Cracker - Waited My Whole Life, Almond Grove and 12 or so More

Cracker's David Lowery is at the forefront of the movement to ensure that artists can get paid fairly in today's digital world. And no wonder. Lowery works his butt off. Cracker is releasing their new album Berkeley to Bakersfield December 9. His other band, Camper Van Beethoven, unleashed La Costa Perdida in 2013 and El Camino Real earlier this year. He even dropped a solo record, The Palace Guards, in 2011.

The most amazing thing to me is that the music is all good. Don't take my word for it, listen below, 2 new ones and a bunch of older ones. Check out this pretty good little story in Rolling Stone Country.


Waited My Whole Life


Here's another new one:

Almond Grove


Yalla Yalla


Sunrise in the Land OF Milk and Honey


Euro-trash Girl


I dig this live version of Euro-Trash Girl.


Turn On Tune In Drop Out With Me


Get Off This


Here's some Camper Van Beethoven:

Someday Our Love will Sell Us Out


Northern California Girls


It was Like That When We Got Here


Good Guys and Bad Guys


Pictures of Matchstick Men


The Day That Lassie Went to the Moon


And some David Lowery solo.

Baby, All Those Girls Meant Nothing To Me


Deep Oblivion


Photo at top by Jason Thrasher. Is that a rock n roll name or what?

Camper Van Beethoven - Northern California Girls

Camper Van Beethoven are putting out a new album January 22, the 10-song La Costa Perdida, and have graced us with a video for a new song called Northern California Girls. It's a gentle, sweet little tune, with fine harmonies, and it sounds nothing like the Beach Boys, never mnd David Lee Roth covering the Beach Boys. It also doesn't contain a lot of psychedelic flourishes or slightly off-kilter sense of humour which sometimes marked earlier work (which is also quite good). I am very curious to hear the rest of the record.

Northern California Girls

Here are a few older tunes to jog your memory.

The Long Plastic Hallway
Take the Skinheads Bowling
Pictures of Matchstick Men
The Day that Lassie Went to the Moon
Good Guys and Bad Guys
Seven Languages