Ok, one final, brief post before closing up shop before we leave for France.
has a very nice, if quite short, on Souled American's Flubber album. I first heard of Souled American about seven or eight years ago.
For the first time in years, I'd bought an issue of Spin magazine--I have to admit that it was the cover story "What the World Needs Now Is Axl Rose", or something, that had caught my attention. Oddly, the Axl story was not worth the time it took to read it, but in the back of the issue was a story set aside in a box about this strange, elusive, sort of country rock band called Souled American. I immediately felt that, somehow, this was a band I needed to hear.
I happened upon their Frozen cd in a Borders, of all places, and snapped it up. A bizarre, lovely, low-key record. I set about finding their earlier stuff, ordering two double-cd reissues of their first four albums, the second one taking months to get to me.
Completely worth it. I go through periods where I listen to Souled American obsessively. I've yet to hear anything else like them.
Louis Menand's in The New Yorker on Bob Dylan is excellent. (I'll be buying Modern Times fairly soon after returning home.)
Speaking of The New Yorker, I also liked Sasha Frere-Jones' about the Boredoms a few weeks back.
We caught their show in Philadelphia at the end of June, and it was utterly fantastic. It was hypnotic and trance-inducing and also made us dance.
I've been enjoying , my favorite free jazz mp3 blog.
If you have any interest in free jazz or out-jazz or whatever you might prefer to call it, and you haven't already been checking in on them, please do so now (the links don't last long). I've especially appreciated recent posts about Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra, and Alice Coltrane. Their most recent subject is .
Good stuff.
And, from just this morning, John at on , a group I've never been able to get. John's blog is usually a thoughtful read, and this post is no different.
He makes me want to spend some quality time with the Beach Boys, which is quite a trick, and he almost makes me think I'll actually make the effort to do so.
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