PALEFACE + AVETT BROTHERS + MUSTACHE = MUSIC DELICIOUSNESS

Mid week bracer comin' at ya... well a little past mid week but what the hell it's the Wrenshackian Blogger 200th post! FRICKIN' YA!

2 music selections by one of my recent new discoveries - PALEFACE.

First... a tune called ROCK AND ROLL... it's explained well in the beginning of the video...



And secondly...
a tune called New York featuring the one and only AVETT Bros. Really diggin Seth's (the dude on the furthest left) 1. Trucker hat on the tilt and 2. His ultimate mustache-fighter mustache.
I wish I could play on a pier or a boat and sound that good on a one shot dingwop... damn.


HEY.... COMMING NEXT! POPPY BROKEN LEG RECOVERY NEWS! GOOD TIMES!

From Englund with Love from Barry Gibb

Hey folks...

A gem from this summer... Kurt Englund from Esko-town doing a Springsteen tune at Al and Phoebe's big backyard bash down in the furthest west reaches of D-town... 

And I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that Mark Macham - drummer extrordinaire - was sitting in with Kurt on most of his set and obviously this tune.

As Kurt said... this recording is "NO JOKE!" thanks to Jim Randall... I'm 93% sure that was his name... he mixed the sound at Al's... did a great job on Sid's PA no doubt.

 

And some comedy for ya... anyone hip to BARRY GIBB and the Bee Gees?

Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake do the Barry Gibb Talkshow on Saturday Night Live from

time to time... I think there are about 4 or 5 "episodes" out there...Enjoy the fall season out there!

~peace~

Kilgour, Crooked Still, and Ole Hippie Dude's Daughter or probably Grand Daughter

HEY hey HEY... What's Happenin'?

Not much here.. just posting a couple quick music nuggets I'm diggin'....
Please... check 'em out!

We'll start out with the most controversial of the three.... Racheal Kilgour from Duluthtown with a thought-provoking tune about organized religion.... great song - well written....



Then we have CROOKED STILL doing "Darling Corey".... heard it on my way home today on the one and only KUMD 103.3
If you dig Allison Krause and Union Station you'll dig this... and the chello player is... as Mel Torme would say... "THE TOPS!"  It's just a black screen and the tune so close your eyes and enjoy!


Finally... I stumbled across this while searching out a David Bromberg tune... OleHippeDude of Youtube posted it... I think it's beautiful. Hope you do too. Sounds like the Cicadas dig it too!
~peace brothers and sisters!~

I Aint No Fortunate Son!

Hey party people...

Not making excuses here... well maybe I am... but only played this one about 3 times but I think it has some nice potential...and I promised a tune this week... so didn't have much choice. Hope you dig it.

Sorry for the coughs at the end... I was trying to choke them back... remnents of that damn cold!

THis goes out to all those peace-lovin', anti-war folks... support your soldiers but HATE the war!

I'm a poet and I live in a compound defended by polygamist haikus

Heard this on NPR years ago and for some strange reason I kept it in the back of my mind for recall later.... well today has officially become later. I'm sharing this gem with you... Poet Andrei Codrescu entertains you with a great commentary on the bailout a couple years back... Hey... if you check this... write a poem tonight! ANd if you're REALLY cool you'll share that poem with us on the comments!

Back At The Salt Mines

Hey folks... Not much big news here... just spent last week back at the grind in PROCTOR town.... went well. Shakin' off the cold... 95% gone. I'm making a deal right now that I will post some sort of music dingwop of my own this week... so stay tuned... couldn't breathe much less attempt to sing anything last week... but we'll have something in a few days here. IN the meantime check out this new tune by Ben Harper... heard it on the one and only 103.3 KUMD on the way to work the other day and really dug it.... Waitin' On A Sign.... absolutely LOVE the guitar solo....great sound. ROCK!

Everybody Look What's Goin' Down

HAPPY LABOR DAY! For those keeping score... we didn't make it to Ted "the Nuge" Nugent and Foghat on Sunday... still feel like SHIT... slowly getting better... but way to slow for my liking. Worst cold I EVER had - hands down. But I'll survive...thanks for your concern and well wishes... I'm sure the cards and letters got caught up in the mail due to the holiday weekend... We went down the the big Labor Day Celebration in CLOQUET-TOWN.... one of the biggest Labor Day Events in Minnesota and one of the longest held in the nation! Stopped off for a free lunch at the Labor Temple and then checked out MILKBONE... a band of older dudes that know how to groove... they play anything from the Greatful Dead to Dylan to Merle Haggard.... did a great cover of For What It's Worth by Buffalo Springfield today.... you know the song.... "Somethins happenin here... what it is aint exactly clear... theres a man with a gun over there....tellin'me I got to beware... I think its time we stop children whats that sound everybody look what's goin' down!" Sounded great! SOrry no photos. Well, Here's one for the WORKIN' MAN! This is a Merle Haggard tune... Workin' Man Blues... but this version is done by Johnny Hiland... guitar extrodinaire... the dude can pick! POWER TO THE WORKIN MAN!

Gay Pride Parade - SoupTown USA!

Hey blogger reader folks Today we headed out the door at 11:00 on our way to INK Tattoo in Superior, WIsconsin. Why you ask? Cause the good folks at INK - Jacob, Jill and Matt (You cats ROCK IT!) have a bloody mary bar in their tattoo shop - which is a helluva shop if you're ever thinkin' bout inkin' it up. Anyway, they do this prior to the gay pride parade that travels past their store front on Tower Avenue. I have to say that their spread brought a tear to my eye... shrimp, celery, pickled garlic, olives, pickles, asparagus spears, Pabst beer for snits... I'm forgeting half the stuff... but what really brought me to my knees was a big plate of BACON... and not just some pan-fried-here-ya-go-bacon-&-eggs-bacon... this stuff was baked in brown sugar and something else that I forgot cuz when I bit into that stuff I went straight to heaven... a Gay Pride Heaven! Have you ever had a slice of bacon in your bloody mary? Well then you haven't lived! Wow that stuff was great - thanks to Matt O... wow again! I"m just pissed I didn't snap a photo of their spread. A couple pics from the parade....

DellMarie and Carrie couldn't keep their eyes off this guy... the dude in the orange... they tried taking like 10 pictures of him...but OOOPS... BUSTED! By the way ladies... HE"S GAY!

And finally - this was the most Flaming Float of the parade... which wasn't all that flaming... I was pleasently suprised... only because I think the gay community does iteslf a disservice when they have dudes parading down main street in ass-less chaps or something crazy like that... makes it tough to take them seriously... but all in all this parade was very dignified and honorable... nothing objectionable here...

Oh, crap... and finally - the folks at INK & friends were prepared for the haters and repenters.... so here are a few pics of them confronting the JESUS SAVES folks... priceless...

Woke Up This Mornin'

Had the absolutely WORST sore throat in all of my 36 years when I woke up this morning. Chest cold, head cold... this sucks... I haven't been sick like this in a decade... SUCKS! Working on a banjo version of Fortunate Son by the CCR... hopefully will get it posted after I recover... ugh. Might be going to see Ted Nugent and Foghat at Fortune Bay Casino this weekend... then again, might not... I 'll keep ya posted... Meanwhile, I'm feelin'....