Just when you thought it was safe to get yer KAZA on… It’s actually only $1.92 million but what difference can $80K make when you’re busy rockin’ out to Journey or Sheryl Crow? I must have been living under a rock or something but I thought the RIAA had backed away from this PR nightmare. Apparently they’ve stopped filing new suits but are still going after folks still in the litigation pipeline. From WIRED magazine: “A federal jury on Thursday found Jammie Thomas-Rasset liable in the nation’s only Recording Industry Association of America file-sharing case to go to trial, dinging her $1.92 million for infringing 24 songs” Click on the picture above for the full story.
So here’s the world’s most expensive playlist:
Guns N Roses “Welcome to the Jungle”; “November Rain”
Vanessa Williams “Save the Best for Last”
Janet Jackson “Let’s What Awhile”
Gloria Estefan “Here We Are”; “Coming Out of the Heart”; “Rhythm is Gonna Get You”
Goo Goo Dolls “Iris”
Journey “Faithfully”; “Don’t Stop Believing”
Sara McLachlan “Possession”; “Building a Mystery”
Aerosmith “Cryin’”
Linkin Park “One Step Closer”
Def Leppard “Pour Some Sugar on Me”
Reba McEntire “One Honest Heart”
Bryan Adams “Somebody”
No Doubt “Bathwater”; “Hella Good”; “Different People”
Sheryl Crow “Run Baby Run”
Richard Marx “Now and Forever”
Destiny’s Child “Bills, Bills, Bills”
Green Day “Basket Case”
Heh, heh: “Run Baby Run” from those “Bills, Bills, Bills” before “Somebody” starts you “Cryin’” like a “Basket Case” in the “November Rain.” At $80,000 per song that stab at humor would cost me half a mill…
And it’s free! The big question then is which Amoeba store. Well he’s playing two actually, and we’re not talkin’ both Bay Area stores either. EC will do a set at the SF store at noon as well as signing copies of his new record, Secret, Profane & Sugarcane. After that he hops on a flight to LA and plays Amoeba Hollywood at 8 PM (his LA set will be streamed live on amoeba.com and the store’s A.V. team will follow him around to document the Amoeba California tour, with both performances posted for viewing after the in-stores).
Secret, Profane & Sugarcane, Elvis’ first platter of acoustic music since 1986′s King Of America, features dobro master Jerry Douglas and impeccable close harmony vocals from Jim Lauderdale.
I’m particularly stoked that he’s rewarding folks who still own turntables by including a pair of bonus tracks on the double LP version: a cover of Lou Reed’s “Femme Fatale” and Costello’s sequel to the old Appalachian murder ballad, “Omie Wise”, entitled, “What Lewis Did Last”.
Check out a couple of my favorite tracks:
I Felt The Chill – Costello’s second recorded co-write with Loretta Lynn
Hidden Shame – A nice chugging rocker with great dobro work.
Click on the cover to access a strem of the entire record. Buy the CD version of Secret, Profane & Sugarcane from Hear Music here. You can get the digital version below.
New Orleans’s Zydepunks finaly bring their punked up Cajun French Creole and Yiddish grooves back to the Bay Area for the first time in 3 years. Their last album, Finisterre, made NHT’s Top 20 last year so you know I’ve been looking forward to this. Get out to see them at the Red Devil Lounge in San Francisco Friday or the Starry Plough in Berkeley on Saturday. I’m thinking that hearing these two tracks will convince you to join me in the City Friday night.
NHT has already posted about Mermaid Avenue, the ESSENTIAL collaboration between Wilco and Billy Bragg. Now there’s a new twist on an old theme: Wilco covering a song Woody Guthrie actually recorded. 100% of proceeds from suggested donations of $2 per download will go directly to the Woody Guthrie Foundation and Archives. Nora Guthrie, Woody’s daughter and head of the foundation, asked the band to record the perfect comment on these troubled times:
Now since it’s a benefit thing NHT is only posting half the track. If you want the whole deal (including the tastiest of lap steel solos by Nels Cline) you need to go to Wilcoworld.net where’s there’s a guilt inducing donation button right under the download button. If you want to get your philanthropic on go here to kick down some corn.
In other Wilco news, looks like the new records all done. Wilco (The Album) is due June 30 on Nonesuch Records. Here’s the tracklist:
Wilco (the song)
Deeper Down
One Wing
Bull Black Nova
You And I
You Never Know
Country Disappeared
Solitaire
I’ll Fight
Sonny Feeling
Everlasting Everything
Another live concert film “Ashes of American Flags” was officially released on Saturday, April 18 as part of Record Store Day. The film will be available via DVD and iTunes on April 28. The DVD is now available for pre-order via the Wilco store.
BT was kind enough to stop by my show on KALX in Berkeley last week and get their peace & quiet on. You know I was stoked since their latest record was my number one for 2008. We got three tunes peppered through some banter I’ll try and get up as soon as I get it edited so I don’t come off a dufus. Standing in the cramped air studio while they did “Sleepy Time…” a capella was just amazing. Check ‘em out:
I host the Cuppa Joe show on KALX in Berkeley every other Wednesday from 6 to 9 PM. You can tune at 90.7 or online by clicking HERE
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