Mark Kozelek is one of my favorite singer/songwriters around right now, and I've posted about him before. But somehow - I just can't seem to stay hip on all this new music - I was unaware of his latest release, (a live album entitled Little Drummer Boy which came out in the fall), until fairly recently. Regardless, the album is great. Kozelek has an uncanny ability to not only write some very beautiful music, but also to rework other artists' material, turning even hard rock into acoustic brilliance and drawing out seemingly shallow lyrics into poetic profundity. On the album, you'll hear Kozelek, with his guitarist Phil Carney, perform some of his solo work, including Modest Mouse and AC/DC covers, a bunch of Sun Kil Moon songs and earlier tracks from his first band the Red House Painters. Worth at least downloading? If you're a fan of Mark Kozelek, well then you probably already have it, but if you don't, give it a listen.
If you have never heard Mark Kozelek, check out the song "Glenn Tipton" off of Sun Kil Moon's second album, Ghosts of the Great Highway.
