Viagra brand, If it's December at You Ain't No Picasso, then it's time for Mixmas. Every year I like to turn YANP over to some of my favorite bands to showcase some of their favorite songs through a themed mix. They pick a theme, five songs that fit the theme and then share a little about why they picked each one, viagra brand. This year I'm also giving away a YANP shirt, so check below for the hint about tomorrow's mix.

MP3: Vandaveer - Turpentine Viagra brand, Today's mix is brought to us by Mark Charles Heidinger, aka Vandaveer. Mark is one of the nicest guys to come out of Lexington, and that's really saying something. His music is great and so is his love for his friends, viagra brand. So it's no surprise, then, that his mix is largely made up of his friends, buddies and people he's palled around with on tour. Viagra brand, But that's fine, since the music's all solid.

Vandaveer’s Have Yourself A Merry Mixmas List

We just spent the better part of the last four months bouncing to and fro; high and low; here, there, and almost everywhere on what we’ve lovingly dubbed our “Around The World-Ish In Eighty-Some-Odd Days” tour. It started way back in the middle of August, took us all over these great and United States of ours, across half of Europe, then back home for even more cross-country America(n) goodness, viagra brand. We don’t officially wrap things up until later this month, but we’re home at the moment catching up on loads of sleep, so it feels like the great trek is over… for now…

On our travels we played many a stage, with many a band, and we’re pleased as punch to say that a whole lot of them were just plain fantastic. Viagra brand, To share all that goodness, we’ve opted to put together a Happy Mixmas (War Ain’t Over Yet) collection of some of our favorite stagemates—folks we’re still smiling about, whose tunes made and continue to make our hearts very, very happy. Here goes somethin’:

The Mynabirds - “Numbers Don’t Lie” [Myspace link]
Laura Burhenn had me at hello years ago, she being the kind of person who just oozes fundamental goodness. On top of that she’s always made interesting music, whether under her own name, with the now-defunct Georgie James, or casually with other folks here and there in DC. Laura packed up and shoved off for the distant plains of Omaha late last year. We miss her bad back east, but the move seems to have served her even better than well. She teamed up with Richard Swift earlier this year in Oregon and made the best-damn-record-of-2009-that-won’t-actually-come-out-until-2010. It’s throw back, it’s soulful, it’s damn catchy, and it positively Pops. And she’s never sounded more confident behind a microphone. For this mix, “Numbers Don’t Lie” could’ve easily been swapped out with five other tracks on her yet to be released What We Lose In The Fire We Gain In The Flood. It’s so so good. Was damn good live back in late November in Omaha, too, in fact. 2010 will be a good year for Laura—and for folks who pick up their very own copy of this gem the nanosecond it’s available.

Hezekiah Jones - “Postpone” [Myspace link]
We’ve crossed paths with Hezekiah & Co. a time or three, the most recently being this past August in their belovedly brotherly lovingly and reportedly always sunny city of Philadelphia. Like every other damn Hezekiah Jones show I’ve been privileged to witness, they tossed off a remarkable set of startlingly simple and powerful folk sounds with authentic nonchalance. The kind that’s so easy it’s almost irritating. “Postpone” is a few years old, but no less worse for wear. The record this tune calls home is Hezekiah Says You’re A-OK. I say Hezekiah is A-O-Awesome.

Jonathan Vassar & The Speckled Bird - “Match Made In Heaven” [Myspace link]
Jonathan and his lovely wife Antonia call Richmond, VA home. They have a cabin tucked just outside the city that dates back to the Jurassic period, I think. It’s surrounded by bamboo on three sides. Inside time slows down to a frighteningly peaceful pace. A damn near magical place. Inhabited by lovely people. Who make lovely music as Jonathan Vassar & The Speckled Bird. Jonathan sorta sounds like a young, pre-whisky’n’smokes Tom Waits. Kinda looks like one too, actually. And that haunting saw-like sound you hear in this tune. That’s not a saw. That’s Antonia. And when you hear it live, like we got to do with our very own ears at Gallery 5 in Richmond back in September, you just may cry. They just released a new EP called The Fire Next Time. Get thee to a new browser window and purchase your very own copy immediately. Immediately.

Drew Grow & The Pastors’ Wives - “I Want You To Come Home Now” [Myspace link]
Drew came out of nowhere. Well, not nowhere so much. More just a random crossing of paths, really. We were in Tacoma in November, enjoying a precious night off in between shows in Portland and Seattle. Our good friend and gracious host for the night pitched us hard on spending that precious night off at yet another show. Drew was that show. How thankful I am for the coaxing, for Drew and his cohorts filled the old makeshift warehouse performance space we all found ourselves in with massive-yet-understated hooks, majestic harmonies and disorienting swells of sing-along reverberation—the kind that can turn nonbelievers into God-fearin’ folk and back again in the span of five minutes. Hard to really capture that experience on a recording, but they’ve done a pretty good job here with “I Want You To Come Home Now”. Just turn it up real loud. No, really really loud. And give ole M. Ward a ring, plug one ear, and shout through the receiver that he’s got company in Portland.

MP3: These United States - I Want You to Keep Everything
Okay, so I’m cheating a bit here, ‘cause I occasionally play in this band, and a few of these boys play on my records, too... But I haven’t donned my TUS cap for quite some time now—at least a year or more, I think—and I had nothing to do with their latest record, Everything Touches Everything, so I’m casting silly apprehensions aside and going with my gut. This song kills. Rapidly. Repeatedly. With great hope and reckless abandon. It opens the record because it must, which really isn’t fair to any track slotted #2, but you can’t put a song like this last, so… first it is, and followed it must be. And though we don’t find ourselves on quite as many common stages as we used to, our paths still cross on occasion on tour. Such was the case in Brooklyn this past fall at Union Hall. Always good to reconvene with family. Even better when you get to watch them whip up an honest-to-goodness frenzy on a Friday night. In New York, no less.

And that’s that. Happy Xmas, folks. Hugs and high fives all around.

xo,
VNDVR

Tomorrow's hint: the next contributor is a Lexington resident, WRFL director who has been getting a lot of love from MOKB, IGIF and this very site for his new crop of dreamy tunes.

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