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Duke Station
Durham, NC 27708
919-684-2957
wxdu@duke.edu
New | Artist | Song | Album | Label | Comments | ||
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* | Elias Litos and Lazaros Rouvas | Skaros | (VA) Five Days Married & Other Laments | Angry Mom | 1928. "Shepherd's Song", a ubiquitous tune of the region. | ||
Halkias Brothers Folk Orchestra | Pentes Meres Pantremeni | (VA) Five Days Married & Other Laments | Angry Mom | 1950. The wonderfully drony title track. | |||
Kitsos Harisiadis | Stroto Pogonisio | (VA) Five Days Married & Other Laments | Angry Mom | 1930. Famed clarinet master. | |||
* | The South Carolina Broadcasters | Little Birdie | Short Time to Stay Here | Flaming Heart | orig. from Charleston, now from Mt. Airy NC. Trad. tune containing the album title/lyrics | ||
The South Carolina Broadcasters | Let Me Fall | Short Time to Stay Here | Flaming Heart | ||||
* | Ernest Rogers | Mythological Blues | (VA) Turn Me Loose: Outsiders of "Old Time" Music | Tompkins Square | Another fine set curated by Frank Fairfield. This witty 1928 tune was recorded by an Atlanta newspaper editor. | ||
* | Jack Rose & The Black Twig Pickers | Some Happy Day | Jack Rose & the Black Twig Pickers | VHF | orig. released in 2009 | ||
* | JP Dunn | Kentucky Fandango | (VA) Six Feet Under | Mississippi | grab bag comp of '58-'64 rockabilly, surfy, country rock sorta stuff. | ||
Red Clay Ramblers | Rockingham Cindy | Twisted Laurel | Flying Fish | 1976 | |||
* | Johnny Alright | Cat Eyes | Sings and Plays His Songs | self-released | new from Greenboro | ||
Black Tusk | The Takeoff | Taste The Sin | Relapse | 2010 | |||
* | Whatever Brains | Elephant Gun | Whatever Brains (LP3) | Sorry State | brand spankin' new. | ||
Mission of Burma | Execution | Signals, Calls and Marches | Matador | 1980 | |||
Ella Fitzgerald | Smooth Sailing | The Legendary Decca Recordings | GRP | 1951 | |||
* | Mavis Staples | Every Step | One True Vine | Anti- | new one from Mavis. She turns 74 today. Happy Birthday! | ||
The Horace Silver Quintet | Yeah! | Horace-Scope | Blue Note | recorded this week in 1960 | |||
Agitation Free | You Play For Us Today | Malesch | Revisited | Berlin, 1972. Das liiiieebe ich. | |||
* | Muslimgauze | Ayatollah Dollar | Al Jar Zia Audio | Staalplaat | aka Bryn Jones | ||
Richard Buckner | Lost | Willow b/w Lost 7" | Merge | from the 2011 sessions for "Our Blood" | |||
* | Mike Pride/From Bacteria To Boys | Pass The Zone | Birthing Days | AUM Fidelity | Brooklyn drummer & mod jazz group. New. | ||
* | Craig Taborn Trio | Hot Blood | Chants | ECM | New. | ||
* | The Mad Doctors | Scorpion Queen | Fuzz Tonic!! | Doctor Gone | Brooklyn band. Label from Carolina Beach, NC! Like a madman/badguy Saturday morning cartoons soundtrack. | ||
Appalachian Death Ride | Firefly | (VA) Sound of Poverty: The Anyway Singles '92-'93 | Get Hip | Comp of material from Anyway Records, Columbus, Ohio. Nice n greasy. | |||
Gaunt | Spine | (VA) Sound of Poverty: The Anyway Singles '92-'93 | Get Hip | ditto | |||
The Beguiled | The Nightrider's Theme | Blue Dirge | Crypt | So. Cal., 1994 | |||
The Bats | Free All The Monsters | Free All The Monsters | Flying Nun | New Zealand, 2011 | |||
The Beets | Without You | Let The Poison Out | Hardly Art | NY, 2011 | |||
The Fresh & Onlys | I Saw You Seeing Me | I'll Tell You Everything & I Saw You Seeing Me 7" | Dirty Knobby | SF, 2008 | |||
Witchy Poo | Start It On | Pitching Woo | Vermiform | "Olympia's indie rock version of The Mothers of Invention." 1999. | |||
* | Burnt Books | Dig A Little Deeper | Burnt Books | At A Loss Recordings | new Columbia SC hardcore | ||
* | Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas | Highlander's Farewell To Ireland / Farewell To Ireland / O'er The Water To Charlie / Highlander's Farewell | Highlander's Farewell | Culburnie | "One tune taken on an epic journey--originating in Scotland as a strathspey, making its way to Ireland as a reel, then lingering slightly with a popular jig from the Gaeltachd, and finally crossing over to Appalachia as a breakdown." Superb new release. | ||
* | Michael Hurley | Eyes Eyes | Hi-Fi Snock Uptown | Light in the Attic | 1972. Thanks to LITA for another great reissue. We gots another old Michael Hurley on deck for later in the summer. | ||
Michael Hurley | Uncle Bob's Corner | Hi-Fi Snock Uptown | Light in the Attic |