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"Bull City Cosmic Hoedown" with mark (americana AT wxdu DOT org) (archive)

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Tuesday, April 10, 2007 | 18:00 to 20:00 | Specialty
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John Prine Taking A Walk Fair & Square Oh Boy
The Wilders Belshazzar Throw Down Free Dirt www.wilderscountry.com
David Bromberg Quartet Don't Let Your Deal Go Down Live at MerleFest 2006 www.festivalink.net Giving away MerleFest passes this evening. Call me at (919)684-8870. Fest info: www.merlefest.org
Jerry Garcia & David Grisman Jackaroo Shady Grove Acoustic Disc
Red Clay Ramblers Fall On My Knees/The Wandering Boy It Ain't Right Flying Fish
Reeltime Travelers Paddy Won't You Drink Some Cider Livin' Reeltime, Thinkin' Old-Time Yodel-Ay-Hee
James Cotton No Cuttin' Loose High Compression Alligator Tonight, Lincoln Theatre in Raleigh
Mississippi Fred McDowell Diamond Ring This Ain\'t No Rock N\' Roll Arhoolie Recorded August 1969
Lightnin\' Hopkins Got To Move Your Baby The Complete Prestige/Bluesville Recordings Prestige Rec. October 1960. Sonny Terry on harp.
* T-Bone Walker See You Next Time Good Feelin' Sunnyside a great little piano bit to close his 1968 record...
Lucinda Williams Ramblin' On My Mind Ramblin' Smithsonian Folkways Recorded in 1978, released 1979. Her first record.
* Lucinda Williams Where Is My Love? West Lost Highway Released a few weeks ago... Her latest.
Sarah Harmer Goin' Out I'm A Mountain Cold Snap Nice album from about a year ago
* Charlie Louvin Grave On The Green Hillside Charlie Louvin Tompkins Square Among other vocalists here is the Triangle's own Tift Merritt
Eilen Jewell Till You Lay Down Your Heavy Load Boundary County self-released Amazing debut album from last year. She & her band will play at Chatham Co.'s Shakori Hills Grassroots Festival of Music & Dance this weekend. Call me for a pair of tickets! 684-8870.
Bessie Smith Easy Come, Easy Go Blues The Complete Recordings, vol. 1 Columbia/Legacy
Isaiah Owens Slip In & Tip In You Without Sin Cast The First Stone CaseQuarter gospel guitar stomper from Montgomery, Alabama
Roosevelt Graves and Brother I'll Be Rested (When The Roll Is Called) Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, vol. 4 Revenant wow.
* Ry Cooder Three Chords And The Truth My Name Is Buddy Nonesuch brand new... Singin' the praises of Pete Seeger among others who were hassled & oppressed in American history...
Pete Seeger East Virginia (VA) Folk Classics: Roots of American Folk Music Columbia
Cyril Poacher (w/chorus) Broomfield Hill (Broomfield Wager) (VA) Classic Ballads of Britain and Ireland, vol. 1 Rounder
Yiangos Psamatianos Manes Chiotikos (VA) Remetica: Historic Urban Folk Songs from Greece Rounder
Aleksander Brokowski Cialy do Boxy (Charlie in Jail) (VA) Polish Village Music: Historic Polish-American Recordings, Chicago and New York, 1927-1933 Arhoolie
* Pine Leaf Boys Mon Coeur Fait Mal Blues de Musicien Arhoolie Brand new from one of the great young Cajun/Creole bands of today.
Tift Merritt I Know Him Too Bramble Rose Lost Highway
Dale Watson Poor Baby Blessed or Damned HighTone Dale Watson will play at Hideaway BBQ in Raleigh in May. May 13th I think.