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"Back Up & Push" with mark (archive)

Wednesday, May 14, 2008 | 10:00 to 12:00 | Playlist
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New Artist Song Album Label Comments
* Jeb Loy Nichols 25 Years Too Late Days Are Mighty Compass new, nice
* The Strugglers New Form The Latests Rights Acuarela Beautiful record, one of my favorites this year. And from DURHAM!
* Seth Kauffman Ain't No Tellin' / I Bleed Easy Research self-released Also on my faves list so far this year. From Black Mountain, NC.
Eddy Arnold Anytime The Best of Eddy Arnold RCA Eddy Arnold, etched in the memories of many, passed away last week at age 90.
* The Old Haunts Ruined View Poisonous Times Kill Rock Stars from Olympia WA
* Brimstone Howl Cyclone Boy Guts Of Steel Alive from Nebraska
* Eleanor Roosevelt Gravy Walker With His Head Down Skuntry from St. Louis
The Suburbs Postcard Credit In Heaven Twin Tone from Minneapolis. 1981.
Of Montreal Wraith Pinned To The Mist (And Other Games) Sunlandic Twins Polyvinyl
Yma Sumac Malambo No. 1 The Mambo Capitol 1954!
* Nortec Collective presents: Bostitch & Fussible Cetron Tijuana Sound Machine Nacional
* Los Hijos del Sol Cariñito (VA) Roots of Chicha: Psychedelic Cumbias from Peru Barbes from the oil-boom cities of Peru, 1970s
* Daniel "Belteshazzar" Higgs Leontocephaline Rhapsody Metempsychotic Melodies Holy Mountain
The Deviants Broken Biscuits The Deviants Transatlantic 1969
Justin Treviño I'll Go Down Swingin' Take One As Needed For Pain Heart of Texas w/ Bill Anderson. 2007. Great traditional country singer, today.
The Starline Rhythm Boys It's Anyone's Guess Red's Place Cow Island Also 2007. From Vermont, if ya can believe that.
Arty Hill & The Long Gone Daddies I'm Thinkin' It's Better This Way Bar of Gold Cow Island from Baltimore. 2008.
Neko Case If I'm Gonna Sink (I Might As Well Go To The Bottom) (VA) Touch My Heart: A Tribute to Johnny Paycheck Sugar Hill
* Instant Orange Skyline Instant Orange Shadoks San Bernadino, Calif. late 60s/early 70s... [No ArtLine this week. Can't find the minidisc!]
* Thalia Zedek Band Lower Allston Liars And Prayers Thrill Jockey
* Bum Kon Fighting Yourself Drunken Sex Sucks Smooch Denver hardcore, early 80s
The Clientele Where The Universes Are (VA) Old Enough 2 Know Better: 15 Years of Merge Records Merge
Calexico Quattro (World Drifts In) Feast of Wire Quarterstick thanks for the request!
The Gourds Pine Tar Ramparts Dem's Good Beeble Munich
Red Stick Ramblers It Ain't Right Right Key, Wrong Keyhole Memphis International This fine band is playing at the ArtsCenter in Carrboro on Saturday night. They are reaaal good so I encourage checking them out.
* Eli "Paperboy" Reed & The True Loves Am I Wasting My Time Roll With You Q Division Awesome new blue-eyed soul from Boston
Rufus Thomas (Do The) Push And Pull, pt. 1 Do The Funky Somethin': The Best of Rufus Thomas Rhino 1970
* Komachiyo Okada Yasukibushi (Tale of Yasuki) (VA) Victrola Favorites: Artifacts from Bygone Days Dust-to-Digital 1927, Japan.
Don Redman and His Orchestra Watching The Knife & Fork Spoon (VA) Victrola Favorites: Artifacts from Bygone Days Dust-to-Digital 1933, USA
* Peter Cooper All The Way To Heaven Mission Door Red Beet strong debut
Loretta Lynn Portland, Oregon Van Lear Rose Interscope