Album of the Week
Jay Farrar is still looking out the window on long drives through the middle of the country, conjuring images of uncelebrated lives and stopping to read the roadside plaques that document centuries-old stories. In some cases the land is unchanging and elsewhere the familiar landscape appears abandoned or shrouded. Farrar is no fan of the unfamiliar, an element that informs both elements in the songs, the lyrics and the melodies.
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There must be something potent in the Arkansas soil that grows great musicians. Among the legions of pickers and players to come out of the state are such giants as Glen Campbell, Johnny Cash, Louis Jordan, Pharoah Sanders and Johnnie Taylor. And, of course, Levon Helm.
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I'm not one of those types overcome by nostalgia for the Great Age of Vinyl, but I admit that I've been spending more time around my turntable lately.
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Give me non-comfortity or give me death. In the case of Iggy Pop's 15th solo album Preliminaires (French for "foreplay"), it seems Iggy will take a helping of both. The Godfather of Punk's new album is, in his words, "dangerously near jazz."
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Brass bands are the very heart of New Orleans music, a staple of the city's social life for 150 years and a key element in the creation of jazz.
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SHELF LIFE
