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Wednesday, January 20, 2010 | 10:00 to 12:00 | Playlist
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New Artist Song Album Label Comments
Saint Etienne The Way We Live Now Finisterre Beggars 2002
Saint Etienne New Thing Finisterre Beggars
Martin Denny Akaka Falls Primitiva Scamp 1958
Depeche Mode Pipeline Construction Time Again Sire/Mute 1983
* P.M.7/Jupiter Pone Tara Pone (VA) Shadow Music of Thailand Sublime Frequencies
* Tomutonttu Tomutonto 7 Tomutonto Fonal Finnish
* Sounds of Liberation New Horizons I Sounds of Liberation Porter Philadelphia 1972. Love this reissue.
* John Coltrane Under Paris Skies Side Steps Concord new 5-CD box set. 1957 on this one.
* Miguel Zenón Despedida Esta Plena Marsalis great new Latin jazz release
Tift Merritt Good Hearted Man Tambourine Lost Highway Thanks for the call & the request!
* Cadillac Jones The Kick Rhythm Method South City New from Atlanta...
* Sensational Saints How Great Though Art (VA) Forge Your Own Chains: Heavy Psychedelic Ballads and Dirges 1968-1974 Now Again from ~1973
True Gospel Wymics Oh Yes That's Right (VA) Oxford American Southern Music comp #11, disc 2: "Arkansas Masters" Oxford American 1987. 2 great CDs and a fine magazine, all one cheap price, in stores NOW.
* Singing Son of Zion I'll Never Turn Back (VA) Fire in My Bones: Raw, Rare & Otherworldly African-American Gospel (1944-2007) Tompkins Square a.k.a. Brother Shelby Bransford, Jr. 1977. Dunno where from.
Rayborn Brothers Quintet Walk With Me (VA) Fire in My Bones: Raw, Rare & Otherworldly African-American Gospel (1944-2007) Tompkins Square 1974. Memphis area group.
Willamette Gospel Singers Pray On, My Child (VA) Fire in My Bones: Raw, Rare & Otherworldly African-American Gospel (1944-2007) Tompkins Square 1964. from L.A.
Bridget St. John Broken Faith Ask Me No Questions Cherry Red 1969
Martha Wainwright G.P.T. Martha Wainwright Zoë 2005. See following two tracks. Her mom died yesterday...
Kate & Anna McGarrigle Petite Annonce coming to you via YouTube.com - Kate McGarrigle, the influential and popular folks singer who sang for years with her sister Anna as the McGarrigle Sisters has died after a long battle with clear-cell carcinoma. McGarrigle was formerly married to Loudon Wainwright III and is the mother of singers Rufus and Martha Wainwright.
Rufus Wainwright One Man Guy Poses Dreamworks 2001. See above two tracks... his mom died yesterday.
* Timothy Cushing Worth A Try Telephone Lines self-released Folky dude from Maine. People talk Dylan and Kerouac and a little Daniel Johnston when they talk about him.
* Daniel Johnston I Had Lost My Mind Is & Always Was High Wire
* Olöf Arnalds AEvagömul Orkupula Vi∂ og Vi∂ One Little Indian new from Iceland
* Bird Names Scandanaïvia Sings The Brows Upset The Rhythm quirky Chicagoans
* Pistol Whip Heart Throb Terminal Smog Veil Erie, Pennsylvania punk/glam group, circa 1977
Pistol Whip Untouchables Terminal Smog Veil
Pistol Whip Whatchamacallit Terminal Smog Veil