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Wednesday, April 18, 2007 | 09:00 to 12:00 | Playlist
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New Artist Song Album Label Comments
* LCD Soundsystem Someone Great Sound Of Silver Capitol
Tata Pound Badala (VA) Rough Guide to African Rap World Music Network from Mali
Abafana Baseqhudeni Mubi Umakhelwane (VA) The Kings & Queens of Township Jive: Modern Roots of the Indestructible Beat of Soweto Earthworks/Virgin translation: "Bad Neighbor"
* Turbulence Move On feat. Higher Trod Family Do Good Minor 7 Flat 5 wacky reggae/strings mix
Terry Allen & The Panhandle Mystery Band The Night Café / Roll Truck Roll Smokin' The Dummy Sugar Hill originally on Fate Records in 1980. SWEET album.
Jim Ford Happy Songs Sell Records, Sad Songs Sell Beer The Sounds of Our Time: The Harlan County album, rare singles and previously unreleased masters Bear Family Sly Stone's best friend. Wrote songs >30 y ago recorded by Aretha, Temptations, others. Disappeared for a few decades. Lived in a trailer. Had garbage bags full of reel-to-reel tape of unreleased killer material. Here's an example of what was in the bag.
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown Breaux Bridge Rag Down South in the Bayou Country Sunnyside Reissue of 1974 record... part of the Maison de Blues series / Barclay's Masters
* Clifton Chenier Caldonia Frenchin' The Boogie Sunnyside Reissue of 1976 record... part of the Maison de Blues series / Barclay's Masters
Vetiver No One Word To Find Me Gone DiCristina
Neil Young The Old Laughing Lady Neil Young Reprise by request... thx! There's a YouTube video of this song, played by Neil on the streets of Glasgow, semi-incognito... check it out!
* Mark Fry Rehtorb Ym No Hcram Dreaming With Alice Sunbeam (read title backwards...)
* Tin Hat The Secret Fluid of Dusk The Sad Machinery of Spring Hannibal/Ryko
* Greg Davis Fennel & Tangerine split 7-inch w/ Of Ache Boston laptop composer...
The Gories He's Doin' It Outta Here Crypt Mick Collins and co.
X-Ray Spex I Am A Cliché The Anthology BMG/Sanctuary
* Standing Nudes Fight Song When I Arrive 7-inch True Panther NYC
Chef Menteur Aquavitae (VA) Proud To Swim Home Backporch Revolution New Orleans label/collective featuring electronic, noise, dub, drone etc.
Ojos de Brujo Ventilaor R-80 Bari World Village thx for the request!
* dZihan & Kamien Rockit (VA) Backspin: A Six Degree 10 Year Anniversary Project Six Degrees nice new comp... well-deserved anniversary celebration!
* Ernest Dawkins' New Horizos Ensemble Goin' Downtown Blues The Messenger: Live at the Original Velvet Lounge Delmark July 2005 performance
* Amy Winehouse Love Is A Losing Game Back To Black Island/Universal Republic
* Uncle Earl Streak O'Lean, Streak O'Fat Waterloo, Tennessee Rounder yes, friends, she's singing (shouting) in Chinese...
Reeltime Travelers Hallelujah Livin' Reeltime, Thinkin' Old-Time Yodel-Ay-Hee This is the now-disbanded group for which Martha Scanlan wrote many of the songs... that's her singing this one. She'll be at Merlefest this year.
* Jim Lauderdale Who's Leaving Who Bluegrass Yep Roc Mr. MerleFest, in some ways. He's the MC & panelist for the famed Chris Austin Songwriting Contest
Benton Flippen Salt River Old Time, New Times Rounder
* Arthur Dodge That's The Way That She Wants It The Perfect Face Remedy laid-back acoustic guitar songs. Reminds me a little of Guy Clark. Voice sounds Elvis Costello-ish sometimes.
New Dawn I See A Day There's A New Dawn Akarma 1970, Salem, Oregon.
* Baby Grandmothers Raw Diamond Baby Grandmothers Subliminal Sounds 1967, Sweden
* Arbouretum Mohammed's Hex And Beauty Rites of Uncovering Thrill Jockey 2007, Baltimore.
Ash Ra Tempel Darkness (partial) Schwingungen Spalax Music 1972, Germany. You\'re hearing the last 9 min. of a long song....
* Group Doueh Tirara Guitar Music from Western Sahara Sublime Frequencies lo-fi sound perhaps courtesy of cassette-only source... now on vinyl!
* Au Revoir Simone The Lucky One The Bird Of Music Our Secret
Kasey Chambers These Pines The Captain Asylum/Warner Bros.
* Son Volt Circadian Rhythm The Search Transmit Sound I'm not a huge Son Volt fan. But I'm enjoying this new album.
* The Finches June Carter Cash Human Like A House Dulc-i-Tone first full-length from this San Fran duo
June Carter Cash The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore Keep On The Sunny Side: Her Life In Music Sony
Jim Reeves & Patsy Cline Have You Ever Been Lonely (Have You Ever Been Blue) Greatest Hits RCA
Loretta Lynn Somebody Somewhere (Don't Know what He's Missin' Tonight) The Best of Loretta Lynn, vol. 2: The Millenium Collection MCA Nashville