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May 23, 2006
Dixie Chicks album = Al Qaeda Plot: New album releases, 5-23-2006
It is a dark day for Team America: There's a new Dixie Chicks album out today, Taking the Long Way. These enemies of The People are just begging for a visit to Camp Mimi. There's no home for you here, Natalie Maines, but their CD is currently the #1 album at Amazon.
I don't wish to overstate the case, but the Dixie Chicks are agents of the devil and of Al Qaeda. It's kind of like the Christy Lane situation, only far worse because Natalie Maines is so much cuter. I admit that I can't stop looking at my hundreds of Dixie Chicks pictures, but that doesn't mean that Natalie Maines isn't evil beyond all constitutional measure. She would be considered a major offender against any reasonable system of Geometry and Theology.
In short, they're "Not Ready to Make Nice." Alright then, neither am I. Plus, she won't return my calls.
Look, if Natalie Maines would rather date Saddam Hussein than a good patriotic American like Al Barger, that's fine. Just know that if you buy the new Dixie Chicks album, then the terrorists have won.
The truly sad thing though is that the Dixie Chicks probably don't have the worst big league album of the week. Lord Rand forgive me for even typing the title of Michael Bolton's new CD Bolton Swings Sinatra. Bolton. Swings. Sinatra. Tell me Bin Laden doesn't have a finger in that. Hurry down doomsday, the bugs are taking over.
Def Leppard singing the Kinks? After the Michael Bolton, my sense of outrage is fatigued, and I can only whimper like Leo Marvin at his sister's wedding to Bob Wiley. Anyway, Def Leppard has an album of covers, imaginatively titled Yeah!.
But just as despair for the state of the republic starts to take over and I start wanting to go all Hannibal Lecter, we find a new Johnny Cash album- a double album at that! The 49 tracks on Personal File are Cash acoustic solo recordings mostly made in 1973 in an intimate style that might be seen as his prototype for the famous final American albums. See, there is goodness and beauty in the world too. Put down the gun. Remain calm.
Also figuring into the don't-go-on-a-killing-spree ledger, Dr John has a new album called Mercernary, all songs associated somehow with Johnny Mercer. I could definitely imagine him doing something really special with "Blues in the Night." I can definitely imagine the benefit of a little New Orleans swing to "Moon River" or "That Old Black Magic."
That's all for this week. Sleep well- but check under the bed for sleeper cells or Dixie Chicks.
Here's the complete list of this week's major new album releases, courtesy AMG:
Johnny Cash Personal File Columbia/Legacy
Country-Pop, Traditional Country
Dixie Chicks Taking the Long Way Open Wide/Columbia
Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Pop/Rock, Adult Contemporary, Contemporary Country, Country-Pop
Dr. John Mercernary Blue Note
New Orleans R&B, Piano Blues
The Wreckers Stand Still, Look Pretty Maverick
Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative Country-Rock, Contemporary Country, Country-Pop, Singer/Songwriter
Alias & Tarsier Brookland/Oaklyn Anticon
Indie Electronic, Alternative Rap
The Allman Brothers Band Eat a Peach [Deluxe Edition] Mercury
Slide Guitar Blues, Album Rock, Boogie Rock, Southern Rock, Hard Rock, Blues-Rock
Angels and Airwaves We Don't Need to Whisper Geffen/Suretone
Alternative Pop/Rock
Anjani Blue Alert Columbia
Vocal Jazz, Vocal Pop, Pop, Ballads, Adult Contemporary
As Fast As Open Letter to the Damned Octone
Pop Underground, Power Pop, Alternative Pop/Rock
The Blood Brothers Love Rhymes with Hideous Car Wreck V2 International
Punk Metal, Hardcore Punk, Punk Revival, Emo
Michael Bolton Bolton Swings Sinatra Concord
Adult Contemporary
Susan Cagle The Subway Recordings Lefthook/Columbia
Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Teen Pop
Eric Clapton Eric Clapton [Deluxe Edition] Polydor
Album Rock, Blues-Rock, Pop/Rock, Soft Rock, Rock & Roll
Coachwhips Double Death Narnack
Indie Rock, Garage Rock Revival
Damone Out Here All Night [CD] Island
Punk-Pop, Punk Revival
Def Leppard Yeah! Bludgeon Riffola/Island
Pop-Metal, Album Rock, Hard Rock, Pop/Rock, British Metal, Glam Rock, Heavy Metal
Neil Diamond Forever Neil Diamond Shout! Factory
Pop/Rock, Pop, Southern Soul, Motown, Alternative Pop/Rock, Soul
Fasolis, Diego Gossec: Le Triomphe de la Republique Chandos
Classical Chamber Music
The Ditty Bops Moon Over the Freeway Warner Bros.
Indie Pop, Alternative Pop/Rock
End of Fashion End of Fashion Capitol
Britpop, Garage Rock, New Wave, Alternative Pop/Rock
Merl Saunders & Jerry Garcia Well-Matched: The Best of Merl Saunders & Jerry Garcia Fantasy
Jam Bands, Soul-Jazz, Rock & Roll, Jazz-Rock
Halifax
The Inevitability of a Strange World Drive-Thru
Punk-Pop, Emo, Punk Revival
The Heavy Blinkers The Night and I Are Still So Young Cooking Vinyl
Chamber Pop, Indie Pop
La Ricordanza Foreign Insult MDG
Baroque Orchestral Music
Less Than Jake In with the Out Crowd Sire
Punk-Pop, Third Wave Ska Revival, Punk Revival
Huey Lewis & The News Greatest Hits & Videos [CD/DVD] Capitol
Pop/Rock, Bar Band, Album Rock
Jenny Lin The Eleventh Finger Koch
Contemporary Piano Music
Liquid Soul One-Two Punch Telarc
Fusion, Soul-Jazz, Jazz-Funk, Funk, House, Hip-Hop
Mission of Burma The Obliterati Matador
Indie Rock
Harry Nilsson Everybody's Talkin': The Very Best of Harry Nilsson [RCA] RCA
Pop/Rock, Soft Rock, Pop, Singer/Songwriter, Baroque Pop, Psychedelic Pop, Sunshine Pop
Sakari Oramo John Foulds: Dynamic Triptych; Music-Pictures III Warner
Modern Orchestral Music
Gal, Yoav Yoav Gal: Bit by Bit, Cell by Cell Innova
Avant-Garde Opera
Original Soundtrack A Prairie Home Companion [New Line] New Line
Original Score, Film Music, Soundtracks
Osaka Popstar Osaka Popstar and the American Legends of Punk Ryko/Misfits
Punk-Pop, Punk Revival, Alternative Pop/Rock
Phoenix It's Never Been Like That Astralwerks
Indie Electronic, Alternative Dance
Soft Machine Grides [CD/DVD] Cuneiform
Canterbury Scene, Jazz-Rock, Experimental, Improvisation, Avant-Prog, Modal Music, Psychedelic
Sierra Swan Ladyland Interscope/Custard
Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Singer/Songwriter, Pop/Rock
Tilly and the Wall Bottoms of Barrels Team Love
Indie Pop
Various Artists American Idol Season 5: Encores RCA
Adult Contemporary, Pop/Rock, Urban
Various Artists Big Star Small World Koch
Alternative Pop/Rock, Pop Underground
Various Artists Classic Labor Songs from Smithsonian Folkways Smithonian Folkways
Political Folk, Folk Revival, Field Recordings
Various Artists Give 'Em the Boot, Vol. 5 Hellcat
Punk Revival, Hardcore Punk, Psychobilly, Oi!, Ska Revival
Various Artists Harlan County USA: Songs of the Coal Miner's Struggle Rounder
Political Folk, Appalachian Folk, Traditional Folk, String Bands, Old-Timey, Field Recordings, Bluegrass
The Walkmen A Hundred Miles Off Record Collection
Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock
Leslie West Blue Me Blues Bureau
Hard Rock, Blues-RockLabels: country_music, dixie_chicks, new_album_releases
posted by Al at 5/23/2006 12:47:00 PM
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