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What's Spinning

This is where I'm gonna let you know what cd I'm listening to right now. When I buy new music, I stick it in my car cd player and let it play until I decide I don't like it, or I memorize every word because I love it so much. So what's spinning?

Wilco "Sky Blue Sky" I got turned onto Wilco several years ago when they changed their sound and style with "Hotel Yankee Foxtrot". Very cool album and still my favorite to this day. I picked up "Sky Blue Sky" and have been spinning it around for several days. Not as great as "Hotel" but then again I don't think anything can be that great again. Still - a good listen. Less obscurity and more love/missing/honesty/lonely songs on this one. If you dig a good acoustic well musically arranged sound with Tweedy's one of a kind vocals, you'll like this CD. I'm gonna keep it in the player for a while, it's that good.

Old Crow Medicine Show "O.C.M.S." My Brother-in-law turned me onto some Old Crow Medicine Show, so I've been tooling around in my car listening for the last few days. The album I've got right now is called O.C.M.S.. My first impression is of somewhat traditional yet modernistic bluegrass. These guys have some funny songs like "Tell it to Me" where catchy lyrics reach out and grab you, "Why don't you tell it to me, tell it to me/ drink your corn liquor let the cocaine be/ cocaine is gonna kill my honey dear" Lots of harmonica, banjo, fiddle, and guitar along with some deep south mountain harmony make this album a plus. I'm not much of a bluegrass fan, but the combination of decent lyrics, memorable melodies, and that down home flavor harmony makes me want to give this CD two thumbs, eight toes, and a bottle turned up. I've enjoyed it and I highy recommend Old Crow Medicine Show to any music fan out there. Yall behave yourselves and come back soon for the next edition of "What's Spinning". Out.

Pat McLaughlin "Horsefly" Pat McLaughlin may not be someone you've heard of, but you've almost certainly heard him. Pat comes to us from the Nashville area where he carries on his unique style of music. He's part folk, part blues, sings like Van Morrison, and plays like no one else. I discovered Pat while reading the liner notes on my new John Prine CD, Fair and Square. Later in 2005 I had the honor of seeing Pat live for the first time at the Ryman Auditorium while he was on tour with Prine. Pat's stage presence is something else altogether. Always moving and grooving smiling and stomping, really into what he's playing. I once again had the honor of seeing Pat perform with Prine in August, 2006 at the Tivoli Theater in Chattanooga, Tennessee, but this time it was different. Pat came on stage as the opener and tore us all apart with seven of his original tunes and a haunting rendition of Wichita Lineman with Jason Wilbur. Hearing Pat's original stuff, I was in a hurry to drive back home to Cookeville, log on to PatMcLaughlin.com and order my very own copy of his new CD, Horsefly. Horsefly contains 13 tracks that each live a life of their own. If I had to pick favorites, I'd probably choose God and Everybody, Cry to Me, Little Child, The Longer the Waiting, Baby Ain't Got No Home,......Aw Heck, why don't I just pick them all? Anyway, check out Pat's website, www.patmclaughlin.com where you can peruse his discography and have a listen to some samples and decide for yourself that Pat McLaughlin is a worthy addition to any CD collection. Monkey Out Click Here to read past reviews for John Neilson, Peter Cooper, Rod Picott, and Jim Hoehn.

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Shane Pack Over Easy

Shane Pack's long awaited second release is finally available for your inspection. This second disc contains some old favorites along with some new tunes sure to delight listeners around the world. Poking fun at Bill Clinton, running from trains, living on the streets of nashville, visiting Cannelton, Indiana, and a hatred of nectarines are all included in this songwriters newest CD. All recorded, produced, labeled and shipped from Pack's home in Tennessee, you can hop over to his website at www.shane-pack.com and click the links to a plethora of songs that you can listen to on his website. Be prepared, the songs take 1-2 minutes to download and will play on the default media player on your computer system. Just hop over to shane-pack.com click away on some songs, and enjoy!

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