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"Big Carnivorous Feast" with mark (archive)

Wednesday, January 19, 2011 | 10:00 to 12:00 | Playlist
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New Artist Song Album Label Comments
* Deathly Fighter Heat Completely Dusted Columbus Discount new, love it
* Marisa Anderson First Light The Golden Hour Mississippi new improvs for guitar and lap steel
Throbbing Gristle After The Fall Part Two - The Endless Not Industrial/Mute
Yann Tiersen Dust Lane Dust Lane Anti- Playing at Cat's Cradle 2/14
* Anbb One Mimikry Raster Noton
* Kurt Vile Early Dawnin In My Time 7" Matador new
Neko Case Lady Pilot Blacklisted Bloodshot 2002
Janis Joplin Maybe I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! Columbia 1969. Today is Janis' birthday, born Jan. 19, 1943. Damn was she good.
Janis Joplin Buried Alive In The Blues Pearl Columbia 1970. She was there in spirit for this one. She died the night before she was supposed to record the vocals. They left it on the album as an instrumental. The band, as always, is smokin'.
Janis Joplin My Baby Pearl Columbia A great great song from Garnet Mimms. Janis frikkin' kills me every time on this one.
Television untitled instrumental bonus track Marquee Moon Elektra/Rhino from the re-release on CD, of course....
Television Torn Curtain Marquee Moon Elektra/Rhino 1977
* Notekillers Airport We're Here To Help Prophase
Linda Thompson The Banks of the Clyde Fashionably Late Rounder 2002
* Bardo Pond Sleeping Bardo Pond Fire new
* Africa Ritmos Pica O Dedo (VA) Angola Soundtrack: Special Sounds from Luanda, 1965-1976 Analog Africa
* The Lee Boys Say Yes! (VA) The Best of Sacred Steel Arhoolie
* William Parker Organ Quartet The Struggle Uncle Joe's Spirit House Centering new
Yo La Tengo Blue Line Swinger Camp Yo La Tengo Matador 1995. Playing Cat's Cradle this weekend both nights. Sunday tickets still available I believe, but Saturday is sold out.
* The Rejuvination Trio Bamboo Mist Rejuvination Voyage Edgetone new from Columbus, OH
* Cab Calloway & His Orchestra Some Of These Days (VA) Baby, How Can It Be? Songs of Love, Lust and Contempt from the 1920s and 1930s Dust-to-Digital great new 3-cd set, 66 songs in all
Bertha "Chippie" Hill Some Cold Rainy Day (VA) Baby, How Can It Be? Songs of Love, Lust and Contempt from the 1920s and 1930s Dust-to-Digital Maybe we could call this set a precursor to the Magnetic Fields' "69 Love Songs" ?
Magnetic Fields All My Little Words 69 Love Songs Merge 1999
* Broughton's Rules Childhood Sun Bounty Hunter 1853 Relapse new from Pittsburgh
* Soundcarriers Out Of Place Celeste Melodic new from UK