julie

graceful

staff picks...

My top 15 of 2007

1 ANDRE ETHIER - On Blue Fog
2 THE SADIES - New Seasons
3 SANDRO PERRI - Tiny Mirrors
4 MUSKOX - Fever Dreams
5 PANDA BEAR - Person Pitch
6 WOODEN SHJIPS - Wooden Shjips
7 TIMBER TIMBRE - Medicinals
8 ANDY SWAN - Ottawa
9 GETATCHEW MEKURIA AND THE EX - Moa Anbess
10 THE ACORN - Glory Hope Mountain
11 SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE - Shelter From The Ash
12 VOICE OF THE SEVEN WOODS - Voice Of The Seven Woods
13 THE OLD SOUL - Gold
14 WHITE RAINBOW - Prism Of Eternal Now
15 KING KHAN AND THE SHRINES - What Is?

My top 15 reissues of 2007

1 JORGE BEN - Forca Bruta
2 VARIOUS ARTISTS - Jamaican Funk
3 VARIOUS ARTISTS - Rebel Music Vol.2
4 CAETANO VELOSO - A Little More Blue
5 VARIOUS ARTISTS - Bearded ladies
6 VARIOUS ARTISTS - B-Music
7 JOHNNY 'GUITAR' WATSON - Untouchable
8 BRENDA RAY - Walatta
9 STEPHEN STILLS - Just Roll Tape
10 SUN RA - Night Of The Purple Moon
11 VARIOUS ARTISTS - Country Goes Rock n' Roll Vol.3
12 VARIOUS ARTISTS - Best Of Ethiopiques
13 THE IKETTES - Can't Sit Down... Cos It Feels So Good 
14 THIS HEAT - Reissues
15 MALVINA REYNOLDS - Malvina Reynolds

My favourite artists are:   Townes Van Zandt, Otis Redding, The Band, Dolly Parton, M. Ward, Sam Cooke, Jorge Ben, John Fahey, Paul Simon, Dock Boggs, Richard Youngs, Bob Dylan, Flaming Lips,  Six Organs of Admittance, Steeleye Span, Velvet Underground, Stanley Brothers, Patti Smith, Elizabeth Cotten, Sandro Perri, Eric Chenaux,  Buff Medways, Gillian Welch, Mississippi John Hurt, Field Recordings

My all-time favourite album is: NEIL YOUNG - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

The first album I ever bought was: MICHAEL JACKSON - Thriller

On Saturday nights, I throw down to:  Dead Meadow, Dirty Projectors, Wooden Shjips, Novos Baianos, Jorge Ben, The Sonics, and Barrington Levy.

 

On Sunday mornings, I recover to:  Paul Simon, Gillian Welch, Karen Dalton, Allen Toussaint, Brightblack Morninglight

The show that made me fall in love with/believe all over again in music was: LEVON HELM.

My favourite album so far this year is: BON IVER - For Emma Forever Ago, FLEET FOXES - Sun Giant, TEENANGER- S/T, JESSE KUSSIN - Cry Rumble, NO AGE -Nouns.

The best show I've seen so far this year is:   Sandro Perri, Eric Chenaux, The Muskox, Steamboat, The Rat-Drifting crew, Isla Craig,The Acorn, and The Weather Station are always lovely.

The band that should come out of retirement is: