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"Rat Salad" with mark (archive)

(switched shifts w/Georg this week)
Thursday, October 18, 2012 | 07:00 to 09:00 | Playlist
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* Boyd Rivers Church House Rock You Can't Make Me Doubt Mississippi Great new LP featuring 20-year-old recordings of the late Boyd Rivers, who played fiery blues-spirituals. Highly recommended.
Boyd Rivers Get Away Jordan You Can't Make Me Doubt Mississippi
Boyd Rivers That Fire Shed In My Bones You Can't Make Me Doubt Mississippi
Boyd Rivers I Want To Be At The Meeting You Can't Make Me Doubt Mississippi
Boyd Rivers I Done Died One Time You Can't Make Me Doubt Mississippi This concludes side A!
Sensational Skylights Jesus Is Sweet To Me (VA) Fire In My Bones: Raw, Rare & Otherworldly African-American Gospel, 1944-2007 Tompkins Square Trenton, NJ, 1961. This is an AMAZING 3-cd set that I love love love. Boyd Rivers is on it with the 3rd song in today's show, which gave its name to the set.
Bishop McDaniel Introduction/Rock Daniels (VA) Fire In My Bones: Raw, Rare & Otherworldly African-American Gospel, 1944-2007 Tompkins Square Austin, TX, 1988. Electric guitar preacher leads total church throw-down!
* Arizona Dranes I'll Go Where You Want Me To Go He Is My Story: The Sanctified Soul of Arizona Dranes Tompkins Square c.1926-8. One of the first evangelist singers to play music in a rockin' secular style. Piano-banger extraordinaire in the case of Ms. Dranes, from Ft. Worth, TX.
Kid Koala 4 Bit Blues 12 Bit Blues Ninja Tune AWESOME. Blues songs all chopped up and spliced & mixed back up. No info in the liner notes about source material though!
* Kid Koala 6 Bit Blues 12 Bit Blues Ninja Tune
* Flying Lotus Sultan's Request Until The Quiet Comes Warp new
* The Rippers The Prey Is In Better The Devil Know You Slovenly Recordings new from Sardinia
Left Lane Cruiser Wash It Bring Yo' Ass To The Table Alive Ft. Wayne, 2008
Gil Scott-Heron On Coming From A Broken Home (part 1) I'm New Here XL Recordings From Gil's 2010 album.
Gil Scott-Heron Me And The Devil I'm New Here XL Recordings Thanks for this great request.
* Thought Broadcast 03.18.2012 Emergency Stairway Editions Mego new lo-fi industrial stuff
* Halasan Bazar Go Out In Joy How To Be Happy Ever Moon Glyph new woozy baroque psych-pop from Copenhagen
The New Haven Women's Liberation Rock Band Shotgun (VA) Papa, Don't Lay That **** On Me Rounder dial it back 40 years before Roe v Wade etc. That's some bad ****.
The New Haven Women's Liberation Rock Band Sister-Witch (VA) Papa, Don't Lay That **** On Me Rounder
Zior Quabala Zior Nepentha 1971 UK heavy rock.
* Rodriguez Can't Get Away Searching for Sugarman OST Light in the Attic/Legacy 1970. Mexican-American folk rock singer from Detroit.
* Plant and See Flat On My Face Plant and See Paradise of Bachelors Fab reissue of a 1969 NC gem. This psych rock band was led by the late Willie Lowery, a Lumbee. Band also had white, black & Hispanic members.
Kak Lemonaide Kid (VA) Love Is The Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970 Rhino 1968
Miss Leslie & Her Juke Jointers To Get Through This Day Between The Whiskey & The Wine Zero Label 2008. Great pure honky tonk from a single mom in Houston. She does music on the side and damn she does it well! New kickstarter-funded album next year.
Zoe Muth & The Lost High Rollers I've Been Deceived Old Gold Signature Sounds Laid-back country tunes as always from ZM on this new EP. From Seattle.
The Backsliders The Lonely One The Backsliders / Phil Lee & The Sly Dogs split 7" Grim Reminder 1992
Takeshi Terauchi The Clamour Of The Sun Nippon Guitars: Instrumental Surf, Eleki & Tsugaru Rock, 1966-1974 Big Beat
* AXIS:SOVA Raising Hell Weight Of A Color Kill Shaman new
* Tame Impala Endors Toi Lonerism Modular New from Australia
* The Eccentronic Research Council Autobahn 666 (Traveloque #1) 1612 Underture Bird/Finders Keepers new concept album about the Pendle Hill witch trials of Lancashire in 1612.
The Eccentronic Research Council This Is The North (Travelogue #2) 1612 Underture Bird/Finders Keepers
* Black Humor Bull Peoples' OK Love God - Love One Another Superior Viaduct 1982
* Weird TV Boy Piss Weird TV 12" Perennial New from Olympia WA
* Grown-Ups Business School Stopped Caring Medical Documents new from Calgary
* Cheater Slicks Used Delusions Live Vol. 2 - 2010 Columbus Discount from Columbus, OH
* Guinea Worms Quivery Lip Smiles Columbus Discount also from Columbus