Tuesday Tunes

We've got some new music videos and some old music videos for this mega-sized edition of Tuesday Tunes. Your Aunt Fritzi Ritz is going to love this one.

The Hinds rhythm section may have quit the group but Carlotta Cosials and Ana García Perrote are still making wonderful music. "The Bed, The Room, The Rain and You" is sublime. Synth smacking good!!

Hinds

The Atlanta, Georgia band Lunar Vacation have a new album titled Everything Matters, Everything's Fire coming out on September 13th. The latest video for the song "Tom" sounds like The Beths to me which means it sounds great. 

Lunar Vacation

John Davis was working on a new Superdrag album, but it didn't quite take so the songs have been rescued with the help of Knoxville legend Stewart Pack along with his son Henry. 2 songs have been released from the album called JINX which will be released on September 27th. Both songs are fire as my 19 year old would say. Here's the latest one titled "Take My Brains Out." You can be like me and pre-order the record either from here or here. 

John Davis

Jesse Welles is one prolific dude. He posts a few songs almost every week at YouTube. He's usually outside playing either a Stella or Gibson acoustic with a harmonica hanging around his neck. His group Welles has some sold out shows coming up soon, so I'll be interested to see if he keeps up his current pace. The songs he posts are hit or miss, but boy when they hit it'll make you feel glad you spent your time listening. He recently put up this one on why he doesn't want to shop at Wal-Mart and it hits home for me. I used to work at Wal-Mart way back in the 90's and it was okay. I don't think I would want to work there now. Most of the stores, especially in the small towns, give off crystal meth vibes. I rarely venture inside one these days. 

Jesse Welles - Wal-Mart

Our first old video is of a group that is still big in Japan. The Southern AOR of The Boys Band featuring B. James Lowry and the grown children of gospel greats Rusty Golden (his father was William Lee Golden of the Oak Ridge Boys) and Greg Gordon (his father was in the Chuck Wagon Gang) didn't make too much of a splash in 1982, but this video for the tune "Runner" is certainly interesting.

Runner

Rusty Golden recently passed away so perhaps that is why I was drawn to find more videos of his music career. That quest led to the songs he did with his brother Chris as The Goldens. They put out one compact disc titled Rush for Gold in 1990 for SBK/Capitol Records. It's filled with great harmonies. The video for "Take Me Back to the Country" really caught my eye as it was shot in downtown Nashville. That's the downtown I remember riding my skateboard around late at night. I miss it. 

The Goldens

There were a bunch of Red Hot compilations in the 90's released under the auspices of the Red Hot organization.  Brooklyn band Babe the Blue Ox contributed the raging "Hazmats" to the Red Hot + Bothered one which was released in 1995. 

Babe the Blue Ox - Hazmats

Jon Spencer Blues Explosion were blowing up in the 90's spreading the "fever" all across this great land. I got to see them live a couple of times. 1994 at the now gone Mercury Theater in Knoxville and December 31, 1999 at the now gone 328 Performance Hall in Nashville. They were fantastic for both shows. I hadn't watched the "Flavor" video in years and forgot about Beck and Mike D being in it. There's also the great homage/parody of the Run-DMC "Walk this Way" video too. Aerosmith, who are featured in the Run-DMC video (hmmm I wonder why haha) have announced their retirement in the wake of frontman Steven Tyler's voice troubles which is sad. So let's remember them rocking out with Run-DMC instead. The 1986 cover version was all over the radio in the summer of 1986. I remember hanging out in a Wendy's parking lot with DD Blank while he rapped along with the song. Some younger guys were also there and they quizzed DD on how he knew the words so well. The Aerosmith original didn't exist for them. 

Flavor

Run-DMC ft. Aerosmith - Walk this Way