Let the World Turn

Without further ado, here is the March playlist. Add one part Warriors, two parts sad pedal steel guitar, and one half of soul and you've got some classics.

1)Let the World Turn- Death

2)Ain't It Fun- Rocket from the Tombs

3)The Stars (Are Out Tonight)- David Bowie

4)Rock n' Roll Victim- Death

5)Little Queen- Heart

6)Storms Never Last- Waylon Jennings

7)Kill City- Iggy Pop

8)A Soldier's Burden- Brett Detar

9)The World is Going Up in Flames- Charles Bradley

10)These Eyes- The Guess Who

11)Shadowplay- Joy Division

12) City of Lakes- Matt Mays

13)We've Got a Bigger Problem Now- The Dead Kennedys

14) 5 Days in May- Blue Rodeo

15) In the City- Joe Walsh

These Eyes...

The October Playlist:
Partly inspired by slow jams that I sit around the record player crying to and partly an ode to Canadiana and my inner folkie/county junkie. 

1)Black River Killer- Blitzen Trapper

2)On the road again- Canned Heat

3)Wild Mountain Nation- Blitzen Trapper

4)Beg Steal or Borrow- Ray LaMontagne and The Pariah Dogs

5)The Devil's Gotta' Earn- Brett Detar

6)Wasn't Born to Follow- The Byrds

7)Bad Moon Rising- Creedence Clearwater Revival

8)Mary Jane's Last Dance- Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

9)You Ain't Going Nowhere- The Byrds

10)Funeral Singers- Califone

11)Jolene- Dolly Parton

12)Out on the Weekend- Neil Young

13) Sundown- Gordon Lightfoot

14) Strange Brew- Cream

15) Born to be wild- Steppenwolf

16)Something in the Air- Thunderclap Newman

17)Theives- She & Him

18)Mykonos- Fleet Foxes

19)Blue Bayou- Linda Ronstadt 

20)Cocaine Cowgirl- Matt Mays & El Torpedo

21)Only Love Can Break Your Heart- Neil Young

22)On Top of Your Love- Royal Wood

23)Navajo Rug- Ian Tyson

24)If You Could Read My Mind- Gordon Lightfoot

25)These Eyes- Guess Who

Love Interruption

"Love Interruption"- Jack White

Beautiful, honest track on par with Brett Detar.

Where the Buffalo Roam

Photos from Brett Detar's Oct. US Tour

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Traveling Man

Another man of my dreams

Mr. Brett Detar.

A whiskey soaked gentlemen who creates

country gems that sound like Nashville 40 years ago.

My dad and I have been grooving on his album for a few months now.

Here is a write up from his website:

"Bird In The Tangle is an authentic roots record that takes its listeners on a sweeping journey across coasts and five cities into fleeting highs and empty houses, bleak street lights and closed eyes, the darkest depths of wanderlust and loneliness. Paying homage to the legacy of story-telling found within America’s own art form of country music-- in all its weepy, pedal-steel steeped, Yes-Hank-woulda-done-it-this-way glory-- Brett Detar lays bare his soul in this stunning solo debut. The album documents one of the loneliest and most doubtful times in singer/songwriter Brett Detar's life. After touring the world full-time, releasing five studio albums on both indie and major labels in a successful indie rock band with his childhood friends for ten years, he found himself with splintered musical attachments, changed life goals, and an uncertain musical future.

"Suddenly, the ride stopped and I was left sitting alone in a strange town with no new tours or album. I didn’t know where I belonged in the world,” says Detar.

After two failed musical collaborations, a loss of belief in himself and, ultimately, a decision to "quit music," Detar found himself in a deep depression and without an outlet in the (ironically) always sunny side of life, Los Angeles. Save, however, for a small pocket-sized recorder that slowly began filling up with "throw away song ideas."

“I never gave those tapes much consideration until late one night after having a few drinks in the hills by Lake Hollywood. I listened [to them] and realized I had a sizable collection of the most honest, soul-baring songs I’d ever written...I had never listened to them because I had myself convinced I wasn’t a songwriter any more. Something about that night, though, changed my mind.”

Call it salvation in the bottom of a Maker's Mark bottle (or perhaps Merle Haggard's wise words to "drink up and be somebody" echoing in his mind), somehow, Detar convinced himself to put the pieces together for what was eventually to become Bird In The Tangle.

Armed with over 50 songs, written in a powerful, yet disarmingly vulnerable singing voice on an acoustic guitar, Detar headed down to Nashville. Working with Pete Young (known for his work with Loretta Lynn), Brett recorded the entire album live in a whirlwind three days with some of Music City's finest session musicians."

Source: Brett Detar