Lakenheath Old Boys

We are all former students at Lakenheath High School and other public schools in East Anglia. We were in school in the 70s and 80s and drank deeply from the well of British culture of those decades - the pints, the telly, and of course the footie!

Thursday, December 11, 2008

All Songs Considered Year in Review

While we're mulling our musical choices for 2008, it's fun to listen to what the likes of Bob Boilen, Carrie Brownstein and Tom Monk were listening to this year. Sure, it's more "Some Songs Considered by the Bicoastal Rock Criterati" - in the same way that Ira Glass's NPR show should really be called "This Boho Jewish Gay Greenwich Village Life." So no jazz or country or hip hop but a whole load of beardy folk rock.

Still, like most of these "year in review" projects, you'll always come across at least one gem that you slept on during the year.

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4 Comments:

Blogger gooner71 said...

Thanks Bob, This is one of the podcasts I gave up because I wasn't able to keep up. I'll pick this one up.

8:56 PM  
Blogger The Blue Devil said...

It's well worth it. They're totally loving the Fleet Foxes and TV on the Radio. Not a sniff of any Black music, though. I wonder how many hostile emails they get from the hip hop nation.

12:01 PM  
Blogger gooner71 said...

Betsy, I've seen Tim O'Brien several times because he shows up at this festival outside of Washington yearly with...Darrell Scott.

I love his record "Red on Blonde" and that song ... song that nobody knows.

Who'd have thought that Plant/Krauss would have produced such a great colabo. That's a top record for sure. I bet they were dynamite live.

And my wife Melanie is a fan of long standing for Beausoleil. When I met her, she had five lps, and one of them was Beausoleil.

Nice picks. If we lived closer, I'd definitely tag along to your shows.

12:12 PM  
Blogger The Blue Devil said...

I have a Gator friend who saw Krauss and Plant at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage festival last spring. Apparently they did several Zep tunes, which surprised me. But, as you can imagine, there was not a dry eye in the place when they did "When the Levee Breaks." Wow!

1:37 PM  

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