Ever wonder what we're jamming as we are shipping out your packages, designing your Third Man shirts, booking new shows in the Blue Room and tuning up the Rolling Record Store? Here's a little glimpse into what is currently keeping us going behind the scenes at Third Man --

Ben Swank

Here’s my three current Autumn missives

1. I Woke Up One Morning In May - Didier Hebert

An unusual Cajun lament from 1929 sung in French by a man from a young wife’s perspective of being wed at 14 and then being left alone to raise their starving brood while her husband is away drinking and gambling. The almost vulgar primitivism of the guitar playing and the restrained nature of the vocals elevate the song to the ethereal and perfectly accompany the picture of desperate isolation that the translated lyrics paint “Oh I know I’m going on the highways, I’ll be there all alone, And since I’m a deserted wife, I wish someone would make me a widow”.

2. Love Cry - Albert Ayler

Not of his time or this one… Ayler was the Holy Ghost of Jazz existing and blowing existential wails somewhere between the Atmic and Buddhic cosmic planes. Love Cry is perfect in every way. It’s emotive, evocative and doesn’t overstay it’s welcome. It leaves you at once devastated but wanting more and was made all the more significant in the jazz pantheon by Ayler’s performance of it at John Coltrane’s funeral.

3. Last Kind Words - Geeshie Wiley

The ultimate leaving song by the all time heavyweight American Gothic delta blues ghost. You can listen to this song a million times and it will never diminish one iota in power. If this doesn’t evoke change and seasonal transition (death) in you as a listener then you have no soul.

Ben Blackwell

1. Fancy - Iggy Azalea

I don’t know how it happened, but my 17-month old daughter Violet loves this song and somehow I end up singing it to her every day. I’ve not memorized this many lyrics to a rap song since the 90’s.

2. Norwegian Wood - The Beatles
Just found out that the story of the song ends with the first-person male character burning down the house of a woman who rejected his advances. Also, “Norwegian” wood was not considered expensive or high-quality…in England in the 1960’s it was considered the cheap option! Was also recently told by Peter Walker that this song alternates between being in a major key and a minor key, which is notable for some reason I don’t know. I sing this one to Violet too and prefer the outtake version.

Joshua Gillis

1. "Wild Mountain Thyme" - The Corries

This will make you cry.

2. "One Way Spit" - Debris

This will make you fume.

3. "Hard-Boiled Babe" - Lizzy Mercier Descloux

This will make you groove.

Jamie Goodsell

1. Gryphon - "Fall of The Leaf"

2. Duncan Browne - "In A Mist"

3. Tony, Caro, and John - "The Snowden Song"

Harry Kagan

Aside from Spring, Summer and Winter, Fall is one of my favorite seasons. Here's what I've got playing on my Apple™ iPhone® 5…

1. Bob Dylan's "Where Are You Tonight (Journey Through Dark Heat)" from Street Legal (1978)
This album was the last that Dylan released before his 3-year born-again Christian romp, so I think it's often overlooked and thus underrated. This song is the ender, and the writing style is similar to "Stuck Inside of Mobile…" but with more backup singers and some pretty crispy guitar to accompany the fade-out. Check out the whole record, but if you're already not a Dylan fan then you won't dig it and also we're through.

2. Crosby Stills & Nash "Pre-Road Downs" from S/T (1969)
If you've ever been out on the road and were thinking about someone back home, this song may ring a few bells for you. Backwards guitar solo is critical listening.

3. Ravi Shankar "Raga Madhu-Kauns" (1964)
Just a dope ass raga...

Trent Thibodeaux

1. blood orange: on the line
2. poliça: you don't own me
3. khruangbin: a calf born in winter

Bonnie Dee Bowden

This is what I'm listening to: Rio 2 Soundtrack

Ariana DeBee

1. Les Paul and Mary Ford - Best of

This is a duo my grandma would be proud that I listen too, it is perfect for those fall days that remind you more of summer.

2. Neil Young - Harvest Moon
Need I say more?

3. Nas - Life's a Bitch
this song makes coffee taste better. I tested this theory twice. solid.

Karl Bergman

Nothing reminds me of the crisp autumn air and the sounds of leaves crunching below my feet like

1. Melvins - "Hold It In"

2. Iceage - "Plowing into the Field of Love"

Ian Bush

1. Buffalo Springfield- Broken Arrow
-This song smells like autumnal equinox using my Pono.

2. Budos Band- Black Venom
-Makes me feel like Batman. Sounds like Halloween.

3. Rush- Red Barchetta
-Driving around, in the fall, in Wisconsin, with my dad. Song is ridiculous but will always be synonymous with fall for me.

Chet Wiese

"Gymnopedie No. 1, 2 & 3" by Erik Satie is a leaf finally giving up.

Cam Sarrett

1. "Tennessee Blues" - Bobby Charles - I'm partial to songs from and about my home state, and this is the cream of the crop. LITA recently reissued as well.

2. "Young Jobless" - Martin Newell/The Cleaners from Venus - Just a catchy pop song from a titan of '80s home recording.

3. "Fraternity Blues" - Townes Van Zandt - Poetic and hilarious. There's a Japanese pressing Old Quarter on eBay right now that I'm seriously eying.

4. "Tell Me How" - Buddy Holly - The Crickets lay down the barbershop foundation of this song in the most Spongebob way and it rules.

5. "Crazy" - Neu! - From Neu! '86, which I previously thought would be too late in the group's career to produce anything worthwhile. Uncharacteristically brief and potent German/Kraut pop song.

Nat Strimpopulos

1. Road trip with the windows down:

Ghostpoet - Liiines

2. Sitting by a campfire:

Hozier - To Be Alone

3. Halloween dance party:

Los Esquizitos - ¡PUM PUM! ¡BANG BANG!

Brett Mielke

1. Liars - "I Can Still See An Outside World"

Not sure why. It's fall and I'm listening to it a lot right now?

Kim Baugh

~*~*Fall Jams~*~*

1. Stevie Nicks--"Lady"
I just did a write-up for the blog I write for on Stevie's new album of songs she's written, but never shared, over the last four decades. This one stood out the most as a future classic, written when her and Buckingham moved to LA in '71. Perfect song for the change that comes with fall.

2. The Growlers--"Living in a Memory"
While most of their music is fairly summer-y, this tune is very leaf changing. Does that make sense? Whatever.

3. Marianne Faithfull--"Late Victorian Holocaust"
--Lyrics were written by Nick Cave for Marianne. Very haunting, like a ghost story basically. Ghosts--Halloween--it's just got me in that right vibe.

4. Alex Turner--"It's Hard to get Around the Wind"
--Adding a fourth just because I've been listening to this a lot and I think it's appropriate.

Cody Stanaczek

~ fall is for the melancholy ~

1. teen suicide - if i cleaned everything

2. vashti bunyan - i'd like to walk around in your mind

3. serengeti - cold

Katie Studley

1. Ablaye Cissoko - "Allah Laké" (one of many great interpretations of this song)
...Because it's impossible not to have a broken heart for West Africa right now

2. Slim Smith & the Uniques - "My Conversation"
...Because reggae can make any inferior season feel like Summer. J/K, Fall's cool, I guess.

3. WSMV "Hello Nashville"
...Because Nashville is changing awfully fast. This truly terrible song (which was also tailored for dozens and dozens of other cities... hello Atlanta! hello Rochester! hello Pittsburgh! hello Tulsa!) has been firmly lodged in my brain for well over a month and is KILLING ME. Please join me in my misery.