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Wednesday, February 4, 2009 | 10:00 to 12:00 | Playlist
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New Artist Song Album Label Comments
* Animal Collective No More Runnin' Merriweather Post Pavilion Domino
* The Oranges Band Ottobar Afterhours The Oranges Band Are Invisible self-released
Fela Kuti Shakara (Oloje) Shakara -
* Rokia Traore Zen Tchamantché Nonesuch New from Mali
Luis Santi y su Conjunto Los Feligreses (VA) Florida Funk 1968-1975 Jazzman 1975, Miami area. Santi started performing in 1948 in his native Cuba.
* Tom Gavornik Three Left Feet Flip It Mia Mind Music
* Novalima Libertá Coba Coba Cumbancha Afro-Peruvian
* Charles Spearin Vittoria The Happiness Project Arts and Crafts Toronto area musician interviewed his neighbors about happiness, recorded their voices, and built music around it.
* Sean Noonan's Brewed by Noon The Return Of The Peanut Butter Queen Boxing Dreams Songlines Recordings This manic drummer describes his music as postmodern jazz blended with Irish balladry, West African griot, Southern blues and downtown free jazz. Word.
The Velvet Underground Venus In Furs The Velvet Underground & Nico Polydor The Andy Warhol album.
* Ethan Rose On Wheels Rotating Oaks Holocene New from Portland, OR, featuring an old Wurlitzer organ in an old roller rink.
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band Flower Pot Safe As Milk Buddha This is on the CD reissue, but not the original 1967 LP. This was recorded a few months after the LP came out.
Bert Jansch Needle Of Death (VA) Anthems In Eden: An Anthology of British & Irish Folk, 1955-1978 Castle Music 1965
* Stella Northern Cross Different Skies self-released New CD from local 7-woman a capella group. CD release party this Fri. evening at Broad St. Café
* Damon Brown Falling Forward Falling Forward Infusion Time New local jazz.
* Felix Obelix Cyanide Smile Felix Obelix EP self-released more new local music
Cantwell Gomez & Jordan Gidget Runningstar Hot Licks & Rhetoric 307 Knox A great local release from about a year ago...
* The Howlies Sea Level Trippin' With The Howlies Over Under new from Atlanta
The Bees Voices Green And Purple (VA) Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965-1968 Rhino
Billy Garner Brand New Girl part 1 (VA) Dave Hamilton's Detroit Funk: Rare & Unreleased Twisted Funk 1967-1975 BGP
Detroit Emeralds I've Got To Move Do Me Right + You Want It, You Got It Westbound CD reissue of their first two albums, '71 and '72
* The Gourds Hey Thurman Haymaker! Yep Roc new
David Childers & The Modern Don Juans 38th Street Room #23 Silver Meteor from the Charlotte area
* Amber Digby How You Drink The Wine Passion, Pride & What Might Have Been Heart of Texas New real-deal honky tonk. Her 3rd record.
Jean Shepard Too Late With The Roses The Melody Ranch Girl Bear Family classic voice
* Ernest V. Stoneman The Religious Critic The Unsung Father of Country Music, 1925-1934 5-String Productions
* Willie Nelson & Asleep At The Wheel I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None Of This Jelly Roll Willie and the Wheel Bismeaux
Buddy Holly (You're So Square) Baby, I Don't Care The Buddy Holly Story - R.I.P. BH. Plane crash was 50 years ago this week.
Buddy Holly Rave On The Buddy Holly Story -
Buddy Holly Take Your Time The Buddy Holly Story -
Buddy Holly Heartbeat The Buddy Holly Story -
Buddy Holly Holly Hop The Buddy Holly Story - This tune recorded in the Holley family's garage, Lubbock, Texas, 1956.
Buddy Holly Midnight Shift The Buddy Holly Story - Also recorded in 1956, at his first Nashville session for Decca Records, with Owen Bradley at the controls.
Buddy Holly Changing All These Changes The Buddy Holly Story -