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Wednesday, October 12, 2011 | 10:00 to 12:00 | Playlist
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Pentangle Jack Orion Cruel Sister Reprise 1970. Bert Jansch R.I.P.
* Meg Baird Babyon Seasons on Earth Drag City New one from Espers singer. Great like the last one... nice alongside Pentangle...
* Caitlin Rose Own Side Own Side Now Theory 8 new album from CR, who's toured w/ Decemberists
The Decemberists January Hymn The King Is Dead Capitol early 2011 release
* Megafaun Resurrection Megafaun Hometapes Album of the year?
* Glenn Jones The Great Pacific Northwest The Wanting Thrill Jockey beautiful acoustic picking. Collaborator w/Fahey & Basho & the like
* Michael Hurley Drivin' Wheel Fatboy Spring Mississippi early 70s
Malcolm Holcombe To Drink The Rain To Drink The Rain Music Road nuther early 2011 release. Great picker & intense performer from western NC
The V-Roys Kick Me Around Sooner Or Later F.A.Y. Recordings new compilation of V-Roys stuff. Knoxville, TN, 1990s.
The V-Roys Cry Sooner Or Later F.A.Y. Recordings Their coming New Year's Eve show in Knoxville is already sold out!
* Thee Dirtybeats The Shape Of Things To Come Thee Dirtybeats Blue Mold new, local
* Danny Johnson & the Rhythm Makers Tired Of Working For The Other Man (VA) Lost Souls vol. 3 - Arkansas Garage & Psychedelic Rock 1963-1971 Psych of the South !
King Bees I Want My Baby (VA) Tobacco A-Go-Go vol. 3 - 60s Music in North Carolina Blue Mold 1966. Thee Dirtybeats (see above) drummer Ken Friedman is the guy who compiled the Tobacco A-Go-Go comps
Country Joe & The Fish Superbird (VA) Love Is The Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970 Rhino 1967, Berkeley. Orig. from the album Electric Music For The Mind And Body.
The Great! Society Somebody To Love (LP version) (VA) Love Is The Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970 Rhino Pre-Jefferson Airplane version, 1966. Grace Slick delivers a killer performance. The drummer was her husband.
* Dum Dum Girls Coming Down Only In Dreams Sub Pop new from L.A.
* Twin Sister Badstreet In Heaven Domino new from Long Island
* Social Climbers Chicken Social Climbers Yoga/Drag City Bloomington Indiana peeps relocated to NYC, 1981. Their only album.
The Dynamites (feat. Charles Walker) Come On In Kaboom! Outta Sight 2007
Soulful! Feel Good Flute The Mellow Life Inner Loop 2010
Z.Z. Hill Am I Groovin' You? The Complete Hill Records Collection Capitol 70s southern soul
* Janko Nilovic Gipsy Funk Funky Tramway Vadim Brussels (!), 1975
* Julius Hemphill Hard Blues Dogon A.D. International Phonograph St. Louis, 1972. Hemphill on sax, plus trumpet, cello and drums.
* Bunny Girls Why That Person? (VA) Beautiful Rivers & Mountains: The Psychedelic Rock Sound of South Korea's Shin Joong Hyun, 1958-1974 Light In The Attic 1972
* Bogus Ben Covington I Heard The Voice of a Pork Chop (VA) Barbecue Any Old Time: Blues from the Pit 1927-1942 Old Hat 1928. Bogus Ben was from Mississippi.
* Chubby Parker Bib-A-Lollie-Boo (VA) ...I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces Dust-To-Digital funny lil banjo ditty from 1927
* Ola Belle Reed Undone In Sorrow Rising Sun Melodies Smithsonian Folkways NC-born "trailblazing force for women in bluegrass music"
Bert Jansch Dynamite Santa Barbara Honeymoon Charisma/Drag City 1975. R.I.P. Bert Jansch
Bert Jansch Angie (live) Santa Barbara Honeymoon Charisma/Drag City Rec. live at Montreux, July 4, 1975. On the CD re-release of the record.