MMMM – Joe Johnson – A Time to Dance

Joe Johnson – A Time to Dance (Blank Tape Records)
Home: Colorado Springs by way of Mississippi
Genre/Style: Americana/Country-folk
Website: http://www.reverbnation.com/joejohnson
Recommended / Sample Tracks:

  • Anna
  • Don’t Let Your Blue Eyes Cry
  • Where the Earth Meets the Sky
  • William and Melinda

Thanks to Conor at Blank Tape Records in Colorado Springs for emailing me about this killer new record on their label.

Random access writing engaged. Ghosts and shadows of tradition …. Carter, Williams, and Jennings … spirit and muse.   …way deep soul.  … “voice.”  Way deep age.  …has roots … New Orleans / Mississippi roots … legitimate roots.  The record has soul – it breathes, recorded straight to reel – you can hear the sound of the rocking chair in the beginning of William & Melinda, …”where the fog rolls in, in the morning” … and the almost suffered breathing in the telling of the story.  Where The Earth Meets the Sky – haunting…. eerily sounds like it’s something I have deep inside of me somewhere … a song … a memory … a connection … the language a bit archaic at times … “I’ll be singing Hallelujah when I go by and by.”  And no one says “set forth on this earth for to roam” and gets away with it today unless it really sits in the place where that language is real and expected… a land nearly forgotten by time maybe some where deep in the heart of Mississippi …. or the mountains of Colorado.

KRFC Fort Collins – Top Spins Wk ending Feb 4 2011

1.  Big Head Todd and the Monsters – Big Head Blues Club – 100 Years of Robert Johnson (blues)
2.  Halden Wofford & The Hi Beams – Sinners and Saints (alternative country)
3.  Danielle Ate the Sandwich – Two Bedroom Apartment (folk)
3.  Elephant Revival – Break in the Clouds (folk)
3.  Jeff Finlin – The Tao of Motor Oil (rock, adult alternative)
3.  Lonesome Traveler – Looking for a Way (bluegrass)
3.  Serefe – Sala Sala (world)
4.  Another Kind Of Magick – Wakin’ Up To The Blues (blues)
4.  Adam Bodine Trio – Blue Mud (jazz)
4.  Boulder Acoustic Society – Champion of Disaster (americana)
4.  Mollie O’Brien and Rich Moore – Saints & Sinners (folk)
4.  Carmen Sandim – Brand New (jazz)
4.  Peter Sommer – Tremolo Canteen (jazz)

The Colorado Sound – Vol. 3, Ep 6 2011

NEWS & NOTES

Dubskin “Love For Music” from No End In Time (2009)
Kenny Perkins “Tiny Distraction” from Wild Frontier (2011)
Tennis “Seafarer” from Cape Dory (2010)
The Ceeds “You Won’t Do That” from Psychedelic States: Colorado in the Sixties (2007) ** Colorado Springs band / orig released 1966 **
Super Band “Acid Indigestion” from Psychedelic States: Colorado in the Sixties (2007) ** Denver band featuring Bob Yeazel / orig released 1967 **
DEBUT – The Big Motif “Does It Weigh Heavy” from Does It Weigh Heavy (2011)
Dan Treanor & African Wind “Mercy” from Mercy (2005)
Love.45 “Letter to Myself” from Love.45 (1999)
Churchill “Miles” from Happy/Sad (2011)
The Raven and the Writing Desk “Marionette” from Recidivist (2010)
The Heyday “Good Old Days” from Till We See the Sun (2010)
Mercury Project “Refuge” from Soapbox Jive (2004)
“3” Squared “Bipolar” from Object (2010)
Emmitt-Nershi Band “Road of Destruction” from New Country Blues (2009)
Ethyl & the Regulars “Long Gone, Long Forgotten” from Fill ‘Er Up With … Ethyl & the Regulars (2009)
John McVey “Lay Your Burden Down” from Unpredictable (2010)
Sherri Jackson “Liberation” from Moments in Denial (1996)
Bob Rea “Platinum Dream” from Ragged Choir (2011)
John Common & Blinding Flashes of Light “Same Scar” from Beautiful Empty (2010)
The Czars “Killjoy” from The Ugly People vs. the Beautiful People (2001)
Devotchka “Contrabanda” from Anti 2010 Fall Sampler (2011)
Big Head Todd and the Monsters “Ramblin’ On My Mind” from Big Head Blues Club – 100 Years of Robert Johnson (2011)
Mandy Harvey “Smiles” from After You’re Gone (2011)
Elephant Revival “Barefoot Friend” from Break in the Clouds (2010)
Carmen Sandim “Sampa” from Brand New (2011)