The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God [Music Video]

Everyday can be "St.Patrick's Day" when these guys are in your CD collection or iPod. The lads are currently touring America.

If I should fall from grace with god
Where no doctor can relieve me
If Im buried neath the sod
But the angels wont receive me

Let me go, boys
Let me go, boys
Let me go down in the mud
Where the rivers all run dry

This land was always ours
Was the proud land of our fathers
It belongs to us and them
Not to any of the others

Let them go, boys
Let them go, boys
Let them go down in the mud
Where the rivers all run dry

Bury me at sea
Where no murdered ghost can haunt me
If I rock upon the waves
Then no corpse can lie upon me

Its coming up three, boys
Keeps coming up three, boys
Let them go down in the mud
Where the rivers all run dry

If I should fall from grace with god
Where no doctor can relieve me
If Im buried neath the sod
But the angels wont receive me

Let me go, boys
Let me go, boys
Let me go down in the mud
Where the rivers all run dry

The website for the band and info about their American and European tour this year

http://www.pogues.com/



"A Parting Glass with The Pogues"

The Pogues have confirmed a short spring tour of the USA for 2011. The tour begins March 3 in Chicago and concludes on St. James Cagney Day in New York. Support will be Titus Andronicus.

March 3 - Chicago (Congress Theater)
March 4 - Detroit (Royal Oak Music Theater)
March 7 - Baltimore (Rams Head Live)
March 8 - Washington DC (9:30 Club)
March 9 - Washington DC (9:30 Club)
March 11 - Boston (House of Blues)
March 12 - Boston (House of Blues)
March 15 - New York (Terminal 5)
March 16 - New York (Terminal 5)
March 17 - New York (Terminal 5)

Squirrel Nut Zippers "Suits Are Picking Up the Bill " Music Video

One of my favorite neo-swing bands, in the tradition of old-school jazz as well as contemporary groups like "The Cherry-Popping Daddies" and the dirty boogie sound of the former Stray Cat Brian Setzer group. Here's the lowdown on them, from Wikipedia:
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The band was founded by James "Jimbo" Mathus, formerly of Metalflake Mother and Johnny Vomit & The Dry Heaves, and his then-wife Katharine Whalen in Carrboro, North Carolina along with Chris Phillips, Don Raleigh and Ken Mosher. The group made its debut in Chapel Hill a few months later. Stacy Guess (formerly of Pressure Boys) joined shortly after.

"Nut Zippers," is a southern term for a variety of old bootleg moonshine, and the band's name comes from a newspaper account which related the story of a highly intoxicated man who climbed a tree one night, refusing to come down even after authorities arrived. The article's headline read: "Squirrel Nut Zipper."[2][3] It is also the name of a candy dating back to 1890.[4]

The band was initially lumped into the "lounge" movement, along with Combustible Edison, and credited as part of the brief swing music revival of the 1990s. The Zippers' sound incorporates a broad range of music, ranging in influence from Harlem Hot Music, Cab Calloway, Johnny Ace, Delta Blues, Raymond Scott, Fats Waller, Django Reinhardt, Tom Waits, and klezmer. The band's break-through single, "Hell", was distinguished by calypso rhythms, and helped push the band into further association with the "Neo Swing" movement.
directed by Norwood Cheek and Grady Cooper

Squirrel Nut Zippers "Put A Lid On It"

This Lounge/Swing Revival band from Durham, North Carolina, has put out some fine songs in the last fifteen years. Here's one of their best, "Put A Lid on It", from 1997, featuring the amazing Katherine Whalen on vocals. The group was dormant for the last few years but came out with a new album last year and is touring again. (Why they never play spots like my neck of the woods is a mystery.)

James "Jimbo" Mathus — vocals, Guitar, Slide Guitar, Tenor Banjo, Trombone, Piano
Katharine Whalen — Vocals, Banjo, Ukulele
Stuart Cole — Bass
Chris Phillips — Percussion, Contraption Kit, drums
Je Widenhouse — Trumpet, Cornet
Will Dawson — Alto Saxophone
Henry Westmoreland — Baritone Saxophone
Robert "Griffanzo" Griffin - Piano(Roland Keyboards)

Pulp: "Common People"-- "Class Tourism" and Its Drawbacks

This was the Number Two pop song in Britain for awhile back in 1995. It tells the tale of a well-off young lady from Greece who, who wants to do a larking about with the lower orders (we call it "slumming" in America, not an activity to promote good feelings.)
She talks a young man into introducing her to the "hoi polloi". But of course its one thing to play at being "common"; its another to really have to deal with the slight drawbacks. This tune struck a chord for me and may indeed be more relevant than ever. It was reportedly based on real request from a lady given to Pup's lead singer, Jarvis Crocker.

It has also been covered by other bands and, sadly, is probably better known in the USA from a cover by one of the biggest musical poseurs in North America, Old Captain Kirk (William Shatner) and his foray into singing for an album called , "Has Been" about six years back. Shatner's version at least is better than his cover on "Mr. Tambourine Man" from back in the 1970's. Anyway, here's the original and more on the group:
http://www.mackers.com/pulpworld/