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PO Box 90689
Duke Station
Durham, NC 27708
919-684-2957
wxdu@duke.edu
New | Artist | Song | Album | Label | Comments | ||
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King Sunny Adé | Synchro Feelings / Ilako Medley | Synchro Series | Indigedisc | Juju music of Nigeria with sternum-shaking percussion. Long-time fave from the 1980s | |||
King Sunny Adé | Synchro System | Synchro Series | Indigedisc | ||||
King Sunny Adé | Synchro Reprise | Synchro Series | Indigedisc | Never will forget seeing these guys in the 80s at Peggy's Hi-Lo in Boulder Colo. It (was) basically a small cocktail lounge. The band was so big they seemed to take up half the space in there. | |||
* | Chicha Libre | The Ride of the Valkyries | Canibalismo | Barbes | Sophomore release from Brooklyn twisters-of-Peruvian-chicha | ||
The Sadies | Cloud Rider | Pure Diamond Gold | Bloodshot | Toronto, 1999 | |||
The Speakers | Oda A La Gente Mediocre | En El Maravilloso Mundo De Ingesón | Polydor | 1968 | |||
* | Blues Control | Opium Den/Fade To Blue | Valley Tangents | Drag City | new!!!!!! | ||
* | CAN | Bubble Rap | The Lost Tapes | Mute | Fab new 3-CD release featuring the best of 30+ hours of master tapes that were found when Can's Weilerswist studio was dismantled. This track features Rosko Gee, bass player for Traffic. | ||
Tavares | It Only Takes A Minute | (VA) Can You Dig It? The '70s Soul Experience | Rhino | ||||
Maximum Joy | Stretch | Unlimited (1979-1983) | Crippled Dick Hot Wax! | ||||
Dennis Bovell | Dub'er | Decibel: More Cuts and Dubs, 1976-1983 | Pressure Sounds | loooove this | |||
Half Pint | Greetings | (VA) Dancehall: The Rise of Jamaican Dancehall Culture | Soul Jazz | 1984 | |||
Scott Walker | Two Weeks Since You've Gone | Scott 3 | Fontana | No not THAT Scott Walker. This is from 1969 before the infamous Scott Walker was out of diapers. | |||
The Beatles | And I Love Her | The Beatles 1962-1966 | Apple | ||||
* | The Black Swans | Somewhere Else | Occasion for Song | Misra | Sad but excellent new album by Black Swans. They mourn the loss of one of their own on this record. | ||
* | MV & EE | Moment | Space Homestead | Woodsist | |||
* | American Cloud Songs | Violet Flame Decree | AUM | DAIS | semi-meditative Americana from Daniel Higgs, Robert Ryan, et al. | ||
* | Magic Trick | I Say Your Name | Ruler of the Night | Hardly Art | New from Tim Cohen of Fresh & Onlys. | ||
Lee Hazlewood | Summer Wine | These Boots Are Made For Walking: The COmplete MGM Recordings | Ace | ||||
* | Sonny & The Sunsets | Rhinestone Sunset | Longtime Companion | Polyvinyl | SF dude channeling lil bit o Flying Burritos | ||
Gram Parsons w/The Flying Burrito Brothers | She Once Lived Here | Live at the Avalon Ballroom 1969 | Amoeba | Speakin' of SF. That's where Avalon was (is?). These are tapes from when Gram opened for the Grateful Dead there, released in 2007. | |||
Gram Parsons w/The Flying Burrito Brothers | Mental Revenge | Live at the Avalon Ballroom 1969 | Amoeba | Great song from Mel Tillis. | |||
Charley Pride | I Think I'll Take A Walk | Charley Pride's 10th Album | RCA | 1970 | |||
* | Mirel Wagner | Dream | Mirel Wagner | Friendly Fire Recordings | excellent debut from Finnish singer-player | ||
* | The Tallest Man On Earth | Revelation Blues | There's No Leaving Now | Dead Oceans | New from "Sweden's Bob Dylan." | ||
* | Chris Forsyth | Downs And Ups | Kenzo Deluxe | Northern Spy | new acousto-folk-psych from Philadelphia guitarist. | ||
* | Sir Richard Bishop | Reversionary Tactics | Intermezzo | Ideological Organ | new from Sun City Girls founder | ||
The Velvet Underground | Venus In Furs demo | Peel Slowly And See | Polydor | 1965. From the box set. | |||
Joseph Taylor | Sprig O' Thyme | (VA) Sprigs of Time: 78s from the EMI Archive | Honest Jon's | all tunes on here from betw 1903 and the 50s. | |||
Sun City Girls | Lifting The Hemline Of The Unknown | Box of Chameleons | Abduction | ||||
The Secret Sisters | The One I Love Is Gone | The Secret Sisters | Beladroit | Killer voices from Muscle Shoals, Alabama. 2011. | |||
Allison Moorer | When Will You Ever Come Down? | The Duel | Sugar Hill | Also from Alabama. 2004. | |||
Abigail Washburn | Prelude/City of Refuge | City of Refuge | Foreign Children | Banjo player who's spent time living in China. You can hear the streets of China in the intro. | |||
* | Erdem Helvacıoğlu | Anger | Timeless Waves | Sub Rosa | Turkish sound-installation performance artist. Epic pieces based on basic human emotions, meant originally for public performance on a 53-speaker sound system | ||
R. L. Burnside | Hard Time Killing Floor | Wish I Was In Heaven Sitting Down | Fat Possum | He was 74 years old at the time of this nice gritty recording. | |||
* | Kelly Hogan | Ways Of This World | I Like To Keep Myself In Pain | Anti- | Excellent new solo record for the ever-collaborating Hogan, her first in more than a decade. Really great band: Booker T. Jones (!), James Gadson (!), Gabe Roth, Scott Ligon. This is a great song from Vic Chesnutt. | ||
Booker T. & The MGs | Jellybread | Soul Dressing | Stax/Sundazed | 1965. Booker T. anchors band in prev. song | |||
* | Tropical Trash | Baltimore | Fear of Suffering 7" | Sophomore Lounge | Louisville noise rock on a Louisville label | ||
* | Bloodloss | A Bottle And A Grin | Lost My Head For Drink | Dirty Knobby | 1997. Seattle-via-Sydney "swamp-scuzz" | ||
* | Casey Bill Weldon | Hitch Me To Your Buggy And Drive Me Like A Mule | Kokomo Arnold & Casey Bill Weldon: Bottleneck Guitar Trendsetters of the 1930s | Yazoo | 1927 | ||
* | John Fahey | Durgan Park | Your Past Comes Back To Haunt You: The Fonotone Years 1958-1965 | Dust-To-Digital | Recorded in Topanga Canyon, Calif. in early 1965 | ||
* | Superchunk | This Summer | This Summer 7" | Merge | new! |