1. Gurrumul – Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu.  I picked up Wiyathul as the Starbucks iTunes free pick of the week a few weeks ago.  Most of these freebies are pretty lame, but this one was strikingly good.  Gurrumul is a little hard to describe, but here goes;  I think he sounds like Robert Bradley crossed with Jack Johnson, with a little extra Iz on the side.  Laid back, but powerful at the same time.
2. Brothers – The Black Keys.  I’ve been listening to the Black Keys for a while based on a recommendation from a buddy and hearing a bunch about them on the NPR.  Their last few albums were pretty catchy, the but Brothers really knocks it out of the park.  Solid rock and roll power and heavy voiced lyrics to match.

I may be too old and crusty to suffer through the long drives and traffic at Darien and SPAC, but I think I can handle the short 10 minute drive over to the ball park.

I’ve been meaning to try them out for a while, but today’s $1.99 deal was a 22 track Patsy Cline collection that I just couldn’t resist.  Everything was a go until I noticed that you need the Amazon MP3 Downloader to buy an album at a time (I think you can only buy a track at a time without it.)  Sitting at my work desk, I said geez, gonna have to wait until later ’cause there’s no way they have a Linux version.  But, hey now!  They do!

A quick deb package download later and I was ready to click the One-Click Checkout button.  Well, it was a few more clicks for me (because my credit card on file was expired), but it wasn’t anything too mind bending.  Pretty smooth.

I’ll be keeping my eye out for more good deals on the Twitter feed.

I’m sure the band will carry on, but it won’t be the same.