For awhile I thought Twitter was going to change the world. Now I see it for what it is – a discovery vehicle for anything and everything you might be interested in. The whole “change the world” thing is not gonna happen mainly because the kids don’t use it or even understand what the point of it is (they already have myspace, facebook, texting, et al). But still if you follow the “right” people you can use Twitter as your very own recommendation engine. I’ve done just that for this post on D. Charles Speer & The Helix’s new record Distillation and the leadoff track “Mason Dixon Crime”.
On the surface these guys may seem like conventional honky-tonk, but the guys behind D. Charles Speer are also the guys behind the NYC experimental band No Neck Blues Band. So while you can take them at face value and enjoy the twang, you also can delve a bit beneath the surface to find the little cross currents and minor revolutions bubbling up.
Buy the new EP here.
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Thanks in part to Twitter once again, the boys from Herohill and Slowcoustic have picked up on the new record by Cam Penner. Check out their posts here and here. In case you missed it last week here is Cam’s song “13″.