Music Dissolves Water: Melanie

Monday, January 14, 2013

Thao & The Get Down Stay Down's Common Cause

Oh, look. We The Common [For Valerie Bolden], a single from the new Thao & The Get Down Stay Down album We The Common, has been released, following the prior preview of the song Holy Roller. The album comes out February 5, and pre-orders via The Ribbon Mart will receive a bonus limited edition 7" titled We The Covers featuring Thao & The Get Down Stay Down covering Melanie's Brand New Key and The Troggs' With a Girl Like You.

This The Making Of. . . video is one of the funniest things I've seen, and beats about any episode of Portlandia at whatever it is that Portlandia's doing.

Thao & The Get Down Stay Down will perform on March 18 at Atlanta's Smith's Olde Bar, with Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside opening. A must-see show.

Monday, December 3, 2012

Thao And the Get Down Stay Down

Thao Nguyen at Variety Playhouse, September 21, 2011

Right now, we're in the Winter Doldrums when a lot of good music generally does not pass through Atlanta. However, Thao & the Get Down Stay Down just announced their new album, We the Common, will be released in February, and in support of the album, Thao will go on tour with Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside. The tour comes to Atlanta's intimate Smith's Olde Bar in Atlanta on March 18, for what is clearly a must-see show.

The vinyl version of the record is to include a limited edition 7” with covers of Melanie’s Brand New Key and The Troggs’ With A Girl Like You. You can download a copy of the album's first single, Holy Roller, from their Facebook page (you got to Like them first).

The bad news (at least for me) is that March 18 falls on a Monday in 2013, and what with my obligation to Monday Night Zazen, I won't be able to go. Are you sure about that?, ask Daniel Higgs and Om. Never say never, say I.

Pictures of Sallie Ford at Pioneer Courthouse Square during MFNW 2011, where they opened for Iron & Wine, and Thao at Variety Playhouse during Rocktober 2011, where they opened for The Head & The Heart, below.

Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside

Thao Nguyen & The Get Down Stay Down

Note:

Do you remember Chris Rock's routine about that one guy you always see in the club who's waaaay too old to be there? That probably applies to me, but music has been an important part of my life from the day my parents sat me down in front of the t.v. for The Beatles' first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show and I've continually listened to new music ever since that fateful night in 1964. This blog (Music Dissolves Water) is a continuation of the now-defunct Live Journal blog Water Dissolves Water . . . Live, sister blog to the long-running Water Dissolves Water, and the new upstart sports blog, Sweat Dissolves Water.