I was out at the Saxby’s Coffee in Doylestown last night, where I saw an impressive show of musicianship by a mature guitarist whose name I didn’t quite retain.

He didn’t mess around with the strumming style that many guitarists rely on in laid-back settings. Instead, he was picking up a storm with some very complex instrumental arrangements of classic pop songs. It wasn’t until he burst into a rousing rendition of Peter Gabriel’s “Solsbury Hill” that his impressive fingerwork really hit me. It really was something to observe.

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“When You Look at Me” by Bonehead
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1. Carl Perkins’ Cadillac – Drive-by Tuckers (The Dirty South)
2. #34 – Dave Matthews Band (Under the Table and Dreaming)
3. The Hustle – Marah (If You Didn’t Laugh You’d Cry)
4. Sickbeds – The Frames (The Roads Outgrown)
5. Prove – Fuel (Something Like Human)
6. Man on the Moon – R.E.M. (Automatic for the People)
7. The Valley of Malls – Fountains of Wayne (Utopia Parkway)
8. When Your Mind’s Made up – The Frames (The Cost)
9. Ruby Tuesday – Over the Rhine (Amateur Shortwave Radio)
10. Half Mast – Bill Mallonee (Go and Ask Her)

other lists:

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1. If I Am a Stranger – Ryan Adams & the Cardinals (Cold Roses)
2. Blue Sky – Allman Brothers Band (A Decade of Hits 1969-1979)
3. Peaceful Easy Feeling – Eagles (Their Greatest Hits)
4. Anything at All – Over the Rhine (Ohio)
5. Rent Day Blues – The Frames (Dance the Devil)
6. Interstate – The Refreshments (Fizzy Fuzzy Big and Buzzy)
7. Something So Right – Paul Simon (The Paul Simon Anthology)
8. Stronger than Mine – Tonic (Sugar)
9. DND – Semisonic (Feeling Strangely Fine)
10. Marigolds – Glen Phillips (Mr. Lemons)

Anyone else?

• A Rubber Door

Seriously, where have all the old random ten people gone?

1. All Because of You – U2 (How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb)
2. For You – Barenaked Ladies (Everything to Everyone)
3. My Iron Lung – Radiohead (The Bends)
4. Jerusalem – Steve Earle (Austin City Limits Music Festival: 2003 Collection)
5. Fitzcarraldo – The Frames (Breadcrumb Trail)
6. Etcetera Whatever – Over the Rhine (Live from Nowhere, Volume One)
7. Pay for What You Get – Dave Matthews Band (Under the Table and Dreaming)
8. Memphis Time – Gin Blossoms (Congratulations I’m Sorry)
9. Thick – Tonic (Lemon Parade)
10. Atoms for Peace – Thom Yorke (The Eraser)

The second track is one of my favorites, and thank God there’s a bathroom session version of it.

Other lists:

• A Modest Construct

Still re-building my music collection on the new computer. Oh, and in case you’re looking for some good spoon-playing, check out the Marah track.

Love Comes – The Posies (Every Kind of Light)
Neenah Menasha – Sponge (Rotting Piñata)
Joy to the World – Sufjan Stevens (Songs for Christmas)
Memory Lane – Elliott Smith (From a Basement on a Hill)
All I Need – Radiohead (In Rainbows)
Sooner or Later – Marah (If You Didn’t Laugh You’d Cry)
Everything’s Ruined – Fountains of Wayne (Fountains of Wayne)
Have You Seen My Love? – Barenaked Ladies (Everything to Everyone)
Bridges and Balloons – Decemberists (Picaresquesties)
I Belong – Stargazer Lily (Young Professionals)

Other lists:

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Why Independent Record Stores Fail – Marah (Point Breeze [Maxi Single])
Half Mast – Bill Mallonee (Go and Ask Her)
Spark – Over the Rhine (Drunkard’s Prayer)
Stay (Wasting Time) – Dave Matthews Band (Before These Crowded Streets)
Easy Plateau – Ryan Adams & the Cardinals (Cold Roses)
Where the Devil Don’t Stay – Drive-By Truckers (The Dirty South)
Mighty Sword – The Frames (For the Birds)
M79 – Vampire Weekend (Vampire Weekend)
New York – U2 (All that You Can’t Leave Behind)
Highwire – Gin Blossoms (Congratulations I’m Sorry)

Other lists:

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