So what else do you do when you’re bored and depressed except download cat pictures?
You buy music.

The first three I bought at a used CD shop in town. They even have a little sticker that says “Licensee For Saudi Arabia, UAE and Lebanon”
Rickie Lee Jones – “Ghostyhead”
Neil Young & Crazy Horse – “Broken Arrow” This is an odd, disjointed one for him, but the first three songs – clocking in around 25 minutes – are worth the price of admission.
Don McLean – “American Pie” A classic. Wanna fight?

Then I raided iTunes:
Donovan – “The Essential” Can anyone really live without Mellow Yellow or Sunshine Superman?
Spiritualized – “Songs In A&E”
Soundtrack to “I’m Not There” Great movie and a two-disc set of everybody from Sonic Youth to Eddie Vedder to Ramblin’ Jack Elliot doing Dylan songs. It’s a blast!

Then I went a bit Irish. You can never have enough. So I picked up Flogging Molly’s new one “Float” for the modern, drinking Irish. Then Altan’s 1992 record “Harvest Storm” which is more traditional. And finally the band Dervish (who I read about recently) and their album “Decade”, which is sort of a retrospective of their first decade of performing. This is very traditional. Someone online described it as pub music, where the whole family gathers to listen to the band play and sing. Most of the songs are brighter than Altan and Cathy Jordan’s vocals are sweeter (lighter?) than those of Maighread Ni Mhaonaigh, but either way I’m a sucker for a lass singing in Gaelic.

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