Certain Songs: Rock N Roll

Rock N Roll

My self imposed show hiatus took another hit last night. Boredom and beautiful weather teamed up to coax me out of hiding for the Jason Isbell show last night. And I am so glad I went. There is just something so good for the soul about packing too many people into a really tiny club and listening to somebody play their heart out for 90 minutes. Good old fashioned, visceral rock n roll bliss.

I am not very adept at writing reviews, so I will spare you the details...but it was an awesome night.Deer Tick, a band that I had heard of but never heard, opened the show and the blew me away. I bought a cheap point and shoot digital camera that I am taking to Coachella and I took it out for a test run last night, but alas...without a battery it didn't do me much good! So in lieu of photos, I will post a couple of songs...one is my favorite Isbell penned Drive By Truckers song, and the other is a Deer Tick tune off of their 2007 album 'War Elephant.'

* Drive By Truckers - 'God Damn Lonely Love' MP3

* Deer Tick - 'Ashamed' MP3

Labels: deer tick, drive-by truckers, Jason Isbell |

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Rockstar Aimz Says: March 7, 2009 at 10:13 AM

Great bloggers think alike. I just wrote about the Isbell show in Toronto from Wed night.

My phone's on vibrate for you...

...or my email is anyway! Hey, it's me Blair...the Certain Songs staff of one. I just do this for the love of the music and am in no way trying to rip anybody off, so if you are an artist or a record label and you are not happy that I am promoting your music, or you want me to take a song down, just shoot me an email and I will most definitely oblige.

And please support the artists I post here in whatever way you can if you do download a song...go to a show, buy some merch, buy an album...these songs are the soundtrack to my life and I just love to share them. But I can only do that if the insanely talented artist responsible for said songs are able to eat.

I also love hearing new stuff...so any submissions can also be sent to my email, I will try my bestest to listen to everything and get back to you all...peace,love,rock n' roll.

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Kids out on the east coast.
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Of warm beer to the summer smoke.
And the meat loaf to the billy joel.
Certain songs they get so scratched into our souls.

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She looks shallow but shes neck deep in the steamy dreams of the guys along the harbor bars.
She's pulling out her shirttails and jacking up her socks.
Stern and stoned and confident, coming up towards the jukebox.
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It's only the good die young.
C-9 is for the making eyes.
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D4 is for the lovers.
B12 is for the speeders.
And the hard drugs are for the bartenders and the kitchen workers and the bartender's friends.
And they're playing it again.
Ellen Foley gives us hope.
Certain songs they get scratched into our souls.

I guess you're old enough to know.
Kids out on the west coast are taking off their clothes.
Screwing in the surf and going out to shows.
They get high and ride around in gtos.
I guess you're old enough to know.
CERTAIN SONGS THEY GET SCRATCHED INTO OUR SOULS.
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