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While I am still deeply into Spotify, I also enjoy the ability to roll some mixes that are available to those who stubbornly refuse to sign up.

My current favorite of the mix-tape sites is 8tracks.

Here’s our fifth mix.  Some serious funk and groove.

Enjoy.  Share.  Tell your friends.

RanchoCast, Volume 5 from newsome on 8tracks Radio.

Here’s a nice mellow vibe for a Saturday morning. I really like this video.

Great song too.

I was in San Antonio yesterday, living the blessed life, on what would have been Woody Guthrie‘s 100th birthday.  It was a great time, particularly since I didn’t turn on a TV, radio or computer the entire time, thereby getting a respite from the everybody hates everybody else spinfest that passes for news in our hijacked culture.

On the way out, we stopped by The Cove (highly recommended; best fish tacos I’ve ever tasted) for an excellent gospel brunch with Miss Nessie & the Ear Food Orchestra (as an aside, why can’t they play music like this at church, in lieu of those spirit killing, hundred year old, so-called hymns?).

One of the many, many great songs they played was Give God the Blues:

God don’t hate the Muslims
God don’t hate the Jews
God don’t hate the Christians
But we all give God the Blues.

A-frickin’-men.

Here’s the thing.  The Republican Party isn’t going to save us.  The Democrats aren’t going to save us.  God knows (I believe this, literally) exclusionary organized religion is not going to save us.  Hating someone who doesn’t look like you or believe what you believe sure as hell isn’t going to save us.

The only thing that might save us is ourselves.  By understanding and embracing the fact that we are all people.  And realizing that life isn’t about just taking as much as you can from everyone and everything you can.

Here’s a fantastic cover of a great Woody Guthrie song to help us get started.

Carry on.

This weekend’s SOTW is Come Back by The Go.

Love, love, love that bass track.

The Go is an American rock & roll band from Detroit, Michigan. Their sound has evolved from garage punk to a blend of 1960s and 1970s influences, most notably The Beatles. The Go is composed primarily of Robert “Bobby” Harlow (vocals), John Krautner (guitar, bass), Marc Fellis (drums), James McConnell (lead guitar), and a rotating cast of other band members, including Jack White (later of The White Stripes, The Dead Weather and The Raconteurs), who was with the band from mid ’98 to early ’99.

Come Back is from their 2003 self-titled record (Amazon, iTunes, Spotify).

I heard this one at the end of Asylum Blackout, an OK, but nothing special, horror film I watched on Apple TV last night.

So we all know that Game of Thrones, books and TV show, are just about perfect.  To say I am immersed in George R.R. Martin‘s expansive world is an understatement.  In fact, I have dreamed on more than one occasion that I was in Westeros.  Those are my third favorite dream topics, behind only the times I’ve dreamed I was a member of the Grateful Dead and….  Well, other stuff.

While we wait impatiently for the next book in the series and season on TV, here is one of the most rocking songs I’ve heard in a long time.

I was previously unfamiliar with Dominik Omega and The Arcitype, but if this is indicative of their work, they should be performing in stadiums full of crazed fans.  This is really good stuff.

Just because I was born there and all.

I’d never heard of Truckstop Darlin’ until I did a Spotify search for songs named South Carolina.  Great song.  Sounds a little cleaner on Spotify.

The Flirtations were formed in 1962 in New York, by four women from South Carolina.  Lestine Johnson and sisters Ernestine Pearce, Shirley Pearce and Betty Pearce.

I don’t know anything about this band, but this song has a cool vibe.

Likewise, I know nothing about the band Tennis, but this one also has a cool sound.

Last, but not least, The Outlaws.

Anne McCue rocks out a great Neil Young cover.

Yep.

More.

Anyone who reads this blog or knows me in the semi-real world knows that I frickin’ love The Wrinkle Neck Mules.

Somehow, though, I managed to totally miss their new record, Apprentice to Ghosts, released back in February.  Fortunately, the excellent music blog Twangville alerted me to this ear-pleasing development.

Sadly, I don’t see the record on Spotify.  It’s available via Amazon, via Google Play or via iTunes.  Look for a review shortly.

I admit I didn’t see the Julia thing coming at the end of the last Being Human.  Great, sad scene.

As usual, there were a couple of great songs in the episode, including this beautiful number by Alialujah Choir (featuring the Portland Cello Project).

Simply beautiful song, with an excellent video to go along with it.

Alialujah Choir is not a one-trick pony either.

More great music.

This is huge!

I get a bunch of records to review, and discover and review a lot of good music that way.  But it’s not everyday that a new record by the original lineup of one of the best bands of all time hits my inbox.  But that just happened.

The dB’s have a new record!

It gets better.  Lots better.  This record is excellent.  Better than excellent.  Wonderful.  Perfect.  Holsapple, Stamey, The frickin’ dB’s!

‘Falling Off the Sky’ is the first new dB’s album in a quarter-century. It’s also the first in three decades to feature the band’s original lineup of Peter Holsapple, Chris Stamey, Gene Holder and Will Rigby — the same lineup that recorded the beloved early-’80s classics for deciBels and Repercussion.

Street date is set for June 17 on Bar/None Records.

Listen for yourself.  That Time is Gone.  Is that The dB’s or what?

The second track, Before We Were Born, is even better.  Far Away and Long Ago sounds like a great, undiscovered Beatles song.  There’s not an average song on this record.  It is excellent, from start to finish.  It’s a beautiful blend/mash-up of 80s alternative rock/indie rock/Americana.

She Won’t Drive in the Rain Anymore is as wonderful as its title.  Beautiful.  Wistful, like most great music.

Early leader for my record of the year.  If you buy one record this year, it should be two copies of this one.  One for you and another for some poor soul who doesn’t know about The dB’s.

I gotta go, so I can listen to this record over and over.

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