Re-Start Me Up

Lately this blog has been calling me back. Why? Possible reasons:

• The desire to share thoughts about the stack of music I have listened to since I left?
• The need to express my dissappointment that Nick over at Indie Muse was right that the Decemberists went over the edge with Hazards of Love?
• The worry that the world won't be complete if another blogger doesn't mark the release of the new Wilco album (oops, too late)?
• It's summer?
• The fact that writing the blog made me more attentive to other music bloggers and I miss that?
• I don't want to dissappoint my two--count them two--followers?
• Where else will I get to write about my daily check-ins with the Regeneration Tour?
• The same silly assumptions I had when I started in the first place?
• The even sillier assumption that I have enough time?

Who knows. But either I am or I am not. If not, then this is just a little snarky distraction on a random Tuesday. If I am, then we need to establish some new guidelines damnit, because the old ones just weren't working! Who established those previous guidelines anyway? And does anybody but me even know what they were? Okay, here are the new ones just in case I re-start.

• While most of the posts will still be about music, I am not going to limit myself just to music . . . afterall, I have a life, you know.
• I will not be obsessed about trying to stay current--I am too damn far behind as it is. (I have also apparently decided the new version of the blog will be cussier.)
• Neither will I be obsessed about regularity (in posting that is)--we post when we feel like it at the Tuning Room 2.o (and don't test me with you plantive emails!).
• There will be no scoring of discs, only reflections.
• I am giving up on the idea that someone is going to join me and turn this blog into a group blog . . . and you call yourself friends!
• Okay, I am sorry for that. Anyone who wants to start up a new group blog dedicated to music simply has to ask and I will be there like an excitable cocker spaniel.
• And one final note to say that all guidelines are subject to random changes without notice.

And now I return to much self-reflection and questioning about me and this here blog.

Second Thoughts: Shorter Cory Chisel

I already indicated that I am intrigued by Cory Chisel and the Wandering Sons (enough to include them in the year-end wrap up), but the reality is that we will have to wait and see as there is just not that much to know yet. We have the EP which, by definition, is short. We have reviews, which due to the limited amount of music out there, are short. And we have video, which there is quite a bit of, but which just about covers all the music out there, which is, well short.

I have listened to the EP a lot over the last few weeks and I really like the sound and particularly Chisel's vocals. The songs are solid as is the music. It is honest, but not all that sophisticated which is fine for openers, but we will have to see how it comes out in an album or two. I am hoping we get to see this group grow and produce music that will stick, but that is yet to be seen. Until then, here is one more tune from the EP for your consideration.

Lovers and Friends