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"Back Up & Push" with mark (archive)

Wednesday, July 22, 2009 | 10:00 to 12:00 | Playlist
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New Artist Song Album Label Comments
Michael Chapman It Didn't Work Out (VA) Anthems In Eden: An Anthology of British & Irish Folk, 1955-1978 Castle live recording from 1969
Sonic Youth Massage The History The Eternal Matador the new album
Sonic Youth Thunderclap For Bobby Pyn The Eternal Matador " " "
* 39 Clocks Fast Cars Zoned: Recordings 1987-1980...rewind De Stijl 1983
T. Rex Thunderwing The Slider Rhino 1972
* The Scene Is Now Ex-Country Song Total Jive Lexicon Devil 1986 album now re-released on CD
* Grizzly Bear While You Wait For The Others Veckatimest Warp new
* Birds of Avalon All Your Downtime Is Up Uncanny Valley Volcom Local. brand new & sounds great
* Dave Bixby Morning Sun Ode to Quetzalcoatl Guerszen 1969. Legendary folk record now on CD as well.
* Harbinger Time To Clear Your Mind Second Coming Guerszen Also 1969. Also Dave Bixby.
* Bowerbirds Chimes Upper Air Dead Oceans More new local music.
* Megafaun Impressions Of The Past Gather, Form & Fly Hometapes More new local music.
Phosphorescent Heartaches Of A Fool To Willie Dead Oceans One of my favorite albums this year. All Willie Nelson songs but they hardly sound Willie at all...
Bob Dylan When I Got Troubles No Direction Home: The Soundtrack Columbia 1959! Dylan plays Durham next Tuesday night!
Bob Dylan Pledging My Time Blonde On Blonde Columbia from a classic Dylan record...
Bob Dylan Beyond Here Lies Nothin' Together Through Life Columbia 2009! Fifty years of recording. Amazing.
* Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Strings Crossroads Renegades Delmark Stunning, bright, percussive tune from a great flutist.
* Craig Green & David King Part 3 Craig Green & David King Long Song
Miles Davis Ali [take 3] The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions Columbia I just watched the film "When We Were Kings" about the 1974 "Rumble In The Jungle" w/George Foreman, so got to thinking about Ali songs...
Orchestre G. O. Malebo Foreman Ali Welcome To Kinshasa (VA) Hits & Misses: Muhammad Ali & The Ultimate Sound of Fistfighting Trikont
Nomo Brainwave Ghost Rock Ubiquity Coming soon to Local 506. www.local506.com for info
* Casey Driessen Ashland Breakdown Oog Red Shoe creative, amazingly talented 5-string fiddle player, here w/ his new batch of enveloping-pushing roots music...
Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys Uncle Pen In The Pines County Ashland Breakdown (see above) is a Bill Monroe song...
* The Wiyos Roll On Down The Road Broken Land Bell self-released The Wiyos, big fans of re-working 20's-30's stompin' jazzy blues stuff, open the show for Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson next Tues. at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park. This one features fellow New Yorker Adam Matta as human beat-box and vocal percussionist...
* Iron & Wine Morning Around The Well Sub Pop
Drunken Prayer Tramp On The Street Drunken Prayer self-released Morgan Geer & co.