This is utterly delightful! From someone who really does not like podcasts.

Podcasts (no matter how famous or recommended) always sound like two guys bullshitting in a basement to me. Now… if those two guys are @paranoiacs.bsky.social and songwriting all-timer Graham Parker? I'm in, baby! #betweenyouandme

Thank you, Stephen!

Dropped everything to listen to this conversation this morning and it did not disappoint.

Over at my Known Associates podcast, my guest is a personal hero: the legendary Graham Parker! Topics include opening for Bob Dylan and meeting Lowell George, recording with Nick Lowe and Mutt Lange and the 50th anniversary of his masterful debut 'Howlin' Wind.' southwestreview.com/known-associ...

The Desperate Things You Made Me Do - The Magnetic Fields YouTube video by Kapowo

'69 Love Songs' is the Magnetic Fields' LP justifiably lionized as a big conceptual swing, but 1995's New Order-On-A-Fostex-4-Track 'Get Lost' is the great LP of theirs that I turn to most often. A counter-factual history rock where Roxy Music replaces rock. A prayer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7AC...

Dave Mason, Traffic Co-Founder Who Penned 'Feelin' Alright?,' Dead at 79 Dave Mason, the Traffic co-founder and guitarist who wrote the classic rock standard "Feelin' Alright," has died at age 79.

Farewell to Dave Mason, a founding member of Traffic who wrote the immortal “Feelin’ Alright.” My obituary for Rolling Stone.

Fair. And of course JR sings about his love of Stop and Shop, which one imagines may be the kernel of the idea.

Two sides of the suburban capitalist dream. The romanticism of Jonathan Richman juxtaposed against the cynical realism of Joe Strummer.

Your new album is excellent, BTW.

The Only Band That Matters

I went to the market to realize my soul, cause what I need I just don’t have. I’m all lost in the supermarket, I can no longer shop happily. Every cheap hood makes a bargain with the world, ends up making payments on a sofa or a girl.

TFW everyone in your band is turning 27.

❤️

Connecting Lost to Roadrunner. Damn that’s good!
Smart as always.

Those were different times.

Hey, thanks! I'm incredibly proud of it.

The Clash - Lost in the Supermarket (Official Audio) YouTube video by theclashVEVO

The Clash’s ‘Lost In The Supermarket’ recasts the giddy highs of the Modern Lover's ‘Roadrunner’ as a dehumanized forced march through suburban hellscapes and special offers. Maybe the best song written about the acute, paradoxical loneliness of the high consumer age. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZw2...

Not right. There was space.

Nats did this earlier in extras. I'm fine.

Zürich Is Stained YouTube video by Pavement - Topic

The conjurer's trick of Pavement's 'Slanted & Enchanted' is the illusion that songs so great were arrived at by accident rather than Malkmus's Stalin-esque 50-year-plan for world domination. As he concedes on 'Zurich Is Stained': "You think it's easy/ but your wrong". www.youtube.com/watch?v=x74e...

‘A Place Both Wonderful and Strange’ Review: A Town Called Twin Peaks David Lynch and Mark Frost’s surreal mystery series ran for only two seasons in its initial run. But it proved a forerunner of a television revolution.

Over at the Wall Street Journal, I reviewed Scott Meslow's excellent new 'Twin Peaks' survey "A Place Both Wonderful And Strange", which narrates the show's amazing journey from midseason network replacement to canonical instance of uniquely American art. Gift link below. www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

Elizabeth is so right on about this song and its homage to "St. James Infirmary Blues" and McTell's "Dying Crapshooter's Blues"

On my list!

Bob Dylan - Blind Willie McTell (Studio Outtake - 1983 - Official Audio) YouTube video by BobDylanVEVO

Six scary minutes chronicling a five thousand year continuum of human oppression from the dawn of man to the Mississippi Delta, Bob Dylan's "Blind Willie McTell" is the saddest song written about America's failed promise. This land is our land. This land is condemned. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AIR...

I mentioned once that one of my most disappointing concerts was Little Feat in 1978 when George was in such bad shape they had to pull him offstage after a couple of songs and Craig Fuller, who had opened with the Fuller-Kaz Band, had to come out and sing his parts the rest of the show.

van dyke parks opened me up to lowell and little feat. always a champion for his old pal

From the archives, @paranoiacs.bsky.social on Lowell George for @oxfordamerican.bsky.social on the occasion of his birthday today.
#MusicSky
#LittleFeat

Man, me too! Some of my favorite stuff ever. You are the best.

Lowell George in Eight and a Half Songs

Happy birthday to Lowell George, whose wandering spirit and slanted and enchanted imagination enlivens us more with each passing day, even as we lament his tragic absence. A few years back I wrote about Lowell and Little Feat for Oxford American. I'm still willing.
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Lowell George in Eight and a Half Songs

Lowell George in Eight and a Half Songs
By Elizabeth Nelson via @paranoiacs.bsky.social oxfordamerican.org/magazine/iss...