Back to the Parlour Guitar and Spinnet Piano

Lately I've been craving music. Social music. Music that people want to listen to and play together.

The article that the following snippet was taken from touches on the shifting role of music as a social activity and other issues quite well.

Writing for Stylus Magazine, Chris Dahlen explains:
"My biggest regret as a writer is every time I wrote about an artist for any reason other than that they were a human being with a full life that was worth setting to paper. Every time I meet someone with a new perspective on music, it makes my life better; every time I talk to an artist who’s gritting his teeth because he hasn’t made it bigger, it kills me. This isn’t how most people use music now. Music is more important than fame."

The full article appears here.

October Mix

So, it seems I've let September pass me by without a feeble attempt at a post. Well in the spirit of rectification, I've decided to post the tracklist for my October Mix. Seeing as I'm not too savvy when it comes to posting MP3s, you'll have to dig up these tracks and recreate it on your own.

October Mix
1 - Idle Hands Are the Devil's Plaything - Palace Brothers
2 - Bird Stealing Bread (live) - Iron & Wine
3 - Running to the Ghost - James Blackshaw
4 - Wind Waltzes - Michio Kuihara
5 - My Dreaming Hill - Flying Saucer Attack
6 - Stereo Music for Acoustic Guitar, Bucla Music Box 100, Hp Model 236 Oscillator, Electric Guitar, and Computer - Part One - Keith Fullerton Whitman
7 - Hey Mamma Wolf - Devendra Banhart
8 - A Hand to Take Hold of the Scene - Okkervill River
9 - Strange Lights - Deerhunter
10 - Inside of the Pocket - Chihei Hatakeyama
11 - One Too Many Mornings - Bob Dylan
12 - Soon-to-Be Innocent Fun / Let's See - Arthur Russell
13 - Where Are You Now? - Wynn Walent
14 - Fine Italian Hand - Town and Country

p.s. I always list song titles first on compilations because I choose them as individual pieces rather than units of a given musician's work.