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"Rat Salad" with mark (archive)

Wednesday, March 25, 2015 | 10:00 to 12:00 | Playlist
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New Artist Song Album Label Comments
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys Let's Ride With Bob Legends of Country Music: Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys Columbia / Legacy from a 4-disc set released in '06 to commemorate what would've been his 100th birthday
The Cannonball Adderley Sextet Scotch and Water In New York Riverside rec. live at the Village Vanguard, Jan. 1962, feat. Yusef Lateef and others. Really tight.
JD Allen Trio East Boogie Shine Sunnyside 2009
* Kris Davis Infrasound Whirly Swirly Save Your Breath Clean Feed new
* Hypercolor Palace Hypercolor Tzadik new
* Cantwell, Gomez and Jordan Otters In The Kelp Half-Finished Bobcat Potluck new, local
* Spray Paint Trot It Out Clean Blood, Regular Acid Monofonus Press new from Austin. Playing a week from tonight at Duke Coffeehouse with Whatever Brains and Davidians: http://www.wxdu.org/node/1155
Spray Paint Wet Beer Clean Blood, Regular Acid Monofonus Press
* Rhyton Siren In Byblos Kykeon Thrill Jockey "fusion of ancient Mediterranean and Middle-eastern scales and melodies with contemporary jam band and psychedelic rock elements." Their 3rd album. New.
Ty Segall Tall Man, Skinny Lady Manipulator Drag City 2014
* The Notations What More Can I Say Still Here: 1967-1973 Numero Group new comp of material from Chicago R&B/soul group
* Matthew E. White Fruit Trees Fresh Blood Domino MW will be at Motorco in May. Nice new album!
Bernadette Bascom I Don't Wanna Lose Your Love (VA) Wheedle's Groove: Seattle Funk, Modern Soul & Boogie vol. II, 1972-1987 Light in the Attic sweet track from a great comp
Tony Joe White Did Somebody Make A Fool Out Of You? (VA) Country Got Soul vol. 1 Casual
Travis Wammack Easy Evil (VA) Country Got Soul vol. 2 Casual crucial comps from 2004 and 2005
The Young Hearts I've Got Love For My Baby (VA) The Minit Records Story Legends/EMI 1968
Brooks O'Dell You Better Make Up Your Mind (VA) Kent's Cellar of Soul Kent Soul 1965
Ja'afar Hassan "They Taught Me" (VA) Choubi Choubi! Folk and Pop Sounds from Iraq Sublime Frequencies 1970s
* Narayanrao Vyas Misra Kafi, pt. 2 (VA) 100 Moons Canary/Mississippi Hindustani music spanning 1930s-50s
* Roscoe Holcomb Motherless Children Close To Home Smithsonian Folkways new LP reissue of Kentuckian Holcomb's last record, orig. 1975
* Algia Mae Hinton Honey Baby Precious Bryant / Algia Mae Hinton: Gran'mas I've Never Had Moi j'Connais Piedmont style fingerpicked blues and two great voices. Nice LP.
Algia Mae Hinton Out of Jail Precious Bryant / Algia Mae Hinton: Gran'mas I've Never Had Moi j'Connais banjo on this one. Algia Mae is from Johnston Co., NC
* Robert Petway Catfish Blues (VA) Last Kind Words, 1926-1953 Mississippi The first Mississippi comp, now repressed anew! Gitcha one!
* Superfunk Superfunk (VA) DISCO: A Fine Selection of Independent Disco, Modern Soul and Boogie 1978-82 Soul Jazz excellent new comp!!!!
* Deerhoof Paradise Girls La Isla Bonita Polyvinyl yes, it's really truly sold out. Soooorry!
Deerhoof Desaparecere Milk Man Kill Rock Stars 2004
* Futuro Antico Eco Raga Dai Primitivi All'Elettronica Black Sweat 1980, Italy