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YESTERDAZE
by Sean
Please note: MP3s are only kept online for a short time, and if this entry is from more than a couple of weeks ago, the music probably won't be available to download any more.
 Red River - "Something Good". Our mysterious friends in Red River have released another album, something partly handpainted and called Grassblades. Bill Roberts stands on a small stage, wearing a sheet like a cape. He stands with friends in t-shirts and jeans and baseball-caps and skirts, friends whose violin cases have stickers for Chiquita Banana and Page France. They play. "Something Good" is a song whose creation can be easily understood; whose singing can be easily imagined. The lyrics are plain, loving, pious. But the "love" Roberts sings of, the "good" - these are not the stuff of chapels and rosaries. They are the stuff of tides, night rides, bare feet, grassblades, Chiquita Banana. This is a song to keep in a flask in your pocket, something to sip on the bridge. Red River play Clancy's, in Long Beach, tonight. And Hollywood's Knitting Factory on March 30. Buy their albums, which are cheap as sand. And Mike Turner's short tour film, Riverbeds, is as modest as a memory passed. Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - "Natural Light". In this song of just 2min24, Casiotone doesn't give us enough time to fall in love with the keyboard riff. Wait, wait, wait - yes he does. Yes, I'm already in love with it. Just because he doesn't give me enough time to realise I'm in love, not 'til after the song's over, doesn't mean it didn't happen. Because that's the way with so many of the best things. You don't realise until after how good they were; or how deserved. [buy] --- No, none of us are at SXSW. But I've been updating the Said the Gramophone twitter account with a little more oomph than before. (painting by Andrew Wyeth, via Everyday Marvels) Posted by Sean at March 19, 2009 11:41 AMComments
This song is very satisfying to sing along to. Posted by Ben at March 19, 2009 3:09 PMWell every other music blogger is at SXSW, so at the very least you're original or perhaps you're way ahead of the curve while everyone is distracted. :) Posted by Michael Chagnon at March 19, 2009 10:09 PMI'm not at SXSW either - but I'm finding comfort in the fact that I am one of the glorious many - http://www.notatsxsw.com/ Posted by Dean @ Souls on Tape at March 20, 2009 6:35 AMgod, this red river song is so softly changing my life. Why do I let myself spend so much time away from here, your songs are as necessary for me as blood and breath. Posted by c.h. at April 1, 2009 3:56 PMthe first song is amazing.. the beat caught me instantly Posted by annie at June 4, 2009 1:03 AMPost a comment |
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about the authors
Sean Michaels lives in Montreal, where he is writing a novel. His work also occasionally appears at McSweeney's. Follow him on Twitter or reach him here.
Dan Beirne is an actor and writer living in Montreal. He writes fiction fiction fiction on here. It may feel true, but it is never True. He is most proud of his most recent project The Bitter End. Email him here Jordan Himelfarb lives in Toronto, where he is editor in chief of The Mark. Jordan's posts appear at Said the Gramophone only on the last Wednesday of every month. Email him here. Site design and header typography by Neale McDavitt-Van Fleet. The header graphic is randomized: this one is by . 
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