| The
Crossing - March 2009
Here’s how you have a good
month of March:
Kick it off with the biggest
band in the world...U2 and their new album No Line on the Horizon.
Add five consecutive appearances of the Irish foursome on Late Night with
David Letterman. Stir in new releases by Irish greats Luka Bloom and the
Saw Doctors just in time for St. Patrick’s day. Mix in some healthy variety
of Buddy & Julie Miller, The Decemberists and Blue October. Throw in
a fresh perspective of reality in Queensryche’s American Soldier.
Sprinkle in dashes of Neko Case, MGMT, Peter Bjorn & John and the Yeah
Yeah Yeah’s. Add a trifle of some reissued deluxe Motorhead. This is necessary
for a healthy balance! Call it the fiber of the month. Then, end the thirty-one
day stretch with an Academy Award Winner in Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire
and you’ve got yourself a month that would be hard to beat. For seasoning
and taste, add anything else from the below list. Happy March! Happy Spring!
Recently released and not
mentioned in last edition:
* Mute Math - Spotlight (EP.)
* Eleanor McEvoy - Love
Must be Tough
* Waterdeep - Pink and Blue
* A Day to Remember - Homesick
* John Henry & the Engine
- Under the Yellow Moon
* Here We Go Magic - S/T
* Shemekia Copeland - Never
Going Back
* Green River Ordinance
- Out of My Hands
* The Alternate Routes -
A Sucker’s Dream
* And Then There Were None
- Who Speaks for Planet Earth?
* Ben Harper - Will to Live:
Live EP
* Black Lips - 200 Million
Thousand
* Mavis Staples - Will Never
Turn Back
* Bill Frisell - Best of,
Vol. 1
* Company of Thieves - Ordinary
Riches
* Ana Egge - Road to My
Love
* Chris Isaak - Mr. Lucky
* Steve Martin - The Crow:
New Songs for the 5 String Banjo; many guests join the legendary comedian;
Amazon.com exclusive.)
* Various Artists - War
Child Presents Heroes
* Ty Tabor - Balance
+ King’s X - Gretchen Goes
to London: Live at the Astoria 1990
+ Luka Bloom - The Man is
Alive
+ Blue Rodeo - Blue Road
(CD/DVD.)
+ B.B. King - Live in Africa
1974
+ Ned’s Atomic Dustbin -
Lunatic Magnets
3/3
* U2 - No Line on the Horizon
* Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
* Buddy & Julie Miller
- Written in Chalk (Guests include Patty Griffin, Emmylou Harris and Robert
Plant.)
* Justin Townes Earle -
Midnight at the Movies
* Alison Brown - The Company
You Keep
* Molly Jenson - Maybe Tomorrow
* Angus & Julia Stone
- A Book Like This (brother/sister duo.)
* Raul Malo - Lucky One
* Diana Krall - Quiet Nights
* Marty Willson-Piper -
Nightjar
* 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; CD/DVD.)
+ Fountains of Wayne - No
Better Place: Live in Chicago
+ Australia
+ Lake City
+ In the Electric Mist
+ Bevery Hills Chihuahua
3/10
* Luka Bloom - Eleven Songs
* Chris Cornell - Scream
* Starsailor - All the Plans
* Razorlight - Slipway Fires
* 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
* John Wesley Harding -
Who was Changed and Who was Dead (2 CD’s.)
* Steve Earle - Live at
the BBC
* Taylor Hicks - The Distance
* Graham Parker - The Up
Escalator
* David Knopfler - Anthology
1983-2008
* The Band - S/T (Deluxe
Edition.)
* Yngwie Malmsteen - Angels
of Love
* Pat McGee - a few reissues
* Neva Dinova - S/T (reissue.)
* Beth Orton - Trailer Park
(Deluxe Edition.)
+ Stevie Wonder - Live at
Last
+ Porcupine Tree - Arriving
Somewhere
+ Living Colour - Live in
Paris
+ Rachel Getting Married
+ Milk
+ Cadillac Records
+ Synecdoche, New York
+ Battle in Seattle
+ Let the Right One In
+ Happy Go Lucky
+ Role Models
+ Ben X
+ The Boy in the Striped
Pajamas
+ Transporter 3
+ Pinocchio (70th anniversary.)
3/17
* The Decemberists - Hazards
of Love
* Great Buildings - Apart
from the Crowd
* MGMT - Time to Pretend
EP
* Alexandra Hope - Invisible
Sunday
* Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy
- Beware
* Mazes - S/T
* Pearl Jam - Ten (Deluxe
Edition.)
* Les Claypool - Of Fungi
and Foe
* Nick Lowe - Quiet Please:
New Best of
* Stevie Nicks - Live in
Chicago and Soundstage Sessions
* Kelly Clarkson - All I
Ever Wanted
* Jupiter Rising - Quiet
Hype
* Caroline Weeks - Songs
for Edna
* David Grissom - 10,000
Feet
* The BoDeans - Love &
Hope & Sex & Dreams (Deluxe Edition w/DVD.)
* Saw Doctors - Live at
the Melody Tent (CD.)
+ Saw Doctors - Clare Island
to Cape Cod (DVD.)
+ Elegy
+ The Velveteen Rabbit
+ This is Spinal Tap (Blu-ray.)
3/24
* Blue October - Approaching
Normal
* Lotus Plaza - The Floodlight
Collective
* Swan Lake - Enemy Mine
* Wire Daisies - S/T
* Mono - Hymn to the Immortal
Wind
* Sarah Burges - The Stars
are Out
* Indigo Girls - Poseidon
and the Bitter Bug
* Martina McBride - Shine
* Eric Church - Carolina
* Dan Deacon - Bromst
* Fiction Plane - Live at
the Paradiso (CD/DVD.)
* Pete Doherty - Grace/Wastelands
* Nils Lofgren - The Loner:
Nils sings Neil Young
* Shooter Jennings - Bad
Magick: Best of
* Papa Roach - Metamorphosis
* Derek Sherinian - Molecular
Heinosity
* Pet Shop Boys - Yes
* Motorhead - No Sleep to
Hammersmith (Deluxe Edition.)
* Radiohead - Pablo Honey/The
Bends/OK Computer (Deluxe Editions.)
+ Quantum of Solace
+ Twilight
+ Bolt
3/31
* Queensryche - American
Soldier
* Peter Bjorn & John
- Living Thing
* Gomez - A New Tide
* Yeah Yeah Yeah’s - It’s
Blitz
* Great Lake Swimmers -
Lost Channels
* Steve Forbert - The Place
and the Time
* Keith Urban - Defying
Gravity
* The Wallflowers - Greatest
Hits
* Bruce Cockburn - Slice
o’ Life: Live Solo
* Leonard Cohen - Live in
London 2008 (2 CD’s/1 DVD.)
* Filter - Very Best of
Things 1995-2008
* Jim Gaffigan - King Baby
(Comedian.)
+ Jeff Beck - Performing
this Week...Live at Ronnie Scott’s
+ Slumdog Millionaire
+ Seven Pounds
+ Marley and Me
4/7
* William Fitzsimmons - The
Sparrow and the Crow
* The Tragically Hip - We
Are the Same
* Bob Mould - Life and Times
* Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
* Sara Watkins - S/T
* Jason Aldean - Wide Open
* Rascal Flatts - Unstoppable
* Felice Brothers - Yonder
is the Clock
* Vienna Teng - Inland Territory
* Doves - Kingdom of Rust
* The Veils - Sun Gangs
* Europe - Almost Unplugged
+ Doubt
+ The Day the Earth Stood
Still
+ Yes Man
+ Donkey Punch
+ Bedtime Stories
+ The Tale of Despereaux
4/14
* The Silversun Pickups -
Swoon
* Fastball - Little White
Lies
+ The Spirit
4/18 (Saturday - Record Store
Day)
* The Gaslight Anthem - Live
at Park Avenue (6 song EP.)
+ Wilco - Ashes of American
Flags
4/21
* Tainted Windows - S/T (Taylor
Hanson, James Iha, Adam Schlesinger & Bun E. Carlos.)
* Jars of Clay - Long Fall
Back to Earth
* Depeche Mode - Sounds
of the Universe
* Jane’s Addiction - A Cabinet
of Curiosities (3 CD/1 DVD box set.)
+ Frost/Nixon
4/28
* Madina Lake - Attics to
Eden
* Heaven & Hell - The
Devil You Know
+ What Doesn’t Kill You
+ Nothing But the Truth
+ Stranded
5/5
* Conor Oberst - Outer South
5/12
* Better Than Ezra - Paper
Empire
* Michelle Shocked - Soul
of My Soul
5/19
* Iron & Wine - Around
the Well (2 CD rarities.)
* White Rabbits - It’s Frightening
5/26
* Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
LYRICS of the MONTH:
A song about just how far
you’ve come...
“When I fell from grace
I never realized
How deep the flood was around
me,
A man whose life was toil
was like a kettle left to boil,
And the world left scars
on me,
I know now who I am,
If only for a while,
I recognize the changes,
I feel like I did before
the
Magic wore thin and the
‘baptism
of stains’ began
They used to say I was
Nowhere, man,
Heading down
Was my destiny,
But yesterday, I swear,
That was someone else not
me.
Here I stand at the crossroads
edge,
Afraid to reach out for
eternity,
One step, when I look down,
I see someone else not me,
Looking back and I see
Someone else.
All my life they said I
Was going down,
But I’m still standing,
Stronger, proud.
And today I know there’s
So much more I can be.
From where I stand at the
crossroads edge
There’s a path leading out
to sea.
And from somewhere
Deep in my mind,
Sirens sing out loud
Songs of doubt
As only they know how.
But one glance back reminds,
and I see,
Someone else not me.
I keep looking back
at someone else...me?”
Chris DeGarmo & Geoff
Tate of Queensryche, the song “Someone Else?” off the album Promised
Land released in 1994. The song is available on the album as a piano
version, but is also available as a full-band version.
April come she will...
Chris Barlow
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