Wednesday, May 23, 2012

A Lovely Autumn

1 Taj Mahal - Lovin in My Baby's Arms
2 Shawn Colvin - All He Wants Is You
3 Jessie De Natalle - Twilight King
4 Peter Case - Old Blue Car
5 Emmylou Harris - Here There and Everywhere
6 Toni Price - Not Comin Home
7 Bambi Molesters - As The Darkness Swells
8 Joe Ely - Indian Cowboy
9 Eddie Vedder - Masters of War
10 Jimmy Vaughan - Don't Ya Know
11 The Eastern - Gone
12 Steve Earle - Halo Around The Moon
13 Bill Hickman live in the Studio - Everything and Nothing
14 Bill  Hickman - Girls and Cars
15 Bodeans - Idaho
16 The Band - This Wheels on Fire
17 Alabama Shakes - Hold On
18 Calexico - Tulsa Telephone Book
19 Celtic Divas - Wayfaring Stranger  

Wednesday, May 02, 2012

Codeine and Jesus



1 Guy Clark - Ft Worth Blues
2 Steve Earle - The Mountain
3 Warren Zevon - Hasten Down the Wind -live pre 1976 release of Excitable Boy
4 Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy
5 Bodeans - Runaway
6 Bambi Molesters - As the Darkness Swells
7 Gene Clarke and Carla Olsen - Train leaves here this Morning
8 Tim Easton - Stormy
9 Sarah Borges - The Day We Met
10 Terry Allen - Cocaine
11 Terry Allen - Whatever Happened to Jesus and Maybelline
12 Soloman Burke - That's How I Got to Memphis
13 Bobby Neurith - Private Eye
14 Warratahs - Kupes Tears
15 Ramsay Midwood - Rotten Alabama
16 Bodeans - She's a Runaway
17 Syd Straw - Harper Valley PTA
18 Fistfull of Dollars - Buckets of Rain
19 Paul Kelly - Stories of Me
20 Jason Isbell - Codeine
21 Lyle Lovett - Lungs

Friday, April 27, 2012

Lil' Band Of Gold Comes to New Zealand This Summer

Lil' Band of Gold

LIL’ BAND O’GOLD BRING THEIR MAGIC BACK TO NEW ZEALAND

The Lil' Band O' Gold play four New Zealand shows in July...
WED 4 JULY – WELLINGTON, OPERA HOUSE
THURS 5 JULY – NAPIER, MUNICIPAL THEATRE
FRI 6 JULY – HAMILTON, CLARENCE ST THEATRE
SAT 7 JULY – AUCKLAND, POWERSTATION

PRESALE TICKETS ON SALE TUE 1ST MAY FROM
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GENERAL TICKETS ON SALE THURS 3RD OF MAY FROM TICKETEK (WELLINGTON, NAPIER, HAMILTON) & TICKETMASTER AND REAL GROOVY (AUCKLAND)

Lil' Band O' Gold serve up an irrepressible gumbo of swamp pop, blues, country, cajun, soul and good old fashioned rock 'n' roll. Lily Allen loves them so much she flew them all over to play at her wedding, and their songs have featured in the hit TV shows 'True Blood' and 'Treme'.

Comprised of a revolving line-up of some of Louisiana's most respected musical exponents, the current line-up features the venerable Warren Storm - 75 years young and widely considered to be the 'godfather of swamp pop'. He has toured with such luminaries as Elvis and Johnny Cash and still sports an impressive helmet of coal black hair.

On sax is Dickie Landry, a whipper-snapper at 73 who has played extensively with the likes of Laurie Anderson, Phillip Glass, Talking Heads, Paul Simon and Bob Dylan.

The collective's nominal leader CC Adcock paid his dues playing with Bo Diddley and Buckwheat Zydeco and is the band's young upstart at 40. When not working with the Band o' Gold, he is a highly sought-after producer and composer of TV and movie soundtracks.

On keys is songwriting legend David Egan who has written songs for a veritable who's who of first-class vocal talent. Solomon Burke, Percy Sledge, Joe Cocker, Etta James, Mavis Staples and Irma Thomas are just a few of the artists who have recorded his material. Rounding up the line-up are 'accordian prodigy' Steve Riley, saxophonist Pat Breaux, funk pioneer and renowned blues guitarist Lil' Buck, token Australian Lucky Oceans (pedal steel) and bassman extraordinaire Phillipe Billeaudeaux.

Their forthcoming album 'Lil Band o Gold Play Fats' is, unsurprisingly, an album of Fats Domino covers, however the heavyweights featured on vocals include Robert Plant, Elvis Costello and Lucinda Williams, alongside Down Under heroes Jimmy Barnes and You Am I's Tim Rogers.

Their ramshackle rock and soul revue has reminded more than one critic of The Band on their best nights and their last visit to NZ in 2010 made them a whole mess of new fans.