Day of the Utensil

Last week, Spoon's album "Transference" made its official debut and it continues their streak of Wilco-esque consistency.  In lieu of boring you with breaking down why I like it or what it sounds like or whatever else, today is a tribute to the three tools that help us slurp, stab, dice, and eat.  (Sporks have yet to break into my music collection, so you'll have to wait a little longer or look somewhere else for a spork-related song.)  

First up, is King Tubby's "Knife & Fork Dubwise" from Tubby's album Dangerous Dub.  It's a dub song.  It reeks of dub.  It's dub you can smell as soon as you walk in the club.  Don't knock this dub til you try it.  

King Tubby - Knife & Fork Dubwise

Next is Charlie Patton's "Spoonful" from The Music Never Stopped: Roots Of The Grateful Dead.  It's old-as-your-great-gramps acoustic delta blues from a guy Bob Dylan dedicated a song to ("High Water, for Charley Patton").  Born in 1891, he influenced both John Lee Hooker and Howling Wolf.  He's the oldest of the old timey.   

Charlie Patton - Spoonful

Next is Plate Fork Knife Spoon's "Theme from Spacewalk" which is all slow keys & drums.  It's what Whoopi Goldberg's Star Trek character, Guinan, might cue up on the juke box in the Ten-Forward lounge while dispensing sage advise to a conflicted Jean Luc Picard.  

Plate Fork Knife Spoon - Theme From Spacewalk

Finally...new Spoon.  Just check it out.  

Spoon - Who Makes Your Money