“The usual struggle between fear and love”

April 25, 2007

Cloud Cult - “Pretty Voice” - Live in the The Current’s studio
“The scene begins with a hermit’s melody sung by a bashful bird, hung in a violet sky. There are no words, but there’s understanding. It’s been so long, since I’ve heard that pretty voice.
Raise up the lights, and enter hero-girl. She makes me […]

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Summer Sounds

June 20, 2006

At the Square Lake Solstice Festival, June 17

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Validation

February 20, 2006

I simply had no idea. I had no idea what people in my town will do to support the bands they love. I had no idea how many people love a bunch of guys from Duluth who play a rockin’ style of bluegrass and call themselves Trampled by Turtles. I just had no idea that […]

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Low, with Trampled by Turtles, First Avenue, 12/9/2005

December 12, 2005

Coming back to Minneapolis on Friday night to play at First Avenue, it was almost like Low had never been gone. But in ways, it seemed like they might never really be back. Just like how the inevitable effect of time and travel sustains the phrase, “you can’t go home again,” so does a highly-anticipated […]

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Ain’t the morning light pretty

October 14, 2005

Blogger/homesteader extraordinaire Deb of Sand Creek Almanac has bravely (and wisely) chosen to share some of her music with the world of the internet. She was lacking a place to host the mp3 in question so I’ve put it on my server. She recorded it with her friend “Mando Man” Fred Keller on mandolin. The […]

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“It looks like it’s a-dyin’ an’ it’s hardly been born”

September 29, 2005

Hey, hey Woody Guthrie, I wrote you a song
‘Bout a funny ol’ world that’s a-comin’ along.
Seems sick an’ it’s hungry, it’s tired an’ it’s torn,
It looks like it’s a-dyin’ an’ it’s hardly been born.
I was watching part two of the new Dylan documentary by Martin Scorcese, No Direction Home, when Canoeman came to pick me […]

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