Royal City - Is This It
Royal City - Under A Hollow Tree
Songs: Ohia is Jason Molina. "Two Blue Lights" is a delicate, short, soft song that I see as a perfect nightcap minus the bourbon. The female vocals make this track that much more enjoyable.
Songs:Ohia - Two Blue Lights
Confirmed Bonaroo 2005
Iron & Wine - Joanna Newsom - My Morning Jacket - Secret Machines - Widespread Panic - Dave Matthews Band - The Allman Brothers Band - Jack Johnson - Alison Krauss + Union Station - Modest Mouse - Gov't Mule - Bela Fleck Acoustic Trio - The Mars Volta - John Prine - Yonder Mountain String Band - Keller Williams - Sound Tribe Sector 9 - Earl Scruggs & Friends - Joss Stone - O.A.R. - Toots and the Maytals - Umphrey's McGee - Ozomatli - Rilo Kiley - Karl Denson's Tiny Universe - Drive-By Truckers - Particle - Xavier Rudd - Ray Lamontagne - The Gourds - Donna The Buffalo - John Butler Trio - Ollabelle - Citizen Cope - Brazilian Girls - M. Ward - Madeleine Peyroux
I know I may have posted this track once upon a time, but the late Shannon Yarbroughs "Unknown Brooklyn" is a favorite of mine.
Shannon Yarbrough - Unknown Brooklyn
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Thanks to the eclectic Largehearted Boy for the kind words today though I've been a bit of a slacker lately. He linked up a couple of shows from the 
Tiny Mix Tapes spat out some great news last week regarding Portishead and The Robot Ate Me. Portishead are preparing to release their first album in 7+ years while The Robot Ate Me are re-releasing On Vacation with splendidly special new artwork with a jewel case containing beads and berries, not the hand carved booklet. They then follow that up with a new album in April titled Kill Rock Stars. I believe On Vacation to be one of the top 5 albums of 2004 in terms of experimentation, lyricism, and overall play calling.
I was able to check out The Avett Brothers on Friday at IOTA with some cronies and was pleasantly surprised. I didn't own an album before the trip, but stumbled out with two in hand. I'd heard a few tracks they'd posted on their site and another one that made it's way around the net recently, but other than that wasn't really sure what to expect. The energy these guys brought to the stage was inspiring. An acoustic, banjo, stand up bass, good lyrics and two great voices all seemed to fill the right spots at the right time. The Mammals were supposedly headlining the show but things would have clearly been better off reversed. The Mammals were more of your traditional bluegrass sound, but seemed a bit out of place after such a performance by the Avett Brothers. I'm not sure what else to say....it was great.
Friends Of The Library really produce an interesting sound. Stairs without a case. Something spacey about it. Click the band name if you'd like to hear more.
Huon is a certain variety of Tasmanian pine tree and the name which these aussies go by. Lo-Fi pop vaguely categorizes them as things tend to bend from here to there in a psychedelic way, song to song. Hailing from Melbourne, these four seem to finagle a sound into your head. "Uplifting" was the track that did it for me.
I forgot to post the last update of the year before I went 5,000 feet above the level of sea to celebrate the end of 2004. Oh well. My quest - 31 days with 31 bands - ended up an update or four short, but nevermind, I think accomplished half of my goals by posting 31 bands. Part of todays update is from then, but that was last year....so....happy new year.