#skyway man

[bandcampsnoop]

11/10/23.

We all know about the Oakland/San Francisco (Bay Area) music scene. But when I think of it, I think of hazy, guitar-centric pop. I don't think of meticulously crafted pop in the vein of Lawrence Arabia, Laurie Shaw or The Martial Arts.

Skyway Man "Flight of the Long Distance Healer" is just a great album. James Wallace (Oakland) writes music that reminds me of the work of Mull Historical Society and the like.

Mama Bird Recording Co. (Portland, Oregon) has just released this. It sits nicely alongside another Mama Bird artist - Matt Dorrien.

[anotherdyingartform]

Best Songs of 2017: February

The shortest month yielded a long playlist as 43 songs from the past month made the cut. Give it a listen and discover something wonderful!

The Courtneys - Minnesota

Vagabon - Minneapolis

NE-HI - Buried on the Moon

Mo Troper - Border Patrol

Skyway Man - We Both Have Nothing to Fear

Mega Bog - Diznee

Sloppy Heads - Plane To See

The Feelies - Flag Days

Duke Garwood - Sonny Boogie

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! - Down (is where I want to be)

Holy Now - Dead End

Tim Darcy - Tall Glass of Water

Hand Habits - Sun Beholds Me

Dutch Uncles - Streetlight

Great Ytene - Locus

Dirty Projectors - Death Spiral

Fufanu - White Pebbles

Porcelain Raft - Distant Shore

Half Waif - Severed Logic

Vermont - Norderney

Syd - Body

Thundercat - Show You the Way

Jens Lenkman - Hotwire the Ferris Wheel

Teen Daze - Cycle

Ela Minus - Ceremony

Mind Over Mirrors - Restore & Slip

Jesca Hoop - Memories Are Now

The Bats - Walking Man

Crushed Stars - Permafrost

Retail Space - Tide Tables

FOAM - The Gift of Guilt

Molly Burch - Wrong For You

Peter Silberman - New York

Hippo Campus - Way It Goes

Froth - Passing Thing

No Thank You - The Unbearable Purposelessness Of Being

Wild Pink - Great Apes

Baked - Midnight Junkie

Pissed Jeans - Have You Ever Been Furniture

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Sleep Drifter

Tinariwen - Sastanàqqàm

All Them Witches - 3-5-7

Tiny Hazard - Sesame

[longlistshort]

Skyway Man- The Holding On

Every month I listen to the majority of bands/singers/musicians/artists who are playing in Los Angeles and select some for a monthly playlist. It includes a variety of genres and usually newer work by the artist.

The song above is from  Skyway Man‘s (aka artist and producer James Wallace) 2023 album, Flight of the Long Distance Healer.

Below are June’s selections-

[milesbutterball]

X-Posure Wed Oct 9 with Leanne Merritt on WXNA 101.5 FM Nashville

X-Posure Wed Oct 9 with Leanne Merritt on WXNA 101.5 FM Nashville

[hightideblues11]

Snuck out the funeral to stare at the stars Send you a message that we’d make it this far If I could throw my thoughts backwards in time I would not show you the future is kind

[hightideblues11]

Would you take me in this peculiar way I'm showing What's left of the mind after love, silence, and home? One day I'll be joined to the breeze with the lost The always existing, behind the wall, always knowing What's beyond the muddy water

[cbcruk]

Skyway Man - The Holding On

[speakers77]