Monday Morning Mess 12: Kermit Ruffins

The Monday Morning Mess returns from its longer-than-expected break with a longer-than-usual episode featuring Kermit Ruffins, a New Orleans trumpet player whose music Ye Olde Podcaster first encountered on HBO's New Orleans-based drama Treme'.

Here's what you'll hear today (right-click to download MP3 or to stream it in a new tab or window):

1. "Panama"
2. "Hey Naa"
3. "Good Morning New Orleans"
4. "I Got a Treme' Woman"

(Total play time: 18:55)

All the songs in today's episode come via the IODA Promonet and may be downloaded for free below as long as the promotions remain in effect. You'll also see links to buy his albums and other things, and your commissions would be much appreciated by this poor graduate student.

Source albums:
Kermit Ruffins: Happy Talk (Amazon | iTunes)
Kermit Ruffins: Livin' a Treme' Life (Amazon | iTunes)
Various Artists: SIGGRAPH 2009 New Orleans Music Sampler (Amazon | iTunes)

	Kermit Ruffins "Panama" (mp3) from "Happy Talk" (Basin Street) Buy at iTunes Music Store More On This Album	Kermit Ruffins "Good Morning New Orleans" (mp3) from "SIGGRAPH 2009 New Orleans Music Sampler" (Basin Street) Buy at Napster Buy at Rhapsody Stream from Rhapsody More On This Album
	Kermit Ruffins "Hey Naa" (mp3) from "Livin' A Treme' Life" (Basin Street) Buy at Napster Buy at Rhapsody Stream from Rhapsody More On This Album	Kermit Ruffins "I Got a Treme' Woman" (mp3) from "Happy Talk" (Basin Street) Buy at iTunes Music Store More On This Album

Mental Nomad Podcast 168: Cold Blows the First Love Song

So, yes, as stated in a previous text entry, this show has now gone monthly. It's become clear I just can't keep up with a weekly or biweekly schedule anymore, at least not when college is in session. The Monday Morning Mess MAY resume, but that's not certain; during breaks, episodes will probably be more frequent.

Here's what you'll hear today (right-click to download MP3 or to stream it in a new tab or window):

1. Kaiser Cartel: "This Little Feeling"
2. Heather Edwards: "Donde Esta Mi Cabeza"
3. Jeff Wahl: "Saturday Morning"
4. Rausch: "No Fair"
5. Modern English: "Blister"
6. Matthew Dear: "Little People (Black City)"
7. Rausch: "The Pros and Cons of Linear"
8. Jeff Wahl: "The Summer That Never Quite Ended"
9. Huey Lewis and the News: "Little Sally Walker"
10. Kaiser Cartel: "Before"
11. Bellowhead: "Cold Blows the Wind"
12. Heather Edwards: "This Is Not Another Love Song"
13. Jeff Wahl: "The First Snowfall of the Year"
14. Kaiser Cartel: "Oh No" (previously featured, but so damn sweet it deserves another spin)
15. Rausch: "Minimalism"
16. Josh Charles: "Little Wing"

(Total play time: 1:05:55)

Rausch's music comes to us courtesy of Ariel Publicity. The tracks from Bellowhead, Huey Lewis and Matthew Dear come from the IODA Promonet and may be downloaded below for as long as their promotions last. Jeff Wahl's music was purchased at Magnatune (they're not evil).

Josh Charles' EP of Jimi Hendrix covers may be downloaded for free at his site if you subscribe to his e-mail list. (He's not the actor from the CBS drama The Good Wife and formerly of In Treatment, Dead Poets Society and Sports Night, but that guy kicks ass in his own way.)

I also encourage you to consider buying any of the music you enjoyed in today's show through my site; your commissions are much appreciated by this poor grad student.

Source albums:
Bellowhead: Hedonism (Amazon | iTunes)
Heather Edwards: Eclectic Energy (Amazon | iTunes)
Heather Edwards: To Be Continued... (Amazon | iTunes)
Huey Lewis and the News: Soulsville (Amazon | iTunes)
Jeff Wahl: A Light in the Darkness (Amazon | iTunes)
Josh Charles: Trippin' the Keys -- Music of Jimi Hendrix (free download)
Kaiser Cartel: Double Standard (Amazon | iTunes)
Kaiser Cartel: March Forth (Amazon | iTunes)
Matthew Dear: Little People (Black City) (Amazon | iTunes)
Modern English: Blister (Amazon | iTunes)
Rausch: Rausch (Amazon | iTunes)

Huey Lewis and The News "Little Sally Walker" (mp3) from "Soulsville (Amazon Exclusive)" (Proper Records) Buy at Amazon MP3 More On This Album

Matthew Dear "Little People (Black City)" (mp3) from "Little People (Black City)" (Ghostly International) Buy at Napster More On This Album

Modern English "Blister" (mp3) from "Blister - EP" (Darla) Buy at Napster More On This Album

Ye Olde Podcast has not yet forsaken you...

Though holy crap, trying to stick to a podcasting schedule and be a full-time graduate student is proving to be much harder than I anticipated. Sorry about that.

The current plan -- or what I laughingly call a plan -- is to concede that even a biweekly schedule is now a bit too much. With the exception of breaks (six weeks out over the winter, summer taking only one online course next year), I'll be going to a monthly schedule starting next Wednesday.

Hey, if the Secret Archives of the Vatican podcast can only come out once a month -- and kick much ass in the process -- my piddly show can do so for a little while, too. Sorry to disappoint and to be incommunicado the last few weeks.