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"Rat Salad" with mark (archive)

Wednesday, May 22, 2013 | 07:00 to 09:00 | Playlist
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New Artist Song Album Label Comments
The Kingsbury Manx Concubine Bronze Age Odessa their latest
The Kingsbury Manx Ashes to Lashes (Tailspins) Bronze Age Odessa
The Flatlanders I Know You The Odessa Tapes New West 2012 release of some decades-lost studio recordings. Really fine!
Zachary Cale Blake's Way Noise of Welcome All Hands Electric 2011
Little Walter Mellow Down Easy The Little Walter Collection - 20 Blues Greats Deja Vu
* Vieux Farka Touré Diack So Mon Pays Six Degrees New from Mali. Son of Ali Farka Touré.
* Oliver Lake Big Band Studder Wheels Passin' Thru new record that includes an Outkast cover!
* Bass Drum of Death Faces Of The Wind Bass Drum of Death Innovative Leisure New from John Barrett, whose from Mississippi.
* Man or Astro-Man? Defcon 5 Defcon 5..4..3..2..1 Chunklet/Communicating Vessels surfing on eastward to Alabama... (first release in a dozen years from MoA?)
Man or Astro-Man? Antimatter Man Defcon 5..4..3..2..1 Chunklet/Communicating Vessels " "
* Goner States Away (Nikki's Song) Faking the Wisdom Superfan new
Mary Gauthier Sugar Cane Filth And Fire Signature Sounds great song from 2002
* Glenn Jones Going Back To East Montgomery My Garden State Thrill Jockey Great new guitar work. Recorded in the home studio of Duke (and WXDU!) alumna Laura Baird. Her sister Meg plays guitar on this track along w/ GJ.
The Baird Sisters On And On Until You Find Your Green self-released Here's Laura & Meg's release from last year. Really good. "Lines between English and American folk traditions are artfully blurred."
* Charlie Poole With The Highlanders San Antonio The Complete Paramount & Brunswick Recordings, 1929 Tompkins Square featuring the singing here of Charlie's guitarist Roy Harper. Roy's sister Lucy Terry is featured on piano in these recordings, an addition that Charlie insisted on but the Columbia Records balked at... so he changed the name of the band and went down the street and recorded these sides for other record labels!
The Jesus and Mary Chain Down On Me Darklands Blanco y Negro 1987
* Superchunk Faith Void/Faith 7" Merge new
* A Giant Dog Dammit Pomegranate Bone Tic Tac Totally new from Austin
* Free Time I Lost Again Free Time Underwater Peoples new from Melbourne/NY
* Georgiana Starlington Bravewolf Paper Moon HoZac sibs Jack & Julie Hines doing a vaguely dark country thing. There's a saw in it, so that makes it vaguely dark, see.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Art Star Yeah Yeah Yeahs Touch and Go 2001
* Anomonous track 5 Anomonous Prom Night brooklyn live improv noise/jazz
* Jerry Miller What A Little Moonlight Can Do New Road Under My Wheels Signature Sounds new. Miller is a great old-school country-style guitar picker. Nice to see him get a record in his own name. Great version of this soung made famous by Billie Holiday... lotta space for Jerry's guitarwork for 3 minutes, then the fab voice of Eilen Jewell
Billie Holiday Some Other Spring Lady Day: The Best of Billie Holiday Columbia 1939
Karen Dalton Blues On The Ceiling It's So Hard To Tell Who's Going To Love You The Best Koch 1969. Her first album.
Lucinda Williams You're Gonna Need That Pure Religion Ramblin' Smithsonian Folkways 1978. Her first album.
Kenny Roby A Short Mile Memories & Birds Little Criminal new. Kenny Roby will play with full band at Motorco on Friday night.
* T.D. Skatchit & Company The Last Rhino Ear of the Storm Edgetone "The instruments that the two leaders on this material play are called skatchboxes, which are ingeniously devised noise-makers constructed from combs and cardboard boxes."