Fiona Apple & The Watkins Family Hour

I was a little skeptical when a friend told me about this, but it is pretty good. Fiona Apple and The Watkins Family Hour cover Dolly Parton.

Solomon Burke

While this blog could, in fact be just a long series of embedded Gillian Welch videos, I promise not to do that. Still, I just found out about and enjoyed this song by Gillian & Dave that they did with Solomon Burke:

I didn't discover Solomon Burke until a couple years after this was made, when I stumbled onto this fantastic song of his from Don't Give Up on Me:

Releasing tomorrow

Andrew Bird's soundtrack for the movie Norman drops tomorrow; I'm excited about it.

Ryan Adams has a new album dropping tomorrow as well.

Call and Response

If you liked the bubblegum pop of The Free Design, here's a modern equivalent.

They even have a bubble song! You can check out their 2001 (lord, 10 years old) album on amazon.

The Free Design

And now for something completely different: the free design. Sort of cheesy 60's group famous for "Kites are Fun!" which is a pretty funny song. Still, even they have gems. Bubbles is probably their best track:
Oh, OK if you must hear Kites are Fun, here it is for you.

Blitzen Trapper

If there were still "freedom rock!" commercials this band would certainly be featured. Here's a track from their new album that drops tomorrow. I'm looking forward to it.

Bon Iver

Bon Iver is one of those artists that I sort of love and hate; the precious few songs I like by the guy are songs I like sort of more than average, and everything else he does pretty much just grates on my nerves. I only let you know this because it just so happens that two good songs are available as a single today in case you hadn't already picked them up piecemeal.