Category Archives: Austin

Spoon Rock

Written In Reverse by Spoon (download here) (Buy from Amazon) Just a great rock song by Spoon. Love the fuzzy guitars. Haven’t loved Spoon as much as others, but this is a hot tune

Posted in 2010, Austin, Indie, Rock | 3 Comments

Okkervil Coastline

Lost Coastlines by Okkervil River (download here) (Buy from Amazon) Such a good song. This song has all of it. Horns, drums, slow, fast, jam and some good lyrics. One of my favorites from 2007. More Okkervil here and here

Posted in 2008, Austin, Folk, Indie, Jam, Summer | 3 Comments

Story of a Rock And Roll Man

You Can’t Hold The Hand of a Rock And Roll Man by Okkervil River (download here) This is an amazing song. Such a good story of an old Rocker who still thinks he’s the bomb. Really good. The title is taken from a line in the Joni Mitchell song, “Blonde in the Bleachers.”

Posted in 2007, Austin, Indie | 2 Comments

The Real Sloop John B

John Allyn Smith Sails by Okkervil River (download here) John Allyn Smith is the real name of poet John Berryman. As a kid, his father killed himself outside Berryman’s bedroom window, and Berryman grew up a walking brain-damage case, inept at everything, a teacher too drunk to teach and a poet too drunk to read. [...]

Posted in 2007, Austin, Folk, Indie, mp3 | 4 Comments