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Wednesday, August 12, 2009 | 10:00 to 12:00 | Playlist
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* Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound Kolob Canyon When Sweet Sleep Returned Tee Pee Really like this new one. From San Francisco.
* Meat Puppets Blanket Of Weeds Sewn Together Megaforce Newest from the Pups -- came out a few months ago.
* Illes Nekem Oly Mindegy (VA) Well Hung: Funk-Rock Eruptions From Beneath Communist Hungary, volume 1 Finders Keepers 1960s recording
* Plastic Penny Your Way To Tell Me (VA) Modesty Blaise: Cheesy Pop for the Connoisseur Past & Present '67 or '68, UK
Chaka Khan Clouds (VA) Journey Into Paradise... The Larry Levan Story Rhino LL was a killer DJ in Soho during the golden years of disco. This one's from 1980.
East Harlem Bus Stop Watermelon Man (VA) Journeys by DJ: Norman Jay - Desert Island Mix, part 2 Journeys By DJ
Anorak Trax Jammin' To The End Of Time (VA) Journeys by DJ: Norman Jay - Desert Island Mix, part 2 Journeys By DJ
* Los Amigos Invisibles Burundanga Commercial Nacional new from our dance-pop happy Venezuelan friends...
The Soul Fanatics Ain't No Sunshine (VA) Panama! 2: Latin Sounds, Cumbia Tropical & Calypso Funk on the Isthmus 1967-77 Soundway great cover of the Bill Withers song. 1971.
* Chancha Vía Circuito Prima (VA) ZZK Sound, Vol. 2 Nacional Nueva cumbia comp de Buenos Aires -- the sound of the Argentine club scene
Yello Stanztrigger Solid Pleasure Vertigo Switzerland, 1980. Their debut.
Mott The Hoople Sea Diver All The Young Dudes Columbia 1972. Ian Hunter fronting.
Ian Hunter Up And Running Man Overboard New West 2009. He's still up & running!
* Band Of Skulls Death By Diamonds And Pearls Baby Darling Doll Face Honey You Are Here new great Rawk from Southampton UK
* Sian Alice Group Sleep 59.59 Social Registry New from London.
* Magnolia Electric Co. The Rock of Ages Josephine Secretly Canadian New from Bloomington. Indiana.
Otis Clay I Can't Take It The Best of Otis Clay: The Hi Records Years Hi Title track to his 1977 LP
New Riders of the Purple Sage Henry New Riders of the Purple Sage Columbia/Legacy 1971. R.I.P. John "Marmaduke" Dawson.
The Sovines Breaker Breaker (One Heart) The Sad Last Days Of... Oahu 2001
Ox Oh Eileen Dust Bowl Revival Second Nature 2005. Vancouver BC
* Calexico Frank's Tavern (VA) Man Of Somebody's Dreams: A Tribute to Chris Gaffney Yep Roc CG was a heart-and-soul member of the Hacienda Brothers, a country-soul combo from Calif. He died last year. Great tribute comp with a wide range of artists from Joe Ely to Dan Penn to Los Lobos to John Doe
* Los Texmaniacs Cien Años Borders y Bailes Smithsonian Folkways New yet trad.
* Lisa o Piu Equatorial Changes When This Was The Future Subliminal Sounds new from Sweden
* Hugo Filho Qum Me Viu Por Aí? Paraibô Shadoks 1978, Brazil
The Moondoggies Night And Day Don't Be A Stranger Hardly Art 2008, Seattle
Anders Osbourne Pleasin' You Pleasin' You b/w What's Going On Here? Okeh Swede but soundin' No. Miss. 1995.
Othar Turner & The Rising Star Fife and Drum Band Shimmy She Wobble Everybody Hollerin' Goat Birdman Recorded in the 90s at OT's farm in Tate County, northern Mississippi. Basically it's amazing impromptu drumming and carrying on behind OT's homemade reed fife, recorded at one of many picnics he used to have...