Bob's Yr Uncle

"Well uncle Pen played the fiddle, Lord, how it would ring? You could hear it talk, you could hear it sing..." Presenting a six pack to go about uncles, with extravagant art by the all-seeing Tinca.

Bill Monroe - Uncle Pen
Pearls Before Swine - Uncle John
Brian Eno - Third Uncle
Screaming Trees - Uncle Anesthesia
Bad Livers - Uncle Lucius
Drive-By Truckers - Uncle Frank

And let's go all out with a familiar trio of bonus tracks, just because we can...

Uncle Walt's Band - High Hill
Uncles - Settler's Song
Unkle - Bloodstain

Head 'Em Up

This one's for the freaks: a lavish 5 cd box full of bluegrass treasure, brought to you by Richard Weize, a guy who used to work for the acclaimed Bear Family reissue label. They contain all the songs legendary bluegrass maestro Bill Monroe recorded for the Decca label between 1950 and '51, including numerous outtakes. Flowers are blooming indeed.

Bill Monroe - The First Whippoorwill (take 7)
Bill Monroe - Rawhide (take 6)

Four-letter Word

Not even X-mas yet and I´m thoroughly sick of the white stuff already. As Jesse Winchester sings: "I was tuning in the six o'clock newscast, and the weather man mentioned snow, as soon as I heard that four-letter word, I was making my plans to go..." Snow, be gone. A cold cold six pack.

Jesse Winchester - Snow (demo version) MP3

Little Feat - Six Feet Of Snow MP3

Galaxie 500 - Snowstorm MP3

Simon Joyner - Out Into The Snow MP3

Bill Monroe - Footprints In The Snow MP3

Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers - Abominable Snowman In The Market MP3

Country Laureates

"That´s when they hung my name, in the fool´s hall of fame..." Country trivia fact of the week: only five performers were inducted into three Halls of Fame: the Country Music Hall of Fame, the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Here´s a classic song by each.

Jimmie Rodgers - Blue Yodel No. 8 (Mule Skinner Blues) MP3

Hank Williams - My Son Calls Another Man Daddy MP3

Bob Wills - Time Changes Everything MP3

Bill Monroe - I´m Going Back To Old Kentucky MP3

Johnny Cash - Fools Hall Of Fame MP3