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ALL
KILLER, NO FILLER: NEW MUSIC ADDED TO
LIBRARY 1/21/2012
ROCK
BAHAMAS - Barchords
DAN
MANGAN - Oh Fortune
NOEL
GALLAGHER'S HIGH FLYING BIRDS - s/t
(Oasis member)
CLAP
YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH - Hysterical
BEN
FOLDS - Retrospective (includes hits and
some rare/unreleased tracks)
BEN
LEE - Deeper Into Dream
WILD
FLAG - s/t (Female punk supergroup)
NADA
SURF - The Stars Are Indifferent To
Astronomy
JUNKBOAT (MN) - s/t
ATLAS
SOUND - Parallax
REAL
ESTATE - Days
JULIAN VELARD - Mr. Saturday Night
VAN
HUNT - What Were You Hoping For?
CHRIS
ISAAK - Beyond The Sun
FOLK/COUNTRY
BIG
HARP - White Hat
THE
ELDERS - Wanderin' Life & Times (Kansas
City Celtic)
INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS - We'll Do It
Live
CAM
PENNER - Gypsy Summer
ANI
DIFRANCO - Which Side Are You On?
WILLIE NELSON - Remember Me Vol. 1
ROE
FAMILY SINGERS (MN) - The Owl and the
Bat and the Bumblebee
THE
LITTLE WILLIES - For The Good Times
MARTIN SEXTON - Fall Like Rain EP
CONNOR GARVEY - Where Ocean Meets Land
THE
WOOD BROTHERS - Smoke Ring Halo
BLUES/SOUL
CHARLES BRADLEY -
'Heartaches And Pain'
EP (from No Time For Dreaming)
ETTA
JAMES - The Dreamer
WHITEBOY JAMES AND THE BLUES EXPRESS -
Extreme Makeover
RUTHIE FOSTER - Let It Burn
JAZZ
PUPPINI SISTERS - Hollywood
WORLD
HINDI
ZAHRA - Handmade
JIMMY
CLIFF - Sacred Fire EP
New releases added to
CD library
Final week of November sees diverse
and high-quality additions
Rock
COLDPLAY-
Mylo
Xyloto
RACHAEL
YAMAGATA- Chesapeake
ZACH DEPUTY-
Another Day
JOY ASKEW-
Drunk On You
MILAGRES-
Glowing Mouth
LOU REED AND
METALLICA- Lulu
STEWART
FRANCKE- Heartless World
MEGAFAUN-
Megafaun
GRAHAM
WILKINSON- The Spiritual Accessories EP
LINDSEY
BUCKINGHAM- Seeds We Sow
MESHELL
NDEGEOCELLO (nn-dhh-GAY-oh-CHELL-oh)-
Weather
JON
POUSETTE-DART- Anti-Gravity
Folk
MADI DIAZ-
Plastic Moon
KATHLEEN
EDWARDS- Voyageur
BRIAN MILLER
(MN)- Minnesota Lumberjack Songs
BLIND PILOT-
We Are The Tide
MA, DUNCAN,
MEYER, THILE- The Goat Rodeo Sessions
TWO MANY
BANJOS (MN)- I'm Not Scared Of The Devil
NOAM
PIKELNY- Beat The Devil and Carry a Rail
LYAL
STRICKLAND- So Many Incidents
JOHN
McCUTCHEON- This Land: Woody Guthrie's
America
Blues
TOM WAITS-
Bad As Me
REV. RAVEN /
CHAIN SMOKIN' ALTAR BOYS- Shake Your Boogie
SHANE
DWIGHT- A Hundred White Lies
CHARLIE
WOOD- Keepin It Real
BILL WYMAN'S
RHYTHM KINGS- Box Set Sampler
World
KIRAN
AHLUWALIA- Aam Zameen: Common Ground
And you thought they
were Japanese
Blitzen Trapper's American Goldwing
evokes the call of the
open road
 On
the
introduction webpage for their new album,
Blitzen Trapper songwriter Eric Earley
relates a tale of his youth where he mounted
his brother-in-law's 1980 Honda Goldwing
touring bike. The massive cycle
flopped over and pinned his six year-old
leg. This duality of envisioning the
open road while being held down to a life of
small horizons forms the narrative of the
group's third album for Sub Pop Records.
"Writing American Goldwing felt much like
that, like being pinned beneath a giant
motorcycle, and its vision is that
inescapable past, those feelings of being
trapped in a small town, that fine line
between the rural and the suburban settings
that define much of America, that line
between love and loss that occurs when you
find yourself "taking it easy too long /
sticking around this lonesome town." It's me
trying to hazard a true American nostalgia.
And like that kid the bike fell on, there's
a good amount of thrashing about, trying to
get loose. The roughness of rock and roll
and the independence of travel act as the
flip-side to all this sentimental
backward-glancing. The earthiness of these
songs makes you want to get loaded and get
in a fight, or find a girl and fall in love
forever, simultaneously. The subjects range
from drug-running good old boys in the
hills, to that final high school dance, to
pondering that moment when the one you love
walks away and you can't help but love her
anyway." -Eric Earley
In his
Allmusic review, James Christopher
Monger calls
American Goldwing "a straight-up,
mid-'70s inspired Southern rock album that
fuses the Saturday night swagger of Lynyrd
Skynyrd with the stoic peasantry of the
Band." Which is all the more
surprising since no one in Blitzen Trapper
is from the South.
Hear selections on
Currents weekdays from 2 to 4
p.m.
Tracks:
- Might Find It Cheap
- Fletcher
- Love The Way You Walk Away
- Your Crying Eyes
- My Hometown
- Girl In A Coat
- American Goldwing
- Astronaut
- Taking It Easy Too Long
- Street Fighting Sun
- Stranger In A Strange Land
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