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Goodbye

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 6 Jul 2006 09:50:00 -0500

Goodbye SpinSouth, hello selloutmusic.com.

Sellout's Steal of the Week: Sunfall Festival

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 2 Feb 2006 10:49:00 -0600

Sunfall Festival | Trilobite

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Sellout's Steal of the Week: Bettye Lavette

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 11:04:00 -0600

I'm late to the game here... But dig---

Bettye Lavette | How Am I Different:

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For the record, S. Husky Hoskulds, you are my recording hero.

Sellout's Steal of the Week: John Coltrane

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 12:27:00 -0600

John Coltrane | Alabama:

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Walter Tore's Spontobeat.

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 9 Jan 2006 15:51:00 -0600

Walter Tore is a one man band. He has written over 1 million songs. He says "God blessed me with the ability to do this and cursed me with the disability to do a cover, even one of my own." Apparently his music is strictly spontaneous---written and recorded on the spot and never played again.

Check him out at Soundclick here.
Login as "spinsouth" password="spinsouth"

Recommeded Listening:

An Execution at San Quentin This Week

I Got My Hair Cut Tonight

Where the Wild Things Are

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 9 Jan 2006 13:02:00 -0600

Dylan just told me that Spike Jonze and Dave Eggars are making the film adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are. Can't wait.

More at Variety.com.

Big Night at the WWT

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 8 Jan 2006 14:39:00 -0600

Big Cats are recording in town, and Big Silver are about to release the much anticipated "Afterlife" in February. Good night of music at the WWT for sure.

Sellout's Steal of the Week: Shannon Yarbrough

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 10:49:00 -0600

Over the next week, seven (7!) Max Recordings bands will play shows in Little Rock. Here's your chance to get caught up on (almost) all things Max. . .

Max Holiday Shows:
Wed 12/21-- The Chinese Girls (Downtown Music)
Wed 12/21-- The Easys (Sticky Fingerz)
Thur 12/22-- The Big Cats and Kevin Kerby (Sticky Fingerz)
Fri 12/23-- Trusty and Sugar and the Raw (Vino's)
Tue 12/27-- Boondogs (Whitewater Tavern)

Shannon Yarbrough | Unknown Brooklyn

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Also, check out the show on Shannon (and his influence on the record label) at Arkansongs.

More on Max at maxrecordings.com.

Sellout's Steal of the Week: Jim Mize

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 18:53:00 -0600

So Red Chuck and I have been playing with Jim Mize for about a year and a half now. We're just about finished with his new record, but we've yet to play a gig with him. That changes Friday night, as Jim Mize and the Fence Jumpers debut at the Whitewater Tavern.

His last record featured the Oxford, MS band Blue Mountain, and resulted in praise in all kinds of national press outlets (Billboard, Guitar Player, etc). Someone said "Jim Mize writes songs from Larry Brown's south-- full of southern weirdos, infidelity, booze and violence." Someone else called him "a Southern Springsteen at the height of his powers."

Okay, so I said those things (couldn't find any of the press clips), but in any case-- I'm really glad to be involved in this new record. We recorded half of it in Mississippi with Bruce Watson, and half of it here in Little Rock. It's supposed to be out early next year.

Here's one of my favorites:

Jim Mize | Promises We Keep (advance mix):

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Note: this makes the 2nd Steal of the Week in a row that I recorded and played bass on. I promise I won't make it a habit. Next week we'll come up with something less narcissistic.

I Stand Corrected: WWJCD?

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 8 Dec 2005 09:43:00 -0600

In 1993 Johnny Cash sang "Happy Birthday" to me on my 21st birthday. This was before the Rick Rubin records came out-- he was playing the Wayne Newton Theater in Branson. Not the coolest gig, and though officially of age, I was several generations younger than the busloads of retired vacationers filling the seats around me. In any case, JC managed to transcend the setting-- under normal circumstances there is nothing cool about Branson, MO, but Johnny Cash managed to be very cool.

In the same way Walk the Line is so much better than it should have been. On paper (and in the trailers) it looks like a horribile Hollywood creation. But simply put, the movie is fantastic. It's not perfect (Ms. Witherspoon doesn't do June Carter's wackiness justice, and parts of the story were a bit tidy), but its faults are easily overlooked in the face of everything it does right.

At the Branson show 12 years ago, JC sang a "new" song. He didn't introduce it-- didn't say his ex-son-in-law wrote it for him-- didn't say it was going to be on a new record.. In fact there was no mention of a new record, although the first American Recording must have been in production at that time. In any case, the song stuck with me that night. Here it is:

Johnny Cash | The Beast in Me:

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Sellout's Steal of the Week: The Easys

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 1 Dec 2005 15:31:00 -0600

In honor of the Easys bold return to the internet, here's a track from the first record. All apologies to Al Green.

The Easys | Let's Not Stay Together:

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Visit the Easys online at:
theeasys.com
myspace.com/theeasys

MP3 courtesy of Loudmouth Mastering.

Localist Goes Live

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 08:50:00 -0600

This Friday. . .

Sellout's Steal of the Week: Victoria Williams

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 19 Nov 2005 12:38:00 -0600

What can you say about Victoria Williams? Slightly nuts, extremely gifted, somewhere between Neil Young and Billie Holiday with more than a little Tom Waits thrown in? Close enough.

Had a hard time picking a song for this one... Thought about the heartbreaking "Century Plant" from Loose, or "Boogieman" from Swing the Statue. But here's a chance to plug another favorite Shreveport musician made good (Vic is homegirl too), drummer extraordinaire Brian Blade...

I saw them play this on Conan or Letterman or the like when the record came out, and it was obvious she was having a ball playing with Brian. Los Boondogs had a similar experience when he sat in with the band a few years back. He knew the songs better than we did and he'd never heard them. Frighteningly talented guy. Word is he's completed another solo record--this time as a singer-songwriter-- with Tucker Martine. Can't wait.

Anyhoo... here's Victoria Williams from Musings of a Creekdipper, with Brian Blade on drums:

Victoria Williams | Train Song (Demise of the Caboose)
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R.I.P. John Fowles

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:34:00 -0600

Writer John Fowles dies aged 79

I read The Magus in grad school and promptly made all my reading friends read it too. I still maintain that fake nazis are scarier than real nazis.

Sellout's Steal of the Week: Emitt Rhodes

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 3 Nov 2005 10:04:00 -0600

A few years ago I read about Emitt Rhodes in TapeOp. It seems Mr. Rhodes released a solo record in 1970 that was rumored, at the time, to be a certain Macca's debut solo record. Anyway, reading about made me curious to hear it, so I ventured out to Anthro-pop to see about ordering a Japanese import or whatever was available.

While waiting for Rod, I flipped through the "new arrivals" bin, and discovered two (2!) LPs by the man himself... Synchronicity? Divine Providence? Mere Coincidence?

Who knows. In any case, I bought both records for $10, and promptly listened to the first many many times. Then I had Red Chuck transfer the album to CD. Here, for your listening pleasure, is track one.

Emitt Rhodes | With My Face on the Floor
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More great info on Emitt Rhodes here.

Sellout's Steal of the Week: The Stroke (singular)

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 11:28:00 -0500

With all the blog craziness over new leaked Strokes songs, I present this week's Sellout Steal of the Week: THE STROKE (singular).

Billy Squire | The Stroke:
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Takes me back to Skate World, ca 1981. Those were good times.

Bonus Video

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 13:21:00 -0500

Watch the Pinter-inspired Seinfeld episode:

Or download it here:

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NOTE: Having trouble with the Quicktime? Might be time to update to 7.0 here

Congrats Harold Pinter...

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 10:52:00 -0500

The Nobel Prize in Literature goes to Harold Pinter, author of one my favorite plays, Betrayal, which in turn was the inspiration for my favorite Seinfeld episode. They both go backwards.

Related:
Buy Betrayal here
More about Harold Pinter at haroldpinter.org
Seinfeld: The Betrayal episode guide
And learn how to record a backwards guitar solo

Appropriate quote from said Seinfeld episode:
Jerry: Well, everybody's a little cranky on their birthday.
George: Oh, it's a bad day. You got everyone in your house, you're thinkin', "These are my friends?!"
Jerry: (Sarcastic) Every day is my birthday.

Sellout's Steal of the Week: T-Bone Burnett plays the Blues

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 7 Oct 2005 12:20:00 -0500

From the Wim Wenders film The Soul of a Man (part of the PBS series on THE BLUES), T-Bone and company do the J.B. Lenoir song about letting the girls have girls night every once in a while... White Russians and dirty martinis all night.

T Bone Burnett | Don't Dog Your Woman
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Related:
Wim Wenders (the official site)
Sam Phillips is recording a new record right now
The Blues will be in effect in Helena this weekend. Have fun Red Chuck.

Last Night at Cajun's

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 7 Oct 2005 12:09:00 -0500

To the guy in the paisley shirt doused in Polo cologne: Why?

Meet Ringo

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 10:57:00 -0500

And a song in his honor:

Lorne Greene | Ringo:

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More Big Star. . .

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 12:09:00 -0500

So there's a Big Star e-card here, but those streaming songs don't work too well on ipod.... So for your mobile listening pleasure, here are all three songs as MP3s (including "Dony" from a couple weeks ago):

Big Star | Lady Sweet:

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Big Star | Best Chance We Ever Had:

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Big Star | Dony:

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P.S. In Space comes out 9/27.

Come all without, come all within...

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 4 Sep 2005 15:20:00 -0500

You've not seen nothing like the Mighty Quinn.

Sept. 21, 1992- Sept. 4, 2005

Kanye sez:

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 2 Sep 2005 22:51:00 -0500

A friend who works for a major newspaper writes about two photos released over the wire today: "One AP image shows a black man and uses the following caption: "A young man walks through chest-deep waters after looting a grocery store in New Orleans on Tuesday." The other photo, from Getty Images, shows two white people, with this caption: "Two residents wade through chest-deep water after finding bread and soda from a local grocery store." Black people loot, white people find."

Leadership in action

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 18:00:00 -0500

President Bush plays a guitar presented to him by Country Singer Mark Wills, right, backstage following his visit to Naval Base Coronado, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005. Bush visited the base to deliver remarks on V-J Commemoration Day. (AP Photo/ABC News, Martha Raddatz)