Because it's Tuesday

A few Hearts are broken a few strings are busted.

Song of the Week

I decided to start adding something new to my blog. Now one a week I'm going to embed a song as the song of the week. Next week I'm planing on talking a little bit about Punk Rock so today the song of the week is:

Hot Burrito?

There was a time when country music was cooler than everything else. Some people might have a hard time believing that, but it's true. It happened just about every time Gram Parsons walked on stage. He was an epic badass.

I've talked about him before, but I've never really talked to much about his history. I'm going to go into too much detail. If anyone's really interested, they could probably get a bunch more information here. I'll just give a quick over view. From 1966 to 1973 he was in several different bands usually only putting out one album with each. He became pretty well known, but his records didn't sell particularly well. He died of a drug over dose in 1973. He was 26. The same age as Otis Redding and Paul Kossoff were when they died.



He's really good. Here's a list.
A Song For You
Miller's Cave
Hot Burrito #2
Luxury Liner

My Sweet George

I missed a blog post a week or two ago, so I'm trying to catch up, and posting an extra one. A few days ago I was thinking to myself about I got long and longer between discovering new songs, that get me really excited about finding a new song. I feel like I've just listened to so much of what is out there (at least in terms of the kinds of music I like to listen to). A large part of this is probably due to the fact that I don't get much of a chance to look around for new music or by music on different media. That being said, this week I discovered a song that I'm really excited about.

last weekend I watched a documentary on George Harrison. I am already a huge Beatles fan, I'm pretty sure I've talked about it before. The documentary talked about Harrison's song My Sweet Lord, which I believe I have heard before in passing, but had never given it much thought. Actually I never gave Harrison's solo career that much thought. It's not that I don't like George, I do, that's just how it played out. Since the weekend I haven't been able to stop listening to My Sweet Lord. I'm not sure what it is about it, it's just so catchy and soothing. It's been my soundtrack all week. I thinking finding it now was perfect timing, because I just seem to be in a place in my life where the song really speaks to me. Anyway, here it is.

The Faces

A couple of weeks ago, I did a presentation in one of my classes on the Faces. So I thought I could do a blog post on them today. I think the Faces are a pretty sweet band. They are pretty comparable to the Rolling Stones in quite a lot of ways. Ron Wood the Faces guitarist even joined the Stones in the late 70s after the Faces broke up.

The Faces formed from the ruins of two other bands, the Jeff Beck group and the Small Faces. Ronnie Lane, Kenny Jones Ian Mclagan from the Small Faces and , Rod Stewart and Ron Wood from the Jeff Beck Group.



I don't want to spend too much time talking about the Faces break up, but it had a lot to do with Rod Stewart's additional contract with Mercury records, this led to him having separate billing. At shows the band was billed as Rod Stewart and the Faces, which created some animosity between band members.

Here are some of my favourite songs by the Faces.



this one was a Ronnie Lane solo, but I used this video, because it's the best one.

Four totally badass songs you might not have heard

Everyone has heard their fair of badass songs. They're pretty much a dime a dozen. There are all sorts of them, that touch on different subject matters. One thing they all usually have in common is the singer is talking about how he's a badass or how the someone else is. Here are four songs that I didn't know about until I found out about them. Maybe you've heard of them, and if not, you have now.

1. Stevie Wonder - You've met your match


2. ZZ Top - Jesus Just Left Chicago


3. O.V. Wright - Ace Of Spades


4. Bob Dylan - Motorpsycho Nitemare

I know you're dying baby, and I know you know it too.

The other day I was driving in my car, listening to my iPhone. I had my in-car stereo turned off, along with my lights and heater fan, because I was trying to conserve gas. That's why I had my iPhone playing. I wasn't using headphones, just the built in speaker. I had it on shuffle, one of the songs that came up on the play list was Slim Slow Slider by Van Morrison. It got me thinking about my dog Freckles. It was one of the songs that I listened to the day that she died. it got me thinking about some other songs that make me think about her. I used to think that her favourite song was Ruby Tuesday by the Rolling Stones. What led me to believe that it was her favourite, was that every time that song way playing she seemed to really react to the "still I'm gonna miss you." it always happened so in my mind I just accepted the idea that Ruby Tuesday was her favourite. Another song I listened to the day she died, which was January 12, 2010, was Shine a Light by the Rolling Stones.