The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit/Nighttime Maneuvers presents:
Some Great Tracks
Hey Listeners,
I didn’t feel it was appropriate to use the words “best” and “2020” in the same sentence. So instead of a “best of” show, tonight we’ll just look back at some great tracks that were released in 2020.
I will say that music helped keep me sane in the months after the pandemic began. Though it interrupted my normal schedule and way of doing my show, I listened to a lot more music this past year than I had in the last several years. I bought more music, downloaded more music, shared more music with friends, and engaged in conversations about music more in 2020 than I had since I was a younger man. I reached out to old friends and sent them mixed tape CDs. I sent some old roomies surprise XMAS gifts of CDs. I read a number of books about bands and artists I love including ones about Guy Clark, Jeff Tweedy, and the band.
I checked out quite a number of rock docs including ones about Laurel Canyon, Other Music, NOLA, Creem Magazine and several others. I watched a number of artists sing tin their living rooms. I donated and purchased music to support our country’s music venues.
It was a year like no other and there may not have been a lot of “bests” associated with it, but thank goodness there as music and plenty of it. Tonight’s show is some tracks mostly new and some just new to me that made the year and life more bearable.
The Haberdasher
Show Archive
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Mandolin Orange, “Boots of Spanish Leather”
from Cover Charge: NC Artists Go Under Cover For Cat's Cradle
Cover Charge
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Dave Alvin, “Highway 61 Revisited”
from From an Old Guitar: Rare and Unreleased Recordings
Yep Roc Records - 2020
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Gil Scott-Heron & Makaya McCraven, “Me and the Devil”
from We're New Again: A Reimagining by Makaya McCraven
XL Recordings - 2020
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Matt Combs, Ronnie McCoury, Noam Pikelny, Chris Eldridge & Dennis Crouch, “Tennessee Politics”
from The John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project, Vol. 1
Stuffworks Recordings / John Hartford Enterprises - 2020
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Lucinda Williams, “Life's A Gas”
from Angelhead Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan and T-Rex
BMG Rights Management
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John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers, “Walking On Sunset”
from Blues From Laurel Canyon (Remastered)
UMC-Decca - 2007
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Haberdasher The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit/Nighttime Maneuvers January 4th, 2021
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