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"Big Carnivorous Feast" with mark (archive)

Wednesday, January 12, 2011 | 10:00 to 12:00 | Playlist
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New Artist Song Album Label Comments
Craig Green & David King Snow Plow Craig Green & David King Long Song
Patty Griffin Icicles Impossible Dream ATO
* Bardo Pond Don't Know About You Bardo Pond Fire new from Philly
* The Black Ryder To Never Know You Buy The Ticket, Take The Ride Mexican Summer new from Sydney, Australia
Charlie Patton Screamin' And Hollerin' The Blues The Best of Charlie Patton Yazoo
* Marisa Anderson In The Valley Of The Sun The Golden Hour Mississippi new improvs for guitar and lap steel, "inspired by Delta blues, West African guitar, country and western radio from the 60s and 70s, gospel, noise, rhythms, cycles, mortality, and praise."
Nirvana Come As You Are Nevermind Geffen 1991
* Balam Acab Big Boy See Birds Tri Angle new. aka Alex Coone.
Sleepwalkers Mini Skirt (VA) Eccentric Soul: The Big Mack Label Numero Group Detroit, ?late 60s
* Sameer Gupta Aaye Na Balam Namaskar Motema new mix of jazz & Indian styles by tabla player / drummer Sameer Gupta
Islaja Pysáhtyneet Planeetat Ulual YYY Fonal abstract, ethereal, Finnish
Dervish The Banks of Sweet Viledee Midsummer's Night Compass jaunty, beautifully played and sung, Irish
Art Ensemble Of Chicago Rock Out (VA) The BYG Deal B-Music/Finder's Keepers set of stuff from the French BYG label spanning '68 to '74
* Moebius Traurige Zita Blue Moon OST Bureau B German soundtrack music from 1986
Can Cascade Waltz Flow Motion Mute 1976
* Kalama's Quartette Hapa Haole Hula Girl (VA) Baby How Can It Be? Songs of Love, Lust and Contempt from the 1920s and 1930s Dust-to-Digital Terrific new 3-disc set!
Kanui & Lula Tomi, Tomi (VA) Baby How Can It Be? Songs of Love, Lust and Contempt from the 1920s and 1930s Dust-to-Digital
* Whitey Morgan & the 78s Memories Cost A Lot Whitey Morgan & The 78s Bloodshot honkytonk from Flint, Michigan
Merle Haggard Little Ole Wine Drinker Me Drinkin' Capitol
Lefty Frizzell Saginaw, Michigan The Best of Lefty Frizzell Rhino Actually, he was born in Corsicana, TX. Great song nonetheless.
Jim Ford Dr. Handy's Dandy Candy The Sounds Of Our Time: The Harlan County album, rare singles and previously unreleased masters Bear Family 1969
The Meters Hey Pocky A-Way The Very Best of The Meters Rhino
* Ebo Taylor African Woman Love and Death Strut Killer new stuff from a Ghanaia afrobeat player who's been playing nearly 50 years. It's his first international release in ~40 years.
* Witch Feeling High Introduction QDK Media 1973, Zambia
* The Galaxies IV Don't Lose Your Mind (VA) Glimpses Volumes 1 & 2 Past & Present 60s
* Johnny Neel & The Shapes of Soul Everybody Do The Stomp (VA) Delaware Garage Distortions 60s yum yum from Delaware
Otha Turner Smokestack Lightning (VA) It Came From Memphis vol. 2 Birdman Howlin' Wolf cover