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November 5, 2005: Jarred Awake
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| Artist | Track | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Big Guitars from Texas | Holiday for Hoss | The usual twangy intro stuff |
| Big Guitars from Texas | Strained | More usual twangy intro stuff; can't get enough of these pickers |
| Karl Bryan | LK Strut | Clement "Coxsone" Dodd did wonders with stuff like this Jamaican ska instrumental from Studio One, on Soul Jazz |
| Count Ozzie & the Zion All Stars | Holy Mount Zion | More Studio One |
| Alton Ellis | Alton's Groove | From "Alton is a Legend" on Heartbeat, released 1995 |
| Big Chief Ellis | Chief's E (flat) Blues" | 1974 recording with Tarheel Slim on guitar-- and Brownie McGhee helping out on other cuts |
| Dexter Gordon | Confirmation | Dexter plays Bird on "Daddy Plays the Horn"-- recorded in 1955, released on CD by Shout Factory, 2005) |
| Mance Lipscomb | Going Down Slow | That sweet East Texas blues sound, recorded in Mance's hometown of Navasota in 1960 by Chris Strachwitz. This became one of the first releases of Arhoolie Records |
| Mississippi Fred McDowell | Someday | This guy could play! From "Bues Guitar Heroes" on Fuel, 2003 |
| Johnny Copeland w/ Dr. John | Ghetto Child | Clyde Copeland plays the blues on "Strike a Deep Chord: Blues Guitars for the Homeless" (Justice Records, 1992) |
| Zora Neal Hurston | Shove It Over | A work song, done by one of the gems of the Harlem Renaissance; from "Music from the Florida Folklife Collection" (See floridamemory.com) |
| Crap Eye | One Morning at the Break of Day (Wake Up Song) | Part of the Alan Lomax archives: "Mississippi Saints & Sinners"-- from the "Deep River of Song" documentary |
| Frank Evans | French Song | More Lomax |
| Fernest & the Thunders | Since You've Been Gone | Zydeco from St. Martin's Parish in the swamps of Louisiana |
| Los Bomboras | Run & Hide | A listener called during this set-- it was only 7 am, Saturday-- to complain that she didn't want to be jarred awake. Sorry. |
| Joe King Carrasco | Bandido Rock | Title cut from Joe's very political Tex-Mex party album |
| Los Straitjackets w/ El Vez | Rey Criollo (aka King Creole) | |
| Los Straitjackets w/ Dave Alvin | Caifornia Sun | |
| Nick Lowe | Poor Side of Town | Nick Lowe does a great job on this cover of the 1960s Johnny RIvers hit; from "The Convincer" (Yep Roc, 2001) |
| Sue Foley | Oh Baby, We Got a Good Thing Going | |
| Cliffie Stone Orchestra | Barracuda | Not much rockin' here-- even though the CD is called "Country Goes Rock N Roll, Vol. 1: The Old Guard" (Rev Ola 2005) |
| Shorty Long | Who Said I Said That | Another "Country Goes Rock" tune: Shorty has a little more rock & roll growl than Cliffie |
| Joe Ely | Rock Me My Baby | Joe Ely knows how to take this great Shorty Long song and make it rock! |
| Doug Sahm | Is Anybody Going to San Antone? | "This is a song about my hometown," he says. Doug died a few years ago, still in his 50s. A real loss |
| Doug Sahm | Groover's Paradise | This one is about Austin. I knew the Guacamole Queen but I can't remember her name. Her brother was a pretty good session drummer |
| Doug Sahm | Whirlaway | Nice instrumental you a young Doug Sahm; can be found-- with lots of other good stuff-- on "San Antonio Rocks: The Harlem Recordings, 1957-1961" |
| Sir Douglas Quintet | Song of Everything | Doug moved his band to San Francisco in the late 60s |
| Los Jazz Vatos | Sho Nuff Did | Led by Doug's longtime drummer and San Antonio pal Ernie Durawa, this contemporary Austin jazz combo covers Thad Jones here. |
| Los Jazz Vatos | Bluellespie | A Paquito D'Rivera composition |
| Rich Minus | Woke Up This Morning | My old pal Rich grew up in San Antonio, near Doug and Ernie. He has a bunch of albums out of Last Call records out of Paris |
| Texas Tornados | Bonita Es El Espanol | Doug teamed up with Flaco Jimenez, Freddy Frender and Augie Myers in the late 80s. They did a Spanish language version of their first album, here covering Butch Hancock's "She Never Spoke Spanish To Me" |
| Flaco Jimenez | Swiss Waltz | Flaco plays accordian-- in every style. Here is an instrumental that mixes Tex-Mex with European sounds, a common South Texas amalgam |
| Flaco Jimenez | Ay Te Dijo En San Antonio | Flaco comes from a musical family from San Antonio. This classic tune was written by his dad, Santiago Jimenez, Sr. |
| Flaco Jimenez w/ Radney Foster | Jealous Heart | |
| Gamble Rogers w/ Will McLean | Orange Blossom Special | Florida folkies duet |
| Tommy Jarrell | Let Me Fall | Tommy (on banjo) with Oscar Jenkins & Fred Cockerham, from "Down at the Cidar Mill" (Country Records, 2004) |
| Seldom Scene | Philadelphia Lawyer | DC-bluegrass band does Woody Guthrie |
| Ramblin Jack Elliot | Rex's Blues | With help from Emmy Lou Harris & Nanci Griffith, Jack covers Townes Van Zandt |
| Townes Van Zandt | Dollar Bill Blues | |
| Dave Alvin | Engine 143 | |
| Doc Watson Family | Georgie | |
| Doc Watson Family | Reuben's Train | |
| Joel Plaskett Emergency | What Do You Wnat Me To Do | |
| Joel Plaskett Emergency | Light of the Moon |
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