Coloring Club Plus — 7/18/19

From wikipedia: Like Omigod! The 80s Pop Culture Box (Totally) is a seven-disc, 142-track box set of popular music hits of the 1980s. Released by Rhino Records in 2002. Original release sets had a 3D rubber cover. Later releases had a flat, printed cover. Like Omigod! includes a 90-page booklet of cultural comment, a timeline…

Coloring Club Plus — 7/17/19

Today’s musical selection is from the Love For Levon:  A Benefit to Save the Barn, which you can read more about in yesterday’s post, here. Wide River to Cross, written by Steven “Buddy” Miller and Julie Miller, is from Levon’s album, Dirt Farmer, which was released on October 30, 2007, and was Helm’s first studio…

Coloring Club Plus — 7/16/19

Love for Levon: Benefit To Save The Barn was a concert held on October 3, 2012 at the Izod Center in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The concert was a tribute to the life of The Band lead vocalist and drummer Levon Helm, who had passed away on April 19, 2012. The concert featured a wide…

Coloring Club Plus — 7/15/19

Today’s post talks about the final album of My Morning Jacket I listened to, at least for now. I found this album not excactly lackadaisical but a much less energetic effort than, “Evil Urges.” If you want to learn more about the band, please visit my previous post here. The Waterfall is the seventh studio…

Coloring Club Plus — 7/14/19

I’ve been writing about My Morning Jacket this week and you can learn more about the band and their discography here.  I’m dedicating my Celtic “M” to them today. Evil Urges is the fifth studio album by My Morning Jacket and was released on June 10, 2008. The album was nominated for the 2008 Grammy…

“Into the Woods,” by My Morning Jacket — Coloring Club Plus — 7/13/19

Today’s selection is from My Morning Jacket.  I wrote about the band here. Z is the fourth studio album by psychedelic rock band My Morning Jacket. This collection features a much spacier and more polished sound than previous releases, making heavy use of synthesizers throughout and incorporating reggae and dub influences. The heavy reverb that…

Coloring Club Plus — 7/12/19

There are so many well-known songs from this album, I decided to choose one less known.  In the materials at wikipedia it calls it a concept album about the American South.  I have no idea whether it’s a concept album about the American South.  I’ve never spent any time of note in the South. The…