It’s why I am, unlikely to agree.
It’s why I am, climbin’ out of my monkey tree.
Why I am, still here dancing with the GrooGrux King.
We’ll be drinking Big Whiskey while we dance and sing.
And when my story ends it’s gonna end with him.
Heaven or hell I’m going there with the GrooGrux King.

If I could make it rain today | And wash away this sunny day down to the gutter I would
Just to get a change of pace | Things are getting worse, but I feel a lot better …

The moment at 6:00 is amazing:

Get this now and contemplate the point at which modern rock/alternative jumped the tracks … ’cause these guys manned the wheel for three decades.

I’ve watched Julia Nunes videos on YouTube for a good two years or more now, including most, or all, of the early shit. Glad to see that she is making headway on a national stage because she deserves it. I hope the nation eventually hears songs like, “Into the Sunshine, “The Debt” and “First Impressions.”

She performed recently on Conan with her new song, “Stay Awake:”

With or without God, this no doubt has a church atmosphere:

I just found a channel on YouTube called Watch Listen Tell that features up and coming artists and established acts singing their tunes acoustically in apparently random places in the greater London area.

Here are some songs (new to me) that I particularly enjoyed:

Lissie, “Everywhere I Go”

Villagers, “Becoming a Jackal”

Stornoway, “I Saw You Blink”

Guillemots, “I Don’t Feel Amazing Now”

OK, this last one isn’t new to me, but he is new in general. A year ago, one could barely find Ben Howard on Amazon at all, just a couple mp3s. He just released his first album, “Every Kingdom,” in October. Here is

Ben Howard with “Old Pine” and some good acoustic work: