Installment six, of "New Songlists for Dipshits".
Remember (I've only said this about a thousand times) go to GROOVESHARK.COM or click on my blog post above to get an extensive free music library...no sign in, nothing...use it like wikipedia....but, if you want to download for 99 cents, then you sign in...well worth it.
http://grooveshark.com/#/
1) "Who Needs Tears"...Toni Price from "Midnight Pumpkin" album...
......fast beat, with more bluesy folk fusion? (Toni doesn't easily fit into to any musical category)....
2) "Higher Place" Tom Petty solo album "Wildflowers"....this song will pick up your drifting spirits...
......and hey, like I said about a thousand times, YOU CAN HEAR THE WHOLE ALBUM FREE at Grooveshark.com by "clicking on the name of the album" and...wait for the "play all" icon to pop up in the upper left....always best to hear an album in it's entirety they way it was numbered....
3) "Do-Re-Me", John Mellencamp, from "Folkways: a vision shared, A tribute to Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly"...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRZBB73nBb-dLQz3fgdeBrW2pomOhR0TUC8RQ5E0-JRvLbMX8Bq0vOku351YT2X9HqAj5g4TDbezXA13IkCtQVp9wcf5p8YCag7g78AyCq35IqAy8oyCuuxRHo5D1Vnn5bXY_CxOIMTGc/s1600/P4050051.JPG">
...nice use of a steel guitar...and you should hear the whole album, too bad only selected cuts are available at Grooveshark....
4)"Everybody Be Yoself", by Chic Street Man, T.V. show "Northern Exposure" album....calypso beat ballad....
5) "Your life is now" by John Mellencamp...nice violins...maybe Mellencamp's best song...I always liked John's voice....lyrics like, "....would you teach your children to tell the truth, would you take the high road if you could choose, do you think you are a victim of a great compromise, because I believe you change your mind, you change your life"...
.......and, later, when he got away from the "John Cougar" packaging, he went a lot farther then the confining "pop rocker" flash in the pan track that "the money boys" tried to burry him with....Listen to his "Cherry Bomb" song, and hear a violin launched midwestern poet capture small town dreams, and summer time girls in barefoot, swigging beer on the hood of a Dodge while listening to top 40 FM radio hits....
6) "Jolie Louise" by Dan Lanois, "Northern Exposure" album (French cajun slow ballad of love, marriage, oui?...
......a nice change of pace, and what will be a "new sounding song" for you...
7) "Start of Something Good" Toni Price's "Midnight Pumpkin" album.....I always saw the genius of Toni in her unique interpretation of lyrics....here's a song that starts out real slow and bluesy....
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...then, Toni hangs a long ass bluesy falsetto note like a musical roller coaster hitting the first whoop de do's....and right there, YOU ARE HOOKED ON TONI PRICE....no?
8) Passionate Kisses" by Lucinda Williams....
...lyrics like,
"...shouldn't I have this, shouldn't I have this, shouldn't I have all this and PASSIONATE KISSES from you"....Lucinda's first big hit, that caught the critics ear, then it was only a matter of a time before "Carwheels on a Gravel Road" came out solidifying Lucinda's reputation as a first class morose songbird telling tales of poor white trash troubles...
9) "Murder, Tonight, in a trailer park" from The "Black Eyed Man" album by COWBOY JUNKIES....
....a song for everyone in law enforcement who has worked weekend nights in the down side of town, where, sometimes you hit a red light and you don't stop....
10)"You Wreck Me Baby" Tom Petty from the "Wildflowers" album...solo album with no heartbreakers?.....
....I think "Wildflowers" is Petty's best album...If you don't own any a Petty, this album is a safe buy....First time I heard this album, I couldn't believe it, "A perfect album"?????
11) "Common Disaster" by Cowboy Junkies "Trinity Sessions" album....classic Cowboy Junkies....
....a very unique whispering female vocals...backed up with real subtle, slow, electric guitars....this is just one of many songs that solidified the Junkies as a break out sound making trio....
