Poor Old Lu - The Waiting Room CD

AVAILABLE NOW: Poor Old Lu - The Waiting Room CD – ONLY: 9.99

FREE Gift With Purchase

To order, Click “Add To Cart” below and Follow the instructions thereafter
 

===========================
 Track listing

1. "Revolve"
2. "Now"
3. "Sunlight & Shadows"
4. "Crushed"
5. "Today"
6. "Interlude"
7. "A Month Of Moments"
8. "Praying For The Perfect World"
9. "Crowded"
10. "Friday To Sunday"
11. "The Waiting Room"

After a six year hiatus (during which the group had officially disbanded), Poor Old Lu
has returned with a wonderfully cohesive collection of songs that won't fail to satisfy
both the longtime fan as well as the many new listeners sure to be introduced to this
band through "The Waiting Room".

Poor Old Lu formed in 1991 in Seattle, Washington, and "Mindsize", their 1993 label
debut for Alarma Records, immediately set them apart from the rest of the emerging
Seattle scene with a wonderfully unique sound that was impossible to get out of your
head. Over the course of the next three years, Poor Old Lu continued to grew musically
and artistically and recorded two additional full length records (1994's "Sin" and
1996's "A Picture of the Eighth Wonder") and one EP (1995's "Straight Six") for Alarma
Records. Shortly after the release of "A Picture of the Eighth Wonder", the band
officially split up, even going so far as to record and release their "...Final
Performance" (1998, KMG Records).

To the delight of fans, the members of Poor Old Lu have done anything but stagnate over
the past several years. Guitarist Aaron Sprinkle has been actively producing and
engineering many records, not the least of which are the five recordings he's made solo
or with Bassist Nick Barber as Rose Blossom Punch. Drummer Jesse Sprinkle has also been
actively recording, and, in addition to playing drums for Morella's Forest, he has
produced two records and an EP with his own New York-based band, The World Inside. Lead
Singer Scott Hunter hasn't been recording, but his lyrical and vocal contributions
evidence the same maturation as the rest of the band. Musically, this band continues to
shine. Bravely experimenting with new sounds and techniques, Poor Old Lu challenges
listeners to join the band where they're at today, never content to simply pick up where
they left off in 1996.

Thematically, Poor Old Lu seems to have brightened up a bit since their last outing. The
title is a metaphor for Earth as we wait to meet our Saviour in Heaven. "The Waiting
Room" serves alternately as an exploration of broken man and his earnest plea for grace
and a closer relationship with Jesus Christ. This theme is plainly defined at the onset
through Hunter's ever-introspective lyrics in lead track Revolve: "Have the lights gone
dim/in the light of this sin? ... I'm pushing this out and pulling You in/I've been
living in doubt and walking on pins/I'm throwing this out and hoping in (where joy and
peace begin)/I'm sick of the drought and walking on."

Ultimately, this record is not only a welcome return of a wonderfully talented band, but
it is also an exciting preview of things to come. This is a great place to start if
you're not familiar with Poor Old Lu; and, if you are already a fan, you know that "The
Waiting Room" will join the rest of Poor Old Lu's records as an absolutely indispensable
musical component of your life.

The Call - To Heaven And Back CD

AVAILABLE NOW: The Call - To Heaven And Back CD - ONLY $11.99

FREE Gift With Purchase

To order, Click “Add To Cart” below and Follow the instructions thereafter

======================================

Track Listings

1. Soaring Bird
2. Criminal
3. Love Is Everywhere
4. World On Fire
5. Think It Over
6. Musta Been Outta My Mind
7. All You Hold On To
8. Compromise
9. Become America
10. What Are You Made Of
11. Confession

Peter Gabriel once referred to The Call as the "the future of American music." An empty
prophecy because of the bands imminent break-up, but at the very least, a claim that
advocated the high artistic quality, skillful musical strength and genuine uniqueness of
this beloved band. By those that knew and appreciated them, they have been greatly
missed.

_To Heaven and Back_ finds them doing again what they've always done best: creating
their own special brand of thought-provoking, faith inspiring, and especially
emotionally riveting rock and roll. This new album is a most welcome return to their
form, and conjures the feeling and energy of some of their most appreciated albums like
_Reconciled_ and _Let the Day Begin_.

Some of these new songs, like "Criminal" and "World on Fire" are as gutsy and aggressive
as anything they've done before and feel more like the brash work on Michael Been's 1994
solo album, _On the Verge of a Nervous Breakthrough_. "Musta Been Outta My Mind"
conjures the Rolling Stones with The Call's own unique twists. More subdued fare like
"Think It Over" are as poignantly powerful as any of the modern day laments Been's
penned in the past. With all these songs you'll not only hear The Call, you'll clearly
feel The Call as well. Michael Been continues to sing with a sense of passionate urgency
that, coupled with the band's unique take on rock and roll, can either compel or comfort
you.

There is much to inspire you here including this encouragement:
What do you live for What would you die for What do you stand for What are you made of.
Two songs here also appeared on last year's retrospective, _The Best of The Call_. I
prefer the more acoustic versions of both "All You Hold on to" and "Become America"
(which both featured Bruce Cockburn on guitar) than the more rocking versions on the new
album. Additionally, the album is not well paced and would benefit from a re-ordering
that groups some of the more aggressive tracks together thus helping to sustain the
album's overall energy rather than seeming so episodic. These are smalls complaint about
an otherwise consistently substantial album.

You'll find this album is as artistically appealing and lyrically rousing as any of
their previous albums. I'll leave you with an appropriate quote about the band from
Fingerprint Records that captures the spirit of The Call succinctly and accurately:
Since the release of their self-titled debut in 1982, The Call, hailing from
California's Bay area, established themselves as a breed apart. Led by Michael Been's
songwriting and voice, they burst on the scene like they knew everything was up for
grabs - because it was. This is a mainstream band made up of Christians, not a Christian
band for Christians only. They have toured with Peter Gabriel, Simple Minds, Tears for
Fears and many others. Time magazine has picked three of their releases in their "Year
End Top Ten." Rolling Stone magazine says: "Michael Been is one of the best lyricist in
rock today." In Been's clear and jarring baritone voice, you hear the emotional
landscape of the human heart as it shapeshifts its way across different territories
where love was so intense that it threatened to consume itself, to the garden of stark
confusion, to the seemingly endless desert of doubt. With a band that will swirl itself
into a fury or whisper like a southwind, Been walks the tightrope as the group's
frontman; he descends into the shadows willingly because he believes resolutely in the
hope that there is indeed light and grace at the other side."

- Steven Stuart Baldwin

BTW, The Call's last studio album was 1990's "Red Moon" but Michael Been's 1994 solo
album is definitely worthy of your attention.

Julie Miller - Blue Pony - CD

AVAILABLE NOW: Julie Miller - Blue Pony CD
- ONLY $9.99


FREE Gift With Purchase

To order your copy, click “Add To Cart” below

======================================

Track Listing:

1. A Kiss on the Lips 5:13 - Julie Miller
2. Take Me Back 3:53 - Julie Miller
3. By Way of Sorrow 2:52 - Julie Miller
4. Dancing Girl 4:05 - Julie Miller
5. Give Me an Ocean 3:16 - Julie Miller
6. All the Pieces of Mary 3:43 - Julie Miller
7. The Devil Is an Angel 3:05 - Julie Miller
8. Letters to Emily 4:28 - Julie Miller
9. I Call on You 4:28 - Julie Miller
10. Face of Appalachia 4:17 - John Sebastian [Lovin' Spoonful], Lowell George
11. Forever My Beloved 2:25 - Julie Miller
12. Blue Pony 3:27 - Julie Miller
13. Last Song :58 - Bill Mallonee, Julie Miller

Julie Miller's first secular album, Blue Pony, combines the exquisite Appalachiana of
Gillian Welch with the whispery confessionalism of Lisa Loeb. Julie and her husband
Buddy sing on each other's albums and work with the same pool of musicians. Together
they have released two of the best country discs of the decade. As good as Buddy's album
was, Julie's is even better. She has a high, small soprano that evokes the emotional
transparency of a teenage girl, but she's been through the love wars enough times to
recognize the moment "when the lie comes down like a kiss on the lips." A strain of
spirituality runs through the album that hints at her background in Christian music, and
like Sam Phillips, Julie makes her religious concerns so down-to-earth that it's
empathetic, not preachy. --Geoffrey Himes

BLUE PONY, Miller's debut record on Hightone (her previous effort was on a small,
Christian-oriented label) places her as a kind of quirky alternative-Americana artist.
Think of a rootsy Victoria Williams, whose voice Miller often brings to mind. As if to
purposely move past the "country" label, BLUE PONY starts off strong with a rocker, "A
Kiss On the Lips," with its understated energy and Hammond B-3 backing. The next song
"Take Me Back," is a high lonesome duet with Julie's husband and co-producer, Hightone
recording artist Buddy Miller. It recalls the kind of Appalachian folk songs that lie at
the roots of commercial country music.

While BLUE PONY does feature guest appearances by some big names (both Emmylou Harris
and Steve Earle contribute their talents), the real star here is Miller's voice, a slightly helium-laced affair that you'll either find completely irresistible or somewhat annoying. What makes her singing remarkable, though, is her ability to suggest girlish innocence while singing about a deep kind of evil.

Personnel: Julie Miller (guitar); Buddy Miller (vocals, guitar, melodica); Emmylou
Harris, Karen Peris, Steve Earle (vocals); Larry Campbell (banjo, bouzouki, fiddle);
Tammy Rogers (mandolin, fiddle); Matt Slocum (cello); Bill Mallonee (harmonica); John
Schreiner (piano); Phil Madeira (organ); Paul Griffith (drums, percussion); Donald
Lindley, Alison Prestwood (drums); Steve Hindalong (percussion).

Audio Mixer: Buddy Miller.
Liner Note Author: Julie Miller.
Recording information: Dogtown Studios.
Photographer: Bob Miller .
Unknown Contributor Role: Buddy Miller.
Personnel: Julie Miller (vocals, guitar); Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, Karen Peris
(vocals); Buddy Miller (vocals, guitar, mandoguitar, melodica, bass); Tammy Rogers
(fiddle, mandolin); Larry Campbell (fiddle, banjo, bouzouki); Matt Slocum (cello); Bill
Mallonee (harmonica); John Andrew Schreiner (piano); Phil Madiera (Hammond B-3 organ,
pump organ); Allison Prestwood, Byron House (bass); Donald Lindley (drums); Paul
Griffith (drums, percussion); Steve Hindalong (percussion).
Engineers: Buddy Miller, Duane Jarvis, Don Peris

LSU Cash in Chaos/World Tour - CD

AVAILABLE NOW: LSU Cash in Chaos/World Tour CD - ONLY $9.99

FREE Gift With Purchase

To order, Click “Add To Cart” below and Follow the instructions thereafter

===========================


With World Tour, LSU front man Michael Knott announced that he was changing the name of L.S.U. to 'Cash in Chaos' (henced the mixed band name for this release). That name change didn't stick. World Tour is another classic L.S.U. disc, heavily influenced by Echo & The Bunnymen. Dark, swirling, heavy, and moody sounds abound on every song.

Track Listing

01 The Shell
02 Benny
03 Pound of Flesh
04 Confusion
05 Red Swine
06 Radio Satan
07 Yellow Sun
08 There's a Time
09 Spice of Life
10 Everything

VIDEO: L.S. Underground - There's A Time - Cash In Chaos (World Tour) (1993)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zyy69F_7-RI

AVAILABLE NOW: Starflyer 59 - La Vainqueur CD [Single]

AVAILABLE NOW: Starflyer 59 - La Vainqueur CD [Single]
 
ONLY $4.99

FREE Gift With Purchase

To order, Click “Add To Cart” below and Follow the instructions thereafter

==========================

Track Listing

1. Vainqueur [Radio Edit]
2. When No One Calls (It Will Be All Right)
3. Starflyer 2000 (Reprise)
4. Le Vainqueur

The Huntingtons – Get Lost - CD

AVAILABLE NOW: The Huntingtons – Get Lost

ONLY $11.99

To order, Click “Add To Cart” below and Follow the instructions thereafter

Track listing

1. No Pool Party Tonite

2. I'm Not Going Downtown

3. Hooray For You

4. Shutup

5. Joanie's Got Problems

6. Poster Kids

7. What Would Joey Do?

8. I Don't Wanna Save The World

9. Samantha Doesn't Want Me

10. Guilty

11. Annie's Anorexic

12. Somebody's Trying To Kill Me

13. I Don't Want It To End This Way

All songs written by Huntingtons.

Get Lost is an album by the Huntingtons released in 1999 on Tooth & Nail Records.

The Huntingtons – Fun and Games CD

AVAILABLE NOW: The Huntingtons – Fun and Games CD

ONLY: $11.99

To order, Click “Add To Cart” below and Follow the instructions thereafter

======================================

Track listing

1. Alison's The Bomb

2. Bubblegum Girl

3. Lucy's About To Lose Her Mind

4. The Only One

5. Huntingtons At The Beach

6. All She Knows (Is Breakin' My Heart)

7. Losing Penny

8. She's A Brat

9. Friday Nights At The Rec

10. Goddess And The Geek

11. Don't Beat Me Up

12. Crackhead

13. Leave Home

14. Come On Let's Go

All songs written by The Huntingtons, except track 14 (Ritchie Valens).

The Huntingtons – High School Rock - CD

AVAILABLE NOW: The Huntingtons – High School Rock - CD

ONLY: $11.99

To order, Click “Add To Cart” below and Follow the instructions thereafter

======================================

Track listing

1. High School Rock-N-Roll

2. We Don't Care

3. FFT

4. Aloha, It's You

5. I Don't Wanna Sit Around With You

6. When I Think About Her

7. Jeannie Hates The Ramones

8. I'm No Good

9. Pencil Neck

10. Stinky's All Grown Up

11. 1985

12. How Can I Miss You If You Won't Go Away?

13. Dies Saugt

14. No Luck Again

15. Jackie Is An Atheist

16. Avi Is A Vampire

All songs written by Huntingtons.

High School Rock is an album by the Huntingtons released in 1998 on Tooth & Nail Records.

The Huntingtons – Live: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly – CD

AVAILABLE NOW: The Huntingtons – Live: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly – CD

ONLY: $11.99

To order, Click “Add To Cart” below and Follow the instructions thereafter

======================================

Track listing

1. Pencil Neck

2. I Don't Wanna Sit Around With You

3. Dies Saugt

4. Wimpy Drives Through Harlem

5. We Don't Care

6. FFT

7. Aloha, It's You

8. Don't Beat Me Up

9. Goddess And The Geek

10. JW

11. Alison's The Bomb

12. She's A Brat

13. I Don't Want You

14. I'm No Good

15. All She Knows

16. Bubblegum Girl

17. Veronica

18. She's Alright

19. Jeannie Hates The Ramones

20. Drexel U

21. Crackhead

22. Rock 'N' Roll Girl

The Huntingtons – Plastic Surgery - CD

AVAILABLE NOW: The Huntingtons – Plastic Surgery - CD

ONLY: $11.99

To order, Click “Add To Cart” below and Follow the instructions thereafter

======================================

Track listing

1. "I Wanna Be A Ramone" - 2:30

2. "American War Machine" - 2:45

3. "Heartbreak At The Hardy Holly" - 3:00

4. "I Would Give You Anything" - 3:32

5. "Tell Me Goodnight" - 2:11

6. "Moral Threat" - 1:37

7. "Growing Up Is No Fun" - 3:11

8. "I'll See You Tonite" - 3:43

9. "Girl's Gone Crazy" - 3:06

10. "Don't Clone Me" - 2:16

11. "I Don't Wanna Go Out With Her" - 2:40

12. "Now I'm Alright" - 3:12

13. "I'm Not Dangerous" - 3:24

14. "Mutant Monster Beach Party" - 1:47

Lost Dogs – Gift Horse – CD

AVAILABLE NOW: Lost Dogs – Gift Horse – CD

ONLY: $14.99

To order, click “Add To Cart” below:

Track listing

1. "Ghost Train (To Nowhere)" (Taylor)

2. "Free Drinks and a Dream (A Vegas Story)" (Taylor)

3. "If You Love Here (You'd Be Home By Now)" (Taylor)

4. "Diamonds to Coal" (Taylor)

5. "Blessing In Disguise" (Taylor)

6. "Loved and Forgiven" (Taylor)

7. "Rebecca Go Home" (Taylor)

8. "Honeysuckle Breeze" (Taylor)

9. "Ditto" (Taylor)

10. "The Wall of Heaven" (Taylor)

11. "Father Along" (Traditional, Arranged by The Lost Dogs)

Lost Dogs: Terry Taylor, Gene Eugene, Derri Daugherty, Mike Roe.

Gift Horse is an album by Roots music band Lost Dogs, released on BEC Records in 1999.

This turned out to be Gene Eugene's last album with the band when he died in The Green Room shortly after its release.

BEC Records retitled one song as "A Vegas Story" for the album's artwork. To this day, fans of the band continue to call it by its real name, "Free Drinks and a Dream." The song also goes by that name during concert introductions and on later live albums and videos.

This is the most consistent of the Lost Dogs albums. Understandably so, as Terry Taylor wrote ten of the 11 tracks. While previous Lost Dogs albums dabbled with blues, country, folk, gospel, and modern rock with varying degrees of continuity, Gift Horse has implemented those ingredients almost exclusively in a jangly, country-rock vein. This is Taylor's finest songwriting to date, at least from a melody standpoint. Lyrically, his themes have always centered around tongue-in-cheek queries into the challenges of righteous living and the foibles of human nature. In the '70s his band Daniel Amos released two dreadful albums with which they tried, in vain, to mimic the popular soft country-rock craze of that era. His work with the Lost Dogs is a true testament to his growth as a songwriter; 20 years later Taylor's country-tinged songwriting is nothing less than superb. He is joined again by singers and guitarists by trade Mike Roe, Derri Daugherty, and Gene Eugene, whose respective home-bands, the 77's, the Choir, and Adam Again are becoming more irrelevant with each passing year. ~ Dave Sleger

Lost Dogs – Real Men Cry – CD

AVAILABLE NOW: Lost Dogs – Real Men Cry – CD

ONLY: $14.99

To order, click “Add To Cart” below:

Lost Dogs: Terry Taylor, Derri Daugherty, Mike Roe.

Track listing

1. "A Certain Love" (Taylor)

2. "Gates of Eden" (Taylor)

3. "Real Men Cry" (Taylor)

4. "Three Legged Dog" (Taylor)

5. "When the Judgment Comes" (Taylor)

6. "In the Distance" (Taylor)

7. "The Great Divide" (Taylor)

8. "The Mark of Cain" (Taylor)

9. "Dust on the Bible" (Bailes)

10. "Wild Ride" (Taylor)

11. "Golden Dreams" (Taylor)

12. "No Shadow of Turning" (Taylor)

13. "Lovely Man" (Roe)

Real Men Cry is an album by Roots music band Lost Dogs, released on BEC Records in 2001.

This was the first album by the Lost Dogs after Gene Eugene's death in March 2000 and is a tribute to him.

The song "Lovely Man" is not listed on the back cover of the CD. It was actually meant to go between the songs "Three Legged Dog" and "When The Judgement Comes," but was moved and drastically edited by the label, BEC Records. The label objected to the lyric "right by damn," and completely edited it from the recording on the final album. The song, in its unedited form, has only surfaced on CD once on a Paste Magazine CD sampler.

Luxury - Latest & the Greatest CD

AVAILABLE NOW: Luxury - Latest & the Greatest CD

ONLY: $11.99

To order, click “Add To Cart” below:

Track Listing:

1. The Latest & The Greatest 03:44

2. From the Lion Within 03:16

3. Not So Grand 04:20

4. Metropolitan 04:04

5. The Glory 03:10

6. Red Mascara 05:14

7. King Me 05:04

8. Hell or Highwater 04:20

9. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 06:32

10. The Pearls 04:30

Jan Krist - Outpost of the Counterculture CD

AVAILABLE NOW: Jan Krist - Outpost of the Counterculture

ONLY: $4.99

To order, click “Add To Cart” below:

Track listing

1. Outpost of the Counter-Culture (Hometown)

2. All I Can Change

3. My Love (My Heart Knows)

4. Good Enough

5. Extraordinary

6. Bent and Broken Reeds

7. Thank You

8. Waiting for the Cosmic Shoe to Fall

9. Someone to Watch over Me

10. Try Anyway

11. Parallel Universe

Sixpence None The Richer - CD - 1997

AVAILABLE NOW: Sixpence None The Richer - CD

ONLY: $11.99 (Original CD Released: 1997)

Some songs define moments in our lives we will never forget. They're songs that years later can evoke the sights, sounds, and even smells of the time we first heard them. "Kiss Me," the red-hot, irresistible single from this self-titled release, will probably be one of those songs for the many who've by now experienced its charms. The culprits? A trio of youthful central Texans, by way of Nashville, called Sixpence None the Richer. On the rest of this Grammy-nominated gem, Sixpence serve an airy blend of Abra Moore-meets-Sundays acoustic pop. It's beautifully rich and constantly augmented by Leigh Nash's earthy vocals, Matt Slocum's songwriting genius, and steady rhythms from Dale Baker. Like Jars of Clay, Sixpence have "raised the bar" for the rest of late-'90s contemporary Christian music. --Michael Lyttle

================================================