| The
Crossing - February 2010
Sing with me and Lou-ie (Louis
Armstrong):
"Oh when the Saints go marching
in. Oh when the Saints go marching in. Lord, I want to be in that number.
Oh when the Saints go marching in." (traditional.)
Hey, I admit it. No bag to
wear over this head. I have been rooting on the New Orleans Saints, formerly
the Aints, since 1983 when I lived in the New Orleans area (Slidell) as
a young teenager. My family had moved down there for a couple of years
and the football Cardinals, formerly of the St. Louis area, weren't so
good at the time and frankly the Saints weren't so good either, but I figured
I would have two horses in the race and adopted the Saints as my second
team. Turns out they were the first of the two teams to win a Super Bowl.
Of course, I am also a Rams fan, but currently they are known as the team
that shall not be named for obvious reasons. Boy, are they bad. But, no
matter. The Saints are the talk of the nation in recent days and their
sweet victory over the Indianapolis Colts should give just a small glimmer
of hope as to things to come for the fair Crescent City in the days ahead.
Hey, it can't hurt. And something tells me, Peyton Manning will have his
day in the sun once again.
GO SAINTS!!!
From one musically enriched
city to one musically enriched list.
Recently released and not
mentioned in last edition:
* Joe Firstman - El Porto
* Beach House - Teen Dream
* Day of Fire - Losing All
* Harlem Parlour Music Club
- Salt of the Earth
* Kasey Anderson - Nowhere
Nights
* Terry Joyce - Kitchen
Radio
* Tim Barry - 28th and Stonewall
* Jon Dee Graham - It's
Not As Bad As It Looks
* Peter O'Brien - Junked
Cars & Beat Up Guitars
* Gun - Popkiller (EP.)
* The Cranberries - Bualadh
Bos: Live
* New Found Glory - S/T
(Deluxe edition.)
2/2
* Monolake - Silence
* Midlake - The Courage
of Others
* Album Leaf - A Chorus
of Storytellers
* The Anchors - Music from
the Future
* The Soft Pack - S/T
+ Amelia
+ Zombieland
+ New York, I Love You
+ Casblanca (Blu-ray.)
+ Mystic River (Blu-ray.)
2/9
* Allison Moorer - Crows
* Lynn Miles - Black Flowers
(2 CD's.)
* Sade - Soldier of Love
* Gil Scott-Heron - I'm
New Here
* Shannon Curfman - What
You're Getting Into
* Meg Hutchinson - The Living
Side
* Yeasayer - Odd Blood
* Watson Twins - Talking
to You, Talking to Me
* Massive Attack - Heligoland
* Hot Chip - One Life Stand
* Galactic - Ya-Ka-May
* Luther Allison - Songs
from the Road (CD/DVD.)
* HIM - Screamworks
* The Forecast - S/T
* A Broken Consort - Crow
Autumn
* ALO - Man of the World
* The Buckinghams - Up Close
* Essence of Mind - Try
and Fail
* Helalyn Flowers - Stitches
of Eden
* Fair - Disappointing World
* Phantogram - Eyelid Movies
* Crack the Sky - Machine
* Fear Factory - Mechanize
* Overkill - Ironbound
* Dave Matthews & Tim
Reynolds - Live in Las Vegas
* K.D. Land - Recollection:
Best of
* Valentine's Day soundtrack
* Brian Jonestown Massacre
- a few reissues
* The Buzzcocks - a few
reissues
* Trouble - a few reissues
* David Bowie - S/T (Deluxe
edition.)
+ Couples Retreat
+ A Serious Man (Coen Bros.)
+ The Stepfather
+ My One and Only
+ The Time Traveler's Wife
2/16
* Peter Gabriel - Scratch
My Back (Covers project.)
* The Pretenders - Live
in London (CD/DVD.)
* Jim Campilongo - Orange
* Juliana Hatfield - Peace
and Love
* Adam Green - Minor Love
* Robert Pollard - We All
Got Out of the Army
* Story of the Year - Constant
* Angels & Airwaves
- Love
* Field Music - S/T
* Backyard Tire Fire - Good
To Be
* Tindersticks - Falling
Down a Mountain
* Gentle Friendly - Ride
Slow
* Lightspeed Champion -
Life is Sweet
* Miracle Condition - S/T
* Wide Eye Panic - Modus
Operandi
* The Errors - Come Down
With Me
* Solas - The Turning Tide
* Preservation Hall Jazz
Band - Preservation
* The Bee Gees - Mythology
(4 CD box set.)
* Frank Turner - two reissues
+ Coco Before Chanel
+ Good Hair
+ Law Abiding Citizen
+ Goodfellas (Blu-ray.)
2/23
* Johnny Cash - American
VI: Ain't No Grave
* Will Kimbrough - Wings
* Sean McCann - Lullabies
for Bloodshot Eyes (Member of Great Big Sea.)
* Joanna Newsom - Have One
On Me
* Carrie Newcomer - Before
& After
* Daniel Merriweather -
Love & War
* Jack Rose - Luck in the
Valley
* Josh Thompson - Way Out
Here
* Holly Miranda - Magician's
Private Library
* The Rocket Summer - Of
Men and Angels
* The Streets - Computers
and Blues
* Shearwater - The Golden
Archipelago
* Past Lives - Tapestry
of Webs
* The Shout Out Louds -
Work
* Deadstring Brothers -
Sao Paulo
* Joy Kills Sorrow - Darkness
Sure Becomes this City
* David Broza - Night Dawn
* Clem Snide - The Meat
of Life
* Crime in Stereo - I Was
Trying to Describe You
* Efterklang - Magic Chairs
* Eluvium - Similes
* The Alkaline Trio - This
Addiction
* High On Fire - Snakes
for the Divine
* Was (Not Was) - Pick of
the Litter: 1980-2010
* Julian Cope - Peggy Suicide
(Deluxe edition.)
* Testament - The Formation
of Damnation
* Keel - Streets of Rock
and Roll
+ The September Issue
+ Sorority Row
+ The Informant
+ Cirque du Freak: the Vampire's
Assistant
+ The Box
+ Everybody's Fine
+ Paris
3/2
* Black 47 - Bankers and
Gangsters
* Lifehouse - Smoke &
Mirrors
* Little Boots - Hands
* John Hiatt - The Open
Road
* Flogging Molly - Live
at the Greek Theater (2 CD's/1 DVD.)
* The Whigs - In the Dark
* Rogue Wave - Permalight
* Athlete - Black Swan
* Dust From 1,000 Years
- Marble Memo
* Owen Pallett - Heartland
* Ruby Suns - Fight Softly
* A Weather - Everyday Balloons
* Shooter Jennings - Black
Ribbons
* Altan - 25th Anniversary
Celebration
+ Five Iron Frenzy - The
Rise and Fall of... (2 DVD's.)
+ Where The Wild Things
Are
+ Ponyo
+ 2012
+ The Private Lives of Pippa
Lee
+ The Beaches of Agnes
+ Clash of the Titans (Blu-ray.)
+ The Neverending Story
(Blu-ray.)
3/9
* Jimi Hendrix - Valleys
of Neptune (Unreleased final sessions) and many Deluxe reissues.
* Amy MacDonald - A Curious
Thing
* Patty Larkin - 25
* Giant - Promise Land
* Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
* Serj Tankian - Elect the
Dead: Symphony
* Frightened Rabbit - Winter
of Mixed Drinks
* The Bundles - S/T
* Aloha - Home Acres
* Besnard Lakes - Besnard
Lakes are the Roaring Night
* Alberta Cross - The Broken
Side of Time
* The Method Actors - This
Is Still It
* Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
- The Brutalist Bricks
* Miles Kurosky - The Desert
of Shallow Effects
* Black Rebel Motorcycle
Club - Beat the Devil's Tattoo
* Ben Harper - Live from
the Montreal International Jazz Festival
* Julie Fowlis - Uam
* Josh Rouse - El Turrista
* Broken Bells - S/T
* White Hinterland - Kairos
* Liars Sisterworld
* Acrassicauda Only
the Dead See the End of the War (EP; Iraqi metal band seen in the documentary
`Heavy Metal in Baghdad'.)
* Pavement - Quarantine
the Past: Best of and a few reissues
+ Jimi Hendrix - Live at
Woodstock (Blu-ray.)
+ The Chieftains & Ry
Cooder - San Patricio (CD/DVD.)
+ Precious
+ Capitalism: A Love Story
+ The Stoning of Soraya
M.
+ Planet 51
+ Old Dogs
+ The Kids are Alright (Blu-ray.)
3/16
* The Drive By Truckers -
The Big To-Do
* Flobots - Survival Story
* The White Stripes - Under
Great White Northern Lights: Live (CD/DVD.)
* Graham Parker - Imaginary
Television
* Gin Wigmore - Holy Smoke
* Brad Mehldau - Highway
Rider
* The Dropkick Murphys -
Live on Landsdowne, Boston, MA
* Aiden - Live in Chicago
(CD/DVD.)
* Uriah Heep - Celebration
* Armored Saint - La Raza
* Fates Warning - Parallels
(2 CD/1 DVD Deluxe reissue.)
+ The Princess and the Frog
+ Broken Embraces
+ Astroboy
+ Bandslam
+ Armored
+ The Fourth Kind
3/20
+ The Twilight Saga: New
Moon
3/23
* She & Him - Volume
Two
* Joe Bonamassa - Black
Rock
* Dillinger Escape Plan
- Option Paralysis
* Jonsi Birgisson - Go
* Sanctuary - Refuge Denied/Into
the Mirror Black (reissues.)
* The Scorpions - Sting
in the Tail (Import.)
+ The Fantastic Mr. Fox
+ The Men Who Stare at Goats
+ Brothers
+ Toy Story 1 & 2 (Blu-ray.)
+ The African Queen (Blu-ray.)
3/30
* Edwin McCain - Best of
* The Barenaked Ladies -
All In Good Time
* Black Francis - Nonstop
Erotik
* Amy Grant - Somewhere
Down the Road
+ Sherlock Holmes
+ An Education
+ The Baader Meinhof Complex
+ Alvin & the Chipmunks:
the Squeakquel
+ Alice in Wonderland (1951
animated Disney film.)
+ Under the Sea: IMAX-3D
4/6
* Natalie Merchant - Leave
Your Sleep
* The BoDeans - Mr. Sad
Clown
* Jakob Dylan - Women and
Country
* Peter Wolf - Midnight
Souvenirs
* David Byrne and Fatboy
Slim - Here Lies Love
* The Cure - Disintegration
(20th anniversary edition.)
4/13
* Jeff Beck - Emotion &
Commotion
* Helloween - Unarmed: Best
of
* Willie Nelson - Country
Music
+ Pirate Radio
4/20
* The Break - Church of the
Open Sky (3 Midnight Oil members and 1 Violent Femmes member.)
* Caribou - Swim
* Ratt - Infestation
* AC/DC - Iron Man 2 soundtrack
+ The Young Victoria
+ Summer Hours
+ The Horse Boy
4/27
* Mary Chapin Carpenter -
Age of Miracles
* The Deftones - TBA
* Melissa Etheridge - Fearless
Love
+ The Imaginarium of Doctor
Parnassus
+ Five Minutes of Heaven
+ The White Ribbon
5/4
* Josh Ritter - So Runs the
World Away
* The New Pornographers
- Together
* Broken Social Scene -
TBA
LYRICS of the MONTH:
Two songs adopted by the
2010 Super Bowl Champion, New Orleans Saints.
"I cried to my daddy
on the telephone, How long now
Til the clouds unroll
and you come home, The line went
But the shadows still
remain since your descent, Your descent
I cried to my daddy
on the telephone, How long now
Til the clouds unroll
and you come home, The line went
But the shadows still
remain since your descent, Your descent
The saints are coming,
the saints are coming
I say no matter how
I try, I realize there's no reply
The saints are coming,
the saints are coming
I say no matter how
I try, I realize there's no reply
A drowning sorrow floods
the deepest grief, How long now
Til a weather change
condemns belief, The storm sails
This paternal guide
once had his day, Once had his day
The saints are coming,
the saints are coming
I say no matter how
I try, I realize there's no reply
The saints are coming,
the saints are coming
I say no matter how
I try, I realize there's no reply
I say no matter how
I try, I realize there's no reply
I say no matter how
I try, I realize there's no reply."
Richard Jobson and Stuart
Adamson (The Skids), the song `The Saints are Coming' appeared on the album
_Scared To Dance_ in 1979.
`The Saints are Coming' was
later performed live in September 2006 on Monday Night Football by both
U2 and Green Day performing together.
And:
"We are traveling in the
footsteps
Of those who've gone before,
And we'll all be reunited,
On a new and sunlit shore,
Oh, when the saints go marching
in
Oh, when the saints go marching
in
Lord, how I want to be in
that number
When the saints go marching
in
And when the sun refuse to
shine
And when the sun refuse
to shine
Lord, how I want to be in
that number
When the sun refuse to shine
And when the moon turns red
with blood
And when the moon turns
red with blood
Lord, how I want to be in
that number
When the moon turns red
with blood
Oh, when the trumpet sounds
its call
Oh, when the trumpet sounds
its call
Lord, how I want to be in
that number
When the trumpet sounds
its call
Some say this world of trouble,
Is the only one we need,
But I'm waiting for that
morning,
When the new world is revealed.
Oh When the new world is
revealed
Oh When the new world is
revealed
Lord, how I want to be in
that number
When the new world is revealed
Oh, when the saints go marching
in
Oh, when the saints go marching
in
Lord, how I want to be in
that number
When the saints go marching
in."
(Traditional; sung and arranged
in many different ways), the song "When the Saints Go Marching In" was,
in part, made famous by New Orleans native Louis Armstrong's version first
recorded in the 1930's.
Spring is just around the
corner.
See you in March.
Chris Barlow
cbcrossing@yahoo.com
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