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Wednesday, May 23, 2007 | 09:00 to 12:00 | Playlist
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New Artist Song Album Label Comments
* Spiritualaires of Hurtsboro, Alabama I'm Going To Tell On You Singing Songs Of Praise CaseQuarter
* Mary D. Williams Swing Down Chariot Blood Done Sign My Name self-released Recorded in Durham at the Hayti Heritage Center
* Rose Maddox w/ The Vern Williams Band Take Me In The Lifeboat Beautiful Bouquet Arhoolie 1982
* King Sunny Ade Ori Mmi Maje N'te/Owo Omode O To Pepe/Timu Mi Ni Mo/Pe Mi So Fun Mi Gems from the Classic Years (1967-1974) Shanachie SEE THIS MAN if you ever get a chance! Both times I've seen him were spectacular.
* William Parker & Hamid Drake Faces Summer Snow Aum Fidelity
* Andrew Pekler Rockslide Cue Kranky
Jerry Jeff Walker Backsliders Wine ¡Viva Terlingua! MCA 1973
Waylon Jennings Ain't No God In Mexico Honky Tonk Heroes Buddha also 1973
* Ry Cooder Cardboard Avenue My Name Is Buddy Nonesuch new
Peg Leg Howell & Jim Hill Away From Home (VA) Hard Times Come Again No More: Early American Rural Songs of Hard Times and Hardships Yazoo Howell played the streets of Atlanta in the 1910s-30s
Jimmy Reed Turn Me On Like A TV Jimmy Reed Is Back Roots Records 1976
* The Eames Era Fake Do-gooders Heroes + Sheroes MDF
Maybellines I Just Had The Best Time Chatfield Holiday Best Friend
* Reutshle So Complicated Exotic Destinations Poptek
Dolorean Violence In The Snowy Fields Violence In The Snowy Fields Yep Roc
* Charlotte Gainsbourg Jamais 5:55 Because
Serge Gainsbourg Melody Histoire de Melody Nelson Phillips 1971 from dad; prev. track was 2006 from daughter...
* Crooked Still Last Fair Deal Gone Down Hop High Signature Sounds
Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers Don't Let Your Deal Go Down Blues You Ain't Talkin' To Me: Charlie Poole and the Roots of Country Music Columbia/Legacy
* J.D. Crowe You're Not Easy To Forget Bluegrass Holiday Rebel 1969--45rpm only until CD re-release of this debut LP with bonus cuts
* White Ghost Shivers Shivers' Stomp Everybody's Got 'Em self-released Sorta Austin's version of Squirrel Nut Zippers. Sorta.
* Honky Tonk Confidential Guitar Boogie Road Kill Stew & Other News Too Many Dogs new from DC
* Sarah Borges & The Broken Singles False Eyelashes Diamonds in the Dark Sugar Hill
* Snatches Of Pink Just A Girl Love Is Dead 8th House new label: Michael Rank & John Howie Jr. CDs by S.o.P and the upcoming 2$P album
* Times New Viking Devo & Wine Times New Viking Present the Paisley Reich Siltbreeze
Convicts Thank God I've Hit The Bottom You Am I Yep Roc
* The Death of a Party Coronation Under Scarlet Seas The Rise and Fall of Scarlet City Double Negative Oakland CA
Orange Nichole Blackertop Things We've Got & .... .
* Dublin Death Patrol Unnatural Causes DDP 4 Life Godfodder also Bay Area...
Royal Serbian Tamburitza Orchestra Constantinople March (VA) Tamburitza! Hot String Band Music from the Balkans to America, 1910-1950 Arhoolie 1918 for this one!
* Balkan Beat Box Habibi Min Zaman Nu-med Jdub
Peggy Lee A Taste Of Honey I'm A Woman Capitol 1963
* Ibrahim Ferrer Cada Noche un Amor Mi Sueño Nonesuch
* Spanish Harlem Orchestra Mujer Divina Unidos Con Swing (United We Swing) Six Degrees new
* Wax Poetic Alessandra Brasil Nublu
* Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas Feel PM Reinterpretations Eskimo "exactly the reason Nordic house is displacing Italo in the "space" discotheques."
* Wilco Either Way Sky Blue Sky Nonesuch new
* Rick Hayward Seeing Through Rick Hayward Sunbeam 1972 UK
Richard Hell Blank Generation (VA) Oxford American 2006 Southern Music CD Oxford American
Rico Rodriguez' All Stars Bridge View Shuffle (VA) Deep Ska: 80 Original Ska Classics Proper
* John Prine & Mac Wiseman Saginaw, Michigan Standard Songs for Average People Oh Boy new
Loretta Lynn The Window Up Above Home MCA George Jones song. 1975 album (messed up and said '73 on the air...)