Playlist : October 3rd - 7th, 2011

Hello and welcome to Work Tunes.

Well it was a big week in music for me last week; not so much in football. While the Eagles hardly showed up against the Cats, music gave me a screening of Nirvana Live at Paramount and the streaming of the brand new Ryan Adams release Ashes & Fire to make it quite an exceptional week.

This list contains both the Adams LP and the deluxe release of Nevermind which includes the Paramount concert. I've also got some new Feist and the Seu George Life Aquatic LP I've been meaning to hear since I saw the film. I also grabbed the only The National album I don't tend to play alot, Boxer and some Hip Hop for spiritual well-being.

Check it out:

• Seu George - The Life Aquatic Studio Sessions
• Nirvana - Nevermind (Super Deluxe)
• Ryan Adams - Ashes & Fire
• Counting Crows - August and Everything After: Live At Town Hall
• The National - Boxer
• The Whitlams - Undeniably Whitlams
• Violent Femmes - Viva Wisconsin
• Superstar Quamallah & Deqawn – Talkin’ All That Jazz
  
• Feist - Metals
• Boogie Down Productions - Ghetto Music : The Blueprint of Hip Hop

Top Five Artists Last Week

1. Ryan Adams
2. R.E.M.
3. Sly & The Family Stone
4. Tori Amos
5. Ice-T

Song of the Week : Ryan Adams - Ashes & Fire

I wasn’t going to go with my first choice for Song of the Week because it’ too obvious. But song of the week is supposed to be about the song that’s been huge in your week right? And this is the track I have been digging on all week, over and over.

This title track to the new release from young Grizzly Adams is an amazing song with the dual keys sound of Dylan’s Blonde On Blonde. There’s a honkytonk vibe and a bit of a country rollick about it. I’ve heard a solo acoustic version of the song and as you’d imagine, it sounds very different. I usually like a stripped down bare bones track, but I really dig the instrumentation on this one.

TTFN

Tah tah for now brothers and sisters. If you're watching the AFL Grand Final, I hope your team wins and you quaff alot of beers and party food. That's a pretty decent Saturday afternoon to my mind.

Adios muchahos. Hasala malakim.