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Duke Station
Durham, NC 27708
919-684-2957
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New | Artist | Song | Album | Label | Comments | ||
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Drive-By Truckers | Cassie's Brother | Southern Rock Opera | Soul Dump | Tribute to Cassie Gaines and her brother Steve Gaines, both of whom died in the Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash 33 years ago today | |||
Lynyrd Skynyrd | Ain't No Good Life | Street Survivors | MCA | This LP came out days before the plane crash. This tune by Steve Gaines. | |||
Lynyrd Skynyrd | You Got That Right | Street Survivors | MCA | Co-write by Steve Gaines and Ronnie Van Zandt. Van Zandt was the lead singer and the third one killed in the crash. | |||
Drive-By Truckers | Shut Up And Get On The Plane | Southern Rock Opera | Soul Dump | The plane had been experiencing engine trouble in the days before the crash. On Oct 20, the band flew the plane out of Greenville SC (where they were early in a tour for the new album), bound for Baton Rouge. They didn't make it. Rumor (?) has it that some band members didn't want to fly, because of the engine trouble, and apparently Ronnie said "shut up and get on the plane." | |||
Drive-By Truckers | Greenville To Baton Rouge | Southern Rock Opera | Soul Dump | another story about the plane. Clean edit. | |||
* | La Otracina | Hail Fire | Reality Has Got To Die | Holy Mountain | new power rock from Brooklyn | ||
* | Crazy Dreams Band | Melanie | War Dream | Holy Mountain | new from Baltimore | ||
Dirty Little Heaters | Railroaded | Champions of Imperfection | Churchkey | ||||
* | Holy Sons | Golden Child | Survivalist Tales! | Partisan | new | ||
* | Ted Lucas | Plain & Sane & Simple Melody | Ted Lucas | OM | re-issue on CD of a 1975 LP. Lucas led the Spike Drivers, a Detroit folk-rock group in the 1960s. | ||
* | Lucky Peterson | Trampled Rose | You Can Always Turns Around | Dreyfuss Jazz | New from Buffalo-born contemporary blues player. A Tom Waits song here... | ||
* | Clare Burson | Look Close | Silver & Ash | Rounder | new | ||
* | Sharon Van Etten | Peace Signs | Epic | Ba Da Bing! | new | ||
Laura Veirs | Little Deschutes | July Flame | Raven Marching Band | ||||
Calexico | Scout | Spoke | Quarterstick | 1997 | |||
* | Thrift Store Cowboys | You Can't See The Light | Light Fighter | self-released | New from Lubbock. Producer Craig Schumacher also did some stuff w/Calexico | ||
* | Vanish Valley | Great American Goldmine | Vanish Valley | self-released | new from L.A. | ||
Damien Jurado | Denton, TX | And Now That I'm In Your Shadow | Secretly Canadian | 2006. Andrew McAllister of Vanish Valley (prev. track) has drawn comparisons to Jurado | |||
Caribou | Drumheller | The Milk of Human Kindness | Leaf | 2005 | |||
Caribou | Pelican Narrows | The Milk of Human Kindness | Leaf | ||||
* | Lil B | Just Dream | Rain In England | Weird Forest | new hip hop record with no beats (!), just "twinkly/glisteny droned out tunes" with spoken word/rap | ||
Enon | Cruel | Believo! | Seethru Broadcasting | 2000, Ohio | |||
* | Corin Tucker Band | It's Always Summer | 1,000 Years | Kill Rock Stars | new... her first solo record since Sleater-Kinney hung it up | ||
* | The Moaners | Blue Moon (Cold Hard Stone) | Nocturnal | Holidays for Quince | new | ||
Lee Hazlewood | Ugly Brown | Trouble Is A Lonesome Town | Smells Like Records | 1963 | |||
Fugazi | Margin Walker | 13 Songs | Dischord | 1989 | |||
Calico Haunts | After All | After All | Borderlord | 2009. A fave. |