Happy Thanksgiving to Y'all!
(including the heartless bastards!)

Great day at the compound, filled with Kennedys, McGowans, Flynns and Iversons eating, drinking, conversing - good family stuff. And these people know their music! Topics of the day included: Peter had been intrigued with a snippet of Fleet Foxes heard on NPR, so we investigated. Found the Seattle band to sound sort of Beach Boys circa Pet Sounds/Good Vibrations. We gave them a C-. ....Revisited Boston's Melvern Taylor, a Fabuloso 2007 Christmas gift from Kay. Overnight visitor Nate O (longtime friend of Garrett, but no relation to Barack O) liked it and grabbed a copy and, later, Ron did likewise.....The tasty dinner was matched with a soundtrack of the Bill Evans Trio Sunday at the Village Vanguard, Terrance Blanchard Let's Get Lost and the classic, six-song John Coltrane/Johnny Hartman. ....Big winners were the Heartless Bastards, the Ohio trio who opened for Lucinda Williams up at the Calvin Theater in Northampton a couple years ago (to whom we paid little attention until Garrett started to play them awhile ago). Here's a youtube clip of them... The new Pretenders CD, Break Up the Concrete, got good reviews. ....Throw in some vintage Clash/Joe Strummer (favs of Ron/Jonathan) and Ray Lamontagne and we've got a mighty fine day of music, don't you think?

Bette forwards this very interesting site which identifies for us "The #1 song in the U.S.A. on this date in history, according to Billboard magazine." joshhosler.biz