Tonight is the final night to get into the drawing for the giveaways in the November podcast. If you want to get in on it listen to the November Florigasm podcast for entry details (pro-tip: it’s real easy).
Winners will be notified tomorrow.
Drag the River’s break-up turned nonbreak-up turned…well….I don’t even know what it is these days has spurred the release of another new(ish) cd, Primer.
The 20 tracks were hand selected by Jon and Chad and while there is probably a track or two missing Primer probably looks like the mixtape you would make if you were trying to turn someone on to Drag. So, check out the full album stream below and then go order it.
I am currently working a set of compilations that cover one year in alt country each starting in 1995 and it’s been a real bitch to be honest. But whilst working on that I realized I hadn’t really brought much Texas flavor to the 9B table and so I have decided to fix that starting with this intro. I know I already posted about Ray Wylie Hubbard but looking back that post feels rushed and really doesn’t cover, musically, the depths of the man who is one of the godfathers of country music as we know it, one of the founders of the whole Texas Country/Red Dirt Scene, and someone that many of the artists we cover here on 9B list as influential to their style. Ray Wylie’s career has been as long as it is weird, glorious, and downright good. If you want Ray Wylie’s history, from my perspective, then go check out the previous post but if you want to explore his music, including some gems you may not have heard, then waste no time clicking play on the little cassette tape thingy below!
Track Archive
From whence they came:
– Loco Gringo’s Lament
- Dust of the Chase
- The Real Trick
Delirium Tremolos
- Dallas After Midnight
- Cooler-N-Hell
- Choctaw Bingo
– Crusades of the Restless Knights
- Crows
- Conversation with the Devil
– Dangerous Spirits
- The Last Younger Son
- The Ballad of the Crimson Kings
- Crimson Dragon Tattoo
– Growl
- Screw You, We’re From Texas
- Bones
- Preacher
– Lost Train of Thought
- When She Sang Amazing Grace
– Snake Farm
- Snake Farm
Linkage:
Ray Wylie Hubbard – Official Site
Ray Wylie Hubbard – MySpace
Ray Wylie Hubbard – Wikipedia
Welcome to the November version of the ninebullets.net podcast. This month, since it’s Thanksgiving, I decided to do an all Florida version as an homage to the bands that play week in and week out in my home state. You know, the bands we can see so often we take them for granted. Passing up their shows for whatever the current buzz band coming through town that weekend is, with the fleeting promise that you’ll catch their show next weekend. Well this month, on ninebullets, is their show. Thanks for all the drunken nights y’all have given us this year, and I look forward to more of it in the coming year.
In keeping with the Florida theme I reached out to Cigar City Brewing to sponsor this month’s show. They agreed and gave me IPA, Mocha Cubano, Brown Ale, Imperial Stout and some others. The idea was to drink them while I did the podcast like I did last month, but once we opened the first growler I knew that wasn’t gonna happen. While I took the entire month to work through the Rogue beers, we put down all of the Cigar City beer in two days. If you live in the Tampa area you should get over to their brewery and buy you some. Trust me, I’m a professional.
There is also a ton of free stuff for you listeners wrapped inside this month’s podcast. We have free cds from Have Gun Will Travel, Greenland Is Melting and Chuck Ragan. We also have a vinyl copy of The Takers album and a beautiful 7″ picture disc from Chuck Ragan. To find out how to win this stuff you’re gonna have to actually listen to the show.
That’s it. I hope y’all enjoy listening to this show as much as I did making it. I think it turned out really well and I am proud of it, as well as the bands that are featured in it. Do me a favor though, if you listen and you enjoy the show, please tell other people about it.
Thanks, everyone. ~Autopsy IV (web / twitter / facebook)
TRACKLISTING:
- Mofro – Florida (Jacksonville) [00.00.00]
- Autopsy IV Talking (St. Petersburg) [00.04.06]
- Truckstop Coffee – US-29 (Lake Worth) [00.05.18]
- The Takers – St. Johns Son (Gainesville) [00.08.54]
- Have Gun Will Travel – Soles Of Our Shoes (Bradenton) [00.11.49]
- Autopsy IV Talking (St. Petersburg) [00.14.50]
- Will Quinlan & The Diviners – Plastic Rosary (Tampa) [00.16.11]
- Rebekah Pulley & the Reluctant Prophets – A Lot of Nothing (Tampa) [00.20.33]
- Jim Morey Band – Anything For Adventure (Tampa) [00.23.43]
- Autopsy IV Talking (St. Petersburg) [00.27.28]
- Greenland Is Melting – No More Sorry Songs (Gainesville) [00.32.07]
- Roppongi’s Ace – 1955 (Tampa) [00.35.07]
- Brahm Bones – Canoe (Tampa) [00.39.12]
- Tom Petty – The Last DJ (Gainesville) [00.43.06]
- Autopsy IV Talking (St. Petersburg) [00.46.33]
- Lynyrd Skynyrd – The Ballad Of Curtis Lowe (Jacksonville) [00.48.58]
- Ben Prestage – Sloppy Drunk (Everglades) [00.53.43]
- The Nine Volts – Carolina Soon (Orlando) [00.56.40]
- Autopsy IV Talking (St. Petersburg) [01.01.13]
- Chuck Ragan – Rotterdam (Gainesville) [01.03.20]
Nov 242009
The title of David Rawlings’ debut “solo” album, A Friend of a Friend, may be the most appropriate album title since Raw Power. A perennial sideman, Rawlings has most notably backed Gillian Welch though, if you’ve ever seen the two perform, you’re aware of just how colossal a misnomer it is to describe Rawlings’ role as “backing” anyone. More aptly, Rawlings has performed alongside Welch, contributing aching, lonesome harmonies and devastatingly beautiful guitar to every one of Welch’s releases to date. You’ll also find Rawlings behind (or beside) Ryan Adams, Allison Krause, Emmylou Harris, the Wallflowers, Norah Jones, and a host of other artists found on a Starbucks Americana Sampler near you. I suppose one could describe Rawlings’ career as being “under the radar,” but anyone who picked up the O Brother Where Art Thou Soundtrack should be well acquainted with David Rawlings.
A Friend of a Friend may not propel Rawlings to AAA radio stardom or expand his audience too far beyond those who already shout themselves horse every time he steps up to perform Conor Oberst’s “Method Acting” – which morphs into “Cortez the Killer” on A Friend of a Friend, much the way it does in most of Rawlings’ performances – during Welch’s sets, but something tells me Rawlings didn’t make this record to take the “next step” in his career. A Friend of a Friend doesn’t play at all like some calculated career move, but rather a collection of songs Rawlings felt a connection with, and wanted to record, so he did. My best guess – and this is only a guess – is that’s exactly what it is. It doesn’t take much in the way of imagination to envision Rawlings picking and singing these tunes backstage before a gig, or in his living room some Sunday afternoon. There is not a single contrived or inauthentic moment on A Friend of a Friend and, in a sad commentary on the state of the music industry, that’s quite a feat.
Sonically and structurally speaking, the album is essentially another Gillian Welch/David Rawlings album, with Rawlings handling lead vocal duties this time out. Welch is all over the record, as are a number of Rawlings friends (and friends of friends, one assumes). And while A Friend of a Friend meanders at times, the high points – “Ruby,” “It’s Too Easy,” and “Bells of Harlem” among them – are more than engaging enough to compensate for any momentary lulls.
A Friend of a Friend is going to end up on my year-end Top Ten list and I would not be the least bit shocked to see it on a number of others, as well. If nothing else, I sincerely hope this album inspires Rawlings to stand front and center a little more often.
