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Wednesday, April 4, 2007 | 09:00 to 10:30 | Playlist
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New Artist Song Album Label Comments
Aguaturbia Uno De Estos Dias Complete Tracks Record Runner 1969, de Chile
* Mark Fry Song For Wilde Dreaming With Alice Sunbeam Englishman w/ Scottish band, 1972
* Baby Grandmothers St. George's Dragon Baby Grandmothers Subliminal Sounds Sweden, 1967 or 1968. Rec. at a Stockholm Club called Filips, which had a short but famed existence.
* Will Bernard Rattle Trap Party Hats Palmetto
* Josephine Taylor I've Made Up My Mind (VA) Eccentric Soul: Twilight's Lunar Rotation Numero Group Twilight was a Chicago label in the late 1960s.
Oh Susanna Carrie Lee Oh Susanna Stella / Nettwerk 2003. I think she's Canadian...
Rickie Lee Jones Falling Up The Sermon on Exposition Boulevard New West new one... words from the Bible are put to music...
Stonewall Jackson If Heartaches Were Wine (I'd Stay Drunk All The Time) Nothing Takes The Place of Loving You Columbia
Two Dollar Pistols The Other Side You Ruined Everything Yep Roc
* Johnny Bush They Took The Stars Out Of Heaven Kashmere Gardens Mud Icehouse Music Brand new. Floyd Tillman on guest vox -- he wrote the song.
* Charlie Louvin Blues Stay Away From Me Charlie Louvin Tompkins Square Bobby Bare Sr. & Tom T. Hall on guest vocals.
* Uncle Earl Wallflower Waterloo, Tennessee Rounder new record. They'll be at MerleFest this month. Stay tuned to WXDU for ticket giveaways!
Tracy Schwarz & Ginny Hawker Speckled Top Shoes Deep Hollows and High Ridges Marimac Recordings Appearing April 7, 8pm in Durham as part of the Triangle Folk Music Society's concert series. Info at www.trianglefolk.org
Carolina Chocolate Drops Sourwood Mountain demo recordings ----- Also appearing at MerleFest this year. Yay!
* A.I.M. Thailand Seeds (VA) Confuzed Disco: A Retrospective of Italian Records Irma Italian Records was a Bologna label that put out disco material... very nice, this one.
* Zeb Monia Stop The Earth, I Want To Get Off! Wonderwheel Recordings aka Moreno Visini (?NYC)
* Omar Souleyman Arabic Dabke Highway to Hassake: Folk and Pop Sounds of Syria Sublime Frequencies
Grant-Lee Phillips Fountain Of Youth Strangelet Zoë Every time he types the title of his album into a Word document, the spellcheck feature wants to replace it with "strangulate."
Gomez Chasing Ghosts With Alcohol How We Operate ATO
Schooner We Let The Cat Out You Forget About Your Heart Pox World Empire
Françoise Hardy Ce N'est Pas Un Reve Françoise Hardy BMG-France