Now I pay them off a
few word's at a time
I reach into my pocket
just so I can make some change
And I find more hands
than I can ever shake
And I hope you will forgive
me if I don't return your
call
But there's someone watching
every move I make
And I've got more hands
than I can ever shake
I'm running for my life
here out on the campaign trail
And the crowds will not
forgive me if I lose
And I'd like to think
I'm special but I do know
otherwise
Excuse me but I need
to make the news
Cause the crowds will
not forgive me if I lose
I'm really not complaining
won't you say your name
again
I'm sorry but that isn't
what I mean
There's a prison called
tomorrow and there's one
called yesterday
The only place you're
free is in between
Oh I'm sorry but that
isn't what I mean.
John Gorka, the song "Campaign
Trail" off the album Between Five and Seven.
Have a Happy Easter!!
See you in April!
Chris Barlow
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