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"Big Carnivorous Feast" with mark (archive)

Wednesday, February 2, 2011 | 10:00 to 12:00 | Playlist
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New Artist Song Album Label Comments
Yat-Kha Kuu-La Khashtyn Baaryndan Yenisei-Punk Global Music Centre
Selda Gesi Baglari (VA) Bearded Ladies, Volume One Finders Keepers/Bird/B-Music
* Thunderball Enter The Brahmin 12 Mile High ESL funky & new from DC
Kalyanji-Anandji Cabaret Dance Music (VA) The Bombay Connection vol. 1 - Funk from Bollywood Action Thrillers 1977-1984 Normal from the film "Anjane Mein"
Thirteenth Floor Elevators Barnyard Blues Easter Everywhere/Bull Of The Woods Decal
* Tennis Bimini Bay Cape Dory Fat Possum husband/wife duo Patrick Riley & Alaina Moore, from Denver
* Gross Ghost Meltdown Lip City Grip Tapes new, local
* Broken Records Ailene Let Me Come Home 4AD new from Glasgow
* Marisa Anderson Clouds The Golden Hour Mississippi new improvs for guitar & lap steel
* Deathly Fighter Facing Mecca Completely Dusted Columbus Discount new
The Corin Tucker Band Doubt 1,000 Years Kill Rock Stars new-ish from former Sleater-Kinney voice
Federation X The Most Unlucky Sound Rally Day Estrus From Washington state. Opening for Monotonix at King's in Raleigh tomorrow night. http://kingsbarcade.com/
Monotonix Set Me Free Where Were You When It Happened Drag City Apparently this'll be their last show around here (see above re: King's tomorrow). They are reportedly disbanding....
Lungfish Straightaway Pass And Stow Dischord 1994
Bishop McDaniel Intro / Rock Daniels (VA) Fire In My Bones: Raw, Rare & Otherwordly African-American Gospel, 1944-2007 Tompkins Square Tompkins Square has put out a bunch of great stuff. This set is my favorite. http://www.tompkinssquare.com/
Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives Slow Train Soul's Chapel Superlatone/Universal South 2006. Staples Singers did this tune. (BTW, if you've not seen Marty Stuart's fab b&W photos at Duke's Center for Documentary Studies, go see 'em while you can. http://cds.aas.duke.edu/
Charlie Feathers Cherry Wine Uh Huh Honey Norton
Merle Haggard Street Singer The Lonesome Fugitive: The Merle Haggard Anthology 1963-1977 Razor & Tie
* Kurt Wagner and Courtney Tidwell present... KORT Picking Wild Mountain Berries Invariable Heartache City Slang I have heard no bad versions of this tune. Loretta and Conway are the royalty but this is great and so was Kelly Hogan's
Webb Pierce I'm Tired King Of The Honky Tonks Country Music Foundation 1950s
* Hot Club Of Cowtown Time Changes Everything What Makes Bob Holler Proper new trib. to Bob Wills
* Syl Johnson We Do It Together Complete Mythology Numero Group awesome 4-disc set of soul fine-ness
Syl Johnson That's Why Complete Mythology Numero Group so good I had to play two
Ernie K. Doe Here Come The Girls (VA) New Orleans Funk: The Original Sound of Funk 1960-1975 Soul Jazz ! oh yeah !
Memphis Black That's Me Boy (VA) The In-Kraut Vol. 3: Hip-Shaking Grooves Made In Germany 1967-1974 Marina
* Fujiya & Miyagi Sixteen Shades of Black & Blue Ventriloquizzing Yep Roc new
Of Montreal You Do Mutilate? False Priest Polyvinyl new-ish
* Alphonse Trent & His Orchestra After You've Gone (VA) Baby. How Can It Be? Songs of Love, Lust and Contempt from the 1920s and 1930s Dust-to-Digital from the "Contempt" disc...
Mississippi Matilda Hard Working Woman (VA) Baby. How Can It Be? Songs of Love, Lust and Contempt from the 1920s and 1930s Dust-to-Digital ditto
The Nu Sounds A Foggy Day Sun Ra: The Singles Evidence 1954. First track on this expansive comp
* William Parker Organ Quartet Let's Go Down To The River Uncle Joe's Spirit House Centering