For more than a decade, it has felt like BJ Barham and I have been growing older in parallel. New Ways To Lose continues that journey, blending working-class observations, hard-earned hope, heartbreaking ballads, and the kind of songwriting that reminds me why American Aquarium remains one of my favorite bands. Another early Album of the Year contender. Continue reading American Aquarium – New Ways To Lose (Review)
A new Turnpike Troubadours album dropped today. I had it playing on a loop pretty much all day today. At one point, I caught myself getting annoyed. Work was distracting me from being capable of focusing and listen with intent. Then a thought popped into my head. It would be nice if you could take a day off when a favorite band puts out a new album. Of course, there would have to be a system in place to avoid abuse. What would the ground rules be? What I came up with: You keep a file on hand with whatever … Continue reading Mental Health Days, The Music Version
Here are this week’s five songs worth listening to. Rakim–Sign of Se7en ft. Prodigy, Method Man, X-Raided, Big Twins Wu is for the kids. Max McNown–Fishing Line Really like this dude this year. American Aquarium–Messy As A Magnolia New American … Continue reading Fab Five Friday–Aug. 2, 2024
Or, at least, the 126 albums I listened to and rated song by song. For those of you who have not been here before, I have a very unscientific scientific approach to my album ratings. Utilizing a couple of spreadsheets, … Continue reading Top 126 Albums of 2022
Here are this week’s five songs worth listening to. PJ Morton–Be Like Water ft. Stevie Wonder & Nas Caamp–Apple Tree Blues Old Crow Medicine Show–Paint This Town Gabe Dixon–Ain’t It ‘Bout Time Logan Halstead–Kentucky Sky We’ll be back with five … Continue reading Fab Five Friday–June 23, 2022
Here are this week’s five songs worth listening to. American Aquarium–The First Year Yeah, we are starting off heavy with a new addition to the Fetal Position playlist. Jason Boland & The Stragglers–Terrifying Nature Red Dirt gets a little cosmic. … Continue reading Fab Five Friday–June 16, 2022
With Slappers, Bangers and Certified Twangers, Vol. 2 dropping today, it reminded me I still had a couple concerts worth of photos on my phone I never put on this here world wide web. One of which was American Aquarium … Continue reading American Aquarium/Morgan Wade: Live
Continuing on in our look at my favorite albums of 2020. Previous posts:Albums 51-100Albums 41-50Albums 31-40Albums 21-30Albums 11-20 The first 50 was just a table list. The rest include short write-ups and videos of favorite tracks.* Note for those who … Continue reading Favorite Albums of 2020, 1-10
Here are this week’s five songs worth listening to. American Aquarium–Me + Mine (Lamentations) I currently have one vinyl pre-ordered. American Aquarium’s Lamentations, set to come out May 1. I ordered one of the Special Edition stained glass colored ones. … Continue reading Fab Five Friday–April 20, 2020
American Aquarium returned to Off Broadway in St. Louis Monday night. Being a school night, the show did not sell out, but the room was full, and the energy on the stage was still high. A few years ago, I made the prediction lead singer BJ Barham was about to “Isbell the shit out of sobriety”. He just celebrated five years sober recently. And I am happy to report I was not wrong. The song writing has gone to another level, much like Jason’s did when he cleaned up. BJ can’t match Isbell’s vocals, what i call the soaring and … Continue reading Concert Review: American Aquarium
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