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Wednesday, January 30, 2008 | 10:00 to 12:00 | Playlist
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New Artist Song Album Label Comments
Merle Haggard Swinging Doors 16 Biggest Hits Epic/Legacy
Jean Shepard Sad Singin' And Slow Ridin' Melody Ranch Girl Bear Family
Johnny Grimes Who Will You You Cry To Then (VA) Soppin' Up The Gravy: A Taste of King 1945-1954 B.A.C.M.
* Andrew Jenkins Alabama Flood (VA) People Take Warning! Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs, 1913-1938 Tompkins Square March 1929
Mississippi Mud Steppers Alma Waltz (VA) Violin, Sing The Blues For Me: African-American Fiddlers, 1926-1949 Old Hat December 1930. Probably Lonnie Chatmon on the fiddle.
Nirvana Breed Nevermind Geffen
* Quando Quango Love Tempo (remix) (VA) Disco Not Disco: Post Punk, Electro & Leftfield Disco Classics 1974-1986 Strut
* Times New Viking Come Together Rip It Off Matador new one from Columbus OH
Dead Kennedys California Über Alles Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables Alternative Tentacles How 'bout a little tune about Gov. Jerry Brown in this primary election season?
* Up-Tight King Of Ice (live) Early Years Archive From Tokyo. Ascerbic guitar and feedback on a nice heavy bed of bass. 1994 recording.
* Black Mountain Stormy High In The Future Jagjaguwar new...their 2nd record. From Vancouver. Kicks ass.
Drive-By Truckers Self Destructive Zones Brighter Than Creation's Dark New West
Malcolm Holcombe Evelyn Gamblin' House Echo Mountain new & real good
* Elder Anderson Johnson God Don't Like It (VA) Blues, Sweet Blues Music Maker slide-guitar preachin' from Newport News, VA, 1994
Led Zeppelin Thank You Led Zeppelin II Atlantic great request! Thanks!
Waylon Jennings Mental Revenge Nashville Rebel RCA-Nashville / Legacy a Mel Tillis tune...
Gram Parsons & The Flying Burrito Brothers Train Song Live At The Avalon Ballroom 1969 Amoeba New(ish) release; opening for the Dead in SF, April '69. The also do Mental Revenge during these gigs.
The Byrds So You Want To Be A Rock 'N' Roll Star Younger Than Yesterday Columbia released 40 yrs ago this month
* Chris Hillman Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season) (VA) The Best of The ArtsCenter's American Roots Series 2004-2007 The ArtsCenter Carrboro's venerable ArtsCenter put this one out as a celebration of sorts. Unforch only a few of the songs a live recordings from there. This is one shining example from Hillman, ex-Byrd and ex-Burrito.
* Liam Finn Better To Be I'll Be Lightning Yep Roc new and absolutely delightful melodic pop-rock-folk
Of Montreal She's A Rejecter Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? Polyvinyl
Freedy Johnston Evie's Tears This Perfect World Elektra 1994
* Freedy Johnston The Sad Café My Favorite Waste Of Time Singing Magnet 2008. All covers on this one.
* Radar Bros. When Cold Air Goes To Sleep Auditorium Merge new
* Fred Thomas No Money Flood Magic Marker new
* The Whigs Production City Mission Control ATO new; Athens GA
* Tim Carroll The Guy For The Job The Devil Is A Busy Man self-released new
The Carter Family Bear Creek Blues Clinch Mountain Treasures: The Complete October 1940 ARC Recordings County Recorded in Chicago, Oct. 3, 1940
Loretta Lynn A Man I Hardly Know You Ain't Woman Enough Decca