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"Big Carnivorous Feast" with mark (archive)

Wednesday, June 1, 2011 | 10:00 to 12:00 | Playlist
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New Artist Song Album Label Comments
* Metal Rouge May 1971 Trails Emerald Cocoon new from L.A.
Gil Scott-Heron New York Is Killing Me I'm New Here XL R.I.P. Gil Scott-Heron, April 1, 1949 – May 27, 2011. This is from his last album, that came out last fall. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Scott-Heron
Gil Scott-Heron On Coming From A Broken Home (Part 1) I'm New Here XL
* Drums Off Chaos and Jens-Uwe Beyer First Half Drums Off Chaos and Jens-Uwe Beyer Magazine new from Germany
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond Doc At The Radar Station EMI 1980
Gil Scott-Heron On Coming From A Broken Home (Part 2) I'm New Here XL R.I.P. indeed
* Del the Funky Homosapien Makes No Sense Golden Era The Council new from No. Calif.
* Orange Juice A Sad Lament ...Coals to Newcastle Domino New multi-CD box of this Glasgow group's material. This one from the record "Texas Fever"
Greg Trooper Nothin' But You Straight Down Rain Eminent Playing at Casbah on Sunday night June 5th.
* Alexi Murdoch At Your Door Towards The Sun Zero Summer
* Amor de Dias Harvest Time Street Of The Love Of Days Merge new collab. 'tween Alasdair MacLean of The Clientele and Lupe Núñez-Fernández of Pipas
* Dolorean Black Hills Gold The Unfazed Partisan new from Portland OR
* Des Ark Bonne Chance, Asshole Don't Rock The Boat, Sink The Fucker Lovitt new from Philly (but she used to live here)
Sloan Unkind The Double Cross Yep Roc new from Canada
Nick Lowe Cruel To Be Kind Labour of Lust Columbia/Yep Roc 1979. Reissued recently on Yep Roc w/ bonus material.
* David Kilgour & The Heavy Eights Autumn Sun Left By Soft Merge new from NZ, where it really is autumn, I guess...
* Robert Belfour Hill Stomp (VA) North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic, vol. II Devil Down recorded live last June in Potts Camp, Mississippi
* Group Doueh Aziza Zayna Jumma Sublime Frequencies new from Western Sahara... sounds like Robert Belfour and these folks have some licks in common...
* Abner Jay I Cried Last Ol' Ministrel Man Mississippi among his last recordings, made in his trailer, 1993. He died a few months later.
Abner Jay My Testimony (VA) Fire In My Bones: Raw & Rare & Other-Worldly African American Gospel 1944-2007 Tompkins Square Abner at the height of his one-man-band powers, ca. 1963. Sounds like more than a one-man-band on this one though!
Little Chris & The Righteous Singers I Thank You Lord (VA) Good God! Born Again Funk Numero Group fine comp from 2009. 1976 for this cut.
Freddi/Henchi & The Soulsetters Piranha Crown Princes of Funk: The Last Set Wind Hit They were fixtures in Boulder Colo. when I was a little kid. Too bad I was a little kid.
Waylon Jennings Omaha Honky Tonk Heroes Buddha 1973 classic. 9 out of the 10 songs on it were written by Billy Joe Shaver.
Billy Joe Shaver Love Is So Sweet The Earth Rolls On New West "I've been a drifter and a low-life loser, you can learn a lot from me."
Dale Watson Louie's Lee's Liquor Lounge Live @ Pickathon 2007, Pendarvis Farm - pickin' it up in Oregon each'n'every August. http://www.pickathon.com/info/
Dale Watson Where Do You Want It Live @ Pickathon 2007, Pendarvis Farm - Dale's tune about Billy Joe Shaver's recent escapades...
The Gourds Mr. Betty Heavy Ornamentals Eleven Thirty 2006
The Gourds Best Of Me Cow Fish Fowl or Pig Sugar Hill 2002
Death By Chocolate Ice Cold Lemonade Death By Chocolate Jetset 100F today. gawd!