Keb' Mo' - The Worst Is Yet to Come b/w Old Me Better & More for Your Money

"The day ain't even begun. I got a bad, bad feeling that the worst is yet to come."
Keb' Mo' - The Worst Is Yet to Come

"I'd sleep all day, party all night!"
Keb' Mo' - Old Me Better

"There ain't very many good jobs today - a high price to pay to get more for your money today."
Keb' Mo' - More for Your Money

Wooden Horse - A Big Deal b/w This Kind of Trouble

"I've been tumbling. Rolling like a great big wheel."
Wooden Horse - A Big Deal

Wooden Horse - This Kind of Trouble

Black Prairie - The 84

"Don't sit in the backseat. I want you to be right here riding next to me."
Black Prairie - The 84

Neil Young - A Letter Home

Neil Young - A Letter Home

I've followed the principal in this blog of "If you have nothing good to say, don't say it all". I'm making an exception because this one is scary. I am a fan, as are all my friends. But a fan should not shell out money for absolute crud. Think of all the tirades Neil Young has had about the poor sound quality of music products!

I suggest you try to find an on-line stream of this before shelling out any cash.

A video is available of one cut:

And here's a guy with an alternative view of this CD. At least he's honest when he says "it sounds like an old 78 - it's scratchy." Where his ears differ from mine is he says "it works - it really works":

A live audience video has much better sound:

And finally, a 2014 solo concert in Winnepeg - enjoy!

Sheela Bringi - The Three-Eyed One

Sheela Bringi - The Three-Eyed One

No Three-Eyed One video yet. Here's a few older tunes:

Ryley Walker - Twin Oaks

Ryley Walker - Twin Oaks

No vid for Twin Oaks available. This slow tune gives an eartaste of Ryley's superb picking ability:

Mary Fahl - Everything's Gonna Be Alright

"A little marble in the distance spitting out into the night."
Mary Fahl - Everything's Gonna Be Alright

No video for this song, but here you'll meet Mary's eartastable voice:

Horse Thief - Dead Drum

"You're a snakebite. You stuck your teeth in me."
Horse Thief - Dead Drum

Adnan Joubran - Beat The Dream

Adnan Joubran - Beat The Dream

John Paul Keith - You Really Oughta Be with Me b/w Baby We're a Bad Idea

"My conscience and my schedule's clear."
John Paul Keith - You Really Oughta Be with Me

less than 30 minutes later the dude is singing:
Baby We're a Bad Idea
LOL! Nonetheless, great music & energy!

Older views:

Son of Dave - We Goin' Out

"All week long we work for Friday night."
Son of Dave - We Goin' Out

Marc Ford - Sometimes

"Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. Sometimes it just don't matter what you do."
Marc Ford - Sometimes

No video for Sometimes. Here's Blue Sky for a taste:

Patty Larkin - Nothing Else Matters

"Tonight I'm gonna spread my arms. I'm gonna fly away. Tonight my tears will turn to charms along the milky way."
Patty Larkin - Nothing Else Matters

No video for this song. Introducing Patty:

Ingrid Michaelson - Warpath b/w Time Machine & One Night Town

"You got me rooted in the ground like an old oak tree"
Ingrid Michaelson - Warpath

"You lit the fire, then drank the water."
Ingrid Michaelson - Time Machine

"Hold on like you gotta let me go. . ." Ingrid Michaelson - One Night Town

Ian Anderson - Doggerland b/w The Pax Britannica & Tripudium Ad Bellum

The flute is still a powerful rock instrument.
Ian Anderson - Doggerland

Ian Anderson - The Pax Britannica

Ian Anderson - Tripudium Ad Bellum

No video for the new songs. This is fun:

Smoke Fairies - We've Seen Birds b/w The Very Last Time

"try to calculate the numbers that have meaning"
Smoke Fairies - We've Seen Birds

Smoke Fairies - The Very Last Time

Dan Wilson - Love Without Fear

"All I want in this life of mine is someone to take my hand and walk with me side by side."
Dan Wilson - Love Without Fear

Eels - Parallels b/w Where I'm From & Kindred Spirit

"I know you're out there somewhere, and I know that you are well, looking for an answer that only time can tell."
Eels - Parallels

"Sometimes I miss where I'm from. . ."
Eels - Where I'm From

"She has an easy going way. It doesn't matter what you say."
Eels - Kindred Spirit

"She's got a real big heart. And I've got to win it back."

Elliott Murphy - Benedict's Blues

"Staying hungry. Keeping thin."
Elliott Murphy - Benedict's Blues

no video. Here's an oldie:

Joan Osborne - Thirsty for My Tears b/w Raga

"You should know me after all these years"
Joan Osborne - Thirsty for My Tears

"sparks of iron and clanging steel"
Joan Osborne - Raga

Morrissey & Marshall - I've Got a Plan b/w And So It Began & We Are One

"You've got to stop, take a second, think how easy it is to laugh."
Morrissey & Marshall - I've Got a Plan

Morrissey & Marshall - And So It Began

"Tell the one you love that you love the one you love. And tell yourself."
Morrissey & Marshall - We Are One

Matt Andersen - City Of Dreams b/w Let You Down & Drift Away

"They're gonna miss you when you're gone between the city of dreams and the end of the line."
Matt Andersen - City Of Dreams

"Everybody wants to be the one you love..."
Matt Andersen - Let You Down

"Let it go, and carry on."
Matt Andersen - Drift Away

The Alphabetical Order

Six extremely tastable "the" groups this week! The ones that have not posted new videos yet will have a glimpse at the past for flavoring.

The Both - Milwaukee

"a nucleus burning inside of a cell"

The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger - Poor Paul Getty

The Lowest Pair - Living Is Dying

The New Mastersounds - Morning Fly

The Planet Smashers - Scientific Explanation

The Secret Sisters - Dirty Lie

Bruce Springsteen – Hey Blue Eyes

"It's so easy to set a world on fire. All you need is the name, the money and a soul of reckless desire"
Bruce Springsteen – Hey Blue Eyes

No video yet, but similar flavors to Bruce oldies:

"My only faith's in the broken bones and bruises I display."

Jeffrey Halford and The Healers - Rainmaker

"My lips are cracked and my mouth is dry. I watched the wind lift into the sky. Sowed my seeds - there was nothing there. It's a ghost town around here."

Jeffrey Halford and The Healers - Rainmaker

The April Maze - Oh Yesterday & Other Hits

Finding a greatest hits cd in your mailbox from a group you never heard of is often a joke. This one was different, because they probably were hits and I missed them; or else they weren't hits and we all missed some great fun the past few years. Whatever the case, this is a fun duo, and deserve many many ears tasting their goodness. The various videos show off their versatility and showmanship. Good bread pudding! The sheet that comes with claims this CD will only be available at their concerts. Shame, really; but that's a good excuse for you to find out when they're playing in a town near year. The individual singles are, of course, available everywhere.

Oh Yesterday

Two Of Us

Will I Ever

And We Danced

I've Just Seen A Face

The Protest Song

Steve & Sally Cradock - Anyway the Wind Blows

The title is the lyric. The joy in this meal is the pan the meal is cooked on. Sally's recitation is the dessert.
Steve & Sally Cradock - Anyway the Wind Blows

The Rails - Panic Attack Blues b/w Breakneck Speed & Habit

I can't seem to shake this devil in me. Wakes me from my sleep.
Work all day to earn your pay and they take it all away.
I get so tired of being used.
Panic Attack Blues

"I'm a saint and you're a burden"
Breakneck Speed

"One day when it's time for me to go will I still be craving your touch so?"
Habit

12 more days

Ortolan - Bottle's Broken b/w Spring & Green Were The Days

"Eyes closed. Mouths shut. As choir sings."
Bottle's Broken

"The flowers hid their face in the middle of the field as the snow came all around and the little birds flew south away from the cold until the plants came from the ground."
Spring

"I changed the weather. I thought it changed for the better." Green Were The Days

No new videos yet. Good intro from 4 years ago:

Patsy Matheson - Domino Girls

"Look up and fall. Fall on your feet."
Patsy Matheson - Domino Girls

Old video while we wait for the new one. Tasty cover of The Clash:

Tim Easton - Don't Lie

"It's gonna come back on you"
Tim Easton - Don't Lie

Steven Wilson - Thank You

Thank you providence
Thank you disillusionment
Thank you nothingness
Thank you clarity
Thank you silence

Steven Wilson - Thank You

Steven's cover:

Alanis' original:

Joan As Police Woman - Holy City b/w The Classic

"I'm ready to get up on the wailing wall!"
Holy City

"I know how it feels to be so high without sinnin'"
The Classic

"rock and roll is for sure here to stay"

Paolo Nutini - Fashion b/w Scream & Someone Like You

"There's more to life than sex appeal."
CD (singles not available)

Scream (live version)

"Someone like you wasn't meant to be defined. Or confined. Or even met eye to eye. Just there to be explored."

Leon Russell - Down in Dixieland b/w Think Of Me

Down in Dixieland

Think Of Me

Look at these youngsters while we wait for the new videos:

Amelia White - Big Blue Sun

"This corner is my kingdom until big blue sun, coming up again, gonna fill up my eyes."
Big Blue Sun

No video for this song yet; so enjoy the oldies:

Carlene Carter - Little Black Train b/w I Ain’t Gonna Work Tomorrow

Oldies. Updated for dancing in 2014. Shoutouts for Troublesome Waters & Black Jack David
Little Black Train

I Ain’t Gonna Work Tomorrow

Troublesome Waters

Black Jack David

An intro:

The 80's version:

The 60's version:

For fun!:

Rodney Crowell - Frankie Please b/w Somebody's Shadow & Jesus Talk to Mama

"You tore through my life like a tornado looking for a trailer park."
Frankie Please

"I just can't get over how she shed me like a tear."
Somebody's Shadow

"Tonight I beat the devil to the draw."
Jesus Talk to Mama

Martina McBride - Come See About Me b/w Bring It On Home to Me

Yep. Oldies. Excellent ear candy. Shoutouts for In The Basement & My Babe.
Come See About Me

Bring It On Home to Me

In The Basement

My Babe

Zoe Muth - Little Piece of History

"I've been adding up all my daylight savings."
Zoe Muth - Little Piece of History

No new videos yet. A full blast from the past concert:

Nickle Creek - Destination b/w 21st of May

"You don't owe me one more minute of your wasted time"

Nickle Creek - Destination

Nickle Creek - 21st of May

Shoutouts for Elephant in the Corn & Where Is Love Now

Eartaste also loves Noella Choi's cover of Nickle Creek's cover of Sam Phillips:

Arc Iris - Money Gnomes b/w Whiskey Man & Powder Train

"Love falls gently from the sky"
Arc Iris - Money Gnomes

"I got no man to hold me up - I'm picking him up again"
Arc Iris - Whiskey Man

Arc Iris - Powder Train

Jamaica - Same Smile

"You should never change what you feel like anyway."
Jamaica - Same Smile

Video not ready yet. The oldie will spice the taste buds:

The Colourist - Stray Away b/w What Can I Say & Put The Fire Out

"I fear it's too late to let love stray away."
The Colourist - Stray Away

"Ever since you met me I told you that I could never hurt you. But I've got to."
The Colourist - What Can I Say

"Don't run from your problems - just put them on hold. I can show you how."
The Colourist - Put The Fire Out

Sherman Downey - The Right Idea b/w Heart vs. Doubt

"I headed west with nothing more than my suitcase and my soul."
Sherman Downey - The Right Idea

"My momma was pretty and she knew it - she'd walk a mile in her heels just to prove it."
Sherman Downey - Heart vs. Doubt

"At school they never taught me nothing except to keep a steady hand when you're bluffing."

Addis Pablo w/ Earl Sixteen – Evolution

"We don't need a revolution, we need a solution for the next generation."

Addis Pablo – In My Father’s House

"Each and every nation all need to be free"

Music is the way we use sing praises unto the king

Precious love is all I have to give.

Howler - Here's the Itch That Creeps Through My Skull b/w Don't Wanna

"I'll take what I need. I'll sell what I stole."
Howler - Here's the Itch That Creeps Through My Skull

Howler - Don't Wanna

The Robert Cray Band - Hold On

"All that I can think about is coming home to you."

The Robert Cray Band - Hold On

No video yet. An appetizer from the first cut on the cd:

The Afghan Whigs - Algiers b/w Matamoros

"So so simple when you know the motives when it's time to go."
The Afghan Whigs - Algiers

The Afghan Whigs - Matamoros

Drive-By Truckers - Shots Count b/w Hanging On & When Walter Went Crazy

"Boss ain't smart as he'd like to be - he ain't nearly as duumb as you think."
Drive-By Truckers - Shots Count

Drive-By Truckers - English Oceans [Full CD]

Looking into You: A Tribute to Jackson Browne

Three of the cuts on this collection stand out because the artists internalize Browne's vision and create a personal flavor worthy of visiting. Only Bonnie has prepared a video in time for CD release. The other videos are good appetizers for what flavors to expect will be spicing up Jackson Browne's sunshine.

Bonnie Raitt and David Lindley - Everywhere I Go

Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa - Linda Paloma

Bruce Hornsby - I'm Alive

The Pizza Underground

It was really really hard sitting on these treasures knowing others were sharing it and knowing anyone who reads my page deserves a good laugh any time of year. Yet I waited because this truly is a perfect April Fool's musical experience. Enjoy!