Okay, another trip to Houston (for my brother's graduation tomorrow) and while I had a little something to distract me, it didn't require attention past the 6th inning (arguably, the 4th). So I listened to the following:
- ''27 Break,' Joseph Crespino [click this link, seriously; it's a gift--one you need.]
- 'Speed Trials,' Elliott Smith
- 'World Inside The World,' Rhett Miller [I mentioned last week that I have a ton of Old 97's on my iPod; if you count the Rhett Miller variants, I have even more.]
- 'Delia's Gone,' Johnny Cash
- 'Sweet Nothing Seranade,' Ben Harper
- 'I'm Satisfied,' John Hurt
- 'Anyone Can Play Guitar,' Radiohead
- 'Jagged,' Old 97's [See, I told you]
- 'Kind of Perfect,' Kacy Crowley [beautiful, beautiful song; and since Amazon treats the album like it sort of doesn't exist, here's the iTunes link]
- 'Things That Go Bump in the Day,' Rodney Crowell [with the great line, "It's funny how the things we want / become the things we don't...in the long run."]
Most of all, I have to call attention to number 1. It's an amazing song about New Orleans' 1927 flood that did Katrina-like devastation to the city. This song (recorded in 2002) ends with these haunting words:
The skies finally dried out, and they cleaned up all that mess
They engineered the river to try and tame this wilderness
For all of man's planning, you can't ever really say
When the rain will come again, and the levies will give way...
