Our New Favorite Band

If you like a little bluegrass, some amazingly unique harmonies, and a lot of energy, you need to check out the Avett Brothers - live and the studio version. We're big fans:

Single Ladies

Cross Country Playlist

Our hunch is that most of you are curious what a solo traveler does to pass time in his gas guzzling truck while driving cross country from Chapin, SC to Denver, CO.

Nap, mostly.

But when napping wasn't appropriate, music was obviously the preferred method of killing time. Here's the playlist:

South Carolina
Amos Lee - Supply and Demand

North Carolina
Jason Harrod - Living in Skin

Tennessee
Kenny Chesney - When the Sun Goes Down
Dixie Chicks - Fly
Brad Paisley - Time Well Wasted

Kentucky
Rush Limbaugh - The Rush Limbaugh Show
The Kooks - Inside In/Inside Out
The Killers - Sam's Town

Illinois
Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
Lupe Fiasco - Lupe Fiasco's Food and Liquor

Missouri
The Allman Brothers Band - Eat a Peach
Taj Mahal - The Best of Taj Mahal
Ozark Mountain Daredevils - The Best of the Ozark Mountain Daredevils

Kansas
Jennifer Knapp - Kansas
Rush Limbaugh - The Rush Limbaugh Show
D.A. Carson - Lectures on the New Perspective (Reformed Theological Seminary)
Douglas Kelley - Systematic Theology 1 (RTS)

Colorado
Travis - The Boy With No Name
John Denver - An Evening With John Denver

Snatch this soundtrack up

We're still looking for your musical ideas/suggestions/advice.


In consideration of your input (let no one ever say that ol' Slippery is not a legal bargain for exchanger), we recommend our own musical selection...


Snatch Original Film Soundtrack.


We've rediscovered the soundtrack over the weekend, after a long sabbatical dating back to probably our junior year of college. Snatch was a sweet film. The soundtrack is equally groovy. With the exception of Track 16 (Sensual Woman, by The Herbaliser - you can tell by its name is probably not worth your time) and maybe the Madonna cut (although some argue that a dose of Madonna on occasion is healthy for you) this eclectic album makes for some fun study music, and at least for us, brings back some great memories. We're pretty sure Dreadlock Holiday made it on to a PBT mix on year.

From Amazon: "In the same vein as Trainspotting and Pulp Fiction, the soundtrack covers a spectrum of musical hipness that is essential to the tone of the film artists included are Massive Attack, Madonna, Mirwais, Oasis, The Stranglers and The Specials."

Which reminds us, Murray, did you ever get the Snatch DVD back from Antonio...?

Must Have Music - Please Advise

Disclaimer: We stole this idea from a contemporary philosopher/southern intellectual.

We have re-signed with BMG music - we're a sucker for their sales, and we've found that $5 cd's make great Christmas gifts. (The trick is to keep signing yourself up under different pseudonyms - you get 5 free CD's for referrals, plus the 12 for 1 sign up deal = 17 for the price of 1)

So We need your help - what sort of meaningful music have we missed, what essential "must haves" should we include in our pending 17 CD order?

We think Gilli will include some Phish
We think Jamey may refer us to Sufjan
Macey will lead us in the ways of techno. Or Rush.
Noel has probably found some new hip hop band with sweet grooves that you would never imagine a computer programmer would jive to...
Strawbridge will lavish praises on some shuttle bus driver/musician that he met at the airport
Murray = Phoenix
Bintz says Mother Love Bone, but we seriously doubt BMG has that
Johnny T's music collection is already identical to ours

Anybody else?

Now taking suggestions...