Jane Siberry - Up The Loggin’ Road
Yep, this is absolutely being played prior to having my coffin carried out of the cathedral. I’m assuming I’m going to be big enough to warrant a cathedral, an awesome choir and the down-home style band required. Actually, if I put in my will that I want this to happen, everyone’s legally bound to make it happen, aren’t they? Better update my will.
Throwing Muses - Devil’s Roof (Acoustic)
As part of the release of her book “Rat Girl”, Kristin Hersh has recorded, with Throwing Muses, acoustic versions of some of the tracks referenced in the book. If you’re not aware already, “Rat Girl” is a memoir/diary style of thing of very early Throwing Muses prior to the release of their first album back in 1986.
This song has always had a charming quality for me, and it works acoustically definitely, but it was also the first song they played when they toured last year so I was immediately transported back to a hot little tent set up in Hyde Park Barracks thinking “holy crap, that’s Throwing Muses right there, and they’re fantastic”.
You can download the entire “Fall” Season Session here. Please, do. And check out her book “Rat Girl” (which is being released as “Paradoxical Undressing” in the UK) if you enjoy autobiographies, or clever storytelling, or writing about bands, or all of the above.
