A Foot Without A Sock

Richard Thompson “Tempted” – Eppy wrote about Richard Thompson’s new 1000 Years Of Popular Music album a few weeks ago, and this cover of the Squeeze classic comes from that record.

Thompson explains his project: “The idea for this project came from Playboy Magazine – I was asked by submit a list, in late 1999, of the ten greatest songs of the Millenium. Hah! I thought, hypocrites – they don’t mean millennium, they mean twenty years – I’ll call their bluff and do a real thousand-year selection. My list was similar to the choices here on this CD, starting in about 1068, and winding slowly up to 2001.”

Ish Marquez “When The Sun Goes Down” – This is just beautiful, isn’t it? Ish Marquez is in with the Anti-Folk crowd, and this song comes from the 2002 Balloon Heaven compilation. I don’t know too much else about Marquez, I only found out about this song over the weekend, it was played on Monica Lynch’s show on WFMU.