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January 6, 2005
Give it up for the musical stylings of...
I basically leave my jukebox on random play - it's got most of my CD collection encoded on it (in Ogg Vorbis, of course), and can provide me with weeks of uninterrupted tunes.
Sometimes it picks a song that makes me interrupt it's random walk and play more of the same. It did that twice today.
The first time was when it hit a track by Vertical Horizon off the Go album. I've been a fan of Vertical Horizon since I stumbled across Running on Ice and bought it on impulse. Their first two albums are sorta folk-rock - mostly acoustic, with a couple very catchy songs between them. Then they re-invented themselves, added a few members, and put out Everything You Want. The first single (You're a God) got a bit of radio play in the LA market. Despite myself, I really liked the album (especially the last track, "Shackled") and found most of it's tracks to have that annoying "stuck in your head" quality. When "Go" came out, I was initially dissapointed - none of the songs grabbed me the way their previous stuff had, but over time, it's grown on me. It's a solid album.
The second time was in the middle of the afternoon, when - back on random play - it played a track by Scott Andrew LePera, a local Seattle musician who's way too good to be playing in bars and coffee houses. Scott's another artist I stumbled on by accident (gotta love the web, and his releasing a number of tracks under the Creative Commons License). During the first month I was in Seattle, before Dawnise had come up, I went to see Scott play at a pub in Ballard - opening for Granian (who's also very good, but that's a story for another time). We got to chatting a bit after his set - aside from being a hell of a musician, he's a really nice guy. You should check out a track or two - like Gravel Road Requiem, 2 AM, or Holding Back.
Posted by dberger at January 6, 2005 9:59 PM