Americana roots music--alt.country, acoustic, bluegrass, blues--traditional Country that's too country for Country radio. Catamount Music. Bloodshot and Lost Highway. Hint: If it's got synth, rap or hip hop, it's all leaves and no roots.
Listen to KRFC-FM 88.9 webstream, alot of roots & more on community radio from the Front Range of Colorado.
Last.fm Social Music blog thingy w/gee-wiz high bandwidth streaming.
Here's the albums I've been spinning the most:
Here's my last's week's top tracks (do a hard refresh if the graphic seems stale--it's your browser, or my taste):
Movies
Lord of the Rings, Henry V, Braveheart, Glory, Seven Samurai, The Wild Bunch, Unforgiven, A River Runs Through It, The Matrix...
And for the Sake of the Song: Blues Brothers, Oh Brother Where Art Thou?, and Walk the Line
Television
Kill your television, before it kills you.
Books
By Title: The Boy Scout Handbook, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Dakota, The Great Plains, The Last Best Place, This House of Sky, Beyond the Hundreth Meridian, Desert Solitaire, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, The Road to Serfdom. By Author:
Jane Jacobs, Kathleen Norris, Walter Prescott Webb, William Kittredge, Ivan Doig, Wallace Stegner, Edward Abbey, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, F.A. Hayek.
About me: I listen to roots music, old music, traditional music, alt.country music. Then I blog about it. I love cities and wilderness, yet seldom leave town. The middle of nowhere is the middle of everywhere. I already did what you're gonna get in trouble for. The Man Comes Around. I listen to new roots music too. The new "indie" music you're listening too is just remakes of the old pop music I didn't listen to when it was newer.
Who I'd like to meet: Johnny Cash and Townes Van Zandt in Heaven.
George Armstrong Custer and Uncle Joe Stalin in Hell.
A fiesty rainbow trout in the Madison River of Montana.
My Maker with my Boots on.
Thanks for tuning in JC! I don't know why your comment isn't showing up, but I saw it =) It was a real treat having Ben in today, we're already planning our next one!
Thanks for the feedback.......and you aren't supposed to like it all, you know. If I'm not being edgy enough to make you turn me off once in a while, I'm not being a good DJ. Right? However, I am old and can't remember the "love fest" to which you refer at all.......what was it? Jo Ann
Hey JC, why don't we get Fred Eaglesmith booked somewhere in your neck of the woods in late Oct. Got any ideas? Call me: 512-203-4619. Bill Passalacqua
JC! Thanks for your comment on my blog. You're right, we can't force it - maybe that's what I was trying to do and why it didn't work. But all's well; I think I'm willing now to just let it all fall into place.
