Ernest

pinch hitter

My top 15 of 2015

1 TOBIAS JESSO JR. – Goon
2 RYLEY WALKER – Primrose Gree
3 NATALIE PRASS – Natalie Prass
4 JOAN SHELLEY – Over and Even
5 BEACH HOUSE – Thank Your Lucky Stars
6 THE CAIRO GANG – Goes Missing
7 MARKER STARLING – Rosy Maze
8 HOUNDMOUTH – Little Neon Limelight
9 ALABAMA SHAKES – Sound & Color
10 WIDOWSPEAK – All Yours
11 THEE OH SEES – Mutilator Defeated at Last
12 PAUL WELLER – Saturn's Pattern
13 COURTNEY BARNETT – Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
14 MIKAL CRONIN – MCIII
15 DOMINQUE DUMONT – Comme Ça EP

My top 10 reissues/archival releases of 2015

1 ELYSE WEINBERG – Greasepaint Smile
2 FRANCOISE HARDY – L'Amitié
3 BOB DYLAN - The Bootleg Series Vol. 12: The Cutting Edge, 1965-1966
4 PROMISE – Promise
5 JORGE BEN – Ben
6 RONNIE LANE – Ronnie Lane's Slim Chance (LP reissue)
7 WINGS – Venus and Mars
8 RON NAGLE – Bad Rice
9 DUSTY SPRINGFIELD – Come for a Dream: The U.K. Sessions 1970-1971
10 BROADCAST – Tender Buttons (LP reissue)
11 LINK WRAY – Three Track Shack
12 LENA PLOTONOS – Gallop
13 COLIN BLUNSTONE – Planes
14 ANNE PIGALLE – Everything Could Be So Perfect
15 NILS LOFGREN – Nils Lofgren

My top 10 compilations of 2015

1 VA – Ork Records: New York, New York
2 VA – Truckers, Kickers, Cowboy Angels: The Blissed Out Birth of Country Rock (Vols. 1-7)
3 VA – Punk 45: Burn Rubber City Burn – Akron, Ohio: Punk and the Decline of the Mid-West 1975-1980
4 VA – Dust on the Nettles: A Journey Through the British Underground Folk Scene, 1967-72
5 VA – Ciao Bella! Italian Girl Singers of the 1960s
6 VA – Brasileiro Treasure Box of Funk & Soul
7 VA – Happy Lovin' Time: Sunshine Pop from the Garpax Vaults
8 VA – Psychemagik Presents Magik Sunset
9 VA – Slow Grind Fever (Vols. 3 & 4)
10 VA – Troxy Music, Vol. 2
11 VA – Punk 45: Extermination Night in the Sixth City – Cleveland, Ohio: Punk and the Decline of the Mid-West 1975-1982
12 VA – Spiritual Jazz, Vol. 6 Vocals
13 VA – Warner Girl Group Nuggets
14 VA – 60 Songs from the Cramps' Crazy Collection
15 VA – Tav Falco's Wild & Exotic World of Musical Obscurities

My favourite artists are: The Beatles, Gene Clark, Novos Baianos, Francoise Hardy, Caetano Veloso, Nara Leao, Rolling Stones, Velvets, Can, Ennio Morricone, Stevie Wonder, Serge Gainsbourg, Kinks

My all-time favourite album is: THE BEATLES - Rubber Soul

The first album I ever bought was: Mom bought me Glass Houses by BILLY JOEL when I was a kid.  First record with my own money was High Land, Hard Rain by AZTEC CAMERA. 

On Saturday nights, I throw down to: THE ROLLING STONES - Exile On Main St. or FELA KUTI - Zombie

On Sunday mornings, I recover to: FRANCOISE HARDY - Ma Jeunesse Fout Le Camp

The show that made me fall in love with/believe all over again in music was: Sun Ra's Arkestra at the Lula Lounge sometime in 2006.

The musician that should come out of retirement is: Emitt Rhodes.