Part Four of our Cabinessence photo series. Be sure to check out Part One, Part Two and Part Three if you missed them.
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The guys over at Sartorially Inclined have done some of the leg-work for the boys and found a great new fall option for men who don’t want to look like they’re wearing a parachute. Brooks Brothers have released a line of Extra-Slim Fit shirts in some of their classic styles that favor men with broad shoulders and/or thinner waists. Though they don’t run super cheap ($69.50 for any of the shirts pictured above), they just might be worth a look. We recommend the Extra-Slim Fit Sport Shirts (which you can check out here), but they also offer the Extra-Slim Fit in their more traditional Dress Shirts section (here).
The Avett Brothers feat. G. Love- The Fall
An impromptu rehearsal on the Avett Brothers’ tour bus before they took the stage at Illinois’ Summer Camp Music Festival on May 30, 2010. That’s G. Love (of G. Love and Special Sauce) joining them on the harp. Check out a fan video of the resulting performance after the jump.
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If you’ve never seen Midnight Cowboy — John Schlesinger’s Oscar-winning classic from 1969, starring Dustin Hoffman as Enrico “Ratso” Rizzo and Jon Voight as Joe Buck — do yourself a favor and check it out sometime. Schlesinger’s direction is in top-form in this very Times Square-centric flick, with all kinds of visually arresting and interesting stuff to look at, whether it’s color-turning-black & white, smash cuts or rapid-fire cutting, trippy dream sequences or distorted wide-angle shots, flash-forwards or crudely-inserted flashbacks from Joe’s childhood, all of it accompanied by crackling, memorable dialogue and weird sound effects…you name it. It’s also the only X-rated movie to ever win an Academy Award for Best Picture. In fact, besides Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange, which came out a few years later in 1971, it’s the only other X-rated film even nominated for Best Picture. Midnight Cowboy was later reduced to R, but you can just imagine how this film was blowing everyone’s minds in ‘69.
Midnight Cowboy Party Scene
The film’s soundtrack is particularly memorable, too, and features a very carefully-blended mix of styles and genres. Check out our look into the soundtrack, as well as some of the songs that were considered but didn’t make the cut, after the jump.
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Elton John- Country Comfort
Elton John performing “Country Comfort” live at Fairfield Hall in Croydon, London on March 28, 1971. Listen to Rod Stewart’s cover of the tune from 1970’s Gasoline Alley after the jump.
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MP3: Bob Dylan- I Don’t Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met) (Live at the War Memorial Coliseum, Plymouth, MA, October 1975)
Canadian musician Luke Doucet has given us his “Top 10 Songs To Feed Insomnia With”, which features tunes by The Band, Willie Nelson, The Rolling Stones and more. Luke is currently gearing up for a tour in support of his upcoming release, Steel City Trawler (out September 21 via Six Shooter Records) that will take him across the US and the UK. He’ll be stopping in Los Angeles on September 7th for a gig at Hotel Cafe. Check out Luke’s complete tour dates and his mixtape after the jump.
C.W. Stoneking-Handyman Blues
C.W. Stoneking performing his song “Handyman Blues” live on KCSN 88.5FM on August 15, 2009. With all of the stories going around about this Melbourne-based musician, including that he set sail for Africa with scientists from the Caribbean only to get lost at sea, it’s enjoyable for listeners to theorize and wonder ‘is this real? Well, we don’t know what’s real or not, but we do know that he’s damn good. For more proof, check out this great reinterpretation that CW did of the White Stripes 7 Nation Army. here
On Friday, we had the chance to speak with Ronee Blakley at her birthday party, which included a screening of Robert Altman’s 1975 film Nashville. Ronee might still be best known for her Oscar-nominated performance as country superstar Barbara Jean in Nashville, but that’s just one of the many highlights in her storied career. She released two albums in the 70s: her first was the folk-rock album Ronee Blakley, which debuted on Elektra Records in 1972, and her second, Welcome, was released on Warner Bros. in 1975.
During that same decade, she performed with artists such as Bob Dylan (see photo above of Dylan and Blakley backstage at The Roxy in 1976) and Hoyt Axton, among others, and dueted with Dylan on his epic “Hurricane” from the Desire album. She also toured with Dylan and other performers on the Rolling Thunder Revue, and appeared as “Mrs. Bob Dylan” in Dylan’s 1977 film Renaldo and Clara, performing her song “Need A New Sun Rising.”
During the 1976 presidential campaign, she performed at rallies and speeches by Jerry Brown and in 1984 she performed, with Kris Kristofferson, at the final Los Angeles rally of presidential candidate Walter Mondale. She’s also starred in several movies, made guest appearances on popular TV shows and produced, wrote, starred in, and directed her own feature music docudrama, I Played It For You which debuted at the Venice Film Festival in 1985. She continues to record new material and release new albums to this day. Check out our interview with her after the jump.
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The Boss has announced a three CD/ three DVD boxet called The Promise: The Darkness on the Edge of Town Story to be released on November 16, 2010 via Columbia Records. The release documents the process he and the band went through to cut one of his best albums, 1978’s Darkness on the Edge of Town.
“’Darkness’ was my ’samurai’ record,” Springsteen writes, “stripped to the frame and ready to rumble…But the music that got left behind was substantial.”
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