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"Back Up & Push" with mark (archive)

Wednesday, September 6, 2006 | 10:30 to 12:00 | Playlist
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New Artist Song Album Label Comments
Heart Barracuda Little Queen Portrait 1977 in all its glory!
Billy Nicholls London Social Degree Would You Believe Immediate vinyl copies of this 60's LP cost a lotta cash... now out on CD!
Band Of Horses Wicked Gil Everything All The Time Sub Pop
* Six Organs of Admittance The Desert is a Circle The Sun Awakens Drag City
Kinks The Village Green Preservation Society The Village Green Preservation Society Reprise
Jim Lauderdale Single Standard Time Country Super Hits Yep Roc new!
* Guy Clark Exposé Workbench Songs Dualtone also new
Wilders Hallelujah I'm Ready Spring A Leak Rural Grit
* Dave Evans (I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle Pretty Green Hills Rebel
* Urbs Nothing Gonna Change His Way Toujours Le Meme G-Stone from Austrian DJ Paul Nawrata
Willie Hightower Back Road Into Town Willie Hightower Honest Jons
* Grant-Lee Phillips Under The Milky Way nineteeneighties Zoë 80s covers record -- this one by The Church
Calexico Crooked Road and The Briar Even My Sure Things Fall Through Quarterstick coming to the Cat's Cradle later in the month
* Spencer Dickinson Zigaboo The Man Who Lives For Love Yep Roc Originally released only in Japan in 2001. Now out with extra tracks from the session on Yep Roc
Black Keys Have Mercy On Me Chulahoma Fat Possum All songs by Junior Kimbrough on this 6-song CD
* Pipo Fiasco Kansas Parade self-released
Charley Patton Poor Me Founder Of The Delta Blues, 1929-1934 Yazoo
* Scritti Politti E Eleventh Nuts White Bread Black Beer Nonesuch/Rough Trade
* Her Next Friend Seven Nation Army New #2 Antipoison
Tim Easton News Blackout Ammuntion New West
Howlin' Wolf Hidden Charms Chess Box MCA / Chess Hubert Sumlin on guitar. He appears w/ Pinetop Perkins at the Bull Durham Blues Festival this weekend. Go to www.hayti.org for info!
Pinetop Perkins Chicken Shack Ladies Man M.C. Records live recording, March 2004. He was only 91 years old then. Now he's 93 & you can go see him play. He played for years w/ Muddy Waters.
Hubert Sumlin West Side Soul Hubert Sumlin's Blues Party Black Top
Loretta Lynn Jackson Ain't A Very Big Town Fist City Decca
Golliwogs Fight Fire (VA) Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968 Rhino
The Saints Simple Love (VA) Do The Pop! The Australian Garage Rock Sound 1976-87 Shock
Radio Birdman Locked Up Zeno Beach Yep Roc I first learned about Radio Birdman on the Do The Pop! compilation. Now they have a new album, their first all-new stuff in >25 years.
Thee Headcoats Beach Bums Must Die! Beach Bums Must Die! Crypt 1990
The Mosquitos Let's Stomp! (VA) Cavestomp! vol. 1 Cavestomp from a garage rock fest in NYC in '97. Sad that we'll have no Sleazefest this year :(
* Zachary Cale A Marked Man Outlander Sessions New World of Sound Records
Zachary Cale Hymn To Beauty Outlander Sessions New World of Sound Records
* Defiance, Ohio Oh, Susquehanna! The Great Depression No Idea from Bloomington, Indiana