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Honky Rap, Part 2: Baby Dayliner

Baby D feels the music

Baby Dayliner is the other artist I’ve been listening to lately who makes rap music as if restructured by whitey (see Honky Rap, Part 1). What differentiates Baby D from The Fiery Furnaces, and from the average hip-hop artist, though, is really just his taste.

When he sings, he doesn’t find enough notes to really qualify as singing, not that he’s missing any notes. He kinda talks with a bit of melody, which is why I call it rap, and yet he also kinda croons. On “Whodunit?” he concludes the bridge with whoa whoa shoobadoo-badoo/yeah yeah shoobadoo-ba hey/whu’ whu’. CD Baby refers to him as a 21st century Sinatra. But he may just as well be an early 20th century Jay-Z.

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Feelings. Whoa-oa-oa, Feelings.

Once again, Ryan Adams over at goodhodgkins, breaks it down. This time, Visceral Song Moments - when does that Destroyer song make you feel something?  Well,  if it's European Oils, right around the 2 minute mark.

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Live from Boston

Just a quick note to check some of the great live music posts over at Rbally.  The recent Andrew Bird "Sovay" track with My Morning Jacket, especially.

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The Queen City Sound: Trip Hip

Wussy

Since I’ve lived in Southern Ohio for only 10 months, I’ve been holding off on writing about a Cincinnati band. But I can’t resist any longer. I’m no longer a Queen City greenhorne, so on one of my recent trips to Shake It Records, I succumbed and finally picked up a copy of Wussy’s 2005 release Funeral Dress.

Released this past December on the Shake It label, Funeral Dress isn’t an enormous departure from Chuck Cleaver’s other band, the Ass Ponys, it’s still off-kilter roots rock, but just a little less off-kilter. Maybe it’s the addition of drummer Dawn Burman or jack-of-all- intruments Mark Messerly, or maybe it’s splitting the vocal and songwriting duties with newcomer Lisa Walker, but whatever it is, it works just fine.

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Our Friends Are All Aboard

Drewls' recent post on Mates of State and Bagheera, got me thinking about other couple bands and The Submarines immediately came to mind. I first read about The Submarines on Music (for Robots) last September when they featured a track…

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