A collection of tracks from the summer to take you into fall. Septembers are always the craziest month in our house. I had a false start on a mix all about midnights, but decided against it in the end. You can still get the special edition here though! Midnight Mix. Welcome back from all your summer adventures, not a chill to the winter but a nip to the air!
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Unknown Mortal Orchestra / Layla
The guitar solo is so tasty.
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Unknown Mortal Orchestra first dropped into the world in late 2010 as a bandcamp account carrying a single called ‘Ffunny Ffrends’. ‘Ffunny Ffrends’ was everything you imagined it might be – alien beatnik pop music that echoed 60s psychedelia and krautrock minimalism with just a hint of gentle weirdness that suggested its roots might equally lie in the verdant indie of the equally distant New Zealand scene. Ruban Nielson is a New Zealand native who had transplanted to Portland, Oregon, USA with his band The Mint Chicks. Read more on Last.fm more...
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The Teskey Brothers / I Get Up
Australian blues rock band, love his voice, and this track in particular is so tight.
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The Teskey Brothers is an Australian soul blues band formed in 2008. The band came to be from seeking blues and roots of the greats from an early age when exposed to musicians such as Peter Green, Otis Redding and Ray Charles. The boys would watch closely in awe as their teacher, Sam Linton Smith, performed at St. Andrews pub on a Sunday, the very same St. Andrews in which Josh and Sam Teskey set up to busk as boys. Thus began the musical convergence of Warrandyte Blues-Soul and everything in between. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Trampled By Turtles / Midnight on the Interstate
I actually made a "Midnight" mix after hitting on this track, but it ended up being a greatest hits of songs you all know so I scrapped it. I added a link to it in the comments above though since it's still a great collection of tunes. I love the harmonizing fiddles at the end of this song.
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Trampled By Turtles (TBT) is an indie folk band from Duluth, Minnesota. The group is most famous for both its fast-paced songs and plaintive ballads. Their high-energy concerts have attracted an ever-growing, dedicated fan following. The band members have referenced inspirations such as Townes Van Zandt, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, and Ralph Stanley. Their fifth release, Palomino, has maintained a position in the Top 10 on the Billboard bluegrass charts for 52 straight weeks. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Shovels & Rope & Shakey Graves / Unknown Legend
First of a few classic covers on this mix, have always loved it. Colliding with the very air she breathes.
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Shovels & Rope is American folk duo of husband and wife Michael Trent and Cary Ann Hearst from Charleston, South Carolina. The duo began with two guitars, a junkyard drum kit (harvested from an actual garbage heap- adorned with tamborines, flowers and kitchen rags), a handful of harmonicas, voices, and above all.. songs. Cary Ann Hearst & Michael Trent prefer to keep it simple. They have cleverly managed to take 3 separate recording projects and combine them into 1 cohesive Read more on Last.fm more...
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Thee Sacred Souls / Will I See You Again?
Great simple track, love the guitar tone, vox are killer.
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Inspired by the souldies around which they were reared, Alex Garcia and Sal Samano found chemistry when they began cutting bedroom demos of rhythm tracks together in 2019. Multi-instrumentals both, Alex migrated from the guitar to the drums where he discovered the sensitive touch and unique feel that would be the pillowy pulse of the band’s sound, while Sal learned to carve winding bass lines through the deep spidery grooves of their vamps. Though the jams they created together were scintillating Read more on Last.fm more...
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Monophonics / It's Only Us
You are in your nu-soul interlude portion of the album. Where we gonna go from here!
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Over the past seven years, Monophonics have staked their claim as one of California’s premier bands. Raised amid the Bay Area’s rich musical culture, Monophonics has proudly carried on the tradition of music native to their hometown, which flourished during the birth of psychedelia. Monophonics were formed in 2005; originally a instrumental ensemble comprised of guitarist Ian McDonald, bassist Myles O’Mahony, saxophonist Alex Baky, trumpeter Ryan Scott Read more on Last.fm more...
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Boby Oroza & Cold Diamond & Mink / This Love
Sit back and put your feet up.
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When looking for a description of the music Bobby Oroza makes, you may lean into some familiar territory: vintage-sounding, dreamy, sensual, a deep cut on some wonderfully odd indie-love-film soundtrack. And, yes, all of those attributes are accurate—but still, they fall desperately short of describing what Bobby and company have provided us in a short amount of time. Raised in the immigrant-populated Eastern Center section of Helsinki, Finland, Bobby was born to a Bolivian mother and Finnish father. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Kowloon / Wake Up
A little groovy ditty shake up shake down
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There are at least three acts that go by the name Kowloon, two from Japan and the latter two from the US. 1) kowloon is an instrumental trio from Tokyo, Japan that started activities in 2005. Members are teppei takahashi (bass, guitar, micro korg), keisaku nakamura (synthesizer, rhodes, piano) and umeki taichi (drums). They are influenced by: rock classics, post-rock, experimental, breakbeats, minimal, new/no wave up to disco. Their website is http://kxwlxxn.net. Read more on Last.fm more...
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The Handsome Family / So Much Wine
Heartbreaker of a tune a friend played for me at our last campfire jam session.
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The Handsome Family is an alternative country and americana band, formed in Chicago, Illinois, and currently based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The band was formed in 1993 by husband-and-wife duo Brett Sparks (vocals, guitar, keyboards) and Rennie Sparks (bass, banjo, vocals), along with drummer Mike Werner. The band would later revolve around Rennie, who writes the lyrics, and Brett, who writes the music. Guest musicians complete the band line-up for recordings and live work. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Alexi Murdoch / All My Days
I will be performing this song at a wedding in October so it's probably the song I've heard the most over the past few months, despite it being me playing it.
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Alexi Murdoch (born 27 December 1973 in London) is a Grammy-nominated English-born musician and songwriter who was raised partly in Greece and partly in Scotland. His first album "Time Without Consequence" was met with wide critical praise, gaining him five stars with Alternative Press as well as placing him on Rolling Stone's Top Ten Artists list. Born in London to a Greek father and Scottish-French mother, Murdoch was raised in Greece (just outside of Athens) until he was ten and then moved to Scotland with his family. Read more on Last.fm more...
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I'm With Her / Crossing Muddy Waters
Classic John Hiatt gutpunch song. This is a beautiful version.
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I'm With Her is a female folk trio comprising Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz and Aoife O'Donovan. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Ryley Walker / The Roundabout
Loved the guitar riff from the first listen.
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Ryley Walker is an accomplished fingerstyle guitarist, singer, and songwriter from Chicago whose music and evolution as an artist have proven mercurial. He moved from noisy avant-garde work in his nascent stages into virtuosic guitar playing and floating spiritual pop that traced lines between Bert Jansch, Van Morrison, and somehow even the Dave Matthews Band. Walker's love of the DMB was highlighted in his dark interpretations of their songs on the 2018 covers album The Lillywhite Sessions. Read more on Last.fm more...
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KOKOROKO / Abusey Junction
A track that has been percolating on maybe yes maybe no for years due to it's length, but here we are at the end of the mix and you all need to hear it at long last.
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KOKOROKO are a young, London based Afrobeat 8-Piece band led by trumpeter Sheila Maurice-Grey, playing a fusion of Jazz and Afrobeat. Members: Sheila Maurice-Grey, Cassie Kinoshi, Richie Seivwright, Yohan Kebede, Duane Atherley, Tobi Adenaike, Onome Edgeworth, Ayo Salawu. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Orgone / Be Thankful For What You've Got
And since we're adding long songs...love this groove. It's too long and gets a bit repetitive, but I still love it.
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There is more than one artist with this name: 1) Los Angeles based band Orgone is many souls with a cosmic connection, a natural creative force and musicians who have played together for years. They are self schooled and continue to shape their musical voice as a solid unit of guys who hang, spin records and jam out their shared inspirations. With a rooted sense of funk, soul, afrobeat, deep rhythms and an intimate understanding of dj culture as well as each others' individual talents Read more on Last.fm more...
