New Music/CD Releases - October 14, 2008

BILL'S PICK(S) OF THE WEEK

This two CD set deluxe edition of At Folsom Prison includes the DVD Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison, the first documentary film to consider Cash's finest day. Produced by award-winning director Bestor Cram and Cash biographer Michael Streissguth, the documentary follows the country star through the gates of the dark prison to reveal a moment flush with ramifications. Featuring exclusive interviews with those who accompanied Cash at Folsom Prison, friends and family, and inmates who witnessed the show, the documentary examines Cash through the lens of January 13, 1968. New footage filmed inside Folsom Prison.

Disc: 1
1. Opening announcements from Hugh Cherry (Live)
2. Blue Suede Shoes (Live)
3. This Ole House (Live)
4. Announcements and Johnny Cash intro from Hugh Cherry
5. Folsom Prison Blues
6. Busted (Live)
7. Dark As A Dungeon (Live)
8. I Still Miss Someone (Live)
9. Cocaine Blues (Live)
10. 25 Minutes To Go (Live)
11. I'm Here To Get My Baby Out Of Jail (Live)
12. Orange Blossom Special (Live)
13. The Long Black Veil (Live)
14. Send A Picture Of Mother (Live)
15. The Wall (Live)
16. Dirty Old Egg-Sucking Dog (Live)
17. Flushed From The Bathroom Of Your Heart (Live)
18. Joe Bean (Live)
19. Jackson (Live)
20. I Got A Woman (with June Carter) (Live)
21. The Legend Of John Henry's Hammer (Live)
22. June's Poem (Live)
23. Green, Green Grass Of Home (Live)
24. Greystone Chapel (Live)
25. Closing Theme and announcements
Disc: 2
1. The Old Spinning Wheel (Live)
2. Opening announcements from Hugh Cherry
3. Matchbox (Live)
4. Blue Suede Shoes (Live)
5. You Can't Have Your Kate And Edith, Too (Live)
6. Flowers On The Wall (Live)
7. How Great Thou Art (Live)
8. Announcements and Johnny Cash intro from Hugh Cherry (Live)
9. Folsom Prison Blues (Live)
10. Busted (Live)
11. Dark As A Dungeon (Live)
12. Cocaine Blues (Live)
13. 25 Minutes To Go (Live)
14. Orange Blossom Special (Live)
15. The Legend Of John Henry's Hammer (Live)
16. Give My Love To Rose (Live with June Carter)
17. Dirty Old Egg-Sucking Dog (Live)
18. Flushed From The Bathroom Of Your Heart (Live)
19. Joe Bean (Live)
20. Jackson (Live with June Carter)
21. Long-Legged Guitar Pickin' Man (Live)
22. I Got Stripes (Live)
23. Green, Green Grass Of Home (Live)
24. Greystone Chapel (Live)
25. Greystone Chapel (Live)
26. Hugh Cherry introduces Johnny's father and closing announcements (Live)


Ray LaMontagne - Gossip In The Grain
1 A Falling Through
2 Gossip In The Grain
3 Henry Nearly Killed Me
4 Hey Me, Hey Mama
5 I Still Care For You
6 Let It Be Me
7 Meg White
8 Sarah
9 Winter Birds
10 You Are The Best Thing

New Music/CD Releases - October 14, 2008
Al Jarreau – Christmas
Billy Currington – Little Bit of Everything
Buena Vista Social Club – At Carnegie Hall
Coko - A Coko Christmas
Copeland - You Are My Sunshine
The Cure - 4-13 Dream
David Bowie - iSelect
Holly Golightly – Dirt Don’t Hurt
Hotel Café – Winter Songs
I’m From Barcelona – How Killed Harry Houdini
JD Souther – If the World Was You
Johnny Cash – At Folsom Prison (Legacy Edition)
Keane - Perfect Symmetry
Lucinda Williams - Little Honey
Los Lonely Boys – Christmas Spirit
Mary Mary - The Sound
Nikka Costa - Pebble to a Pearl
Powderfinger – Dream Days
Queen - The Cosmos Rocks
Ray LaMontagne - Gossip In The Grain
Secret Machines – Secret Machines
Sex Pistols – Live (DVD)
Sixpence None The Richer – The Dawn of Grace
Sonic Syndicate – Love and Other Disasters
Tony Bennett – A Swinging Christmas
Yo-Yo Ma – Songs of Joy and Peace



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Lucinda Williams to release digital EP of protest songs

photo by Danny Clinch

Lucinda Williams to release digital EP of protest songs
By Josh Jackson on September 16, 2008 [from paste online]

When Lucinda Williams fans pick up the Louisiana native’s 10th LP Little Honey on Oct. 14, they might be surprised by the closing track, a cover of AC/DC’s “It’s a Long Way To the Top (If You Wanna Rock N’ Roll).” But the bigger surprise might come two weeks later on the digital-only EP of protest songs Lu in ’08—a live cover of Thievery Corporation’s collaboration with The Flaming Lips, “March of the Hate Machine (Into the Sun)."

Along with covers of Bob Dylan’s “Masters of War” and Buffalo Springfield’s “For What It’s Worth,” she also recorded a live version of a new song she’s written called “Bone of Contention.” “That’s a pretty angry one,” Williams says from her home in Studio City, Calif. “I recorded it in the studio, but I decided I didn’t want to put it on [Little Honey]. I didn’t quite like the version we recorded. But we were playing at Summerfest, and I went out for the encore and just blasted out an acoustic version of it. It really went over well, so we captured it on tape.”

Protest songs don’t come naturally for Williams, who appeared at #22 on Paste’s list of the 100 Best Living Songwriters. “I’ve found protest songs or topical songs to be the most challenging types of songs for me,” she says. “I find myself having a hard time not sounding either too in-your-face angry or too sugar-coated sappy, like ‘OK, everybody get together.’ It’s just so hard to do.”

Judging by the chorus she sang over the phone, she definitely didn’t err on the side of sappy. “It’s kind of written in a bluesy, almost like a ZZ-Top-ish or a Tony Jo White swampy bluesy thing,” she says. “I’m really concerned about this upcoming election. Actually, I’m just terrified about the possibility of a McCain/Palin victory.”