Jul 19, 2007
Some Summer Day: Many Horses Ride
Photo credit: Cole Rise
On a hot summer day (like today) I like to listen to some folk related music. A genre which also generally reminds me of horses. Horses roaming a stretched out countryside and where time still passes freely. It’s actually not just an image that forms inside my head (I couldn’t draw it for you if I wanted to), but more like an almost lifelike sensation of being in such surroundings. The sunlight burning my skin, the humid heat making the air heavy and almost difficult to breathe, the graceful sounds of hoofs galloping on the dry earth and the slow-paced, laid-back passing of time. Needless to say a rather welcome change to modern urban life. Here’s a playlist that pays tribute to that feeling. No fancy tricks, just a laid-back, casual, summer day list with some folk and non-folk music.
- The Chesterfield Gorgeous – Chesterfield
Labor Day Deadline (Feed and Seed, 2005) - Jack Rose – Kensington Blues
Kensington Blues (VHF, 2005) - Micah Blue Smaldone – Coal Black Crepe
Hither and Thither (North East Indie, 2005) - Paul Labrecque & Valerie Webb – Many Horses Ride
Trees, Chants and Hollers (Eclipse, 2006) - Meg Baird – Do What You Gotta Do
Dear Companion (Drag City, 2007) - Palace Music – Horses
Lost Blues & Other Songs (Drag City, 1997) - Dirty Three – Horse
Horse Stories (Touch & Go, 1996) - Elephant Micah – The Paranoia
And The Palmyra Palm (Time-Lag, 2004) - Ray LaMontagne – All the Wild Horses
Trouble (RCA, 2004)
The pictures scares me.. I am thinking, four horsemen of the apocalypse here. lol. I guess, my attempt to bring brighter color to MdM front page is never going to fly.
btw, love that Meg Baird track. I have to start searching for good acoustic/folks again. argh.
Haha, maybe we’re just from a different planet. Bright colors and “babes with big boobs” do nothing but depress me. lol. That first thing I found out when I first saw the ‘Shiny Happy People’ video from REM around 1991 and the second I discovered when I turned out the be the only guy in school back in 1993 who didn’t like Pamela Anderson. :D
The whole Meg Baird album is really awesome btw. I’ve been practically listening to that album non-stop for the last few months. Although the songs are basically all stripped to the bare minimum, the whole album just keeps on growing on me. It’s the kind of album that makes me realize why I ever became passionate about music in the first place.
Thank you, there are really great songs here :)
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