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Wednesday, May 26, 2010 | 09:30 to 12:00 | Playlist
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New Artist Song Album Label Comments
Pentangle Jack Orion Cruel Sister Reprise 1971
Bert Jansch When The Teardrops Fell (live at Montreux, July 4, 1975) Santa Barbara Honeymoon Drag City CD reissue of Pentagle member Jansch's 1975 LP, with bonus live cuts like this one added on
Traffic Glad John Barleycorn Must Die United Artists 1970
* Incredible String Band The Mad Hatter's Song The 5000 Spirits or Layers of the Onion Fledg'ling 1967. Their second album, now out on CD.
Meg Baird, Helena Espvall, Sharron Kraus Fortune My Foe Leaves From Off The Tree Bo'Weavil 2006. British singer Kraus teams with Espers members for a livingroom session. Excellent.
* Kemani Ama Recep Cifte Kiris Ile Rast Taksim (VA) Excavated Shellac: Strings Parlortone from Turkey
Uncle Dave Macon Whoop 'Em Up, Cindy (VA) Desperate Man Blues Dust-to-Digital The prev. track (Parlortone) is from the vinyl off-shoot of Dust-to-Digital
* Marvin Gaster, Rich Hartness, Beth Hartness, Harry Gaster Chickens Crowing At Midnight (VA) Going Down To Raleigh: Stringband Music in the North Carolina Piedmont 1976-1998 PineCone great comp, new(ish)
* Balkan Beat Box Balcumcia Blue Eyed Black Boy Nat Geo Music new
* Janelle MonĂ¡e Tightrope The ArchAndroid: Suites II and III Bad Boy/Wondaland Arts Society new
* Raw Soul feat. Barbara Stant Superman Superman b/w Just Walk Funky 7" Plut prev. unreleased
James Reese & The Progressions Let's Go (It's Summertime) (VA) Carolina Funk: Funk 45s from the Atlantic Coast Jazzman 1969. From upstate South Cackylack...
Tony Newman Soul Thing (VA) Return of the Instro-Hipsters Vol. 2: Groovy Instrumentals from the UK, 1965-1973 Psychic Circle
Laurie Johnson Chase That Car (VA) Music for TV Dinners: The '60s Scamp
* Crown's Clan No Place For Our Minds (VA) Steppin' Through An Empty Time Psychic Circle new comp
* Clyde and the Nightswingers The Enormous Midnight The Enormous Midnight b/w On The Elevator Up 7" Arcania International new
* Antibubbles Ghost Girl Pop self-released from Raleigh. New.
The Amazing Defect Wait For A Light To Come Subliminal Sounds new from Sweden
* East Bay Grease Brass Digger Just Head Classic Bar Music new from Oakland, CA
* Andre Williams Tricks That's All I Need Bloodshot new
* Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs Two Left Feet Medicine County Transdreamer new
Bo Ramsey In The Weeds In The Weeds Trailer 1997. Iowa. Guitarist in much demand... plays with Greg Brown, Lucinda, others
* Pieta Brown Flowers In The Kingdom One And All Red House Fine new album. Pieta's husband is Bo Ramsey and that's him on guitar.
Mudhoney The Lucky Ones The Lucky Ones Sub Pop their latest... 2008
The 13th Floor Elevators Slip Inside This House Easter Everywhere/Bull Of The Woods Decal/Charly CD reissue of two LPs
* Roky Erickson Devotional Number One True Love Cast Out All Evil Anti- New album from RE of 13th Floor Elev. fame. This is an archival track composed while he was imprisoned from '69-'72 at Texas' Rusk Maximum Security Prison for the Criminally Insane, and is thought to have been performed there.
Miles Davis Yesternow [New take 4] The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions Sony 1971. Happy Birthday Miles Davis, born May 26, 1926