Soundtrack for the summer ‘08

The soundtrack for my summer this year is the Jimmy Buffett CD “Take the Weather With You“.

This came out a couple years ago and I haven’t really kept up with any new releases – I mean “Songs You Know by Heart” is all you really need to know, right? Well Samantha and I went to his concert this year at Riverbend and he played a lot of songs I didn’t know by heart and a few of them were really great. So the next morning I opened up iTunes and found them on that album.

Jimmy has gone a little more country than I like, but then again I think that country music has gone a little Jimmy. Country music has really changed it’s sound and there are a lot of artists that sound like JB’s style if you were to add a steel drum to the background. Ironically, Jimmy tried to get his start in Nashville and was spurned. Cincinnati is the epicenter of the whole “parrothead” movement and where those fanatics boosted him into the mainstream and stardom.

I have always wanted to see him in concert but something always got in the way. Not this year, and am I glad.

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Zungguzungguguzungguzeng – Say that fast twice, heck say it once!

I caught this on a XM reggae station called The Joint (seriously!) and I spent two weeks looking for it without any luck. Well I was in Starbuck’s the other morning and it was playing – I asked the barrista if he know who it was and he said Yellowman. Cool, at least now I have an artist to look up.

Now, you have to love iTunes whether or not you agree with DRM (which they are relaxing, btw). You can find nearly anything that you are looking for on it.

Since we moved to Cincinnati I had a really hard time finding music I like in the stores because they are all big box – Best Buy, Wallyworld (Wal-Mart) or the like. I really miss Tower Records! Needless to say, stores like this are not going to carry Massive Attack, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Wasis Diop or Nicola Conte. The only way to buy this music was through iTunes or Amazon or hope to catch it on the SOMAFM Secret Agent playlist.

Back to Yellowman, great artist, old school reggae. I was able to find the song in a matter of minutes and purchased it right away. It’s going to be the soundtrack to my weekend for the rest of the summer!

Reminds me a lot of Peter Tosh & Pato Banton. Some of YM’s stuff is a little hard to listen to if you are not a big reggae fan (or speak Patois), but look it up and listen to Zungguzungguguzungguzeng and not only will you like it, you might even be able to pronounce it!

(BTW – for the unwashed masses that don’t have iTunes you can get it on MP3.com too.)

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