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"Big Carnivorous Feast" with mark (archive)

Wednesday, December 29, 2010 | 10:00 to 12:00 | Playlist
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New Artist Song Album Label Comments
Range Rats The Two Of Us Range Rats Mississippi Out this year on LP. Prev. unissued 1985 country thing from Fred & Toody Cole.
Range Rats Fast Freight Train Range Rats Mississippi
Range Rats Thunder Road Range Rats Mississippi
Range Rats Lonely Range Rats Mississippi
Range Rats Prison Train Range Rats Mississippi
Range Rats Honky Tonkin Range Rats Mississippi
Range Rats Over The Gun Range Rats Mississippi
Range Rats Range Rats Theme Range Rats Mississippi
Range Rats Won't Come Back Range Rats Mississippi
Range Rats Blues Coming Down Range Rats Mississippi
Range Rats Vaya Con Dios Range Rats Mississippi Hope you agree with me that 30 min. of Range Rats is better than 30 min. of dead air! :) And now, on with the regularly-scheduled 10a-12noon programme..............
Rex Allen Dude Ranch Polka Rex Allen: The Last of the Great Singing Cowboys Bloodshot/Soundies part of the great "revival" series the label was once doing. All late 40s on this disc.
Rex Allen A Human Coyote Stole My Girl Rex Allen: The Last of the Great Singing Cowboys Bloodshot/Soundies "
Ray Charles I Makes No Difference Now Modern Sounds In Country and Western Music Rhino a hit for Floyd Tillman in 1939. Recorded by brother Ray in '62.
The Cramps Voodoo Idol Psychedelic Jungle/Gravest Hits IRS this one from 1981's Psychedelic Jungle
Hound Dog Taylor & The HouseRockers Gonna Send You Back To Georgia Genuine Houserocking Music Alligator Recorded in either '71 or '73 and issued on LP posthumously in 1982.
* Jane Birkin La Cible Qui Bouge Di Doo Dah Light In The Attic 1973
* Vilella Vilella The Goose With Problems Atlantis Massif self-released electro-funk, new from Seattle
* Belle And Sebastian I'm Not Living In The Real World Write About Love Matador newest from b&s!
* Gemma Ray 1952 Lights Out Zoltar! Bronzerat Zoltars were coin-op fortune-telling machines at carnivals etc
* Sanae Petchaboon Pen Jung Dai (VA) The Sound of Siam: Leftfield Luk, Thung, Jazz, & Molam in Thailand 1964-1975 Soundway wow, great new comp!
The He 5 Auld Lang Syne Merry Christmas Psychedelic Sound Universal Sound Korea 1969
Valient Thorr Doublecrossed Stranger Volcom new V.T. !
Let's Active Writing The Book Of Last Pages Big Plans For Everybody IRS 1985. Semi-local (Winston-Salem)
* Gray Young Unbound Staysail 307 Knox new, local
Delta Spirit Tomorrow Goes Away Ode To Sunshine Rounder from San Diego, first released with presumably smaller distribution in 2007 before Rounder (of all labels) picked it up and put it out nationally in '08
Delta Spirit Trashcan Ode To Sunshine Rounder "
* Cloud Nothings AM Rooftop Turning On Carpark Cloud Nothings is one dude only, 19 yr old Dylan Bandi from Cleveland. Fuzz-rock-on sir!
* The Black Ryder Grass Buy The Ticket, Take The Ride Mexican Summer new... dunno where they are from... more nice fuzz though!
Black Haze Express Pretty Soon (VA) Oxford American Southern Music CD No. 12 Oxford American This new comp is free with the current issue of the magazine. Just picked mine up at The Regulator. This acid rock cut from Alabama dates to 1971.
Captain Beefheart & His Magic band Mirror Man Mirror Man Sessions Buddah 1971. R.I.P.
* Ebo Taylor Kwame Love And Death Strut Highlife player from Ghana who started out in the 50s. NEW album at age 74. Killer.
Paul Ngozi Happy New Year B-side of the "Happy Christmas" single Telefix 1970s Zambian psych-rock guitarist singer songwriter. Now Again Records apparently will release a pile of his stuff in 2011.
* Spanish Harlem Orchestra Rumba Urbana Viva La TradiciĆ³n SHO new from NYC's hot hot salsa band
* The Microscopic Septet Epistrophy Friday the 13th: The Micros Play Monk Cuneiform new collection of Thelonius covers from NYC
Catherine Irwin Dirty Little Snowman Cut Yourself A Switch Thrill Jockey 2002. This one goes out to the three-lobed dude out back of my house who was standing but slumping when I left. But I bet he's faceplanted by now....
* Whitey Morgan & The 78s Cheaters Always Lose Whitey Morgan & The 78s Bloodshot new from Flint, Michigan. Fine honkytonk ala Waylon in the 1970s