An aural supplement, episode 9

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The ground grows colder by the hour as we construct our masks and ask to devour the candy corn cobs turning to dust in the wake of Autumn's final gust. Chilled to the bone, guest host Senor Hector LaVeta tempts the recesses of your ears with hallowed tones of excitable stones being thrown in the dark of night.

1. Violent Femmes “I Hear the Rain”
2. Tom Waits “Cold Cold Ground (Live)”
3. Diana Krall “Temptation”
4. Warren Zevon “Excitable Boy”
5. Duane Eddy “Rebel Rouser”
6. The Coasters “Down in Mexico”
7. Paul McCartney “Why Don't We Do It in the Road (Demo)”
8. Flight of the Conchords “Bowie”
9. David Bowie “Oh! You Pretty Things”
10. The Who “Batman”
11. Donovan “Hurdy Gurdy Man”
12. E.L.O. “Hold On Tight”
13. Elvis Costello “Brilliant Disguise”
14. Jerry Seinfeld “Halloween (Edit)”
15. Ryan Adams “Halloweenhead”
16. Great Lake Swimmers “Moving Pictures Silent Films”
17. Tom Waits “The Pontiac”
18. John Lennon “Look at Me”
19. Billy Bragg “I Don't Need This Pressure Ron”
20. Warren Zevon “I Was in the House When the House Burned Down”

Domestic reparation

This is what our life has resorted to... Miranda and I have three days of Fall vacation and we spent every waking hour working ye ole homestead over...

Miranda touches up the edges of our babies' beautiful room...

Left handed piggies after hours of strumming my guit 'n' painting white doors even whiter...

This bathroom sink finally gets a swift kick in the ass. No more squeak, no more leak. P.S. We're best of pals now...

Doesn't seem like three days of work, I know.

Supplying the soundtrack to the weekends events...

Even after watching this painful video from his latest album...

I just listen to McCartney or Ram and all is right with the world. These one word titled debut and sophomore solo albums are all the reason you need to call this Paul Sir.

Being for the benefit of the sold project

Recently, I have been acquainted with some folks who are part of an endeavor called The SOLD Project. A group of twenty-somethings spent the summer in South East Asia to shoot a film in hopes of will creating awareness amongst our generation about the world of sex slavery. I am honored to have been asked to perform at a benefit at the Harrison Center for the Arts onOctober 19th which hopes to generate support for this project. The music kicks off at 7:00pm and the cost is ten US dollars. All proceeds will go toward the SOLD Project. Other artists performing will be My Hidden Track, Jascha, Tom Loschiavo and Those Young Lions. Come out and enjoy these local artists and support this movement to bring awareness and eradication to this atrocious crime against humanity which enslaves millions of children today.

An aural supplement, episode 8

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The end of the season is all upons and the air is getting crispy along with the grass. Crank up the mower one last time and let us keep you company as we empty hand our way through another installment of an aural supplement. Another fine supper time chock full of steak, cake and vegetables. The grub's on us and we're open all night.

1. Michelle Shocked “Can't Take My Joy”
2. Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band “Radio Nowhere”
3. Paul Simon “Learn How to Fall”
4. The Beach Boys “Vegetables”
5. Jim Gaffigan “Steak & Salad”
6. Josh Ritter “Rumors”
7. Cold War Kids “Saint John”
8. Elliott Smith “I Don't Think I'm Ever Gonna Figure It Out”
9. Pixies “Here Comes Your Man”
10. Monty Python “Rock Notes”
11. Crowded House “Mean to Me”
12. Colin Hay “Maggie”
13. Taj Mahal “Cakewalk Into Town”
14. Joel Rockey “Too Little, Too Soon (Live)”
15. Counting Crows “Omaha”
16. R.E.M. “Monty Got a Raw Deal”
17. Bob Dylan “Down in the Flood”
18. The Kinks “End of the Season”
19. Eddie Vedder w/ Corin Tucker “Hard Sun”
20. Bruce Springsteen “Open All Night”

Brew monkies

In celebration of post number one hundred of A Rockey Home Companion, we are pleased to announce the birth of the newest member of the Strange Brew coffee house family delivered by the Mustard Room!

Stayed tuned for episode 8 of An Aural Supplement.

The empty hand

Perhaps one of the greatest stories of personal angst and the triumph over one's own demons can be found in the masterpiece of american cinema titled The Karate Kid. I have - with no shame - seen this film more times than I could dream of calculating. There is no doubt that I owe much of who I am today to the mystic wisdom of the tiny man known as Miyagi. Imagine my joy when uncovering this treasure from the secret cavern of read-along. It is part one of the story which has been given the name "The Empty Hand". Prepare to be dazzled as a couple of possibly australian kids and a handful of presumed inebriated adults awkwardly interpret the first half of this great tale through the lost art of read-along story telling.

Magic

Five years ago, Bruce Springsteen brought the mighty forces of the E Street Band back into the studio to record their first album of new material together since the 1984 phenomenon which was Born In The U.S.A. The result was 2002's The Rising. The album is fueled by the gospel-tinged R&B and straight forward rock & roll which has been the E Street Band's trademark since the early days in Asbury Park. Springsteen himself injected his poetry of abandon, hope and redemption into these songs of reflection on a post-9/11 existence. In the few short years following, Springsteen released another album of intimate, confronting solo work reminiscent of Nebraska and The Ghost of Tom Joad titled Devils & Dust. Shortly after, Springsteen hired a group of lesser-known musicians from New Jersey and New York, augmented by Patti Scialfa, Soozie Tyrell, and The Miami Horns to record in an informal setting the songs made popular by folk musician Pete Seeger. The resulting interpretation, We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions, became Springsteen's first album of completely non-Springsteen material and won the Grammy award for Best Traditional Folk Album in February.



The Boss has explored many facets of the American musical landscape in the past five years and now he returns accompanied by the E Street Band with the appropriately titled Magic. The album doesn't release until October 2nd, but iTunes is making the opening track and first single "Radio Nowhere" available to download for FREE for a very limited time. It's a tasty helping of straight-on-til-the-dawn American rock & roll as only E Street can bring.