STRATEGY CENTRAL

Just checked out the new single by The Fray.  Very Cool.  You can get it right here:

If you haven’t seen the Daughtry video you really must.  Very, VERY, inspiring.  Here’s the link:

What About Now?

Enjoying a little downtime with new Coldplay CD as the soundtrack.  Several of the songs really pull me in.  Definitely growing on me.  Especially like Life in Technicolor (has an almost U2 feel) and Violet Hill.   Interesting to try and puzzle out the lyrics.

Ready to download your own copy?  You can do that right here:

Shout out to the Daughtry segment on Idol tonight. 

There’s a commercial on these days for Chase Bank…and the song always makes me want to listen to the whole song.  So here it is:

‘Course if you want some comedy you could listen to the David Hasselhoff version:

One of my real passions is music.  Comes from growing up in the Howell family.  And I really do like just about all kinds.  Some time back I heard about Rodrigo y Gabriela.  A regular reader and commenter mentioned the band…and even put me on to a YouTube video.  Very cool stuff.  Couldn’t resist picking it up this week and they’re now one of the most played on the patio.  I know you want to join me…right?  Check out their appearance on the Letterman show.

Como se dice jammin’ en espanol?

Terry pointed out the John Butler Trio over the weekend.  Never heard of them.  That’s when you know you’re not ready for a soul patch.  This is some great music…gotta say so myself.  Check out YouTube to see for yourself.  Jammin’ stuff.

Don’t know if you call yourself a Bob Dylan fan.  I wouldn’t call myself one.  But I do like good music.  And I have to say this is a really good album.  I was driving one day last week and Thunder on the Mountain from Dylan’s Modern Times came on.  It happened that I had just got my car out of the Nissan service department.  My presets were all messed up.  I was on a station that I wouldn’t have normally been on.  Bingo.  The Amazon review calls it a "rootsy, blues-soaked pool of the purest form of Americana."  I’ll just call it a great addition to the iPod.  Like nothing else I’ve got.  Pairs with a Sierra Nevada and a cool October Southern California evening.

P.S. Ain’t Talkin’ is quite a song.