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Big Guitars from Texas
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Ride of the Ruthless
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Back again!
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Glenn Lee
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Joyful Sounds
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from "Sacred Steel Instrumentals" (Arhoolie, 2004)
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David Bromberg
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I Like to Sleep Late in the Morning
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Something made me think of this 1975 tune and I couldn't get it out of my head until I played it. And it has horns too!
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The Spam Allstars
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Pinguino Party
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Another multiculti combo, out of Miami, with a cool album "Contra Los Roboticos Mutantes"
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New Birth Brass Band
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Smoke That Fire
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These young players funk it up on that 4 CD "Big Ol' Box of New Orleans" from Shout Factory, 2004.
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The Barons
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Makin' It Better
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"New Orleans Funkiest Delicacies" is a cool compilation on Funky Delicacies Records. Check them out at tuffcity.com
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Gangbe Brass Band
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Gdedji
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Is it New Orleans? Or Benin? Fine African soul on Contre Jour label out of Belgium.
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Robert Randolph
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Without God
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Started off as background (bed) music for the mic break but Robert was rocking so we let him keep going!
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June Gardner
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Tennessee Waltz
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I played this New Orleans organ version of the pop country classic a few weeks ago. Still works.
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Chris Kenner
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I Like It Like That
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Let me show you where it's at! I always wanted to go there anyway. More from the N.O. box, aka "Doctors, Professors, Kings & Queens".
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Michael Hill's Blues Mob
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Bluestime in America
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The House of Blues put out a righteous CD-- "Defiant Blues"-- filled with angry black voices: Billie Holiday, Leadbelly, Nina Simone and others.
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Willie Dixon
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It Don't Make Sense (You Can't Make Peace)
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Recorded in 1981, this defiant tune has a powerful message from blues great Willie Dixon.
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The Mikey Dread Show
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Headline News
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With help from Sly & Robbie, ex-radio DJ Mikey Dread (who worked with the Class and UB40) says it dubwise.
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Ernest Dawkins' New Horizons Ensemble
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Haiti
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Fine Chicago jazz, from "Mean Ameen" (Delmark, 2004)
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Jimmy McGriff
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Blues for a Funky Old Bus
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Recorded in 1973, found on "Double Exposure"-- a CD McGriff shares with another fine organist, Groove Holmes
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Jersey City Artists Space Under Attack: Conversation with Nicola Stemmer
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American Watercolor Movement
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Let Him Not Come Down to Take It Away
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Opening cut to 2 CD package in support of 111 First Street tenants. Recorded live, May 1, 2004.
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Lach
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Letter to Theo
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Lower East Side anti-folkie came out to JC to offer his support.
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Matt Pass & Ron Benjamin
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It's Just a Phase We're Going Through
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Improvised duet, PVC horn with steel drums.
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Cat & Fiddle Session Players
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Mountain Road/Silver Spear
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Three fiddles, mandolin, guitar, whistles and flutes. Very cool.
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Nicola Stemmer
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111 2 a.m.
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Nicola produced the entired CD package, mostly in one day. For more info-- on artists' plight or CD-- check out 111First.Org.
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Tris McCall
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Sunrise, Rte.7
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Multi-instrumentalist McCall has a new album-- "Shootout at the Sugar Factory"--and an interesting website: trismccall.net.
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111 Jam Band
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Jumpin' Around
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Support the JC Powerhourse Artist District and 111 First Street!!!
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Now back to our regular programming.
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Candido
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Candido's Guajira
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The Cuban conguero has help here from Tito Puente, Cachao Lopez and others on this 1971 recording for Tico, "Brujerias de Candido/Candido's Latin McGuffa's Dust"
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Al Garcia & the Rhythm Kings
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Pachuco Soul
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A collection of instrumental rock out of Los Angeles from 1963-64, reissued on CD in 1999.
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James Cole's Washboard Four
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Runnin' Wild
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One of many great tracks from a terrific CD called "Down in the Basement: Joe Bussard's Treasure Trove of Vintage 78s, 1926-1937". Check out oldhatrecords.com for more info.
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Soileau & Robin
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Easy Rider Blues
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Cajun blues from 1929, also on "Down in the Basement"
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Buck Howdy
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Don't Fence Me In
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Kids cowboy singer does a nice job with Cole Porter western classic. Thanks to James Kopp for the tip. What are hobbles?
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Emmy Lou Harris & Rodney Crowell
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My Baby's Gone
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Sweet harmonies, from "Livin' Lovin' Losin': Songs of the Louvin Brothers"-- which also has Merle Haggard, Pam Tillis, Johnny Cash and more.
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Big Al Downing
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Georgia Slop
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Great rockin' cover of Jimmie McCracklin tune, from 1964
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Graciela Salgado & Las Alegres Ambulancias
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Maria Antonia
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A collection of songs from "Colombia: Palenque de San Pasilio" which the liner notes identify as the "1st settlement of emancipated Blacks in the New World."
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Dock Boggs
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Bright Sunny South
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Smithsonian Folkways just put out another great collection of mountain music, compiled by New Lost City Rambler John Cohen, called "Back Roads to Cold Mountain"
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Fiddlin' John Carson
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Christmas Time Will Soon Be Over
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A little holiday cheer from "Back Roads to Cold Mountain"
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Ernest Dawkins' New Horizons Ensemble
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Mean Ameen
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Just have to hear more of these guys.
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Paul Hucklebuck Williams
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Juice Bug Boogie
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Swinging sax work from R&B great PW--the guy who took the Hucklebuck and turned it into the most important song in the history of music. See LCD #26 for details.
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Meat Beat Manifesto/Tower of Power
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What is Hip?
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Title cut from a compilation CD of "remixed classics from the Warner Brothers vault" (WB, 2004)
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Charles Brown
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Driftin' Blues
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Brown was hot stuff in 1945 when he first recorded "Driftin' Blues" but his comeback work in the 80s & 90s-- when this version was recorded-- was even better!
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Coctails
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Penguin/Powerhouse
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This band didn't last long enough. Their recent 3 CD collection on Carrot Top-- "The Popcorn Box"-- is filled with great stuff. This Raymond Scott medley includes WFMU's Irwin Chusic on percussion.
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Fred Waring
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Bolshevik
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See theoldmasters.com for more info; this tune, with its snappy title, comes from "Vol 1: The Collegiate Years"
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