In memory of Frederick Mark Linkous, gone 4 years today, we would like to share this lovely live version of “Spirit Ditch” from the Black Sessions radio program originating from Paris, recorded in September of 2006.
Always in our hearts…
Here’s a little Christmas gift for everyone who is missing Mark today…
It’s a beautiful acoustic version of Morning Hollow recorded for BBC London Radio back in 2001. Most likely unheard since its original broadcast, we thought this was just too special not to share…
Wishing all our readers a very Happy Christmas!
Morning Hollow (Acoustic):
In the silver morning hollow
Trembling and getting old
Smelling burnt oil of heaven
About ten years, too big to hold
She don’t get up when I come into the room
She don’t run through the fields anymore
Built a fire in the kitchen
Made her bed by a stove
Took a walk to the graveyard
But she didn’t want to go
She don’t worry all them murders of crows
Even though they was always out of reach
She don’t get up when I come into the room
She don’t run through the fields anymore
Our featured video of the day is a live-in-the-bedroom cover of Sunshine by UK outfit We Show Up On RadaR. It’s from a couple of years back and it’s a very pretty one, as Mark would have likely said himself…
We Show Up On RadaR website: http://wsuor.com/
Wow, can’t believe it’s been end of July since we had a post here. A thousand pardons all. Sometimes real life and day jobs (not to mention technical snafus involving glitchy laptops) tend to interfere with our outside interests, and it can become hard to find time to devote to running the show here. But no more excuses! We’ll try to stay on top of things a bit more in the coming weeks. And for your listening pleasure today we have a cool rarity to share with you: A recent contact email reminded us of the Sparklehorse show at Berbati’s Pan in Portland, Oregon in November of 2001, I show that I myself was fortunate enough to attend, and also the one time I got a chance to meet Mark. Our reader, Dan, presented Mark with a painting that night. He recalls:
“…I met Mark and gave him a painting inspired by “It’s A Wonderful Life”. The painting was given to him at Berbati’s Pan around dinnertime. I returned later than evening to see Sparklehorse perform with their white lily’s all around and there in the middle of the stage with a spotlight on it, the painting I had given Mark…”
Very cool stuff Dan.
So from that illustrious night, we present a live Sparklehorse cover version of the Guided By Voices’ classic “Smothered in Hugs”, hope you dig it…
This recording was captured from a live webcast of this 2003 show from Toronto, when Sparklehorse opened for R.E.M. It’s not quite perfect (a slight skip here and there) but still well worth a listen…
Today, we are rolling out a new streaming audio feature on our site. For music that we share here, we will now be posting audio streams rather than offering MP3 downloads. We’ve been wanting to go this route for awhile now but for lack of a suitable WordPress plugin, and now we seem to have found something workable.
So without further adieu, here’s Junebug from the well-known Dragging Pianos – Live In Sweden recording, from 1998…