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Wednesday, November 9, 2005 | 10:30 to 12:00 | Playlist
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New Artist Song Album Label Comments
Steve Earle Guitar Town Guitar Town MCA
Hayes Carll Little Rock Little Rock Highway 87 Probably on my top 10 list for 2005
* Stillhouse Changes Through the Winter Vella Recordings
* Dengue Fever Escape From Dragon House Escape From Dragon House M80
Eskew Reeder Green Door (VA) The Minit Records Story Legends Recorded in 1962
Tell-Tale Hearts Come And Gone The Tell-Tale Hearts Voxx San Diego, 1984, but sounds 20 years earlier...
Heavy Trash Lover Street Heavy Trash Yep Roc
* Adolphus Bell The One Man Band One Man Band Music Maker Relief Foundation
* Tom Russell Band Oil Field Girls Raw Vision: Vintage Americana 1984-1994 Philo Prev. unreleased demo recording on this new collection
Blaze Foley Clay Pigeons Wanted More Dead Than Alive Waddell Hollow Records Long-lost recordings of the little-known Blaze Foley. This was recorded (then lost) just before he was shot to death in early 1989. Someone found a CD of it this summer and now it's finally out!
Lucinda Williams Drunken Angel Car Wheels On A Gravel Road Mercury Lucinda's song about Blaze Foley. Always wanted to hear Blaze after hearing this song, but never could until now.
* Jens Lekman A Sweet Summer's Night On Hammer Hill Oh You're So Silent, Jens Secretly Canadian
* Marah Poor People If You Didn't Laugh You'd Cry Yep Roc coming soon to the Pour House in Raleigh... (?Dec 14?)
Robbie Fulks Fountains Of Wayne Hotline (a parody) CD single Yep Roc !!!
* Emmanuel Jal & Abdel Gadir Salim Baai Ceasefire Riverboat / World Music Network Can't get enough of this!
Tama Walo Tagoumbar Keepers Of The Talking Drum Village Pulse A group from Senegal playing the tama (talking drum)
Control Machete Paciencia Uno, Dos: Bandera Universal Music Mexico
* We Are Wolves La Nature Non-Stop Je Te Plie En Deux Fat Possum
Linda Thompson Miss Murray Fashionably Late Rounder
* Devendra Banhart Queen Bee Cripple Crow XL
* Buddy Guy The Price You Gotta Pay Bring 'Em In Zomba
Loretta Lynn Trouble In Paradise The Best of Loretta Lynn, vol. 2 MCA