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Wednesday, February 10, 2010 | 10:00 to 12:00 | Playlist
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New Artist Song Album Label Comments
David Banner Cadillac On 22s (VA) Oxford American 2007 Southern Music CD Oxford American
* David Starfire Ashes Bollyhood Base Six Degrees
The Flying Guitars Electronics (VA) Mindexpanders Vol. 2 Past & Present
Bettye LaVette Your Turn To Cry Child of the Seventies Atco/Rhino
Roberta Flack Do What You Gotta Do Chapter Two Atlantic Happy Birthday Roberta Flack (b. 2/10/1939) ! This is from her excellent 1970 LP. Song by Jimmy Webb.
Meg Baird Do What You Gotta Do Dear Companion Drag City Same Jimmy Webb song, from Meg Baird's solo debut, 2007.
* Caroline Herring Abuelita Golden Apples of the Sun Signature Sounds intimate performance, great voice, classic 1960s folkie sound TODAY. Nice release from 2009.
* Cam Penner Trouble & Mercy Trouble & Mercy Prairie Boy Third record from Manitoba's Cam Penner. Incredible songs. I don't go see too many solo singer-songwriter types, but if this dude ever comes here, I'm in.
* Clem Snide Walmart Parking Lot The Meat of Life 429 Newest from Eef Barzelay & colleagues...
* Pierced Arrows Onthemove Descending Shadows Vice new!!! Viva Fred & Toody!!!! Hope they come around soon to play!
* The Abstract Truth It's Alright With Me Silver Trees Shadoks South Africa, 1970.
* Irmin Schmidt & Inner Space In Kalkutta III Kamasutra Crippled Dick Hot Wax new! More pre-Can Can unearthed!
* Captain Marryat Dance of Thor Captain Marryat Shadoks Glagow band. 1974.
* Coalesce Wild Ox Moan Ox Relapse new from Kansas City. Experimental metal? Blues? I dunno.
Joe Henry Suit On A Frame Blood From Stars Anti-
The Suburbs Faith Credit In Heaven Twin Tone
The Suburbs Idiot Voodoo Credit In Heaven Twin Tone Minneapolis, 1981.
* Jon Hopkins Insides Insides Domino
Lively Ones Pipeline (VA) Pulp Surfin' Del-Phi From the vaults of Del-Phi Records... a comp of great 60s surf stuff!
* The Pine Hill Haints Not So Lucky and the Invisible Kid To Win Or To Lose K new from Alabamy.
Wanda Jackson My Big Iron Skillet Rockin' In The Country Rhino Rock n Roll Hall of Famer Wanda Jackson is playing at the Berkeley Café in Raleigh, Sunday Feb 14th, 7pm. No opening band.
Drive-By Truckers Birmingham Southern Rock Opera Soul Dump Playing 2 shows at the Lincoln Theater this weekend...
The Hidden Cameras Ratify The New Origin: Orphan Arts & Crafts their latest...
The Sames I Hear Angels Coming 3 x 4 Pox World Empire disc w/ 3 songs each from 4 bands...
Vic Chestnutt Latent / Blatant West Of Rome Texas Hotel 1992
* Vetiver Sister Tight Knit Sub Pop Vetiver's newest, out several months ago now.
* Laura Veirs Wide-Eyed, Legless July Flame Raven Marching Band Playing next Friday night (Feb 19th) at Local 506. This will be on my top 10 list for 2010, I'm sure.
Ryan Adams To Be Young (Is To Be Sad, Is To Be High) Heartbreaker Bloodshot Off his 2000 solo debut. Co-written with Dave Rawlings, and it appears on Dave's new album too (see below)
Jimmy Reed A New Leaf At Soul City Vee-Jay 1964
* Dave Rawlings Machine To Be Young (Is To Be Sad, Is To Be High) A Friend Of A Friend Acony new! Dave Rawlings finally puts his name on the marquee. It's still a Gillian Welch & Dave Rawlings thing. But Dave is handling the lead vocals this time out.
Khan Jamal Creative Arts Ensemble Inner Peace Drum Dance To The Motherland Eremite 1972. Live in Philadelphia.
Khan Jamal Creative Arts Ensemble Breath of Life Drum Dance To The Motherland Eremite " "