Number Five Is Alive

Posted on July 28, 2006 by Tito

At daytrotter.com, there is an interview with Two Gallants:

Which songwriters do you admire?
AS: Uncle Dave Macon, Clarence Ashley, Sleepy John Estes, Kris Kristofferson, Ray Davies, Immortal Technique.
Whose brain would you like to pick for half a day?
AS: Karl Rove. I’d pick his brain until he could only eat through a straw and had to have his diapers changed every hour.

along with 4 new Two Gallants songs in MP3 format:

Stephens breaks down these four new tracks:

Trembling of the Rose - “This song is just a simple country song. It probably isn’t for anyone these days but it’s for me and Tyson and a few of those with a remaining ounce of patience.”
Lady - “I don’t know if I can speak about this one. If there was more to be said about it there would be more words in the song.”
Damnatio Memoriae - “The statues of despotic regimes tend to be demolished when their time is done.”
Untitled II - “This song is still nameless. We all want to return once we are gone and be gone once we return.”

Number One Hit Song on the forthcoming Sadies live double album:

The boys in The Sadies know what they’re up to. They’re not moonlighting in the various genres they move through. They’ve got a real feel for the country numbers they do, but they’re just as at home with the more psychedelic songs. To my ears, that’s a pairing that’s been waiting to happen since the late, lamented Gram first posited the idea of Cosmic American music way back… uh, whenever that was in the sixties.

If that concept doesn’t get your frontal lobe lubed, this may not be the fun you seek. If, however, such a marriage sounds even remotely intriguing, you might want to pick up a copy of In Concert, Vol. 1 when it drops this August. As a double-disc set you’ll probably pay a little more, but the payoff inside makes it all worthwhile.


At New Scientist, Wine Tasting Robots:

But he also notes that a wine-bot would need to be capable of distinguishing between more than 30 flavours of wine to be truly useful. This is because the global wine market includes thousands of wine varieties and blends. “The acid test would be to test a machine against a team of qualified tasters,” Corbet-Milward says.


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