Shameless Plug

[daphnep]

This is just the best music magazine ever:
http://www.pastemusic.com

Every issue comes with the coolest mix CD ever. I can just stack the CD carousel with Paste mixes, hit "shuffle", and live happily every after. The only problem is that on each one, I find about 4-8 songs of artists whose CDs I just have to run out and buy.

Artists who I first heard through "Paste" that I've bought so far include:

Over the Rhine
Sun Kil Moon
Erin McKeown
The Flatlanders
Belle and Sebastian
Pete Yorn
Clem Snide
Rober Earl Keen

Then there are all the musicians I already liked and that Paste was cool enough to include more of for me, like Wanda Jackson, Juliana Hatfield, The Blind Boys of Alabama, and The Be Good Tanyas.

I'm in a happy little musical vortex over here.

Comments

[jspurlin.livejournal.com]

Robert Earl Keen is awesome.

"The Road Goes on Forever" is a great one of his songs, if you haven't heard it yet. the whole bar, anywhere in this town, sings along when that one comes on.

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[daphnep.livejournal.com]

Gee, I might go out more if I knew the bars were playing Robert Earl Keen.
But I prefer belting tunes in the privacy of my shower...

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[jspurlin.livejournal.com]

bars in Texas, mainly this area (sorta central Texas) do. so if you ever come vist... there ya go...

and yeah, I sing in the car, more than in public.

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[phlegmato.livejournal.com]

I was just about to correct you and say, "Nuh-uh! Joe Ely wrote The Road Goes On Forever!" But, after a bit of checking on allmusic.com, I see you are right.. Keen wrote it, but the version I always heard on the radio back in Texas was sung by Ely.

I always liked Keen's rendition of "Amarillo Highway". Gee, I wonder why. :P

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[jspurlin.livejournal.com]

never heard the Joe Ely version. and the non-live version of "The Road goes on Forever" sucks. the studio version is too slow and just crummy.