Every Day is Gettin' Straighter

My sister sent me some tracks to listen to by Rodrigo y Gabriela, which I'm really diggin' these days.  I thought I would share:


Listening to them this evening put me in mind of the man who really sold his soul to the devil, David Rawlings. I've seen him perform twice now with Gillian Welch and I have to say he's unbelievable. One thing I find so amazing about watching him perform is his use of the microphone as a second instrument since his guitar isn't plugged in. The following video is pretty exemplary:


And while we are on the topic of the lovely Gillian Welch, allow me to admit that if Morland had a theme song the following would probably be in the running:


It was the live version of "Time (the Revelator)" that I really wanted to embed in this post, but YouTube doesn't allow you to embed the particular video I wanted. If you haven't had enough check that version out here and stay with it through the end (there's also a short interview before the song starts).

Goin' Commerical: Bishop Allen Clicks with Sony

As readers probably already know, I am very fond of Bishop Allen and have really enjoyed seeing them get more attention recently. I'm of two minds about music being used in commercials these days, but when I saw a new Sony digital camera ad on TV last night featuring BA's Click Click Click Click I couldn't have been more chuffed.

I went to YouTube today to find the commercial to share with you all, but when I found their video for the song I had to share that instead. Because it's awesome. So, enjoy: