Here it is again, the super unscientific list of the top 40 tracks on A Little More Vodka, A Little Less Milk for the previous year, 2013. Thanks again for your comments likes and reblogs this past year! The list is sorted alphabetically by artist and is not ranked at all: Achoo! Bless You – Before We Say GoodbyeBarnett, Courtney – Scotty SaysBarnett, George – Where The Devil SleepsBears Of Legend – Let Me BeBen Marcato and his Mondo Combo – Second To NoneBig Big Train – Make Some NoiseBlack Feathers, The – You Will Be MineCivil Wars, The – The One That Got AwayCosmosoul – Sunny DaysEmily Barker…
It’s hard to believe that the year is over and my goal to keep this blog going and updated has worked far better than I would have imagined back in January 2012. I couldn’t have done it without your feedback-your “likes” and “reblogs” were very much appreciated. Let’s face it though, the blog could not happen at all without the music. So here’s to all of the music that made it into A Little More Vodka, A Little Less Milk in 2012. A few of you have discovered this blog late and just couldn’t visualize going back and checking out all…
You may remember Emily Barker from two mini-reviews in close succession to each other four years ago just before the Dear River long-player was released. Well, Emily Barker has continued to make fine pop-influenced folk music since then with an ever-increasing focus on polishing and fine-tuning her style. Enter her latest long-player, Sweet Kind Of Blue (May 2017), from which Sunrise (seen/heard here) comes and the metamorphoses continue. It’s like a beautiful butterfly that has somehow turned into an even more beautiful butterfly. The title track and opener is almost but…
Born out of the blues, rhythm and blues and funk, Dumpstaphunk is a force of it’s own-one that you should stand up and take notice of. Here they perform Meanwhile which talks about how the world moved on while those in New Orleans suffered in their post hurricane Katrina world. There’s no need in me blabbing on and on about the music. You can feel it in your gut-in your toes. In short, it will speak, you just have to listen. You can find a little…