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"Back Up & Push" with mark (archive)

Wednesday, August 19, 2009 | 10:00 to 12:00 | Playlist

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New	Artist	Song	Album	Label	Comments
	Kingsbury Manx	Galloping Ghosts	Ascenseur Ouvert!	Odessa	released earlier this year
	Black Taj	Damascus	Beyonder	Amish	2008
	Polvo	Lazy Comet	Today's Active Lifestyles	Merge	1993

*	Katie Kovacs & Gemini	Nem Biztos Semmi	(VA) Well Hung, Vol. 1: Funk-Rock Eruptions from Beneath Communist Hungary	B-Music/Finder's Keepers
	Funkadelic	Super Stupid	Maggot Brain	Westbound	1971
	Apaslar	Gilgamis	(VA) Hava Narghile: Turkish Rock Music 1966-1975	Dionysus
*	Ill Wind	People Of The Night	Flashes	Sunbeam	This was the one-and-only album by this Cambridge, Mass. band, from 1968. It was on ABC Records back then. Now re-issued with excellent bonus material on CD.
*	Majic Ship	Wednesday Morning Dew	(VA) Wednesday Morning Dew: Realistic Patterns, vol. 2 - Orchestrated Psychedelia from the USA	Psychic Circle	~1970. The band apparently called it quits when their communal house on Staten Island burned to the ground in 1971, destroying all their instruments too.
*	Horseback	Tyrant Symmetry	The Invisible Mountain	self-released	new local music

	Aretha Franklin	Spirit In The Dark	Spirit In The Dark	Atlantic	1970. This begins a set dedicated to the memory of James Luther (Jim) Dickinson, who died this past Saturday at age 67. He worked with frikkin' EVERYBODY. On this 1970 Aretha record, he played keyboards.
	Toots & The Maytals	(I've Got) Dreams To Remember	Toots in Memphis	Mango	Reggae great comes to Memphis. 1988. Produced by Jim Dickinson.
	Rolling Stones	Wild Horses	Sticky Fingers	Rolling Stones Records	1971. That piano work is JD's. He was there for the recording sessions in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. "Wild Horses" has some minor key piano parts, and Ian Stewart (Stones' pianist & road manager) wouldn't play minor chords. Enter Jim Dickinson... the rest is history.
	James Luther Dickinson	O How She Dances	Dixie Fried	Atlantic	1972
	James Luther Dickinson	Wild Bill Jones	Dixie Fried	Atlantic
	The Replacements	Shooting Dirty Pool	Pleased To Meet Me	Sirena	1987. Produced by Jim Dickinson.
	Flat Duo Jets	Go Go Harlem Baby	Go Go Harlem Baby	Sky	1991. Dex Romweber + Jim Dickinson producing = POTENT COMBO! This was recorded at Sun Studio in Memphis.
	Big Star	Thank You Friends	Third/Sister Lovers	Rykodisc	1975. Big Star's 3rd album, originally on Ardent Records, and recorded in the label's Memphis studio. Produced by Jim Dickinson.
	James Luther Dickinson	Roly Poly	Killers From Space	Memphis International	2007. One of Jim's last records in his own name. Recorded at his own studio, Zebra Ranch, near Hernando, Mississippi. Many sought his talents there.
	North Mississippi Allstars	Shake 'Em On Down	Shake Hands With Shorty	Tone-Cool	Dickinson's sons, Cody & Luther. Recorded @ Zebra Ranch, 1999. All the credit JD gets here is GENES, host, and the cover photo!

*	Midtown Dickens	Best Summer Ever	Lanterns	self-released	new local music
	The Flaming Lips	Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Pt. 1	Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots	Warner Bros.	2002
*	Reigning Sound	Trash Talk	Love and Curses	In The Red	new!
*	Blank Dogs	Slowing Down	Under and Under	In The Red
*	Michael Dracula	What Can I Do For You	(VA) ZE 30: ZE Records 1979-2009	Strut	ZE Records is especially known for 1980s no-wave and disco-funk

*	Ocote Soul Sounds and Adrian Quesada	El Diablo Y El Ñau Ñau	Coconut Rock	ESL	AG is from Grupo Fastasma; he joins here w/ Martin Perna of Antibalas & others
*	Los Amigos Invisibles	Plastic Woman	Commercial	Nacional	new from Venezuela

*	Band Of Skulls	Bomb	Baby Darling Doll Honey Face	You Are Here	LOVE this. New from Southampton, UK
	Band Of Skulls	Blood	Baby Darling Doll Honey Face	You Are Here	Did I say I LOVE THIS??!?
*	Rusted Shut	Spaceships	Dead	Load	Texas scuzz rock. Houston to be specific. The band has been around >20 years. This is their new CD.