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Green Day front man and Grammy® Award-winning artist Billie Joe Armstrong and Grammy® Award-winning singer and songwriter Norah Jones have teamed up to record Foreverly, an unforgettable 12-song collection inspired by Songs Our Daddy Taught Us, an album of traditional Americana songs reinterpreted, recorded, and released by The Everly Brothers in 1958. 

Foreverly

Billie Joe + Norah - Silver Haired Daddy Of Mine

Tina's pop sound brought to life with a full studio production by Dave Draper.

Golden

Barton Hollow

The Violet Hour

Matthew Perryman Jones - Until The Last Falling Star

How it Goes

Of Life and of Death

Love, I Lost

Over Land and Sea

Like the Mist

06 Waking Up the Dead

05 Sleeping With a Stranger

04 O Theo

03 Won't Let You Down Again

02 Poisoning the Well

01 Stones On The Riverbed

02 - Brad Sucks - Certain Death

04 - Brad Sucks - Bad Sign

Deep and heavy country blues from Indiana, courtesy of the Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band, live at KDHX. Recorded September 7, 2010. St. Louis. Discover more great music, including audio, video and photos, at http://kdhx.org.

The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band "Sure Feels Like Rain" Live at KDHX 9/7/10

Matthew Perryman Jones - Only You

"Satellite" from Guster's Live Acoustic Album. 
Live Acoustic is a collection of 16 recordings from Guster's Spring 2012 Acoustic Tour featuring the Guster String Players. 
Live Acoustic on iTunes: http://smarturl.it/i1vecb

Track Listing:

1. Backyard
2. Do You Love Me
3. Long Way Down
4. That's No Way To Get To Heaven
5. What You Call Love
6. Beginning Of The End
7. Diane
8. Rocketship
9. Empire State
10. Rise And Shine
11. Two Points For Honesty
12. Either Way
13. Satellite
14. Rainy Day
15. Hang On
16. This Could All Be Yours

Visit Guster on:
Web - http://www.guster.com/
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/Gustermusic
Twitter - https://twitter.com/guster

Spotify: http://spoti.fi/7PoJV3
Merch: http://www.gustermerch.com

Guster - Satellite

Støv og sand

Is This How You Feel?

Lyrics here
http://bit.ly/19peeAG

Get the single in AUS here:
http://smarturl.it/TPITHYF 

Available in Aus and the US now. 

Blue Planet Eyes

Is This How You Feel?

'River' is from The Belle Game's debut album, "Ritual Tradition Habit" (Boompa Records).

Order the album here: http://ow.ly/jS9lM

http://www.thebellegame.com
http://www.boompa.com

There's a place that I've found, 
Full of sins that you've drowned,
I've been your river, 
I've been your river since we were kids

There's a rhyme and a case, 
For the things you've misplaced
I've been a giver,
I've been a giver since we were kids

Take a little more,
Take a little more, take a little more from me

Do you feel me at your side?
I've been filled with all you've denied,
Even a sliver of your cry,
Could make a river against my pride,

Take a little more,
Take a little more, take a little more from me



River

Land of the Living Official Release- May 29th. 

There comes a time in every man’s life when he must question the principles of his culture, his community, and his ancestors. Some may ignore the questions, while others, particularly artists, wrestle with them until something new and lasting is formed from the struggle. Shortly written after the death of his father, Matthew Perryman Jones’ latest record, Land of the Living is a courageous personal Odyessey through life’s most troubled waters of love and loss, and communicates the process by which we grieve, and the fight to find restored hope.The writing process of Land of the Living was an intense wringing of words, emotions, and melody from the rags of Jones’ solitude, but are an account of his truth found in the pain.

His first full length album since 2008, Land of the Living was produced by Cason Cooley (Katie Herzig) and is set to be released on May 29th. The record could not have found a better birthplace than the elusive bohemian studio in Round Top, Texas, where it was recorded. The studio itself was made from a 1700’s Amish farmhouse, is surrounded by vast land and skies, and haunted by a woman the band came to call Sarah.  Matthew slept in a teepee outside the studio for the week the band recorded.  The short time span forced them to “trust our gut and bring our very best to the table.” 

For this record, Matthew decided to entrust the fate of his musings to the ones most likely to connect with it: his fans. In just thirty days Matthew’s “tribe” contributed $26,000 to fund the creation of the album. “Going into making this record supported by fans inspired me in a whole new way. It really awakened the sense of why I went into music in the first place-creating a meaningful connection with people through music.”

Inspiration also came in the form of the writings of Rumi, the letters of Vincent Van Gogh to his brother Theo (from which the title Land of the Living was taken), and Federico Garcia Lorca, who wrote about the idea of Duende—loosely translated as a heightened sense of emotion, expression, and authenticity in art, and particularly, in music.

In each song there is a sense of wandering in the desert and wrestling with the angels.  “Waking up the Dead” conveys the transition from mourning to once again feeling passionate about life. “I want to dance on fire and be born again” is Jones’ earnest mantra. Matthew mirrors the poetry of Leonard Cohen when he sings, “You stand in the water with your arms crossed, groaning hallelujah.”  In “Oh Theo,” he grasps Van Gogh’s artistic and spiritual struggle saying, “My heart was still unknown, I was drunk and full of sorrows. I was longing for a home with nowhere to go.” 

Perhaps the crux of the record’s struggle can be heard on “Cancion de la Noche”, or “Song of the Night.”  Echoes of Daniel Lanois’ mysticism float in the mournful guitars and full, round drums. He sings, “I was alone in the water, deep in the water, where did you go? Oh the light is in disguise, breaking slowly, pull me close and I will push you away.”

A response to “Cancion de la Noche”, is the song “The Angels Were Singing”, which delves into Jones’ grief over the recent loss of his father.  As if in a Flannery O’ Connor short story, he says, “I started running to feel more alive, to wake up my senses that slowly had died . . . each tear was a chorus, a sacred reprise, and I finally was grieving that long goodbye.”  

Is the pain we encounter in loss worth living and loving to the fullest?  In no way a trite answer to the question, the title and last track on Matthew Perryman Jones’ philosophical record gives us a resounding yes.  “You cannot love in moderation, you’re dancing with a dead man’s bones.  Lay your soul on the threshing floor. . . I am coming home.”  And as Rumi said, and Jones has shown us to be true through the journey of Land of the Living, “A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.”



02 Poisoning the Well

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