darth_libris ([info]darth_libris) wrote,
@ 2008-04-20 16:45:00
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Current mood: sick

Succumbing to peer pressure
OK, ok, if everyone else is doing this meme, I guess I have to.

Music meme: List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now, shaping your spring. Post these instructions in your LJ along with your 7 songs.

The Touch of Your Lips, Ben Webster & Oscar Peterson -- Probably the best jazz duo I know. I never get tired of listening to their stuff.

Ford Econoline, Nanci Griffith -- Definitely a must-have for anybody's road trip playlist.

Outbound Plane, Nanci Griffith -- Yes, I'm listening to a lot of Nanci Griffith.

No Hawaiians, No Aloha, Sean Na'auao -- One of the great Hawaiian guitarists/singers.

Hard Time Killing Floor Blues, Chris Thomas King -- Off of King's The Roots album, which you should be running to buy if you don't have it already.

I'll Never get Out of this World Alive, The Little Willies -- The Hank Williams' classic, done by the C&W band that Norah Jones sings with in New York. Yes, that Norah Jones. Yes, it's good. How often can you get a C&W album with a song about Lou Reed tipping cows on it?

Was I Wazir?, Henry Calvin -- One of my favorite, comic Broadway songs, from the original cast recording of Kismet. I'm waiting for someone to do a YouTube video of clips of Dick Cheney with this song as the background music.

In other news, still sick as a dog.



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[info]girasole
2008-04-20 10:58 pm UTC (link)
I believe that I own every Nanci Griffith recording that there is (and seen her perform live). For whatever reason, I too have rediscovered her. I love "Ford Econoline" too, but what's in big rotation on the iTouch is "Going Back to Georgia" with Adam Duritz of Counting Crows.

Somewhere I heard that Toad the Wet Sprocket did a song about Nanci. Must try to find that.

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[info]darth_libris
2008-04-21 12:21 am UTC (link)
I don't think I've heard anyone quite capture the frustration of being stuck in a Conversation with a capital C than Outbound Plane's refrain: "I don't wanna be standing here, and I don't wanna be talking here, and I don't really care who's to blame."

I think the song you're thinking of is called, logically enough, "Nanci," on their album Dulcinea.

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