May 062013
 

George Jones and Slayer in the same show. Yes, I am proud of that fact. Put your ears on the archive of the show.

Below is the playlist for May 04, 2013 [Artist - Song (Album)]

01. Hellbound Glory – The Feud (Single)
02. Kossandra Rose (live in studio)
03. Jake Bugg – Seen It All (Jake Bugg)
04. The Decemberists – Rox In The Box (The King Is Dead)
05. Mother Merey and the Black Dirt – Front Porch (Down To The River)
06. Jason Isbell – Traveling Alone (Southeastern)
07. John Moreland – 3:59 AM (In The Throes)
08. Joey Kneiser – Bruised Ribs (The All-Night Bedroom Revival)
09. Northcote – Burn Right Past Them All (Northcote)
10. Drive-By Truckers – Women Without Whiskey (Southern Rock Opera)
11. American Aquarium – Burn.Flicker.Die. (Burn.Flicker.Die.)
12. Lucero – Texas & Tennessee (Texas & Tennessee EP)
13. Leroy Powell – Satan Put It On My Tab (Life & Death)
14. George Jones – Choices (Cold Hard Truth)
15. Pinebelt Pickers – Whiskey For Supper (Magnolia State Of Mine)
16. Devil Makes Three – Old No. 7 (Devil Makes Three)
17. The Builders And The Butchers – Raise Up Your Weary Hands (Salvation Is A Deep Dark Well)
18. Slim Cessna’s Auto Club – This Is How We Do Things In The Country (The Bloudy Tenant, Truth and Peace)
19. Leeroy Stagger – Goodnight Berlin (upcoming album)
20. Safe Haven – Eternal Farm (Sermon For No One)
21. Six Time Losers – Got This Feeling (upcoming album)
22. Grayson Capps – Ike (Rott and Roll)
23. McDougall – A Few Towns More (A Few Towns More)
24. Cam Penner – No Consequence (To Build A Fire)
25. O’Death – Down to Rest (Head Home)
26. Medford’s Black Record Collection – Small Town (The Flattville Murder Album)
27. Slayer – Dead Skin Mask (Seasons In The Abyss)

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Episode 121: aired 05.04.2013

May 032013
 

I always get excited each time the songs for a podcast start to come together.  I can’t really explain the process but it often involves find a few new songs and a few older, less expected, songs that seem to go together and then go from there.  There is a lot more new music in this podcast in comparison to most of my other episodes.  I guess this happened because there has been a SHIT TON of great new music being released.  Go find some and make a purchase or two.  Everything else you need to know is contained within the episode, so go listen.  And as always, your listening means the world to me.

Track Listing

1.Talking about what matters
2.Deacon Lunchbox – Loweena, Urban Redneck Queen (Bubbapalooza Vol. 1)
3.John Moreland – Nobody Gives A Damn About Songs Anymore (In The Throes)
4.Brown Bird – The Messenger (Fits Of Reason)
5.Conor Oberst – I Don’t Want To Die In The Hospital (Conor Oberst)
6.Me talking about bad concerts
7.Cave Singers – Early Moon (Naomi)
8.Dorado – Ape Of Dorado (Anger Hunger Love And The Fear Of Death)
9.Descendents – Bikeage (Somery)
10.Tyler Keith And The Apostles – Kid Twist (Black Highway)
11.Me talking about my dad in a strip club
12.Redneck GReese Delux – Mama Was A Dancer At The Clermont Lounge (Bubbapalooza Vol.1)
13.The Henry Girls And The Fox Hunt – Dig A Little Deeper (Mountains To The Ocean)
14.Dubl Handi – Single Girls (Up Like The Clouds)
15.Mother Merey And The Black Dirt – Old Rope (Down To The River)
16.Doc Dailey & The Magnolia Devil – At Midnight (Catch The Presidents)
17.Me talking about guitar solos and songs
18.Johnny Cash w/Merle Haggard – I’m Leaving Now (American III: Solitary Man)
19.Fistfull Of Beard – Daddy’s (Until We Know Better)
20.Hollis Brown – Ride On The Train (Ride On The Train)
21.The Hold Steady – Sequestered In Memphis (Stay Positive)
22.Me talking about a band you’ll probably never hear anywhere else
23.The Diggers – She’s Breaking My Heart (While I’m Drinking Her Beer) (Bubbapalooza Vol.1)


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May 022013
 

picadillo

Well it’s been a while since a taco recipe got posted but since Mike mentioned the sporadic taco recipes I decided it’s time for a new recipe. Being raised in Houston I have had the pleasure of tasting many types of tacos from gourmet (usually strange and not worth going back for more) to the roach coach variety and one of my favorites has always been the picadillo taco. Everyone makes theirs differently and this is my own personal take on a Mexican picadillo taco.

What is picadillo you may wonder? Well it’s a hash, in essence, a mince for our Eurotrash readers, and the ingredients vary by region. It is a staple and can be savory or a mix of savory and sweet. I prefer mine without the sweet and wrapped in tortillas de maize. It’s a little work to put together but you can trust me on this, it’s worth it! Be sure and read all the way through before cooking. And yeah, this one has a little bite but it’s not so spicy Autopsy couldn’t eat it.

1lb ground beef
2 tbsp oil
1 medium sized onion (I prefer yellow) chopped fine
1/4 cup poblano pepper, seeded and chopped fine
1/4 cup bell pepper (I prefer red), seeded and chopped fine
2 cloves of garlic peeled and crushed
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp fresh ground coarse ground black pepper
2 tsp cumin
2 large tomatoes, peeled, cored, and dicded
2 medium potatoes, chopped coarse
1 cup beef stock

Lightly brown the hamburger meat in a large skillet with the oil
Once lightly browned toss in everything but the potatoes and for about ten minutes, until the onions are mostly clear
Add in the potatoes and beef stock and bring to a boil
Reduce to a simmer and cook for 20-30 minutes stirring every 5-10 until the potatoes are tender
Serve with corn tortillas garnished with some nice queso fresco and if you’re so inclined (me and AIV aren’t) fresh cilantro.

I’d personally pair this one with a nice dark Mexican or South American beer and some Gary P. Nun. We’ve got the music for you but you’ll have to buy your own beer…

May 012013
 

Or at least tangentially about food. And like all good lists this one goes, in alphabetical order, to 11.
  1. The Band – “Home Cookin’” from A Musical History. A 1976 outtake, this is Rick Danko near his vulnerable best.
  2. Carolyn Mark & the New Best Friends – “Yanksgiving” from The Pros and Cons of Collaboration. Cooking to this song is tons of fun, but also guaranteed to make you wish that you were at Carolyn Mark’s party instead.
  3. Descendents – “Weinerschnitzel” from Fat EP. Good advice re: bull sperm.
  4. Guy Clark – “Texas Cookin’” from Texas Cookin’. He also wrote “Home Grown Tomatoes,” which is going to be the anthem of my forthcoming Summer of the Caprese Salad.
  5. John Mellencamp – “Hot Dogs and Hamburgers” from The Lonesome Jubilee. The American version of Leatherface’s “Baked Potato” (see below).
  6. Leatherface – “Baked Potato” from Mush. The British version of John Mellencamp’s “Hot Dogs and Hamburgers” (see above).
  7. Parallel 5th – “Carrots and Peas” from The Living Room Compilation. They were a Rhode Island new wave band that hardly mattered, but this song is funny and takes the place of The Beach Boys’ “Vegetables” which is on every other list of best food songs on the interwebs.
  8. Patty Griffin – “Making Pies” from 1000 Kisses. This is the best written song on this list. And Guy Clark is on this list. Good god, this song.
  9. Robert Earl Keen & Lyle Lovett – “Front Porch Song” from Keen’s No Kinda Dancer and Lovett’s Lyle Lovett. In addition to the much acknowledged steaming greasy plates of enchiladas, also consider the pimento cheese sandwiches that inspired the fourth verse.
  10. Steve Goodman – “The Vegetable Song” from Somebody Else’s Troubles. Most underrated songwriter on this list. And Guy Clark is on this list.
  11. Tom Waits – “Eggs and Sausage (in a Cadillac with Susan Michelson)” from Nighthawks at the Diner. *rhythmic snap*

We’re well aware that this site takes its name from a song on an album called Pizza Deliverance and offers sporadic taco recipes, and know you know that I, personally, am always starving. What do y’all got in the pantry? Food songs! Deliver them.

Apr 302013
 

It’s not so much that I only go to see really great songwriters where hardly no one is in the audience, it’s more that I only write Rock Reports about such evenings.

Last night I ventured down to Surfside 7 because John Moreland was coming through town. I am a recent convert but I’m already fully committed. Baptized and everything. Holy Ghost fire and whatnot. It was a Wednesday night and I don’t know if John Moreland has been to Ft. Collins before, so I wasn’t expecting much of a crowd and I was right.

Surfside 7 is the kind of bar people wander into but not many seemed to wander in by accident, but that mattered not because when it was Moreland’s turn to play he sat on a barstool, strapped on a guitar and sang the truth. Oh good lord, it was amazing. On several song John plays the guitar with his thumb and pointer finger, it’s a casually mesmerizing style that must take a lot of practice and touch. It’s something to see, is the point I’m trying to make. And because there were only a dozen folks in the bar I could see it just fine.

As well as Moreland plays and as well as he sings the beauty of his art is the songs he creates. I believe the third song he played he introduced as being written last week. Who knows if that means it’s been cooking in the oven for several months and was just finished last week or if it had all come together so recently, but the song was amazing. Every song he played in the roughly 50 minute set was amazing. Well worth the $3 cover charge.

I’ve been fortunate to hear Moreland’s upcoming album and it is a really barn burner (due out in June) and most of the songs on the album were played last night. For me the highlight of the set came early when he played “Nobody Gives A Damn About Songs Anymore.” It is a beautiful song about the art of songwriting and the devaluing it’s always facing. But as the statement sounds negative, I believe it has the opposite affect on us (readers of 9B and lovers of quality music). We must, no matter our numbers, support and love the art that moves us. Songs Matter is a phrase that’s been on my mind a lot the last month and it holds true for all of Moreland catalog.

After the set I only geeked out a little. For High Life bottles isn’t that much, but I did shake John’s hand three times while buying a record.

Two somewhat related points:

1. Cory and Kyle from Arliss Nancy both played really great, brief acoustic sets to open the night. AN has really grown on me in the last year or so.

2. While I was seeing John Moreland in Colorado, AutopsyIV was seeing Joe Pug in Florida and my friends in Mississippi were catching American Aquarium. Not a bad Wednesday night. We may not be large numbers but we are everywhere.

Songs Matter
John Moreland – Nobody Gives A Damn About Songs Anymore