Callahan on the Stanley Brothers and tone

I’ve liked the Stanley Brothers approach to music. It’s not repressed or restrained to me. It is kind of like if you could blend all emotions into one. They balance each other out, in a way, to make something that is emotional but does not lean on any one emotion above another to get the point across.

Another Bill Mix

I also got a mix CD from Bill from the Kickstarter thing, but mine is different. It’s called The Gold. I wasn’t able to figure out what all of the songs were, but here’s what I did find:

1. Loose Rap - Aaliyah

2. I Can’t Stand It - Alton Ellis

3. couldn’t find

4. I Walk On Guilded Splinters - Dr. John

5. When I Stop Dreaming - the original is by the Louvin Brothers, I believe, but I don’t know who did this version

6. My Life - Phil Ochs

7. Saga of the Ageing Orphan (Thin Lizzy cover) - Philip Lynott

8. Late for the Sky - Jackson Browne

9. Gemini - The Alan Parsons Project

10. There Ain’t Shit on TV Tonight - Minutemen

11. Trains Make Me Lonesome - George Strait

12. Hobo’s Meditation - Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, and Linda Ronstadt

Bill Callahan Mix

“Audible Music Mix”, included in a gift package sent to the people who donated funds to make the Apocalypse documentary happen. Didn’t find youtubes for every song.

1) “Your Own Backyard” by Dion 

2) “Rise to the Occasion” by Sizzla 

3) “How Did You Manage” by R. Kelly 

4) “The Cuckoo Bird” by Osbourne Brothers

5) “Albatross” by Fleetwood Mac 

6) “Lipstick Traces” by Snooks Eaglin 

7) “Smuggler” by Vybz Kartel 

8) “Safe & Sound” by Carly Simon 

9) “Land’s End” / Asleep on the Wind” by Jimmy Webb 

10) “God is Love” by Marvin Gaye

LOST AND FOUNDATION

The cycle of life is a bitch, kids — it really is. When you’re young, you’re taught all sorts of absolutes, the 2 + 2s of life. Then you grow up a little and suddenly, one and one don’t make two, one and one make one! You realize that the absolute of one is equaled by minus one and geez, it’s really empowering. You start thinking that you know it all again, the ambiguous ALL that there is to know, but you’re really not done growing and knowing yet. Today, we see that which we’ve called history, which we once recognized as a linear progression, as instead a circle, or set of concentric circles, superimposed over each other and connecting at odd intersects with moments of sudden recall in the future and/or trails of vapor in the past. Every moment is now, and you dig it. But you’re not done growing, and neither are we.

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