The Twinners Circle (Delta Twins blog)
"Blues/Americana/Rock for the Soul"
Sounds like Tom Petty meets John Mayer at B.B. King's night club.
November 28, 2011

A girl in the corner is crying, the silver haired lady’s alone
And the queen of the boulevard’s trying to hustle somebody home
The smokin’ man shakes while the broken girl aches
And the clown starts to sing his song

He sings mercy lives here
Oh, mercy lives here
At home with the saints and the sinners
Mercy lives here…

— This week’s lyric by Steve Hindalong of The Choir (“Mercy Lives Here”)
November 21, 2011
Seems life is written by a finger in the sky
high and far away,
Sometimes it feels close like riding with a ghost
on a midnight highway
He whispers in my ear words I’m afraid to hear -
“Are you the driver
or are you a passenger just praying to endure,
a poor survivor?”
Are you a lot like me -
bound when you could be free,
Fearing to turn key?
Let the shackles fall…
— This week’s lyric from “Shackles Fall” by Delta Twins
November 11, 2011

I bought a crap detector
Emptied all my savings
It’s got a hair-trigger feel for the slightest provocation
Not there to spill blood or judge out of line
It’s just a modern convenience to save you some time

Why is joy something I must steal?
Starving skeletons looking for a meal
Out in the graveyard, church bells peal
Earth has no sorrow heaven can’t heal.

— This week’s amazing lyric by Bill Mallonee from Vigilantes of Love’s “Earth Has No Sorrow Heaven Can’t Heal”
November 2, 2011
Now lemme tell you a story, the devil he has a plan
A bag a’ bones in his pocket, got anything you want
No dust and no rocks, the whole thing is over
All those beauties in solid motion
All those beauties, they’re gonna swallow you up…
— Talking Heads (“Swamp”)
October 31, 2011
Walk it with the spirit
Talk it with the spine
Mama sing “Open up yourself when worlds align”
My Secret Jesus,
The Good Red Road
On blood antenna
And dust radio
— This week’s amazing lyric by Chris Whitley from “Dust Radio”
October 28, 2011

Treat your ears right. Listen to this album.

October 24, 2011
Folk and Punk are wonderful friends at the party. Had they been alive at the same time, Woody Guthrie, Johnny Cash and the Clash would have started a super-group. The plight and suffering of the common man has always needed someone to represent them, someone to “be their voice.” That’s one of the reasons why Jesus is popular. He understood the oppressive nature of religion in His day and he was trying to get people to free themselves of a legalism that was without compassion and religious rules without heart; he wanted people free to enjoy and be loved of God. He wanted the rich to realize how enslaved their souls were to the idols of power and wealth.
— Bill Mallonee from interview with “Down The Line” magazine
October 4, 2011
Blackout, heatwave, .44 caliber homicide
The bums drop dead and dogs go mad
in packs on the West Side
Young girl standing on a ledge looks like another suicide
She wants to hit those bricks
‘cause the news at six gotta stick to a deadline
While the millionaires hide in Beekman Place
the bag ladies throw their bones in my face
I get attacked by a kid with stereo sound -
I don’t want to hear it but he won’t turn it down
Life is tough but it’s just enough
to hold back the tears until it’s closing time
I survived, I’m still alive, but I’m getting close to the borderline
— This week’s amazing lyric from Billy Joel (“Close To The Borderline”)
September 26, 2011
I make my peace by saying “Sorry”
I dance while you’re down on your knees
My hands go out while someone’s falling
I don’t wait for “Please
— this week’s amazing lyric by Bobby Pennock (from “Round Peg in a Square World”)
September 19, 2011
Hey - look at me now -
I’ve been impaled on the horns of your sacred cow.
— this week’s amazing lyric by Bill Mallonee / Vigilantes of Love (“Real Downtown”)