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Wednesday, March 11, 2009 | 10:00 to 12:00 | Playlist
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New Artist Song Album Label Comments
Bongo Joe I Wish I Could Sing (VA) Arhoolie 40th Anniversary Box Set Arhoolie late 1960s
The Homewreckers All Wheels, No Control Introducing Pink Flag & The Homewreckers self-released
* Phosphorescent Walkin' To Willie Dead Oceans Willie Nelson cover album. VERY good. Phosphorescent will be at the Duke Coffeehouse on Th 3/26/09.
Megafaun Lazy Suicide Bury The Square Table Of The Elements Opening tomorrow's show at Cat's Cradle in front of Vetiver.
* Marissa Nadler Mistress Little Hells Kemado her newest
Vetiver Down At El Rio To Find Me Gone DiCristina See above... // They have a brand new record on Sub Pop. Haven't had a chance to hear it yet....
Wall Of Voodoo Two Minutes Till Lunch Dark Continent IRS 1981
* Interbellum Kivumu Over All Of Spain The Sky Is Clear FSS ex-Freakwater drummer Brendan Burke with cellist Fred Lomberg-Holm. Really pretty.
* Antony & The Johnsons Kiss My Name The Crying Light Secretly Canadian
Mose Allison Foolkiller (VA) Oxford American Southern Music CD #10 (2008) Oxford American 1964
Amy Allison Listless And Lonesome Sad Girl Diesel Only 2001. Yep, this is Mose Allison's daughter.
* BeauSoleil Carriere Zydeco Alligator Purse Yep Roc new
* P.O.S. Savion Glover Never Better Rhymesayers new from Minnesota
Whitefield Brothers Rampage (VA) Up From The Vaults, Vol. 1 - The Soul Fire Collection of Funk Singles Soul Fire 2002 comp
* Dent May Oh Paris! The Feeling Music of Dent May Paw Tracks A dude from Mississippi who plays ukelele and what not...
Banjo Ikey Robinson and His Bull Fiddle Band My Four Reasons (VA) Folks, He Sure Do Pull Some Bow! - Vintage Fiddle Music 1927-1955 Old Hat A fine comp full of blues, jazz, stomps, shuffles & rags...
Joe Chopper & The Swinging 7 Soul Band Soul Pusher (VA) New Orleans Funk, Vol. 2 Soul Jazz 1974
The Three Degrees Reflections Of Yesterday (VA) The Sound of Philadelphia: Funk, Soul and The Roots of Disco, 1965-1973 Soul Jazz
Norma & The Heartaches Hot Pants (VA) The Sound of Philadelphia: Funk, Soul and The Roots of Disco, 1965-1973 Soul Jazz
* 7 Miles Per Hour Band Playin' Your Game At The Disco 12-inch Kay-Dee From Buffalo, NY. Not sure when.
* Cardell Funk Machine Shoot Your Shot Shoot Your Shot b/w It's All Over 7-inch Peoples Potential Unlimited 198x. Downtempo Chicago funk-disco
* Minority Band Tasty Tune Tasty Tune 12-inch Peoples Potential Unlimited 1970s New Jersey.
* Elder Utah Smith & Congregation A New World In My View I Got Two Wings: Incidents and Anecdotes of the Two-Winged Preacher and Electric Guitar Evangelist CaseQuarter
* Lost Crusaders I Don't Ask Why Have You Heard About The World? Everlasting "A gospel record with indie pedigree, country-soul undercurrents, on which Delta-church exuberance trumps downtown cool..."
* Ebenezer East Church He's Calling Me (VA) Art of Field Recording, Vol. II Dust-to-Digital Athens, Georgia, 1980
Words of Luv I'd Have To Be Out Of My Mind (VA) Tobacco A-Go-Go Vol. 3 Blue Mold 1967