Holiday

Been busy with holiday goings on and lots of other stuff. I plan on putting together a best of 2007 sort of thing sometime but for now here's some good Christmas music.

Murder City Devils - 364 Days
Rocket From The Crypt - Cancel Christmas
Supersuckers - Christmastime
Junkyard Dogs - Brand New Bike
Bruce Cockburn - Joy To The World

Okkervil River Daytrotter Sessions

Daytrotter Sessions always has some great performances to check out (Small Sins and Emma Pollack were there recently). Okkervil River were there a little while ago and did some covers of some really great songs but I don't feel they really did them justice. Still very much worth a listen but they don't come cloise to the beauty of John Phillip's original of "April Anne" and for "No Easy Way Down" I personally don't think anyone can touch Mark Eitzel's version. Here's the session, and as a bonus there's a cover that I think they nailed thrown in as well. (it's just like Simon Cowell always says, song choice is everything)

April Anne (John Phillips cover)
No Easy Way Down (Carole King cover)
Do What You Gotta Do (Jimmy Webb cover)
You Can't Hold The Hand Of A Rock And Roll Man
O Dana (Big Star Cover)