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Wednesday, September 2, 2009 | 10:00 to 12:00 | Playlist
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* Bert Jansch Fresh As A Sweet Sunday Morning L.A. Turnaround Drag City Orig. from 1974 on Charisma Records. Now re-released w/ some bonus tracks on CD. Love it.
* Richard Smyrnios As I Walk (VA) Wayfaring Strangers: Lonesome Heroes Numero Group Laurel Canyon-ish boyz o' the 70s comp
Louis Phillipe I'm Only Sleeping (VA) The Men From O.R.G.A.N. S.H.A.D.O. comp of various organ-based music. Lennon/McCartney song...
* Oneida Luxury Travel Rated O Jagjaguwar/Brah new
The Children I Got Involved Rebirth Gear Fab
The Mothers of Invention Are You Hung Up We're Only In It For The Money Verve/Bizarre 1968. 3rd album from MofI
The Beach Boys She's Goin' Bald Smiley Smile Capitol 1967
The Mothers of Invention Help, I'm A Rock Freak Out! Verve/MGM 1966 debut
Cave Made In Malaysia Psychic Psummer Important new
Wess & The Airedales Black Out Invasion Funk Masters: 12 Super Rare Heavyweight Fantabulous Funk Monsters From the 60s & 70s Soul Patrol
* 24-Carat Black The Best of Good Love Gone Gone: The Promises of Yesterday Numero Group Former Stax band
Cookie Crew Secrets of Success (VA) Fly Girls! B-Boys Beware - Revenge of the Super Female Rappers Soul Jazz one of my favorite comps this year
George Russell A Helluva Town New York, NY Impulse 1959. George Russell died July 27th.
* Reigning Sound Debris Love And Curses In The Red new
Drive-By Truckers Mama Bake A Pie (Daddy Kill A Chicken) The Fine Print: A Collection of Oddities & Rarities 2003-2008) New West new collection from DBTs
* O.V. Wright I Don't Do Windows The Bottom Line Hi/Fat Possum Reissue of a 1978 album
* Ann Peebles The Handwriting Is On The Wall The Handwriting Is On The Wall Hi/Fat Possum Reissue of a 1979 album
Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings You're Gonna Get It Naturally Daptone 2005
Carl Smith Yes I Know Why There Stands The Glass Columbia 1964
Johnny Paycheck Turnin' Off A Memory Hag Told My Story Epic 1981 LP containing all Merle Haggard songs
Merle Haggard Turn To Me If I Could Only Fly Anti- 2000
* Calico Haunts Couvert le Meurte After All Borderlord Excellent new local album
* Wye Oak Tattoo The Knot Merge
* Depedro Two Parts In One Depedro World's Fair Spanish vocalist Jairo Zavala teams up with Calexico multi-instrumentalist Joey Burns
* Susan McKeown & Lorin Sklamberg Buenos Aires Saints & Tzadiks World Village New. This is a yiddish tango about the selling of Polish women into slavery in S. America during WW2.
* Betse Ellis La Cinquantaine Don't You Want To Go? Free Dirt Beautiful violin piece for a woman otherwise known for incredible old-timey fiddle hoedown stuff
Kiila Niin Kuin Puut Tuota Tuota Fonal New release from a Finnish folk rock spacy electronica group. A more folky one here...
John Cale Memphis Seducing Down The Door Rhino Weird to hear John Cale do Chuck Berry, ain't it? But it don't sound like no Chuck Berry...
Amy LaVere I'll Remember You Anchors & Anvils Archer My favorite album of 2007. Produced by the late Jim Dickinson. Archer is a small Memphis record label. This is a Dylan song...
The Jesters Cadillac Man (VA) Sun Records: The 50th Anniversary Collection Sun mid-60s. One of Jim Dickinson's first recorded works....
* Paul Metzger After Milo Anamnestic Tincture Roaratorio "modified" banjo, strung & tuned like a sitar