Here's a cryin' in your beer honky tonk country song for y'all from Texan Hayes Carll . Have a listen to She Left Me For Jesus.

She says I should find him
and I'll know peace at last
but if I ever find Jesus
I'm kickin' his ass.

You've got to be careful what kind of music you listen to these days. Have a careful Palm Sunday listen to The Devil's Music from Amsterdam, Holland's Hospital Bombers.

Have you been listening to the Hospital Bombers again?
Don't you know they're an evil band?
They're bad for you and I don't ever want you to listen to them ever again.
It's the Devil's music.

Like their name, a bit of tongue-in-cheek evilry.

There seems to be a good variety of music genres being played by bands coming out of the Ottawa, Ontario area. I've posted music of Ottawa area folk-rock, country and instrumental rock bands in the past. The Bible All-Stars play cow-punk. Have a listen to the instrumental called The Bible All-Star Theme.

The Ottawa Citizen says, 'the 13 songs on the four-piece band's (Bible All-Stars) self-titled debut are dizzying manifestations of religious guilt and rebellion put to cow-punk' ... 'The track Jesus Don't Let Me Get Down, with its refrain, " ... or I'll get high again" is sure to be a heathen singalong.'

Heathens like us ... Yee-haw!


Via Brooklyn & Detroit, Sean Madigan Hoen gives us a country rock tune with an 80ish feel. Listen to Heat of the Night.


Here's one of my favourite songs from last summer. Think Greg Keelor / Blue Rodeo with 80s sounding synth. Hard to imagine? Well then, check out You and What Army from Toronto's The Parkas.



I like this folky, laid back number by Portland, Oregon based Pseudosix. Have a listen to Under the Waves. I especially like the atmosphere created by the vibraphone in the second verse and the in-your-face electric guitar that starts just before the half way mark.

I'll have to admit that The Weakerthans are a band that I've not paid much attention to over the past 10 years. Perhaps I've been wrong not to as here's a tune that I've been listening to incessantly for the past week or so: Psalm For the Elks Lodge Last Call (Karaoke version). I haven't even heard the original album version yet and am not sure I want to as I love the song as an instrumental.



I posted a song by The Caribbean back in mid June. Here's another one called Bees, Their Vision and Language. It's a short, quirky little tune with fun lyrics sung in the band's trademark animated vocal style.


One good song deserves another. Have a listen to Get On Me by Providence, Rhode Island's The Brother Kite. This could easily be one of my favourites from 2007. They're playing The Tiger Bar on October 5.

Heard a cool song on CBC this afternoon. The program was Definitely Not the Opera and the song was by one Craig Smith.

The CBC Radio 3 website writes the following about Craig:

The Kitchener, Ontario native was lured at a young age from his religious upbringing, and developed a taste for the darker side of life by way of the rock music secretly played from a bedroom cassette player.