Well, it is January 12th in MANY places!

[sadiane]

Which makes today MORE JOY DAY! It is a day of joy. More of it, even!

My little contribution to sdwolfpup's More Joy Day 2012 , I give you music! A collection of songs from bands that fall pretty far out of the "bandom" spectrum, featuring a lot of Pacific NW musicians and indie / folk artists, people I've seen playing basement clubs, afternoon patio

Comments

[brynnmck]

Yaaaaay! I'm going to the Milk Carton Kids next week, because I figured you'd defriend me if I missed them again. :D I am excite!

[sadiane]

Heeeee! I think it would take more than overlooking my randomly beloved acoustic folk duo. If only because it's TOTALLY out of left field.

But really, SO SO AWESOME. SO glad you are going. I promise they aren't as boing as "acoustic folk duo" might lead you to believe.

(and also you are an enabling enabler who enables as well. I ALSO sent a Jeffery Foucault song to William Beckett the other day!)

[brynnmck]

No, I'm not expecting to be bored at all--Z said they had fantastic banter, and you and she have both said what an amazing guitarist Kenneth Pattengale is, so. I'm sold! :D

And AWWWW. Spreading the JF love! YAY. <333

[sadiane]

I sort of want to drag every awkward and shy musician ever to see Joey Ryan, because the banter is just SO GREAT. Sort of like a master class in "how to make an utter lack of confidence and charisma work in your favor". If the whole music thing doesn't work out, he's got a future as a stand up comic?

And Kenneth Pattingale makes me feel somewhat inadequate even as a person who listens to music; my ears can barely keep up. And it's mainly improved.

Plus, you get bonus guy from Lie To Me. It should be fun?

(heee! I need to dig further into the JF back catalog, since there's a LOT of it and I only have the new album...)

[brynnmck]

I have some JF (and Kris Delmhorst) stuff here, if you would like to sample! His most recent album is actually my least favorite, but YMMV. :)

[sadiane]

YAYS! I shall have to grab that when I'm on my actualfax computer!

(okay, I lied - I ALSO grabbed "Cold Satallite", but I tend to really dislike country music that isn't stripped down the the barest possible bones? There's something very near embarrassment squick that happens as soon as something sounds like "mainstream country", so I think I ran the other way as soon as there was a drummer and electric guitar.....)

[brynnmck]

"Cold Satellite" isn't his lyrics, either--they're all adaptations of poems by a woman named Lisa Olstein. Good, but not as good as his lyrics, IMO. And yes, it's actually the gradually-increasing band that I'm disliking about his newest album, I think... it just sounds weird to me, since I'm so used to it mostly being him and an acoustic guitar, and I feel like that's the best showcase for what he does best. (There's pedal steel on "Ghost Repeater," too, and that took some getting used to for me, but over time it's really grown on me. "Miles From the Lightning" and "Stripping Cane" are almost entirely acoustic guitar, though, and I don't think they suffer at ALL for him being fairly young when he wrote those songs--they're absolutely beautiful.)

[sadiane]

I think part of the reason I am enthusiastic about "Horse Lattitudes" is that I LOVE pedal steel? To a really ridiculous extent?

No matter where it shows up - Deby's bass player also does pedal steel, and it's so STRANGE and AWESOME when this fizzy bouncy pop band suddenly switches gears and it becomes this weak-in-the-knees liquid sliding sound under Nat's sunlight-through-the-clouds voice. And there's a Depeche Mode song - "The Bottom Line" - that is just vocals and pedal steel and textue synths, and it's one of my favorite of theirs

I also love banjos and harmonicas, and my life would be so much easier if I just liked country music, instead of hoping someone will get really really angry and play a banjo (hence, Mumford and Sons. But that also might be that he was nice to me when I accidentally hit on his guitar?!)