So I’ve got several days of traveling ahead of me. I have a red-eye flight tonight from Seattle to Boston, and then I leave Boston early Tuesday morning to go to Mexico for a couple weeks.
Tomorrow I’ll post my list of the “Top 10 albums of 2006 (so far).” I’ll also be updating sporadically while I’m on vacation (there’s only so much hiking and swimming and other healthy behavior one can take before needing to retreat inside to a computer), and I’ll be back in the States on June 14 when regular updates will resume.
For now, here’s a couple of my favorite Mexico-related songs, from two wildly different bands that I’ll probably write about more extensively sometime in the future:
Old Mexico Way – The Lawrence ArmsBay of Mexico – The Kingston Trio
I’ve been a huge fan of Brendan Kelly (one of the two guys from The Lawrence Arms) ever since I was in high school and he was in Slapstick. In whatever band he’s in, he plays some great punk songs, while keeping it fun. This song is one of the hidden tracks off Cocktails and Dreams.
The Kingston Trio were probably my favorite band in the world between the ages of 6 and 8 (either them or Men Without Hats). We used to listen to them on all our family car rides, and the first real concert I ever went to was them playing at the Island County Fair. They were at the vanguard of the folk explosion in the late 50s. This is a song off their first album that demonstrates their great harmonies.
Stop by tomorrow for the top 10 of 2006.