Caterwaul's Favorite Albums of 2014

In no particular order.

Bronwynne Brent - Stardust - CD Baby

Bruce Robison and Kelly Willis - Our Year - Premium

The Duhks - Beyond the Blue - Compass

Kerri Powers - Kerri Powers - kerripowers.com

Sean Rowe - Madman - Anti

Carolina Story - Chapter Two - carolinastory.com

Passenger - Whispers - Nettwerk

Parsonsfield - Afterparty EP - Signature Sounds

Jason Eady - Daylight and Dark - Old Guitar

Kris Delmhorst - Blood Test - Signature Sounds

Eliza Gilkyson - The Nocturne Diaries - Redhouse

Grant Peeples - Punishing the Myth - CD Baby

Lake Street Dive - Bad Self Portraits - Signature Sounds

Robby Hecht - Tobby Hecht - Old Man Henry Records

Thompson Family - Family - Fantasy

Roseanne Cash - The River and the Thread - Blue Note

Rose's Pawn Shop - Gravity Well - Roses Pawn Shop

Truckstop Honeymoon - The Madness of Hapiness - CD Baby

Zoe Muth - World of Strangers - Signature Sounds

Yvette Landry and T Coe - Me and T Coe's Country - CD Baby

Magnolia Sisters - Love's Lies - Valcour

Mark Erelli - Milltowns - markerelli.com

Chuck Prophet - Night Surfer - Yep Roc

Irene Kelley - Pennsylvania Coal - Patio

Elliott Brood - Work and Love - Paper Bag

Luke Pruitt - Songs of Home, Part 1 - lukepruitt.com

Lynne Hanson - Riverof Sand - CRS

Kelly Pardekooper - Milk in Sunshine - kellypardekooper.com

Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds in Country  Music - High Top Mountain

Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn - Rounder

Old Crow Medicine Show - Remedy - ATP

Parker Millsap - Parker Millsap - Okrahoma

Shakey Graves - Light the Stars - Dualtone

Winterpills - Echolalia - Signature Sounds

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Bonsoir Catin - Light the Stars - Valcour

Heather Maloney and Darlingside - Woodstock - Signature Sounds

Shaken From My Slumber By Olberman

It's been months since I've posted anything here, but I'm awake again.

My nap was interrupted by the intentional destruction of a life, a reputation and a career by a right wing blogger named Breitbart, and unintentionally by everyone else who should have known better.

Keith is in best form when he scolds everyone from Breitbart, to Obama. And he's right, we all need to do our best to stand up to those who would destroy others for their own profit.

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Billy Bragg vs the bankers

Over in Britain, the general public is as outraged as we are here about bailed-out bankers receiving huge bonuses. RSB (Royal Bank of Scotland) is now owned, in large part, by the government and the taxpayers. Billy Bragg has begun a campaign to stop the payment of bonuses, and he's declared he'll withhold his taxes to prove his point. I think it's called talking with the poet about taxes.

Kate McGarrigle, RIP

Kate McGarrigle, the influential and popular folks singer who sang for years with her sister Anna as the McGarrigle Sisters has died after a long battle with clear-cell carcinoma. McGarrigle was formerly married to Loudon Wainwright III and is the mother of singers Rufus and Martha Wainwright.

All you single deputies

Jeff Bridges, America's most under-appreciated actor, gets his due

There ain't half been some clever bastards

An Ian Dury biopic. Now only if it can get theatrical release in the US.

It's a wonderful idea

What a magnificent mash-up. George Bailey meets Arianna Huffington. Bernie Sanders vs. Mr. Potter. Capra unmasks Wall Street.

Move your money.

Caterwaul Favorite Albums 2009

This is the entire list, all 27 of them, with some video augmentation.

Caterwaul Albums 2009

Albums of the Year

Elliott Brood - Mountain Meadows (Six Shooter)

Loudon Wainwright III and Dick Connette- High Wide and Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project (2nd Story Sounds)

Avett Brothers - I and Love and You (Anti)

Buddy and Julie Miller – Written in Chalk (New West)

Gourds – Haymaker (Yep Roc)

Levon Helm – Electric Dirt (Vanguard)

Todd Snider – The Excitement Plan (Yep Roc)

Wilco – Wilco (The Album) (Nonesuch)

Elvis Costello – Secret, Profane & Sugarcane (Hear)

Neko Case - Middle Cyclone (Anti)

Low Anthem – Oh My God, Charlie Darwin (Nonesuch)

Vic Chestnutt – Skitter on Takeoff (Vapor)

Tim Easton – Porcupine (New West)

The Sweetback Sisters – Chicken Ain’t Chicken (Signature Sounds)

Putnam Smith – Goldrush (Itchy Sabot)

Lyle Lovett – Natural Forces (Lost Highway)

Red Stick Ramblers – My Suitcase is Always Packed (Sugar Hill)

Kendal Carson – Allright Dynamite (Train Wreck)

Felice Brothers – Yonder is the Clock (Team Love)

David Greely - Sud du Sud (davidgreely.com)

Dave Rawlings Machine – A Friend of a Friend (Acony)

Chuck Prophet – Let Freedom Ring (Yep Roc)

Caroline Herring – Golden Apples of the Sun (Signature Sounds)

Deer Tick – Born on Flag Day (Partisan)

Linzay Young and Joel Savoy (Valcour)

Vince Bell – One Man’s Music (vincebell.com)
Amy Speace - The Killer in Me (Wildflower)

Creepy Joe™ Lieberman: the first to exploit fear

Hot off of his outrageous, mercurial performance as the enemy of universal health care, our junior, and I do mean junior, ructious Senator has found new hope in an attempted act of terrorism.

On Sunday, while the White House tried mightily to prevent panic, Creepy Joe™ Lieberman stoked the fires of fear, and beat the drums of war suggesting that we establish a new front in Yemen. Yeah, man.

Lieberman spared no time moving from the limelight as "health spoiler" to the bellicose beast of bombing preemptively. All right, (creepy) Joe, let's make yemenade out of Yemen!

Never was a bigger chickenhawk ever hatched.

And as the head of the Homeland Security committee, might it be presumptuous to suggest that Lieberman had failed in his duties because a Nigerian with an explosive dildo almost brought a jetliner down. If it wasn't for a brave lad from the land of licentiousness, Amsterdam, one would say that the Senate Homeland Security committee might have had some blood on its hands.

But that's okay with Lieberman. A little blood bath, just like too little health care, is a good thing for his benefactors.