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"Big Carnivorous Feast" with mark (archive)

Wednesday, February 9, 2011 | 10:00 to 12:00 | Playlist
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New Artist Song Album Label Comments
* The Hang-Ten Hangmen Death Rattle Songs from the Scaffold self-released
The K-Pers The Red Invasion (VA) Oxford American Southern Music CD 2010 -- Alabama Oxford American 1968
Cotton Jones Gotta Cheer Up Paranoid Cocoon Suicide Squeeze 2009
* Cage The Elephant Rubber Ball Thank You Happy Birthday DSP new
* The Decemberists January Hymn The King Is Dead Capitol new
The Holy Modal Rounders Fishing Blues The Holy Modal Rounders 1 & 2 Fantasy 1964
Warda Walaw Ennak Ya Habibi Beied (VA) The Rough Guide To The Music of Egypt World Music Network
* Boban i Marko Markovic Udri Mile Devla: Blown Away to Dancefloor Heaven Piranha new from Serbia
Spoon Rhthm & Soul Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga Merge
* Destroyer Song For America Kaputt Merge new
CQMD Horses (VA) Cuisine Non-Stop Luaka Bop comp of French "neo-realisme" stuff... bit o' funk on this one
Martha Reeves Keep On Movin' On (VA) Can You Dig It? The Music and Politics of Black Action Films, 1968-1975 Soul Jazz from the film "Willie Dynamite," 1973
Mary Gresham Get Back On The Right Track (VA) Oxford American Southern Music CD 2010 -- Alabama Oxford American 1972
Bettye Swann Just Because You Can't Be Mine Bettye Swann Honest Jons/Astralwerks Killer CD. Reviewer wrote on it: "Faves: oh gimme a break. play all!" Recorded c. 1968-70.
* Syl Johnson Soul Drippin' Complete Mythlogy Numero Group also 1970 +/-
Syl Johnson Straight Love No Chaser Complete Mythlogy Numero Group
Gram Parsons Medley Live from Northern Quebec: Cash On The Barrelhead/Hickory Wind Grievous Angel Reprise
* Charlie Louvin Long Journey Home Hickory Wind: Live at the Gram Parsons Guitar Pull Tompkins Square R.I.P. Charlie Louvin, Jan 26 2011, age 83. Gram loved the Louvins' stuff (e.g. Cash On The Barrelhead--see prev. track), and Charlie pays respects to Gram here. Version of Gram's Hickory Wind is on the album of course, plus other Louvin stuff that Gram did e.g. The Christian Life
Charlie Louvin Must You Throw Dirt In My Face Hickory Wind: Live at the Gram Parsons Guitar Pull Tompkins Square The live show was recorded late in 2009.
The Louvin Brothers I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby When I Stop Dreaming: The Best of The Louvin Brothers Razor & Tie 1955. Brother Ira died in an accident in 1965.
The Gosdin Brothers There Must Be Someone I Can Turn To (VA) Oxford American Southern Music CD 2010 -- Alabama Oxford American 1968. From Alabama like the Louvins. Vern Gosdin was a disciple of the Louvins, you might say.
* Akron/Family Silly Bears S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey Dead Oceans new
* Gang of Four Who Am I? Content Yep Roc new
* The Veils Don't Let The Same Bee Sting You Twice Troubles of the Brain EP Pitch Beast new from London
Jonny Lang Try off of youtube.com "unplugged" -- by request -- thx!
* Kevin Gordon Crowville Salvage & Drift Vol. 1 self-released a home demo from 2007 'bout a town in northern Louisiana near where he grew up
* Abigail Washburn Prelude/City Of Refuge City of Refuge Foreign Children new
Tom Waits Gun Street Girl Rain Dogs Island 1985
* The Mountain Goats Damn These Vampires Damn These Vampires Merge 2-song EP, new
Ass Ponys Only Lohio Checkered Past 2001