blogsurf express 10/24/07

Now this is one great post (and not just for the Liz pic :-)

License, registration, I ain't got none

Quick hit 2 - Bruce+Arcade Fire, "State Trooper", video clip here on Bruce's site. (Wow they're almost getting clueful in their old age!)

A four-eyed cartoon monster on the T.V. screen

As promised, a quick "one-hitter" for you guys -- how apropos ;-) Derek Trucks covering Stevie Wonder's "Too High", 11/11/2000

too high mp3
whole show

(which also includes great covers of "The Chicken", "Cissy Strut", "Yield Not To Temptation" and other fun fusion-jams.)

The Voice of New England in Autumn

Well it's finally feeling like fall, and once there's a little chill in the air, I start thinking back to living in Boston. Someone said something today that made me think of Passim, the folk institution in Harvard Square, where I once saw Bill Morrissey. I really love a few of his Rounder albums -- his voice is so perfectly matched to his very New-England backwoods themes. A wonderful storyteller and songwriter.

A quick trip to his not-quite-maintained, very 1995-looking site yielded a few gems he's offered up for our collective enjoyment:

http://www.billmorrissey.net/BMInside2000Apr.mp3
http://www.billmorrissey.net/bmsmalltown830130s112.mp3
http://www.billmorrissey.net/bmwinterlaundry970111s112.mp3
http://www.billmorrissey.net/bmifyoudontwantmebaby.mp3

And it seems rather incongrous to me, but he has a myspace page too.