Calexican?

What the hell's up with Calexico? I can't be sure, but as I was thinking about a post for today, I couldn't avoid them. Songs, clips, fragments, whispers, and so forth, began to haunt me, and I became obsessed with hunting down MP3 files from this band that characterizes its music as "alternative folk country." The first songs from the list below are from the new album, "Carried to Dust," and the rest? Well, someone needs to call my psychiatrist and suggest he double whatever meds I've been prescribed for "severe OCD." ;)

By the time I listened to their rather unique version of The Guns of Brixton, I had become a bit enchanted, and am of course compelled to post a few pieces of this infectious music:

Two Silver Trees (from Carried To Dust)

The News About William (from Carried To Dust)

Inspiracion (from Carried To Dust)

Writer’s Minor Holiday (from Carried To Dust)

All Systems Red (from Garden Ruin)

House of Valparaiso (from Carried to Dust)

Convict Pool (from Convict Pool)

Quattro --World Drifts In (from Feast of Wire )

Alone Again Or (from Convict Pool )

Removed (from Spoke)

Mazurka (from Spoke)

Where Water Flows (from The Black Light)

Old Man Waltz (from The Black Light)

Woven Birds (from Feast of Wire)

Sunken Waltz (from Feast of Wire)

Roka (from Garden Ruin)

Minas de Cobre (from The Black Light)

Sirena (from Convict Pool)

Victor Jara's Hands (from Carried to Dust)

Yours & Mine (from Garden Ruin)

Close Behind (Vocal Mix)

Across The Wire (Acoustic Version)

Iron and Wine With Calexico
A History of Lovers

Iron and Wine With Calexico
Wild Horses (Stones Cover)

Iron & Wine With Calexico
Dark Eyes (Bob Dylan cover)

Willie Nelson & Calexico
Señor -- Tales of Yankee Power (Bob Dylan Cover)

Calexico & Charlotte Gainsbourg
Just Like a Woman

Love Will Tear Us Apart (Joy Division cover)

The Guns of Brixton (Clash cover)

Ojitos Traidores
May 4, 2002
Bluebird Theatre, Denver, CO

Cascabel
May 5, 2002
KGNU, Boulder, CO

The Black Light
June 10, 2002
Solar Culture,Tucson, AZ

Stray
June 2, 2001
The Casbah, San Diego, CA

Gift X-Change
July 6, 2001
Rudolstadt Festival, Germany

Jesus and Tequila
Kurt Wagner with Calexico
The Paradiso, Amesterdam -- 4.17.99

The Calexico page at Music.Download.com, where you can find some other tracks, including Ballad of Cable Hogue and Frontera.


"Careless hand
Lay and law of the land
Falls by the side
Silenced sentient cries
All within the lines of divine right

Better bury the tracks in an unclosed case
Weeds of discontent choke a broken ghost landscape

Cruel, heartless reign
Chasing short term gains
Right down to the warning signs

Birds refuse to fly
No longer trust the sky
Drifting out beyond the signals

Even the horizon is gone
Weather flees underground
Future's left to wallow in fortune's waste"