Music Friday: "Social Wedding Rings," "Bright Light," & "Telling the Hour"

The band Mount Moriah dropped its second album this year, and it's just as fine if not finer than the first album.

Today I offer a tune from the self-titled album, and a couple of songs from the second album, Miracle Temple. 

Enjoy.

Have a good weekend, folks. 

Music Friday: "Midnight on the Interstate," "Alone," & "Walt Whitman"

In possibly what has become a foolish consistency, here goes another Music Friday that features an  album on my Top Ten/Twenty Albums of 2012 post.

That album is Stars and Satellites by Trampled By Turtles.  

Here's the opening track on the album.

And now a video of the second song on the album, "Alone."




And to close, here's the third song on the album, "Walt Whitman." It was filmed at the studios of the St. Louis community radio station KDHX.





There are eight other songs on Stars and Satellites. Check it out.

Music Friday: "Can't Change Me," "Learn to Say No," & "Steve Earle"

One of the albums I didn't have on my Top Ten/Twenty Albums of 2011 was Indestructible Machine by Lydia Loveless. In fact, I learned about it from reading other blogs' top albums lists of 2011.

I've been listening to it lately, so I'm featuring three songs from that fine album.

The first song up is an acoustic solo version of "Can't Change Me" performed at the excellent radio station of KDHX in St. Louis. The second is "Learn to Say No," which is probably something all of us need to do.








The final song of the day is the humorous "Steve Earle," which you can read about in "Lydia Loveless Makes Men Cry, Professes Her Love for Britney and Booze."

Music Friday: "Heroin Addict Sister" & "El Camino"

An album that made it on a lot of top ten/twenty lists for 2010 was Elizabeth Cook's Welder because it is a damn fine album.

While she could be easily classified as a country artist, this album isn't one of those slick, saccharine-laced, overproduced Nashville affairs, the kind of music Todd Snider refers to in his own song "Nashville" with the lines of "There isn't nothing wrong with rolling in the cashville./

There isn't nothing wrong that we can't fix in the mix."

And Cook has some old fashioned country credibility because she started performing quite early in her life, and her father, well, he was sent to prison for moonshining.

Both songs for today are links to her playing at the studios of KDHX, a St. Louis-based community radio station that is one of finest radio stations on the planet. "Heroin Addict Sister" is a song that'll rip your guts out, so I've also decided to offer the more light-hearted tune of "El Camino" to stave off the depressive effects of the first song. Click on the titles to watch the videos.

Jason Isbell Interview with Three Songs

For you fans of Jason Isbell, you can click HERE to get KDHX's website that provides an interview with him before he played at Off Broadway in St. Louis.

It's a short interview, and his performance of "The Blue," "Streetlights," and "Soldiers Get Strange" is solid.

It's just a poet and his guitar.

Thanks to Foz, a friend of Planned Obsolescence, for passing this along to me.

Music Friday: "Radio Nowhere"

Click HERE for the video of a fairly recent Springsteen song that bemoans the crappy radio choices that Americans have to put up with.

Thankfully, the wonder of the Web allows me listen to KDHX and college radio stations. When I'm in my car though, I'm at the mercy of the generic offerings on the dial. I'm too cheap to get my CD player replaced in my car.