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Big Guitars from Texas
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High Tide in Hub City
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Rycodisc combined two albums--"Trash, Twang & Thunder" and "That's Cool, That's Trash"-- into one find CD.
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Davie Allan and the Arrows
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Blues Trip
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Sundazed just re-issued on CD three Davie Allan albums from the 60s, including "Cycle-Delic Sounds" from 1968
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Davie Allan and the Arrows
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Another Cycle in Detroit
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More biker soundtrack stuff from 1968, courtesy of Davie Allan and Mike Curb
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Denny Freeman
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Acapulco Rain
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Austin picker-- on the Big Guitars from Texas-- put out a nice album in the 80s on Amazing Records. I hear he is now playing in Bob Dylan's band!
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John Fahey
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When the Springtime Comes Again
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This has been re-issued before but "The Great Santa Barbara Oil Slick" (on Water) is a nice collection of early Fahey work.
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Merle Travis & Joe Maphis
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When It's Time for the Whipporwill to Sing
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Another good one from Sundazed, this 1964 album is humbly called "Country Music's Two Guitar Greats"
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Beacon Hillbillies
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Hummingbird
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Boston band from 1994 on East Side Digital
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Charles River Valley Boys
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And Your Bird Can Sing
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I was a high school kid when I went to the Club 47 to see these guys play. In 1966, this Harvard Square bluegrass band (which included the late great Joe Val) put out a cool album of Beatles covers, now on CD.
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Roy Book Binder
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Cincinatti Flow Rag II
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Fine picking from the folk blues guitar player and storyteller, now living in Florida
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Roy Book Binder
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Bisquits
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Cover of a Bo Carter tune on Roy's "Travelin' Man" CD
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Olu Dara
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Okra
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Brilliant eclectic jazz musician, brings a Mississippi blues feel to his music. Now known as dad of rapper Nas but top notch player on his own!
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Oscar Brown Jr
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Rags & Old Iron
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I just heard, listening to Doug's show, that OBJ died on May 29, 2005 in his hometown of Chicago. This prolific jazz songwriter-- an amazing and important personality--was 78.
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Fred Epps
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Chinese Picnic & Oriental Dance
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This 1923 banjo tune was part of a WFMU marathon premium CD: Thomas Edison's Attic Presents 'Prohibition Songs: edison Records 1919-1929'
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Aaron Alexander
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Peep Nokh A Mol
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Klezmer jazz from "Midrash Mish Mosh" (Tzadik, 2004)-- with Greg Wall and Frank London helping out drummer Alexander
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Nina Simone
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Nobody's Fault But Mine
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Nina Simone died last year, after years of living in France; her music legacy and political courage makes her a hero to many of us
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Delta Rhythm Boys
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Flickornai Smaland
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Black vocal group sings in Finnish, from "Guldkorn" on Metronome (Warner?) 2001
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Stanley Brothers
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I Am A Man of Constant Sorrow
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Ralph, with brother Carter, did this bluegrass classic in 1950
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Doc Watson
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Bird Dog
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With Marty Stuart, Mike Auldridge and others, from "Docabilly"
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Everly Brothers
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Sleepless Nights
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Another Boudeloux Bryant tune. In 1994, Rhino put out a 4-CD box-- "Heartaches & Headaches"-- filled with more great songs than you can imagine!
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Emmy Lou Harris
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To Daddy
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Beautiful cover of a sweet Dolly Parton song
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James Burton & Ralph Mooney
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Elusive Dream
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In 1968, these superb players put out an album-- "Corn Pickin' and Slick Slidin'"-- that had this Tammy Wynette number. They sure can play but, for the most part, the album is way too corny and slick!
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Modern Sounds
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Long Gone Lonesome Blues
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An album of Hank Williams covers, "in modern rock-acid sound"-- no musicians listed, no dates, no info. Very wierd.
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Ian & Sylvia
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Someday Soon
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Brilliant cowboy folk tune by this 60s Canadian duo, written by Ian Tyson
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Roy Acuff & the Smokey Mountain Boys
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Steel Guitar Chimes
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From Newport Folk Festival sampler from the 60s on Vanguard
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Peter Case
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Walk in the Woods
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From "Troubadours of Folk: Singer-Songwriters of the 80s" on Rhino
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Dave Alvin
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What Did the Deep Sea Say?
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Peter Stampfel
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Goldfinger
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Eddie "One String" Jones
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Rolling and Tumbling Blues
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There's a great story on allmusic.com about Jones, a street musician who was found on Los Angeles' Skid Row in 1960, playing a homemade one-string guitar board, using a whiskey bottle as his slide. From "Takoma Slide" (1999)
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Bobby Bare Jr.
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Bullet Through My Teeth
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This guy is as good a songwriter and singer as his dad-- which is saying a lot. He has two albums on Bloodshot, including "Young Criminals Starvation League" (2002).
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Spanic Boys
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Won't You Help Me
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What happened to this Milwaukee father-son duo? They have a bunch of nice albums, 3 on Rounder from the early 90s, a few more recent ones.
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Buck Owens & the Buckaroos
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Ruby (Honey, Are You Mad at Your Man?)
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Sundazed is doing it all! They put out an excellent collection of Buck and the boys last year, with this song and lots more
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Elizabeth Cotton
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Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie
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Sweet folk guitar tune from "There Is No Eye"-- a CD based on John Cohen's book of photos
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Woody Guthrie
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Ramblin' Round
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Also from "There Is No Eye". This is one of Woody's tributes to migrant workers.
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Tommy Hancock
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Marfa Lights (Instrumental)
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Tommy Hancock
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Marfa Lights
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Tommy's vocal version, from
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Texana Dames
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Why Baby Why
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Tommy's family, with lots of help from Austin's finest, rocks a bit
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Terry Allen
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I Blame God
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Jo Carol Pierce lyrics, done-- with just the right touch of irony-- by Lubbock artist Terry Allen
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Flatlanders
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Down in the Light of the Melon Moon
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Butch Hancock-- no relation to fellow Lubbocker-Tommy-- with pals Jimmy Gilmore and Joe Ely, from
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Tommy Hancock
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Marfa Lights (Instrumental)
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There something about West Texas that inspires a sense of wonder. From Big Bend to the Panhandle, there are few trees just wind & sky. Let's play this one again
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Ruben Vela
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Lo Nuestro Termino
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From "Taste of Tex-Mex" on Music Club (1997)
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Bob Dylan
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Romance in Durango
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Scarlett Rivera on fiddle, Emmy Lou Harris on harmony vocals. Amazing stuff from Dylan at his best!
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Harry Nilsson
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Coconut
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From 1971, first released on Harry's "Songwriter" album. Put the lime in the coconut and call me in the morning.
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