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Thanks For Giving A Damn with Otis Gibbs

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Lately I’ve been mostly listening to these Thanks For Giving a Damn with Otis Gibbs podcasts. I listened all 23 episodes within a week and I really loved spending quality time with Otis and his friends. All of these podcasts are very entertaining. Even when I didn’t knew the person beforehand. Some favourites were Motown engineer Bob Olhsson sharing his memories, Richard Dobson talking about Heartworn Highways and Townes Van Zandt, Phil Kaufman on Gram Parsons, Charles Manson etc and a lot of great current singer-songwriters like Slaid Cleaves, Lydia Loveless, Ray Wylie Hubbard. I guess I could list them all, because favourite one was always the one I was listening to at the time. I’m looking forward to the upcoming episodes. Thanks for Giving a Damn with Otis Gibbs is available for free on iTunes. If you don’t care for iTunes, you can listen to them on Otis Gibbs website.

Otis Gibbs is also a great singer-songwriter himself. I own his two latest albums Joe Hill’s Ashes and Harder Than Hammered Hell. Both are excellent. There’s one song from each below. Made to Break from the latest Harder Than Hammered Hell and Kansas City from Joe Hill’s Ashes. Maybe I should go and order the older ones as well.

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Otis Gibbs Website
Thanks For Giving a Damn on iTunes

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Gudrid Hansdottir Finland tour 13.3 – 16.3

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Singer-songwriter Gudrid Hansdottir will be touring in Finland next week. Her Finnish label Lumpeela julkaisut also released her latest album Beyond the Grey in Finland last month. So this is also a release tour for that beautiful vinyl album.

Gudrid Hansdottir Finland Tour:

Wed 13.03. Arkadia International Bookshop, Helsinki (kello 18)
Wed 13.03. Oire-klubi, Siltanen, Helsinki
Thu 14.03. Paksu, Helsinki
Fri 15.03. Flavour of the Month, Pikku-Torre, Turku
Sat 16.03. Telakka, Tampere

As you noticed, she will also be playing at Flavour of the Month on friday with Hiljainen mies. So I’m not going to make a separate blog post for Flavour of the Month this time. I will see you there and we can then enjoy amazing songs like this. This is Gudrid Hansdottir and A Faroese Fisherman Speaks of Drowning.

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And this is I Mjorka

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Gudrid Hansdottir at Facebook

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Bobby Emmett – Brighter Days (Mono Edition)

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Learning Love by Bobby Emmett was the album of the year 2009 here at onechord.net and I still love that album. It really is my favourite power pop album of the past ten years or so and I still play a song from it almost every time I am DJ at the Flavour of the Month club. That album should be regarded as a pop classic and Bobby Emmett should be a star.

A couple of days ago I got an exciting email from Bobby. He has a new album out and available on iTunes/eMusic/Spotify and it’s called Brighter Days. Because my work days are long and hectic on thursdays and fridays, I didn’t got into this until today. But damn it’s great to hear new material from Bobby Emmett. This album is definitely another great one. Just like I expected it to be. You can listen to it on Spotify and buy it from iTunes. I think I already have a pretty good idea what will be the next album of the month. Great to have you back Bobby Emmett.

Bobby Emmett Website
Bobby Emmett at Myspace (<- You can listen to some stunning tracks from Learning Love here)

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Couch By Couchwest 2013 March 10-16

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It’s again my duty to inform the Finnish folks (and international readers as well) that the coolest music festival of the year starts soon. The festival is obviously the annual online music festival Couch by Couchwest. The idea is simple. Austin is a long drive (actually a long flight from Finland) and you might have a thing called “life” getting in the way. And even if you have the money and time to show up, it can be inconvenient. Way too many people, traffic and all that nonsense. So why not instead just sit comfortably on your own couch and watch awesome music performances that artists from all over the world have recorded just for CXCW. There was at least one Finnish entry last year, because Jerry Lindqvist participated. Hopefully CXCW gets more this year. The rules are simple. Couch By Couchwest accepts all submissions from musicians as long as it is recorded for the Couch by Couchwest festival. So no promos, concert footage, old home videos. New unique videos recorded for CXCW. Couch is not a must. CXCW supports creativity. Anywhere but stage is alright. Read more information about it on the CXCW website.

I leave you with my favourite performance of last year’s CXCW festival. This is Glossary and Cheap Wooden Cross. It also features an excellent cameo performance from their cat Whiskey who rightfully won the best in show cat award. A member of the onechord.net household, our cat Luna got the honorable mention in the same category. She is already looking forward to CXCW 2013 and so am I.

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Couch By Couchwest Website
Couch By Couchwest Submissions
Couch By Couchwest at Twitter (good way to follow all the action)

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