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New | Artist | Song | Album | Label | Comments | ||
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Joe Tex | Trying To Win Your Love | (VA) More Dirty Laundry: The Soul of Black Country | Trikont | smashing compilation with an even better companion | |||
Jim Ford | Chain Gang | The Sounds of Our Time: The Harlan County album, rare singles and previously unreleased masters | Bear Family | killer version of Sam Cooke's song. Wanna read about an interesting & mysterious character? Google Jim Ford. | |||
* | Bob Greene | Mr. Jelly Lord | St. Peter Street Stuffers | Delmark | 1965, New Orleans | ||
* | Chicago Underground Duo | Confliction | Boca Negra | Thrill Jockey | 10th release from these Chicago improvisors..... | ||
Bo Dollis and Monk Boudreaux w/ ReBirth Brass Band | Shoo Fly | (VA) Mardi Gras In New Orleans | Rounder | 2001 comp | |||
* | Mandy More | If Not By Fire | But That Is Me | Sunbeam | 1972. Now re-released on CD. | ||
Leonard Bernstein & Orchestra | The Rumble | West Side Story (Original Broadway Cast Recording) | Columbia | 1957. Saw a ballet performance of Romeo & Juliet last weekend, inspiring me to share this with you.... | |||
Fugazi | Margin Walker | 13 Songs | Dischord | late 80s | |||
Link Wray | Rumble | Rumble! The Best of Link Wray | Rhino | but of course. | |||
* | Schooner | Feel Better | Duck Kee Sessions | Cytunes.org | new! | ||
* | Spoon | Got Nuffin | Transference | Merge | new! | ||
* | Ben Davis & The Jetts | I Want U To Want 2 | Charge It Up! | Lovitt | new! | ||
* | Fin Fang Foom | Lonely Waves | Monomyth | Lovitt | new! All local in this set 'cept Spoon... but they're on a local label. | ||
* | The Rural Alberta Advantage | The Deadroads | Hometowns | Saddle Creek | um, OK, local up til NOW. | ||
* | Polysics | Fire Bison | Absolute | Ki-oon | not even close to local. Japan. | ||
The Knack | My Sharona | Get The Knack | Capitol | 1979. I listened to this about 2,000,000 times when it came out. Doug Fieger, lead singer for The Knack, passed away a couple days ago from cancer. :( | |||
The Knack | Heartbeat | Get The Knack | Capitol | great cover of Buddy Holly | |||
The Buzzcocks | Autonomy | Singles Going Steady | I.R.S. | 1978 | |||
The Lime Spiders | 25th Hour | (VA) Do The Pop! The Australian Garage-Rock Sound 1976-1987 | Shock | 1982 | |||
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band | Hair Pie: Bake 2 | Trout Mask Replica | Reprise | 1970. Produced by Frank Zappa. | |||
* | Asobi Seksu | Gliss | Rewolf | Polyvinyl | One of the last records recorded at Olympic Studios in London before it closed its doors in Feb 2009. Recorded during an off-day from their tour. Beatles, Stones, Zeppelin, & The Who all recorded there. | ||
* | Alex Cuba | Penita En La Cara | Agua del Pozo | Caracol | Afro-Cuban indie-folk-pop | ||
Cesaria Evora | Bondade e Maldade (Yoruba Soul mix by Osulade) | Club Sodade | Bluebird | amazing album remixing the Cape Verdian legend... 2003. | |||
Fear Itself | Crawlin' Kingsnake | Fear Itself | Dot | 1969. | |||
Big Brother & The Holding Company | All Is Loneliness | Big Brother & The Holding Company | Columbia | 1967 | |||
* | Dirty Little Heaters | Railroaded | Champions Of Imperfection | Churchkey | new! CD release party at Local 506 this Sat. night!!!! | ||
The Gossip | Jealous Control Girls | Standing In The Way Of Control | Kill Rock Stars | 2006 | |||
Band Of Skulls | Bomb | Baby Darling Doll Face Honey | You Are Here | A fave from last year. BoS is from Southampton, UK. | |||
? | Numbers Game | Radio Pyongyang: Commie Funk and Agit Pop from the Hermit Kingdom | Sublime Frequencies | television & radio excerpts from N. Korea, recorded 'tween 1995 and 2005. Wow. | |||
Veronica Fischer & Band | Kirschblüte | (VA) D-Funk: Funk, Disco & Boogie Grooves from Germany, 1972-2002 | Marina | a gem from 1975 | |||
* | Su Kramer | Die Grüne Witwe | (VA) Funky Fräuleins: Female Beat, Groove, Disco & Funk in Germany 1968-1978 | Bureau B | 1978. Very funk cover of the song Barbara Streisand did. | ||
* | Gong | Rational Anthem | (VA) The BYG Deal | B-Music/Finders Keepers | comp spanning 1968-74 from the pioneering French label BYG | ||
Flat Duo Jets | Wild Trip | Go Go Harlem Baby | Sky | 1991. Dex Romweber & pals. | |||
Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra | The World Is Gone | The In-Kraut vol. 3: Hip-Shaking Grooves Made In Germany 1967-74 | Marina | can't resist the verruckte Deutsch Pop! | |||
* | The Abstract Truth | Scarborough Fair | Totum | Shadoks | South Africa, 1970. Nice. | ||
Real Estate | Beach Comber | Real Estate | Woodsist | 2009 | |||
* | Vetiver | Another Reason To Go | Tight Knit | Sub Pop | their newest. my God, their are HORNS in it! | ||
Thelonious Monk | (I Don't Stand) A Ghost Of A Chance With You | Thelonious Himself | Riverside | Recorded in New York, April 1957 | |||
Janiva Magness | One Heartache Too Late | What Love Will Do | Alligator | 2008 | |||
Emmylou Harris | The Boxer | Roses In The Snow | Warner Bros. | 1980. | |||
* | Manassas | My Love Is A Gentle Thing | Pieces | Rhino | Outtakes from the band's 1972 and 1973 sessions. Stephen Stills at the center of it... | ||
* | Willie Nelson | Happiness Lives Next Door | Naked Willie | RCA Nashville | Album of classic Willie songs from 1966-70, stripped of all the Nashville production. Go Willie! | ||
Chatham County Line | Louisiana Freight Train | Route 23 | Yep Roc | 2005. Beautiful song. | |||
* | Dave Rawlings Machine | Ruby | A Friend Of A Friend | Acony | |||
The Band | Lonesome Suzie | Music From Big Pink | Capitol | 1968 | |||
* | Eric Bibb | With My Maker I Am One | Booker's Guitar | Telarc | EB performing on the National guitar once owned by Bukka White (Booker T. Washington White) | ||
Moon Martin | Hot Night In Dallas | Shots From A Cold Nightmare | EMI | 1978 LP | |||
Moon Martin | Victim Of Romance | Shots From A Cold Nightmare | EMI | ||||
Moon Martin | Night Thoughts | Shots From A Cold Nightmare | EMI | ||||
Moon Martin | Paid Killer | Shots From A Cold Nightmare | EMI | ||||
Moon Martin | Cadillac Walk | Shots From A Cold Nightmare | EMI | end of side 1 |