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Ode To Billie Joe by Bobbie Gentry
Ode To Billie Joe by Bobbie Gentry
2010 | Country, Pop
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"There are some wicked arrangements by Jimmie Haskell here. The string arrangements and this diving, swooping orchestral score is something you'll hear on our new album. It's a composing style that I was enamoured by - just look at how the strings dive in and out of the lyrics. This was popular pretty much from when I could listen to radio from about 1969. I was three or four at the time. It's always been on the radio in America on oldie stations, it never stops! Especially where we live in the Catskills, we don't get alternative radio stations. The ones that do call themselves ""alternative"" play Dave Matthews."

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CHILLFILTR (46 KP) rated Believe by Mitch King in Music

Jul 11, 2019  
Believe by Mitch King
Believe by Mitch King
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Of course there are first impressions that speak to Dave Matthews, but I also hear the influence of Bon Iver, certainly on how the vocals are mixed and with that classic heartbeat pulse. Mitch King achieves a real clarity of purpose with his song Believe:

“You will taste it if you can be patient
The more you believe, the more you create it”
— Mitch King

Mitch King lives his life on the road, and has created an impressive career on the back of relentless touring and an irrepressible love for life. We think that comes through loud and clear with this ode to achieving personal spirituality through shared experience.

Namaste.
  
Space for Days by Kendall Street Company
Space for Days by Kendall Street Company
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7.0 (1 Ratings)
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When I hear a song like this, I think immediately of my own college days in Madison, WI when Galactic would come through town and borrow my Wurlitzer.

Very polished and hummable, Space for Days feels like Dave Matthews on acid at Mardi Gras. It threads the needle between philosophy and stoner truism:

“I got space for days
What I matter didn’t say
Still keeping same
Let it all breathe”
— Kendall Street Company

The truth is this is a party band with a party song, and if you like wah wah licks doubling the saxophone and a bass player who plays up on the neck like he's Jaco Pastorius, this is your party.

Enjoy.