Two Old Albums, basically the whole discography up til now

So in advance of releasing an EP of new stuff, I decided to give away my first two records. You can either keep reading this long, weepy eyed post or just go straight to the downloads at the bottom.

The first one was actually released under Easygoer, but then I changed my name so I changed it on this "re-release" to The Crash Davis Spectacular and changed the album name to Easygoer. I listened to it all the way through last night and it's not too bad. It's definitely not mastered properly and certainly could've been mixed better, but for a first outing I'm not ashamed of it. I originally put it out there in 2004. Sean Parker(Violence Ammunition) deserves a ton of credit for generally helping out and encouraging me to do it. DJ Intel does any scratching you might hear.

The second of the two was released the next year(2005) as a self-titled album. The rappity rappity you hear on Greenline is 2nd Thought. The piano and synth on How I Try is the great Justin Petertil and again all turntables are DJ Intel. I was living with Justin and Scott Masson when I was working on this and they both helped me immensely. A lot of nights at that house ended on the back porch with a twelve pack taking turns listening to what the others were working on and this record is much better because of that.

Oh and Intel's the best deejay a guy could ever ask for.

Grab Easygoer here

Grab The Crash Davis Spectacular here

P.S. Sorry I don't have the cover art in digital form. Feel free to make your own.

Song of the Week That I Didn't Make

To be honest I'm not a big fan of the current R&B scene. There's the occasional radio hit that'll catch my ear and I enjoyed John Legend's first two records quite a bit. But in general I don't find very much of it especially compelling.

That said Raphael Saadiq's new record is straight fire. He revisits the sound of young America that was Motown, but does it in his own way. It's been bumpin pretty regularly in the bookstore and it ain't gonna stop soon.

Here's "Oh Girl." There's also a remix of the same song at the end of the record with Jay-Z, although I don't think he adds much to the song to be honest.



P.S. Seth, Gerard and I finished up a seven song ep last Friday. It should be up on here later this week or early next. Check back.

Heads Up

The new a Light Sleeper record is currently streaming on their audio page.

While I may hold a small(read: very large) bias towards them. I've been dating the saxophonist for two and a half years, so what. I can still honestly say it's a really great record. It's gonna be the first release on Another New Calligraphy records and it's going to change the world probably.

Good job guys.

Listen right here.

Song of the Week That I Didn't Make

Hey people.

Sorry I've been gone for so long. I hope someone kept this in their RSS feed. I should have some new stuff of my own coming up here in the next couple of weeks. Until then I'll try to stay on top of The Song of the Week and some other stuff.

I've been listening to a lot of Marvin Gaye recently. Which is really saying something since I usually listen to a good amount of Marvin every week. But I picked up Here, My Dear recently. Someone had told me that it wasn't an especially good record awhile back and I better not remember who it was cause it's a beautiful, intense record. Here's some more info.

Without further ado here's my current favorite on the album Sparrow.