My Aimz Is True: Leadbelly

Happy US Election Day! I voted absentee in Wisconsin a few weeks ago. I'm assuming that my district received my ballot and promptly threw it in the trash.

Leadbelly - The Bourgeois Blues.mp3
Buy: The Blues: Bourgeois Blues 1933-1946

Bob Dylan - The Times They are a Changin'.mp3
Buy: The Bootleg Series, Vols. 1-3 : Rare And Unreleased, 1961-1991

Billy Bragg & Wilco - Christ for President.mp3
Buy: Mermaid Avenue (1998)

Todd Snider - Conservative Christian, Right-Wing Republican, Straight, White, American Males.mp3
Buy: East Nashville Skyline (2004)

Ry Cooder - One Cat, One Vote, One Beer.mp3
Buy: My Name Is Buddy (2007)

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I get dozens of requests a week for album reviews, and honestly, given that I have an intense day job and that I'm pretty lazy in my free time, I'm probably not going to review your album. Especially if you have "remix," "electro," or "sounds like Radiohead" anywhere in your PR e-mail. Also, I'm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, so I cannot attend your CD release party in Williamsburg, Hollywood, or Denton. But if you kiss my ass a little bit, I may take your album under consideration. Read this essay: Getting Heard by Music Blogs

"It's good to sell records, but the truth is, I make more money off t-shirts. If you rip it, burn it, give it to somebody, and they come to a show and buy a ticket and a t-shirt, I profit more that way anyway, and then I've got a fan." - Mike Cooley of the Drive-By Truckers

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Don't Criticize What You Can't Understand