Friday Night Playlist
Charles Johnson
Fri Oct 27, 2006 at 6:53 pm PDT • Views: 358
The playlist for this warm October evening:
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1) Jack Bruce, from his criminally under-recognized Harmony Row, a strange ballad that opens the album, Can You Follow?
2) Andy Timmons with a bit of absolutely stupid (in a good way) shredding from That Was Then, This Is Now - The Best of X-Tasy, a marathon electric guitar exercise demonstrating Timmons’ awesome picking prowess, Groove or Die.
3) You may feel a bit worn out after that one, so here’s Annie Lennox with an understated masterpiece of a ballad, Why.
4) Stravinsky, from The Rite of Spring, Sacrificial Dance (The Chosen One)—one of the most powerful pieces of music ever conceived.
5) Tom Petty with a song that speaks for itself, Don’t Fade On Me, from Wildflowers.
6) From Drive-By Truckers’ magnum opus (so far), Southern Rock Opera, The Three Great Alabama Icons.
7) Ralph Stanley’s stunning a cappella performance from the soundtrack of O Brother, Where Are Thou?, O Death.
8) XTC, Oranges and Lemons, Poor Skeleton Steps Out. Seems to go with O Death.
9) A poignant tale of doomed … well, not lovers, exactly. Poor Edward, from Tom Waits’ Alice.
10) Concluding on a semi-positive note, a classic from John Hiatt’s Walk On, Cry Love.
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