DJ Greybush Presents: Moonshine Music Mix

Twolcott dropped a country mix a little while ago in this post right here.  If you didn't grab it then please do so now...it's fine, I'll wait.  We have similar beliefs on country music.  I used to say that exact same thing, "Anything but country."  Greybush trivia fact, the first CD that I ever listened to was a George Strait CD.  My brother had gotten it in a prize pack at a high school basketball game or something.  I believe we had just gotten a CD player but I was holding tight to my tapes, because technological evolution sucks.  So when I say I don't like country that's the sort of shit I am talking about.  Him and Dwight Yokham, Randy Travis, Allan Jackson.  Those dudes and also almost everything modern, Kenny Chesney, Toby Keith, yeah no thanks, I get why girls like the new stuff, it's just not for me.  That picture of Kenny is creepy as fuck too.  I would totally do Carrie Underwood though...oh and she has quite the voice.

When, Twolcott, who needs a better name, told me he was doing a country mix, I said, "OH EM GEE me too!!"  I squealed and jumped a little when I said it and then tried to grab his hands like I have seen girlfriends do in the movies after a shared exclamation, but he would have none of that.  I applaud his restraint and his awareness of the fact that he is not a character in a Rom Com, should that be hyphenated?  Is it capitalized?  Should I just never use that word again?

Download link behind the jump

Glossolalia

No, not that crazy Pentecostal snake-shakin' speaking 'in tongues', but a mostly mellow mix of some of my favorite foreign language tunes. The French are highly over-represented, but I've also thrown in some Japanese, Korean, Icelandic, and Portuguese. The Lykke Li track is the only one in English, but she speaks some French in the song, plus she's Swedish so I let her slide in to represent for the English as a Foreign Language peeps. Enjoy.

Glossolalia Mix

The Goods

We be poppin tags, throwin things in bags, being Louis Vuitton Dons and shieeet  This is what happens when I don't have access to my music, or a music post seems like a daunting task.  I tell you to buy things.  It's like we are taking a trip to the virtua mall and you are my sugar daddy/mamma, can we stop by the Cinnabon stand on the way out? 

Shirts by Acrylick availabe here

Sterling silver cassette tape necklace by Minx. 20" Chain.  Available here for $40.  The very similarly styled, "Harajuku Lovers - "Hair & Makeup Girls" Boombox Charm Necklace, on Antique Silver chain."  Is $24 and can be found here.

 101 Apparel has a solid clothing line.  Kind of on that retro tip with their graphics.  "101 takes inspiration from various genres and cultures, showing influences from classic designers of the 60's & 70's such as Alexander Girard, Milton Glaser and others. Combined with an extensive background in music related design, the outcome shows a unique positive energy, color balance and treatments."
Peep their stuff here. 

I suck for not copping this when I had a chance.  Chaser LA teamed up with Technics for a line of shirts awhile back and I slept on getting this.  Now it's hard to find in my size now and is the main reason I weep at night.  Well that and the fact that my size is two hefty bags sewn together.  More of their stuff here.




Gama-Go Goodies

"From the turntable to the dinner table, this 45 styled trivet is sure to make your next green bean casserole a hit.
Molded from 100% silicone, complete with grooves. Comes in three colors, you choose.
Washable. 7" diameter."  Availble for $11.95 here. 

The Amp Mug is $12 here and the shirt below is $28 here. 

I am a fan of Gama-Go's aesthetic.  I think they have a nice design style, I am a sucker for animation infused designs.  They also have great character work and the colors pop.  Gamma-Go is a local Bay Area company, so show them some support.  "In late 2000 Tim Biskup, Chris Edmundson, & Greg Long started screen printing t-shirts and working out of the basement of Greg's house. In 2006 Tim Biskup stopped working creatively for Gama-Go. Still a dear friend and partner in the company, Tim now enjoys an illustrious career in fine art. In April of 2009 we opened our first retail store, if you're in the SOMA neighborhood of San Francisco, stop by!"  Check out the rest of their stuff at their site.


Upperplayground Shirts by Grotesk
This series of music inspired tees by Grotesk is cool.  Feeling all three of these.  Buy them here.

Talib Kweli and DJ Chaps- Early Mourning Signs Mixtape

It seems like the only hip hop news that has peaked my interest lately has been Reflection Eternal related stuff.  I am working on the next hip hop mix, but there is a lot of garbage out there right now.  I sit down, try and start listening and curse myself for blindly downloading without previewing.  For real, I have some straight bullshit on my computer.  I actually have a mix cut down to the standard hour and twenty minute time limit.  But it has filler...it has a Fat Joe track, and that just seems a little wrong, like I could do better.  I have been trying though, I listen to some hood dudes, spit that trap music over whack beats, get fed up and switch to soul, which I find much more enjoyable to sift through.  I am easily distracted when faced with opposition.  So to any of the straight up hip hop heads, I apologize, you may see nine Pop Princess mixes before I get the next hip hop one done. 

Also if you are a straight up hip hop head, why the fuck are you reading this site?  Go here, that's where I get most of my hip hop shit from.   You may also want to check out here, here, and here. You can get 99% of the shit from my mixes from other sites, I am merely a compiler, sorter, editor, world class butter sculptor.  If you want to do it yourself you totally can.

Here is a little present that you can get from Nahright.  Talib Kweli and DJ Chaps just dropped their mixtape yesterday.  I haven't listened to it, which we just discussed, is how I get in trouble, but Talib is one dude that is worthy of a blind download in my book.

Head over to Nahright.com and grab it here. 

Upcoming Shows

One of the best things about living in a major metropolitan area, besides the abundance of hookers, is the fact that when people go on tour they usually pencil us in for a little session.  Just think about those poor people who live in places like Ekalaka, Montana, population 410.  Do you think the Backstreet Boys ever think about them when they are making their tour schedules?  I think not!!!  Yet they do think about us, and thank God for that.  We get two shows!!  How many does Ekalaka get?  I am going to guess a big fat zero, and that's just not fair to the good people of Ekalaka.  I would glady give them one of our Backstreet Boy shows, shit I will be even more generous and give them both of them.  Without that one that is missing it's just not the same.  Free (whoever is missing)!!!  Or R.I.P. or Good decision to not cling so pathetically to your past glory!!!  At least their groupies are legal now.  Go get em boys!!

There are always a ton of great shows in the Bay Area, despite the aforementioned BSB (That's how the kids say it right?) show.  After the jump some real shows that are worth attending.

13 Songs Vol.2

This is a mix of mostly up-beat pop songs, with a little Alt-Country interlude in between just to keep things random, er, interesting. In the interest of full disclosure, yes, three of these songs are from the Twilight: New Moon soundtrack (Team Jacob! [no homo]). I originally downloaded it just for the new Thom Yorke song, but then found some nice Bon Iver and Lykke Li tracks, so I threw them in. Anyway, who says a shitty movie can't have a decent soundtrack? Speaking of movies, a gold star goes out to whoever can name the 1980s documentary sampled in the Radio Dept. song, "Never Follow Suit". One hint: MF Doom also sampled this film. Enjoy!


13 Songs Vol.2

R.I.P. Guru

The hip hop world lost a legend yesterday. Gifts Universal Rhymes Unlimited, born Keith Edward Elam, died on April 19 after a long battle with cancer. He was 43. Crazy that this all went down after he was in the headlines for a completely different medical problem a couple of months ago. Guru had gone into a coma after suffering a heart attack, DJ Premier, had tweeted that the rapper underwent a successful surgery and was recovering, although he was still under a medically-induced coma. Supposedly he recovered from all of that and was then taken by the cancer that he had been battling for over a year.

*Update* Guru's family released a statement today.

"The Elam family wishes to thank the fans of our son/brother/father uncle/nephew/cousin Keith aka GURU for the outpouring of love, concern and support.

Our hearts are broken by the loss of someone we loved so much. GURU was devoted to his young son, who will most keenly feel his absence.

GURU suffered from multiple myeloma for over a year. Accrued complications from this illness led to respiratory failure and cardiac arrest. As a result, GURU was in a coma from mid February until his death and never regained consciousness. Early on the morning of April 19th, he became hypertensive due to low blood pressure. He again went into cardiac arrest and slipped away from us.

GURU died far too young but he was, and we are, proud of all his many legendary musical contributions.

The family is not aware of any foundations established by GURU. We know and understand that countless fans want to express their condolences and love and, to that end, we are planning a memorial event in the near future that will be all-inclusive. Please look for further details from the family as they become available.

from The Elam Family"

Just like everyone suspected when "Guru's" letter was released.  Solar is shady as fuck.

 More after the jump.

I Left My Heart In San Francisco

Home Is Where The Heart Is, By Jeremy Fish

I saw Mayer Hawthorne on Thursday night at the Warfield. He sounded really good but he did a pretty short set since he was slotted as the opener for Passion Pit.  He busted out the ELO cover of "Mr. Blue Sky" that Jeffro covered in this post though and ripped it.  What surprised me was the fact that he didn't do his cover of, "I Left My Heart in San Francisco."  You know the one that was discussed here.  The one that he was releasing on heart shaped USBs because it was his last tour stop.  Figured he would have worked that shit in somehow but maybe he let it out at the after party that I did not attend.

Either way the set was solid and I got the shirt/usb package dealy, which I will now share with you, you can wear the shirt on alternate Tuesdays.

"I Left My Heart in San Francisco" Audience Participation/song battle and downloads after the jump.

DJ Greybush Presents: Jams Fo Yo Grams

I see you Gertrude, shaking dat azz!!  *Points at old lady in a chair gumming her boiled carrots.*  These right here are "Jams Fo Yo Grams," or lullabies for teenagers.  They have a little bit of oomph for old people music, they might get your false hip a swaying.  Make your blue permed hair stand on edge.  Just don't try and spin this mix for the 8th graders, they like stuff like the Real McCoy, songs sung by Germans about Tawk Tawking and running away to "Another Night."  At least that's how it was in my day, minus the liking German's part, we sort of had issues with them in my day, but that's a story for another day.
Seriously?  This was popular?  The 90's were gross.

The Real McCoy


That was like showing you the 3 so you consider sleeping with the 5 at the bar.  I apologize for that, as a child of that exact type of catastrophe, I can say that it doesn't end well for anyone.  But hey, now anything you listen to will sound that much better, it's only through the bitter that we can appreciate the sweet.  This track from the mix is a 10 no matter what though so that whole exercise was pretty pointless.  I just wanted to take you back to that awkward cafeteria of segregated genders awkwardly gyrating in a stand off, the smell of fake smoke and puberty wafting through the air.

Songs and the mix after the jump.

Reflection Eternal Tour Dates

Talib Kweli and Hi-Tek accepted each others friend requests and not only have a new album coming out but a tour as well. These two were responsible for some of the go to jams in my college days.  We used to put on "This Means You".....and then continue to sit there not doing much of anything.  But boy did that song make me want to get hyped.  If only getting hyped didn't require so much energy.

Talib Kweli and Hi-Tek featuring Mos Def- This Means You


Check them out if they are coming to your city.

4/22 Cincinnati, OH/Covington, KY Xavier University/Madison Theater
4/24 Grand Rapids, MI The Intersection
4/25 Pontiac, MI Crofoot Ballroom
4/27 Chicago, IL House Of Blues
4/29 New York, NY Nokia Theater Times Square
4/30 New Brunswick, NJ Rutgers University
5/2 Long Island, NY Crazy Donkey
5/3 Washington, DC Black Cat
5/5 Philadelphia, PA The Note
5/10 Kansas City, MO Midland Theater
5/11 Tulsa, OK Cain’s
5/12 Houston, TX Warehouse
5/13 Dallas, TX Granada Theater
5/15 Boulder, CO Fox Theater
5/16 Denver, CO Bluebird
5/19 Los Angeles, CA House Of Blues
5/20 Anaheim, CA The Grove
5/21 Phoenix, AZ The Clubhouse
5/22 Tucson, AZ DV8
5/23 Ventura, CA Ventura Theater
5/24 San Francisco, CA Fillmore Theater
5/25 San Diego, CA House Of Blues
5/26 Santa Cruz, CA Catalyst Nightclub
5/28 Portland, OR Aladdin Theater
5/29 Seattle, WA ShowBox at the Market

Info from Talib's site Year of The Blacksmith 

OMG!!11!!! THE GREATEST NEWS EVER!!!111!!!!

Holy shit, breaking news everyone.  When I heard this news this morning it was like the heavens parted and I was blasted in the FACE with a ray of sunshine direct from God's urethra.  Wait is that good or bad?

Maybe it was like something more enjoyable happened.  It was like I found out my probation was over and I could finally take off this stupid ankle monitor.  Telling the judge, "It Chaffs, your honor and I have very sensitive skin" is not enough reason to be set free.  Much like the feeling I expect to have on that very momentous day this tidbit of news filled my belly with exuberant feelings of joyous rapture.  Rapture is another word for krispy kremes right?  I ate like 12 today.

So what's this news you say, and afterward someone asks you why you are talking to your computer monitor.  Get ready because you are about to be SOOO disappointed excited!!!


Phil Fucking Collins is releasing an album of all Soul covers!!!!  Rejoice!!!  Finally someone will do these songs justice.  Save them from their mediocre and craptacular original states and elevate them to art, Collins style.  Hopefully with his nuanced approach he can make people think, "My Girl" is about the lady he watched drown after being attacked by killer bees...too meta?  I've always thought when listening to classic motown, you know what would make this like 1 million times better?  If instead of Martha and the Vandals singing it was someone who better represented soul, someone like Phil Collins.  I usually said Michael Bolton but Collins will do.  Well you can thank me for all those nightly prayers I logged with the sunshine pisser upstairs.  Your wishes have been granted.  A quote from the man himself.

  "It shouldn't really be a surprise to anyone that I've finally made an album of my favourite Motown songs. These songs, along with a couple of Dusty Springfield tracks, a Phil Spector/Ronettes tune, and one by the Impressions, make up the tapestry, the backdrop, of my teenage years," Collins said.
"I remember it as if it was yesterday, going to the Marquee Club in London's Soho and watching The Who, The Action, and many others, playing these songs. In turn I'd go out the next day to buy the original versions. My idea, though, was not to bring anything new to these already great records, but to try to recreate the sounds and feelings that I had when I first heard them," added the 59-year-old artist."

Hopefully he does a cover of Seal's song "A Change Is Gonna Come."

There is one thing I can give Phil props for, I mean besides the "I can't dance" video, and that is that he accepted his baldness and shaved his head.  Good call on that one.  Seriously people you don't fool anyone.  Is it wrong to dismiss this album before it has even dropped?  Maybe,. but do you seriously ever think soulful and Phil Collins would be used in the same sentence?

Here is a glimpse of what it might be like Phil doing a Curtis song from that horrible tribute to Curtis album from 1994.

Phil Collins- I've Been Trying


Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions

Via    

Audience Participation: California Soul

So I was listening to Greybush's Soul Mix 4 and Soul Mix 3 and noticed that he blessed us with two different version of California Soul (originally written by Ashford and Simpson). I looked in my iTunes library to find out just how many versions of this banger I had and I found 4. I personally like the Messengers version the most, but I am more interested in finding out which version you like best. And for those of you that watch a lot of TV, yes, this is the song used in the Dockers commercial featuring San Francisco.

Marlena Shaw - California Soul (From Soul Mix 3)

The Messengers - California Soul (From DJ Shadow's Product Placement)


Diplo - California Soul (Remix from Soul Mix 4)


Gerald Wilson - California Soul (also from DJ Shadow's Product Placement)


BONUS: Gangstarr - Check the Technique

"Youre lackin the vernacular, Im slappin ya and cappin ya And closin your jaw, cause you cant mess with gangstarr The guru and premier always dope with the blessed beats Dance your ass off hobbes, check the technique"

Jeffro

Soul Mix 4

Do you have your smoking jacket on and a drink with an umbrella in it, no homo?  Then settle in and get ready for Soul mix 4.  Being totally unbiased it's the audio form of everything that is right in the world.  Someone named me likes it.

This mix has the Helene Smith version of, "Pain In My Heart," off of Eccentric Soul Vol 7: Deep City Soul Label.  I highly recommend purchasing it on vinyl, it's a solid collection.  Deep City was a seriously dope label out of Miami, there are a bunch of nice tracks in their catalog.  A little bit about them and the Eccentric Soul collection.  "Possibly the most influential of all the 60s Miami soul label's, the Deep City sound not only changed the Metro-Dade area, but set the tone for disco powerhouse TK's impressive run in the 70s.

The singles on Willie Clark and Johnny Pearsall's Lloyd and Deep City label's are Florida's rarest of the rare, and we've collected the best of their four year run here. Includes Betty Wright and Paul Kelly's first sides, the can't-miss-but-did diva Helene Smith, obscure work by Frank Williams & the Rocketeers, as well as a previously unreleased acetate by the Moovers."

 












Eccentric Soul Vol. 7 and Otis playing peek-a-boo.

Back to Helene's cover, I was in a record shop in the city and this came on and I had to do that thing where you stop what you are doing, walk up to the counter and demand they give you the name of the artist singing or you will start breaking things.  Of course they coughed up the name immediately and that's just one of the many reasons they call me Jack Bauer.  It's not the fact that I get drunk and tackle Christmas trees, it's the way I make people talk...and I also happen to be 3' 11."  Apparently Helene has a Myspace Who knew?


Helene Smith- Pain In My Heart

Here is one more sample.  The James Brown track, "Prisoner of Love."  That's some old school James, it's amazing how long this man was good.  From slow smooth grooves to rock your face off funk fantasticness this dude could do it all.  This one of the slower jams, but dude could SANG!!

James Brown- Prisoner Of Love



The rest of the mix has music, with instruments and singers.  If you like music and instruments and also singers then it might make sense for you to download this, but that's just like my opinion maan.


Soul Mix 4

Email Updates

So we are kind of new at this blogging thing, well besides my now defunct blog Serbianwarlordsposingwithfinecheeses.org/edu;.comgigabyte let's just not mention that anymore though, deal?  Oh but one final note, all you Serbian warlords out there can stop sending me pictures.  I have enough to last a lifetime.

I thought that if you were a follower you would have the ability to get email updates automatically sent to you.  What else is the point of becoming a follower?  You don't even get a free t-shirt and we don't even have a rallying cry, may I suggest someone write one?  The only requirement is that the phrases, Fattenings, pygmy, and elephantiasis be included in the second verse, those are just a couple of mandates.  Regardless of our lack of a rallying cry, the automatic email thing was not working or was non-existent. *Dun, Dun Dunnn* Until now that is!!! *rips open curtain to reveal senior citizens in cages*  Sorry you shouldn't have seen that.

Anyway, you can now sign up to get email updates whenever a new post is posted...post.  If you look on the right side there will be a thingy for you to clicky and then enter your social security number, address, and bank account numbers, this is all standard protocol, my Nigerian Banker set this up for us and he is on the up and up...don't worry.  We will free your money soon Senator Tchksipolo the third.


Another official blog news tidbit we have entered the 21st century and now have a Friendster page!!  Put your party hats on and start throwing sheep at each other, poke each other farmville each others organs, whatever you kids do.

So become a fan of us and...I don't really know what you do after that.  
Stereophonic Fattenings on Facebook

Tidbit three, if you actually download the mixes and burn them to cd's, you may have noticed that they are very close to the maximum time allowed.  Because I push it to the limit, BAWSE!!!  So just set them to burn with no gap or a one second gap and they should be good to go.  All of the ones I make are burnable and listenable in your car stereos.

*All emails collected will also be used to sign up for erectile dysfunction pills, mail order poultry, and Bridal Shower weekly...hurry the Summer issue is just around the corner*

Ctrl Alt Country Delete

Ok, so I have little backpedaling to do: in my last post, I claimed to not like contemporary country, which is only half-true. I'd rather get a root canal than listen to 90% of the garbage that gets showcased at the CMT awards; however, there are a lot of new artists doing some really great stuff, but by and large, these artists get snubbed by mainstream country listeners/critics. Generally speaking, these acts are bringing country back to its roots, and this is perceived as backward-looking by the purveyors and consumers of major label country music. Given their relegated status vis-à-vis the big money country bands, these artists are often labeled as "Alt Country", which I'm sure doesn't sit well with performers who are putting out music that, in my opinion, is a much more authentic extension of the classic country music of the sort that I showcased in my last mix. Anyway, stepping down from my soapbox, check out my take on new country that doesn't suck.

Alt Country Mix

Btw, iTunes keeps effing up my track order, so I'll reproduce it here:

1. One Little Song – Gillian Welch

2. Sweet Loving Man – Jolie Holland

3. Harvest – James Mercer (of The Shins, Neil Young cover)

4. Free Until They Cut Me Down – Iron & Wine

5. Gone for Good – Iron Horse (Shins cover)

6. When the Stars Go Blue – Ryan Adams

7. Tear Stained Eye – Son Volt

8. Erie Canal – Bruce Springsteen

9. She’s a Jar – Wilco

10. We Never Argue – Lambchop

11. Chinese Translation – M. Ward

12. Look at Miss Ohio – Gillian Welch

13. You Remind Me of Something – Bonnie “Prince “ Billy

14. Train Under Water – Bright Eyes

15. Cold November – The Maldives

16. One More Dollar – Gillian Welch

17. Acuff-Rose – Uncle Tupelo

18. The Galway Girl – Steve Earle

19. Four Winds – Bright Eyes

20. Jolene – The White Stripes (Live Loretta Lynn cover)

Anything but Country

For the longest time, whenever anyone would ask me what kind of music I liked, I'd reply, "Anything but Country." However, I eventually realized that what I didn't like was modern, top 40 Country à la Garth Brooks and the legions of other Wrangler-clad muzak-makers. If you dig into the roots of the genre, you find some really beautiful stuff: simple, straight-forward song-writing about universally-appealing subjects of lost love, hard labor, and good times. None of this 'I'm proud to be redneck' crap that so much of modern country boils down to. In this mix you'll find most of the OGs: Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, Conway Twitty, Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, et al. I also included some stuff that may be considered more "traditional" than strictly "country", but it's exactly that period in American music when genre labels didn't define your art or your audience that I'm interested in exploring here, so I threw them in the mix. As usual, my last song is a bit of an outlier -- a live version of Etta James' "I'd Rather Go Blind" that begins with Etta saying to the audience:

"I always fantasized of being a Country and Western singer. No shit!"

Hey, if Etta likes Country, so can I.

Enjoy, y'all.

Classic Country Mix

DANGERxSHIN

Do you like the Shins?

Do you like Danger Mouse?


Then you should probably pick up Danger Mouse and James Mercer's new project, The Broken Bells. It sounds..well...exactly like what you'd think a Shins/DM collaboration would sound like. Seriously though, I'm going to start referring to DM as the Nike SB of the music business. He does the oddest collaborations and they generally generate a good ammount of hype. ie DMxBeck, DMxTheBlackKeys (Originally for Ike Turner!), DMxCartoonNetworkxMFDoom.


Here are a couple tracks from the latest album....oh and a Pink Floyd track that October reminds me of. Must be the opening sequence.


The Broken Bells - Citizen


The Broken Bells - October


Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here


Jeffro

The Goods

It's that time again where I play hypebeast.  *Pushes button to seal the air lock on closet*  Sorry about that, can't let those uv rays fuck up my kicks, nah mean?  *Adjusts thick rimmed glasses, lays on bed to wiggle and writhe into skinny jeans*  Sorry about that, I don't know why I was talking to you without any pants on.  Let's get our consumption on!!!

First up is some music infused art, which is like bacon encapsulated by fried chicken, or Mike and Ike's smothered in Vegemite, two of my favorite things in the world colliding into a brilliant wreck of awesome.  Is the Mike and Ike's thing just me?  Thought so.  Ian Johnson just had the opening for his new show, “Of The Living Sky, at Park Life in San Francisco.  Here is Ian's bio from his site, "Born in Syracuse, NY 1979 Lives and Works in San Francisco."  I guess that's all you need to know about him.  Not really, Ian does excellent intricate, realistic, renderings, of jazz luminaries and musical icons.  He infuses these with geometric designs, rays of rainbow colors, and abstract visuals to create awesome graphic depictions of legendary talents.  Check out this piece he did from his last solo show of one of the loves of my life, the Reverend.  That is a dope ass piece. 

 My only problem with Ian's work is that I don't know everyone he paints.  The pieces all look amazing, but I feel like I have to be a huge fan of someone before I display a prominent picture of them on my wall.  Ian knows his jazz, and his works are mostly focused on people I am not that familiar with.  I have the same issue with concert posters, and it's weird placing this guideline of synchronicity between liking the image and also supporting the person being depicted in the piece.  Usually I just go off image but portraiture is a different ball game that adds that other dimension....I want that Al though.

Either way if you are in the Bay Area you should go check the show out, it closes on May 1st, so you still have time.  Go see the Billie Holliday piece, it was stunning in it's simplicity and cleanliness.

Park Life
220 Clement St
SF CA 94118
415.386.7275

Two more things you should buy and a free Roots x Dilla mixtape after the jump.

Southern Fried Goodness

IT'S REAL! KFC is introducing their Double Down sandwich on April 12th. Who needs bread surrounding their cheese and bacon when you've got two pieces of Colonel Sander's special recipe instead? In celebration of this gluttonous and sinful event, I decided to post a few tracks by Southern artists to help set the mood when your mouth makes love to this "sandwich" on April 12th.



Ben Sollee - A Change is Gonna Come


Damn right a change is gonna come. Though Sam Cooke's version of this song was about the civil rights movement, and Sollee's has been toned down so that it's appropriate for a white dude to sing it, I like to imagine that this song is about all breads being replaced by fried stuff. Yeh that's right, fried stuff. No matter what the subject matter really is, I've got to say this is one of my favorite covers of Sam Cooke's original.

Eli "Paperboy" Reed - It's Easier


Is Eli talkin about a romantic interest......or is he talking about bacon? As he croons lyrics like "I've been loving you, for way too long, and without you, I can't go on" the answer becomes obvious. He's talkin' 'bout bacon yo!

Hope none of you had a heart attack reading this. Plenty of time for that after you try this sandwich...you know you wanna....

Jeffro