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"Rat Salad" with mark (archive)

Wednesday, July 31, 2013 | 07:00 to 09:00 | Playlist
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New Artist Song Album Label Comments
White Hills Visions of the Past, Present and Future Heads on Fire Rocket Recordings 2011
* Desert Heat Chimay Blues Cat Mask at Huggie Temple MIE Music new from Steve Gunn & John Truscinski, teamed up with Dublin guitarist Cian Nugent.
* Scott and Charlene's Wedding 1993 Any Port in a Storm Fire new
* The Love Language Calm Down Ruby Red Merge new
Hildur Gudnadottir In Gray Mount A Touch Icelandic cellist. 2006. Beautiful stuff.
David Greely McGee's A Minor Waltz Sud du Sud Give and Go Louisiana fiddler mentored by the great Dewey Balfa. Nice slow one here, from 2008.
Ramblin' Jack Elliot Rising High Water Blues A Stranger Here Anti- from 2009's Joe Henry-produced album.
* Aquarelle A Flare August Undone Students of Decay aka Ryan Potts of St. Paul, MN
Buggs Durant Baby Come Back (VA) The Bristol Reggae Explosion, 1978-1983 Bristol Archive
Restriction Restriction (VA) The Bristol Reggae Explosion, 1978-1983 Bristol Archive
Digable Planets The May 4th Movement Starring Doodlebug Blowout Comb Modern Classics Recordings 1994
* Near Paris Everything Will Change Near Paris Medical Reissue of 1985 EP + prev. unreleased stuff. Columbus Ohio synth pop.
Joint D≠ Confused/Don't Ask Strike Gently Sorry State 2012
Ty Segall Muscle Man Slaughterhouse In The Red 2012
* King Tuff Kind of Guy Was Dead Burger 2008
* Hunx & His Punx I'm Coming Back Street Punk Hardly Art new
* Arnold Dreyblatt & Megafaun Home Hat Placement Appalachian Excursion Northern Spy collaboration recorded last fall...
* David Lynch The Big Dream The Big Dream Sacred Bones new "modern blues" veering toward dark electronica. Well alright, then.
Eddie Burns Jinglin' Baby (VA) Chess Blues Chess 1966. Pride of Belzoni, Mississippi.
Eddie Curtis The Louisville Lip (VA) Hits And Misses: Muhammad Ali & The Ultimate Sound of Fistfighting Trikont ?year. This Eddie's from Galveston.
Eddie Peabody Tip Toe Thru The Tulips With Me (VA) Baby, How Can It Be? Songs of Love, Lust and Contempt from the 1920s and 1930s Dust-to-Digital spendid wrap-up of all-Eddie sequence!
* Irma Thomas We Won't Be In Your Way Anymore In Between Tears Alive New reissue of Irma's 1973 album. Includes two bonus tracks (incl. this one) from a 1971 single. Duane Allman on that great guitar. Produced by Swamp Dogg.
Eric Mercury A Gift To You (VA) More Dirty Laundry: The Soul Of Black Country Trikont Mercury's 1972 album contained "Funky Sounds Nurtured In The Fertile Soil of Memphis That Smell Of Rock." OK?
* Date Palms Dusted Down The Dusted Sessions Thrill Jockey new
* Jenks Miller Through The Fog Spirit Signal Northern Spy new