Holiday Hootenanny

It's that time again for my Holiday mix. This year's mix is called "Holiday Hootenanny"

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HOLIDAY HOOTENANNY - CHRISTMAS 2017
01. I Wouldn't Trade Christmas (The Sinatra Family)
02. You're A Gift (The Both)
03. Merry Christmas Darlings (Cheap Trick)
04. Christmas All Over Again (Darlene Love)
05. Everybody Loves Christmas (Eddie Money & Ronnie Spector)
06. Look Around You (It's Christmas Time) (Bobby Goldsboro)
07. Christmas Everyday (The Frights)
08. Mistress For Christmas (Halestorm)
09. Holiday Hootenanny (Paul & Paula)
10. Christmas Treat (Julian Casablancas)
11. Kids Come Back Again At Christmas (Sloan)
12. Good King Wenceslas (Lilys)
13. Let's Make Christmas Love (BMX Bandits)
14. Merry Christmas Time (Somerdale)
15. Never Gonna Be Alone on Christmas (Work Drugs)
16. My Christmas Card To You (The Partridge Family)
17. You Trashed My Christmas (The Primitives)
18. Cool Yule (The Rebel Pebbles)
19. The Sweetest Season (Deerheart)
20. Snow in Sun (Tracey Thorn)
21. Christmas Is My Time of Year (The Christmas Spirit)
22. Verhanukkah (Kisswhistle)
23. Christmas Spirit? (The Wailers)
24. Revolution Wonderland (The Weeklings)
25. Christmas Celebration (Weezer)
26. Xmas Time Again (Pointed Sticks)

Twenty Fourteen

Happy New Year! Here are 23 tunes from the year just past..

2014: Twenty Fourteen

01. Afterglow (Marble Party)

02. Between The Suburbs (School Of Language)

03. Cristina (Teleman)

04. Dizzy Heights (Neil Finn)

05. Everything Comes Together (The Paul & John)

06. Full Moon (Woods)

07. Get What You Give (The Men)

08. How Can You Really (Foxygen)

09. I Hope This Whole Thing Didn't Frighten You (The Hold Steady)

10. About the Weekend (The Jellybricks)

11. Let There Be Reverb (The Jigsaw Seen)

12. Misty's Beside Herself (Sloan)

13. New York Kiss (Spoon)

14. Oh Please (Marshall Holland)

15. Pay for It (The Both)

16. Prove Yourself (The Bobbleheads)

17. Ready For Death (Doug Gillard)

18. Shouting Match (The New Mendicants)

19. Spinning On the Record (Army Navy)

20. Talking Backwards (Real Estate)

21. Until The Sun Explodes (The Pains of Being Pure at Heart)

22. Wave Hello (Three Minute Tease)

23. You Tell Me Where (The New Pornographers)

Now all the world's a cloudy day

75 years later, mama took Paul Simon's Kodachrome away.

FOMM: Route 66 Revisited

Wednesday was Bob Dylan's 66th birthday, so I'm going back into my archives for the final four songs he performed with the Hawks (l.k.a. The Band) at London's Royal Albert Hall on May 26th, 1966.

As most Dylanologists know, the heavily bootlegged "Royal Albert Hall" Concert released as the Live 1966 album was actually the Manchester show on May 17th. These tracks are from the actual Royal Albert Hall show on May 26th, from the "Genuine Royal Albert Hall Concert" bootleg, part of the 8-CD Genuine Live '66 box set that I have on a single mp3 CD. And if you can't trust a bootleg, who can you trust?

The major difference between the real Royal Albert Hall show and the Manchester "Royal Albert Hall" show is that nobody yells "Judas" after "Ballad of a Thin Man". Eight hours of live Bob Dylan is a lot to plow through, especially since they didn't change the setlists during the tour, so you get multiple versions of the same 8-10 songs . Even listening to this on shuffle play gets to be a chore after listening to "4th Time Around" for the fourth time around. But I could hear Bob play these four songs with the Hawks four hundred times without getting tired of them!

Bob Dylan & the Hawks
(from The Royal Albert Hall, London, 05/26/66)
Leopard-Skin Pillbox Hat
One Too Many Mornings
Ballad of a Thin Man
Like a Rolling Stone

Note about the songs: Since some people expressed concerns about eSnips (the clunky interface, inability to play or download on a Mac, etc.), I'm going to follow Jeff's lead and start sharing songs via divshare. This has a similar interface to eSnips (you can to play songs online before downloading, but can't link directly to mp3s), but not so much of the downsides. You don't need to register to upload files, but anonymous uploads are only available for one week before they're deleted. Which is ideal for me. Let me know, via comments or email, how the service works for you, and don't forget to download files promptly before they disappear.

This concert was 41 years ago, and I'm 41 years old, so I was less than one year old when it happened. And Bob Dylan was born in 1941, so he was 25 when he played this show. 25 is also the sum of the digits in the date of the concert (05/26/66) . There's probably something happening here but I don't know what it is, so I'll take my milk and go home.