Music Friday: "Total Entertainment Forever" & "Things It Would Have Been Helpful to Know Before the Revolution"

I'm in for some weirdness, so today I"m providing the official video of "Total Entertainment Forever" along with a live performance of Father John Misty on Seth Meyers. 

Also, check out part of his interview with Meyers. 

Music Friday: "Subliminal Fascism," "Ghetto Soundwave," & "Ugly" with Interview

We were in St. Louis a little while back, and on Sunday of that weekend we did the tourist thing and ate at Blueberry Hill. 

As we were driving past, I noticed a tour bus, and one of the guys smoking outside it was wearing the iconic black Fishbone t-shirt. 

Mrs. Nasty checked on what band was playing that night down in The Duck Room, and it was Fishbone. 

So in tribute to that great band that is still doing its thing, here are two songs from Truth and Soul that still certainly resonate. And the performance of "Ugly" and "When Problems Arise" with an interview in between are worth a listen. 

Random Notes from a Crank

We got home late Saturday night from Florida. When I went to pick up the dog from the kennel on Sunday morning, I received the happy surprise that all of the sweet gum balls on my front yard were gone. Before we left for spring break, I mentioned to my neighbor that when I get home, I will be taking care of the scads of sweet gum balls covering my front yard. While we were away, he cleansed by lawn of them. I guess shoveling their driveway all winter has some pay-it-forward dividends. 

Jason Isbell will have a new album out this year. This interview on radio.com provides some insight about the forthcoming album and his songwriting methods. 

I'm about to finish reading Words Onscreen: The Fate of Reading in a Digital World by Naomi S. Baron. If you're an educator or you're just plain interested in literacy, you need to check it out. 

In my previous Random Notes post, I linked an article about the upcoming presidential race. In a whole different direction, Alternet offers "The Six Most Evil Presidents in U.S. History." George W. Bush shouldn't be in the runner-up category. To me, he's gotta be somewhere in the top six. 

And here's "Seven Demented Right-Wing Moments..." on FoxNews. 

On a cheerier note, the U.K. created an enormous marine sanctuary in the Pacific. 

Music Friday: "Rollin 'n Tumblin" with Interview

I don't know if I've ever featured the North Mississippi Allstars on a Music Friday post before. That's a shame because they make some mighty fine music. 

The band's new album came out this week, and I don't think I've liked an album of theirs this much initially since Hill Country Revue came out. I'm not saying that Electric Blue Watermelon, Hernando, and Keys to the Kingdom are poor albums, but World Boogie Is Coming places itself into my personal album category of "I just listened to this album and really like it, but I think it's going to get better and better with subsequent listens." I guess we could call that the fine wine category or something. 

Anyway, the new album does recycle/revise some tunes from past albums, but there are new songs on this one. Check it out if you like to boogie via the hill country blues. 





As Luther Dickinson says in the interview, "We wanted this record to be a cultural statement, not a collection of songs." 

Music Friday: "Cherokee" with an Interview

An album I picked up this week is Out Here by the Christian McBride Trio. An excellent jazz disc, folks. 

While my favorite song on the album so far is "Who's Making Love," here's the classic tune "Cherokee" and an interview with the trio. 

Interview with Patterson Hood of Drive-By Truckers

Howard Wolfson, former advisor to Hillary Clinton, has a really interesting blog to check out if you enjoy reading about music and sometimes politics.

He recently interviewed the head man of Drive-By Truckers. Click HERE if you're interested.