Recommendations

She said if you're from Texas, son,
Where's your boots and where's your gun?
I smiled and said I got guns no-one can see

- "She Never Spoke Spanish To Me", Joe Ely

The band with one of the coolest names of the time perform this great groove number on a TV show.
Dude on organ is Augie Meyers who now plays with Bob Dylan on his studio albums (eg "Love And Theft"). Bob knows how to pick out the talent from the cracks of history, and I think he's also a fan of primitive rock n roll like this. As am I on occasions like this.

Like a transmission from an alternative universe... Quark, strangeness and charm.

I realised it was only natural that I also post this classically Cope-titled satirical protest song taken from the new album.

Before he realised it, he was looking at the stone again, and letting its curious influence call up a nebulous pageantry in his mind.

He saw processions of robed, hooded figures whose outlines were not human, and looked on endless leagues of desert lined with carved, sky-reaching monoliths.

He saw towers and walls in nighted depths under the sea, and vortices of space where wisps of black mist floated before thin shimmerings of cold purple haze.

And beyond all else he glimpsed an infinite gulf of darkness, where solid and semi-solid forms were known only by their windy stirrings, and cloudy patterns of force seemed to superimpose order on chaos and hold forth a key to all the paradoxes and arcana of the worlds we know.

- "The Haunter Of The Dark", H.P. Lovecraft

Interesting and quite poignant. Rare mainstream article on the unfathomably strange (as ever) Mr/Mrs P-Orridge....

http://radaronline.com/from-the-magazine/2008/07/genesis_porridge_jacqueline_breyer_plastic_surgery_01.php

They say she came all the way from Dallas
But I see more than Texas in the hard times on her face.

- "Loneliness In Ruby's Eyes", David Allan Coe

Highly enjoyable quirky new wave Americana. I just love this video too.

I can't stand the pain,
Cause the life I'm singing about
And the one I'm living are the same

- "Living Proof", Hank Williams Jr.

This is the track that closes "side one" of the new 'Copus', "Black Sheep".
I chose this, because on first listen it stood out as the most unique sounding track on the first side of the album.
Some lovely keyboard washes and classic Cope changes here. I don't pretend at this stage to fully understand the lyrics... but it sure is a mystical-sounding mother.