Remember, if you like these bands, please support them.  It’s super easy to do and by supporting the arts, you’re taking an active role in ensuring artists can keep creating.

Damien Jurado – Cloudy Shoes

The Drums – What You Were

Gillian Welch – The Way It Will Be

Panda Bear - Slow Motion

The Poison Tree – Lesson For You Kid

The Radio Dept – Where Damage Isn’t Already Done

Real Estate – It’s Real

The Smith Westerns – Be My Girl

Washed Out - Soft

Wilco – One Sunday Morning (Song For Jane Smiley’s Boyfriend)

]]> http://lukereynoldsmusic.com/year-end-top-10-songs-of-2011/feed/ 1 http://lukereynoldsmusic.com/the-7-train-sessions/ http://lukereynoldsmusic.com/the-7-train-sessions/#comments Fri, 09 Dec 2011 22:56:38 +0000 luke http://lukereynoldsmusic.com/?p=1477 Last week about thirty of us hopped on the 7 train, which runs from Manhattan out into Queens, to shoot film, roll video and perform songs written and or recorded by, musicians from the borough.  I chose one of my musical heroes and Queens native son, Paul Simon and sung, That Was Your Mother off one of my favorite albums of all time, Graceland.  Enjoy.

It’s my first night in a new apartment in Los Angeles California and it’s night time.  I’ve just gotten in from the first day of rehearsing with a new band.  That’s new.  It’s dark outside.  My computer is set up on a cardboard box in the corner next to piles of books and an open door which leads to a balcony overlooking the street below.  I’m frying onions on the stove and catching a buzz off this first glass of wine.  The onions on the stove, a shiny white thing, sit off to my left and I can hear them bubbling and popping in the frying pan.  The house smells like fried onions.  I’ll eat them with eggs and tortillas and black beans for dinner.

I was used to my old stove in Portland Oregon that we cooked on all summer. My girl and me lived in that apartment. I knew how long it took to heat a pan up, how long it took to boil water. Knowing how to change things like an oil filter on a friends car, or how to quarter an elk with an axe and a saw, those are things I learned from experience.  It’s different down here in L.A.  Up the street from where I am now, there’s a Lamborghini dealer.  I doubt the kind of people who’d buy a Lamborghini, know how to do either of those things.

One winter, I spent Christmas in a log cabin about the size of a pickup truck in Montana.  We had a wood stove, and about five feet of snow on the ground.  I woke up one morning, with exactly an hour and a half until I had to be anywhere. Outside it was well below zero.  I put logs on the fire until it was so hot in that little cabin, I had to open all the windows up.  I fried onions for breakfast in a cast iron pan, on a cast iron stove.  It took so long.  This stove is different.

Music on the compilation from The Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Blind Pilot, Steve Earle, My Morning Jacket and many others.  Check it out.

Thanks!

Luke

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]]> http://lukereynoldsmusic.com/hurricane-irene-forecast/feed/ 0 http://lukereynoldsmusic.com/washed-out/ http://lukereynoldsmusic.com/washed-out/#comments Thu, 25 Aug 2011 22:55:56 +0000 luke http://lukereynoldsmusic.com/?p=1377 This record became my soundtrack during a 48 hour, all nighter last week down south.  Now I’m back in Brooklyn for three days off mid tour and am sitting in a rocking chair my dad built me out of a cherry tree, looking out the window of my apartment, playing this song so fucking loud the floors are shaking.

Washed Out is from Perry Georgia, where he and his wife now live (and where he also grew up) and he made this album at home under the radar.  Thanks to my bandmate Mitchell Spinach for turning me on.  I’m in love.

As much fun as you could ever have in under five minutes without…

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Well, it’s that time of year again and the Guster crew has re-assembled from all corners of America to build Ryan a disco ball helmet, work up a cover of an Air Supply song for Brian to butcher (I mean sing) and resume our touring diet of Twizzlers, coffee, Lucky Charms and hummus.

Timeberland (the Outdoor company, not the rap producer) is running a music component to their site showcasing “new” bands and I’m the featured artist for the month of August.  You can find out more HERE and take a look at this nice stoney Youtube thumbnail of my face and download yourself a free track off of Maps.

L to R | Bob Hart, Luke Reynolds, Kenny Wollesen, Tony Scherr

SETLIST

BETTER OFF

CREOLE BELLE

IT’S YOU

ONE WOMAN MAN

FLAOTING IN SPACE

THE SOUND OF LIFE MOVING ON

100 DIRECTIONS

SPACE BETWEEN THE LINES

Me in my favorite blue Patagonia puffy on tour in Minneapolis.

Spent all day at pedal steel club with Max.
Can’t get enough of this cut Harmonia off of Catacombs.
Greg Leisz is on it.
Wind blowing in thru the open windows.
Friday night in Brooklyn.
Vermont was nice.
This place is too.
Good to live in both I think.

Nite.

Luke

Download the new Bon Iver single Calgary here.

This NPR piece on my friend Sarah just ran last night.  Listen here.  Two of my mentors are on there as well, Paczosa and O’Brien.