Forget Wolfmother...Remember The Sword!

Okay, so forget about Wolfmother...they broke up and you might be sad...but they weren't good for you to begin with...you can do better....There's this nice band that you might like that is way better at sounding like Black Sabbath than Wolfmother ever was...They are The Sword and they rock harder than the walls of Minas Tirith.

Here's a little beginner's guide to The Sword:

They have two albums...Age of Winters from 2006 and the brand spanking new Gods of the Earth. For me, the preeminent Sword song is "Winter's Wolves." It was the first song I heard from them and my favorite all around so start there.


The Sword -- Winter's Wolves

Then move on to more advanced stuff from that album...here are "March of the Lor" and "Ebethron."

The Sword -- March of the Lor

The Sword -- Ebethron

Now we come to the new album, Gods of the Earth where The Sword turn it up to 11 and give us even more Zeppelin/Tolkien song titles...

The Sword -- The Sundering

The Sword -- Fire Lances of the Ancient Hyperzephyrians

My favorite from the new album is "To Take the Black" and it starts with some lovely acoustic strumming which is certainly a homage to Sabbath's "Laguna Sunrise."

The Sword -- To Take the Black

Jim Croce

Now that Led Zeppelin and the former Beatles' solo albums are available digitally and The Beatles albums may someday really, actually, probably, maybe will be available on iTunes in the future can it be that one of the biggest holes in the digital libraries are the albums of....Jim Croce?!? There is one live album available, Have You Heard Jim Croce Live, but none of his studio albums are out on either iTunes or Amazon.

Where are we supposed to get our "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" fix?

My favorite Croce song by far is "Operator" mainly because it has none of the comic almost-Shel Silverstein-like "Boy Named Sue" quality to it as in "...Leroy Brown" and "You Don't Mess Around With Jim." It is just a sad song about a guy who got dumped.

Jim Croce -- Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
From The Complete Collection collection.

Jim Croce -- Operator (Live)
From the Have You Heard Jim Croce Live CD.

10-1

Another week, another feel good win. But it all comes down to next week's Cowboys game. I think I will be writing my Congressman that the game will be on a Thursday night on the frickin' NFL network which my cable doesn't have...

Jimmy Eat World -- Ten
From the Clarity album.

Led Zeppelin -- Ten Years Gone
From the Physical Graffiti album.

R.E.M. -- Rotary Ten
From the Dead Letter Office album.