Mostly Musical News:
Two of my favorite gravelly-voiced artists are releasing albums shortly.
1. Patterson Hood (founding member of the Drive-by Truckers) has finally decided to release the 2001-recorded solo effort "Killers and Stars." Hood recorded this album in his kitchen amid his divorce and DBT feuding, but never really intended to release it publicly. I'm glad he changed his mind, because I have a feeling that this is an album that everyone will need to own (and own it you can, on May 4). Expect reviews of this disc to contain the adjectives "dark," "rowdy," and "mean-ass."
2. If Patterson's voice isn't ragged enough for ya, you can wait until this fall to get the new Tom Waits record. The album is called "Real Gone," and promises to be full of: "Songs about politics, rats, war, hangings, dancing, automobiles, pirates, farms, the carnival and sinning. Mama, liquor, trains and death. In other words, the same 'ol dirty business!" So sayeth Tom, on the ANTI-records website.
Speaking of Tom Waits, apparently there's a grain of truth to his song "Chocolate Jesus." Via McSweeney's, here's a culinary review of a chocolate Cross - a snack that is stimultaneously tasty and tasteless, I'm sure. "It's easy to see without lookin' too far that not much is really sacred."
Two of my favorite gravelly-voiced artists are releasing albums shortly.
1. Patterson Hood (founding member of the Drive-by Truckers) has finally decided to release the 2001-recorded solo effort "Killers and Stars." Hood recorded this album in his kitchen amid his divorce and DBT feuding, but never really intended to release it publicly. I'm glad he changed his mind, because I have a feeling that this is an album that everyone will need to own (and own it you can, on May 4). Expect reviews of this disc to contain the adjectives "dark," "rowdy," and "mean-ass."
2. If Patterson's voice isn't ragged enough for ya, you can wait until this fall to get the new Tom Waits record. The album is called "Real Gone," and promises to be full of: "Songs about politics, rats, war, hangings, dancing, automobiles, pirates, farms, the carnival and sinning. Mama, liquor, trains and death. In other words, the same 'ol dirty business!" So sayeth Tom, on the ANTI-records website.
Speaking of Tom Waits, apparently there's a grain of truth to his song "Chocolate Jesus." Via McSweeney's, here's a culinary review of a chocolate Cross - a snack that is stimultaneously tasty and tasteless, I'm sure. "It's easy to see without lookin' too far that not much is really sacred."