Five Songs, 12/21/2017

I’m not entirely sold on this new version of Ghost Blog that I’ve installed. I feel like the editor is worse. Oh well. Music here!

Doreen’s Jazz New Orleans, “12th Street Rag”

My oldest daughter started learning the clarinet in school last year, so I wanted to get some music in the house to give her some examples of the possibilities with the instrument. Doreen’s Jazz New Orleans was suggested as a possibility, so I picked up this album.

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Five Songs, 7/6/2017

Usually, when I do one of these, I go and listen to a bunch of music by one of the artists that popped up. Today, that’s Sicko. Go listen to Sicko, people! Here’s one song of theirs!

Also, new record: I had to upload three of these songs myself. That’s annoying!

Surgery, “Mistake”

Every now and again, a band sometimes puts out a thing that’s way above their average. Surgery, a scuzz-rock Amphetamine Reptile band, managed that trick with their EP, Trim, 9th Ward High Roller, a release that was inexplicably far better than anything else they’d done. This song, however, is not from that record, but from the earlier Nationwide, which is only ok.

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