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"Rat Salad" with mark (archive)

Wednesday, July 2, 2014 | 09:30 to 11:30 | Playlist

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New	Artist	Song	Album	Label	Comments
*	Scottdale String Band	Coughdrop Blues	Old Folks Better Go to Bed: Early Country Blues, Rags, and Breakdowns	Arhoolie	1929. Scottdale is an unincorporated community now within the Atlanta beltline. In Decatur, basically. It was a cotton mill town back then.
	Scottdale String Band	Chinese Breakdown	Old Folks Better Go to Bed: Early Country Blues, Rags, and Breakdowns	Arhoolie	1927
	Scottdale String Band	Carbolic Rag	Old Folks Better Go to Bed: Early Country Blues, Rags, and Breakdowns	Arhoolie	1927

*	Mike Cooper	I've Got Mine	Trout Steel	Paradise of Bachelors	1970. Now reissued. Wonderful stuff!
*	Myriam Gendron	A Song of Perfect Propriety	Not So Deep As A Well	Feeding Tube	new. Montreal folk singer gives a set of songs set to the poetry of Dorothy Parker.
*	Songs: Ohia	The Gray Tower	Journey On: Collected Singles	Secretly Canadian	new box of 9 singles honoring Jason Molina
	Townes Van Zandt	Fare Thee Well, Miss Carousel	Townes Van Zandt	Tomato	1969 � his self-titled 3rd album
*	Weller	Sing With Me / Those Days Are Gone	1	self-released	new, local - aka Nathan Toben of Toddlers
	Bee vs. Moth	The Sky And The Dirt Earth	Acronyms	Aggraveire	"instrumental accidents from Austin, Texas" - 2010
	Vic Chestnutt	Miss Mary	West of Rome	Texas Hotel	1991

	Exploding Star Orchestra	Impression No. 1	Stars Have Shapes	Delmark	Chicago, 2010
*	Le Weekend	Muted Ring Fingers / I. Into / II. {ym}	No Object	Potluck	new local avant-pop
*	Horizontal Hold	Powder White	This Is Not A Living	Potluck	new local guitar/synth/bass/drums rock tunes
	Skem�ta	What Lies Ahead/Encroaching	demo	Sorry State	playing at Slim's tonight -- http://www.slimsraleigh.com -- Wanna pair o' tix? Dial 919.684.8870 and we might could hook you up.
	Rolling Stones	It's All Over Now	More Hot Rocks (Big Hits & Fazed Cookies)	London/ABCKO	Their first #1 hit, July 1964. Written by Bobby Womack and Shirley Jean Womack

	Bobby Womack	What Is This	Anthology	Capitol	R.I.P. Bobby Womack. Thank you for the songs. Minit Records single, 1968.
	Bobby Womack	Lookin' For A Love	Lookin' For A Love Again	Stateside	1974
	Bobby Womack	I Can Understand It	Understanding	United Artists	1972
	Bobby Womack	I'd Be Ahead If I Could Quit While I'm Behind	B.W. Goes C.W.	United Artists	1976. His "country" album, which pissed off the label, even though it was consistent with his prior sound, just with some nice country touches. He parted ways w/ UA after that. Song by the late great Jim Ford.
	Bobby Womack	I Take It On Home	B.W. Goes C.W.	United Artists	He originally wanted to call the record "Black In The Saddle."
	Bobby Womack	Harry Hippie	Understanding	United Artists	1973. Widely believed to be a song about his brother, who was murdered in 1974.

*	Los Hacheros	Toma tu Pilon	Pilon	Chulo	new from an all-star salsa crew from NYC
	Orquesta Aragon	Ahora Si Sabroseao	En Route	World Village	2002. Cuban flute-string based orchestra.
	Chocquibtown	Prietos	Oro	Nacional	Colombia, 2010.
*	Muyei Power	Wali Bena	Sierra Leone in 1970s USA	Soundway	aka Orchestre Muyei or Orchestre Muyei Power, one of the top-shelf dance bands in Sierra Leone in the 1970s. These songs were recorded during a series of live shows at California colleges & universities in 1975 and 1976. Killer percussion on this track!
*	Dona Onete	Homenagem Aos Orix�s	Feitico Caboclo	Mais Um Discos	73y.o. singer/songwriter from NE Brazil. New.

*	Dub Thompson	9 Songs	9 Songs	Dead Oceans	at Pinhook next week
*	White Reaper	Cool	White Reaper EP	Polyvinyl	new from Louisville, KY
*	Perspex Flesh	Perspex Flesh	Perspex Flesh	Static Shock	new from Leeds
*	Bob Mould	Little Glass Pill	Beauty & Ruin	Merge	new from Bob of H�sker D� and Sugar
*	Wesley Wolfe	Lost In My Daydreams	Numbskull	self-released	new, local

	The War On Drugs	Suffering	Lost In The Dream	Secretly Canadian	beautiful 2014 LP