Thursday, August 30, 2012

Good Reads

I migrated my reading journal and list to the online Goodreads this year. It wasn't that bad of a project because I already had an online document that I've been using since the mid 90s that was based on a computer file in use since the mid 80s that was created from the original paper copy that I've had since the early 70s. So I currently have 955 books listed as read in Goodreads and I know I've missed a few over the years but not many.

I'm sure I'll be able to fill in the missing books. I've even found some more on book shelves that I read but didn't make it into my documents.

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Trouble Bound - Porch Sittin' - a mix

Trouble Bound. Part of my ongoing Porch Sittin' series. A theme mix of murder and mayhem. Americana murder ballads and songs of people going bad or just getting into trouble.













1.   The Blasters - Trouble Bound (Hard Line, 1985)
2.   Steve Earle - I Feel Alright (I Feel Alright, 1996)
3.   Richard Thompson - I Feel So Good (Rumor and Sigh, 1991)
4.   Bruce Springsteen - State Trooper (Nebraska, 1982)
5.   Peter Case - Put Down That Gun (The Man With The Post-Modern Fragmented Neo-Traditionalist Guitar, 1989)
6.   T-Bone Burnett - Fatally Beautiful (Proof Through The Night, 1983)
7.   The BoDeans - She's A Runaway (Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams, 1986)
8.   John Hiatt - Tennessee Plates (Slow Turning, 1988)
9.   The Long Ryders - Gunslinger Man (Two Fisted Tales, 1987)
10. Tony Joe White - Prisoner (Swamp Music: The Complete Monument Recordings, 2006)
11. Johnny Cash - The Mercy Seat (American III: Solitary Man, 2000)
12. Nick Cave & PJ Harvey - Henry Lee (Murder Ballads, 1996)
13. Tom Waits - Fish In The Jailhouse (Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards, 2006)
14. Blitzen Trapper - Black River Killer (Furr, 2008)
15. Old Crow Medicine Show - Methamphetamine (Tennessee Pusher, 2008)
16. M. Ward - Jailbird (Hold Time, 2009)
17. Todd Snider - Tillamook County Jail (East Nashville Skyline, 2004)
18. The Del McCoury Band - 1952 Vincent Black Lightning (Del and the Boys, 2001)
19. Ray Wylie Hubbard - Drunken Poet's Dream (A: Enlighntment B: Endarkment, Hint: There Is No C, 2010)
20. Jim White - Handcuffed To A Fence In Mississippi (No Such Place, 2001)
21. A.A. Bondy - How Will You Meet Your End? (American Heart, 2007)