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"Big Carnivorous Feast" with mark (archive)

Wednesday, November 24, 2010 | 10:00 to 13:00 | Playlist
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* Asmara All Stars Derekam (feat. Adam Faid Amir) Eritrea's Got Soul Out/Here new collection of Eritrean music
* Group Inerane Tamidit In Aicha Guitars from Agadez vol.3 Sublime Frequencies new from Niger
Mulatu Astatke Boogaloo Mulatu Steps Ahead Strut early 2010 Ethiopia
* pOETiqbEETz If You Go Away (VA) The Soul Spectrum Beat Tape The Soul Dojo new beat compilation
Mydus It's A Setup (VA) The Soul Spectrum Beat Tape The Soul Dojo "
Tom T. Hall Me & Jesus Storyteller, Poet, Philosopher Mercury
* Maple Stave Maltba LP One self-released new, local
* Monsonia Would You Like A Piece Of Milk? 33 1/3 self-released new, local
* Dennis McGee Reel du Sauvage Perdu / J'ai toute sorte de vieux sang / La Reel Fâchée Himself Valcour Field recordings from Eunice, Louisiana in 1975. Cajun music legend plays all sorts of old styles and comments heartily
Barbara Lamb You Done Me Wrong Tonight I Feel Like Texas Sugar Hill a tune by Ray Price & George Jones, cajun-ized a bit by a great fiddler
* Pine Leaf Boys The Sound Of Loneliness Back Home Valcour a tune by the great Belton Richard
* Riley Cows & Dogs, Ducks & Hogs Grandma's Roadhouse Delmore countrypoprock LP from 1970 or so
* Orange Peel Searching For A Place To Hide (VA) Talking About The Good Times Volume 1 Past & Present 1969. Recorded in Köln, W. Germany but I dunno if they were German or not....
* Southern Culture on the Skids Come As You Are / Lucifer Sam The Kudzu Ranch Kudzu new! Nice mash-up of Nirvana and early Pink Floyd here...
Blue Öyster Cult 7 Screaming Diz-Busters Tyranny And Mutation Columbia 1973 LP
* Lyrics Born I'm The Best (Funky Fresh In The Flesh) As U Were Decon new from the Bay Area...
* Tirogo Ajufo Float Normal excellent fuzz-rock-beat from 1977, Nigeria
* Joan Soriano Aye Belie El Duque De La Bachata iASO new from the Dominican Republic
* El Guincho FM Tan Sexy Pop Negro Young Turks a.k.a. Pablo Diaz-Reixa from the Canary Islands, now Barcelona-based
Up Bustle & Out Y Ahora Tu (VA) Ninja Cuts: Funkjazztical Tricknology Ninja Tune 1995 comp
Hank Ballard along w/ "The Dapps" How You Gonna Get Respect (When You Haven't Cut Your Process Yet) (VA) James Brown's Funky People (Part 3) Polydor
Sun Ra and his Solar Arkestra Abstract Eye The Magic City Evidence 1993
* Nymph Bird Song Nymph Social Registry new from Brooklyn: "an ebullient kaleidoscope of sound"
David McCallum House Of Mirrors (VA) The Edge: David Axelrod at Capitol Records 1966-1970 Capitol Jazz produced by Axelrod; the artist worked on the Man From U.N.C.L.E. TV series
* Matt Haimovitz/Uccello W.R.U. Meeting Of The Spirits Oxingale "Jazz milestones re-imagined for a big band of cellos." (!) Haimovitz and his students McGill Univ. in Montreal. Ornette Coleman re-imagined in this case...
* Good Time Charlie Whoop It On Me (VA) Dr. Boogie Presents Wasa Wasa: Fabulous Rhythm 'n' Blues Shakers on the Dancefloor! 1952-1968 Sub Rosa WOW!
* Sassparilla Fire Sale Ramshackle self-released new from Portland
Big Bill Broonzy Hip Shakin' Strut The Young Big Bill Broonzy 1928-1935 Yazoo recorded in 1930. Dunno who the female voice is :(
Sonny Boy Williamson The Goat (VA) Chess Blues (box set) MCA/Chess 1960
Little Esther Sit Back Down Early Hits 1952-1954 JSP great 2-CD set put out early this year
Jim White Handcuffed To A Fence In Mississippi No Such Place Luaka Bop 2001 gem
Hundred Air Here It Comes Again (VA) Compulation Volume Three: Songs from North Carolina Pox World Empire
Tuscadero Candy Song The Pink Album Teen Beat/Elektra 1996 re-mixed version of the album.......
The Marvalettes Too Many Fish In The Sea (VA) R*E*S*P*E*C*T: A Century of Women In Music Rhino 1964
* Jason D. Williams Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee Killer Instincts Rockabilly new from Louisiana. He's kinda like Jerry Lee, but he ain't. Todd Snider produced it.
Terry Anderson Mr. Busdriverman I'll Drink To That Not Lame Local boy, from 2000
Country Teasers Devil On My Back Satan Is Real Again/Feeling Good About Bad Things Crypt 1996
Ry Cooder If Walls Could Talk Paradise & Lunch Reprise 1974
Will Rigby Son Of A Sagittarius Sidekick Phenomenon Egon 1985
* Plates Of Cake A Band Of Partisans Plates Of Cake All Hands Electric new from Brooklyn
Bob Dylan Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? The Band: A Musical History (box set) Capitol
* Mermaids We'll See You Soon Tropsicle Pretty Ambitious new from Atl.
* Veelee When You Gonna Come Home? The Future Sight Grip Tapes new, local
Peanut Butter Wolf Sit Down Shut Up My Vinyl Weighs A Ton Copasetik/Stones Throw 1999
Peanut Butter Wolf Casio My Vinyl Weighs A Ton Copasetik/Stones Throw "
Ammoncontact Beautiful Flowers With Voices Ninja Tune/Zen 2006
Benoit Pioulard Le Guerre de Sept Ans Precis Kranky 2006
Velvet Underground Sheltered Life (demo) Peel Slowly and See Polygram