Rob Larsen

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The Grays Are Still Gray (with a nod to Bell and Sebastian)

Title inspired by:

Too Hot (with a nod to the Specials)

It is. Really. 85+ for like 10 days straight. It's raining now, but it's not like it's Antarctica out there.

This says "too hot" (DUH)

I should make this a t-shirt.

And, yo, the Specials, right?

If You Like Bluegrass Check Out Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice

They have a new album out and they were played on Hillbilly at Harvard today, which reminded me of how much I liked their previous record. As they said, they sound like a band that stepped into a time machine in the 1950s and showed up in a recoding studio 60 years later. If you tapped your toes to some of the songs on the Oh Brother Where Art Thous Soundtrack and want to take a dip back into the Bluegrass pool, these guys are the real deal.

Check out their site:

Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice

And their albums on Amazon mp3:

Heartaches and Dreams

Blue Side Of The Blue Ridge

And a neat live performance:

This One Goes Out To The National

This:

Is because of this:

The piece has nothing to do with the song, other than the words, but I'm not picky about where I pull my inspiration (either minor or major.)

This One Goes Out To Wreckless Eric

I might have already used this joke. Still, this is a cool, live version of the song, so it's worth it even if the joke is old: