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Big Guitars from Texas
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Guitar Army
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You and what guitar army!? This one was written by Frankie Camaro and is on "Trash Twang & Thunder"-- the 1st Big Guitars album
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Harold McNair
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The Hipster
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Cool collection British psychedia: "Return of the Instro-Hipsters, Vol.2"
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Sharks
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Funkology
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Let's do another one: More London organ
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Jimmy Smith
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L'il Darlin'
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It's never to early for Jimmy Smith, wiuth Roy Hargrove, Mark Whitfield, Christian McBride, etc. From "Ballads & Slow Jams" (Verve, 1995)
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Rufus Harley
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Eight Miles High
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Bagpipin' the Byrds. He also does Pete Seeger's "Where Have All the Flowers Gone"
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Orchestra Baobab
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Jiin Ma Jiin Ma
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Salsa from Senegal: In 2002, these guys invited Cuban singer Ibrahim Ferrer to join them on "Specialist in All Styles" (World Circuit/Nonesuch)
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Orchestra Baobab
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Ndongoy Daara
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Started out as bed music but so good I just to let them finish the tune!
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The Chieftains w/ Ry Cooder
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Dunsmore Lassies
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From their excellent "Long Black Veil" album, with lots of duets (RCA Victor, 1995)
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Ry Cooder
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Not Even Key West
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Ry did a soundtrack to a movie I never heard of-- "Blue City"-- but some of the music is great; here he has Jim Dickinson & Jim Keltner helping out
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James Luther Dickinson
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Nature Boy
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Memphis music master Jim Dickinson does a pile of songs on a new CD: "Killers from Space" (2007)
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John Fogerty
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It Ain't Right
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New Fogarty: "Revival" (Fantasy, 2007). Hey, this guy's pretty good
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Robert Plant & Allison Krauss
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Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On)
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John Fogerty, Robert Plant-- what's this DJ doing? Quick, go get some Everly Brothers; they did the original of this great song
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Country Gentlemen
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Copper Kettle
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My favorite moonshine song, although there are better versions (including a Dylan one that I just love)
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Bob Forrest
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Moonshiner
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Wow! This is from the soundtrack to "I'm Not There"-- 34 Dylan covers. Wow!
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Willie Nelson & Calexico
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Senor (Tales of Yankee Power)
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Willie does Dylan
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Conjunto Bernal
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Fidel Castro Polka
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Norteno music from the 1950s, released on CD by Arhoolie
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Turin Rios
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Amor Loco
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I found a bunch of 45s up on the abandoned embankment-- soon to be a park-- here in Jersey City. This proves the value of recycling!
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Grady Martin & his Slew Foot Five
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San Antonio Rose
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Rev-Ola put out a collection of Grady Martin's work as a guitar sideman to some of the best country music ever made: "Roughneck Blues 1949-1956"
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Buddy Holly
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Rock Around with Ollie Vee
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Grady Martin on guitar
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Flying Burrito Brothers
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Lucille
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Listed as Gram Parsons but really the Burritos: "Live at Avalon Ballroom, 1969"
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The Freddy Steady 5
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Not Fade Away
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More Buddy Holly, by Austin multi-instrumentalist Freddy Krc, from his CD of covers of the best of Texas rock & roll
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Dwight Yoakum
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Close Up the Honky Tonks
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Just out: "Dwight Sings Buck"
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Michael Hurley
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El Dorado
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It's hard to tell new from old Michael Hurley-- which, to me, is a plus; this is from "The Ancestral Swamp" Gnomonsong, 2007)
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Angel Dean & Sue Garner
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Morning Blaze
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From "Pot Liquor" on Diesel Only Records, 2004
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Herb Ellis
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Old Rugged Cross
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Texas jazz guitar
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Sol Hoopi
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Lady Be Good
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Billy Joe Shaver
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Live Forever
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Nice new collection-- "Storyteller"-- on Sugar Hill Records
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Louvin Brothers
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Satan Is Real
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Title cut to an amazing album, strange beautiful songs and amazing harmonies. Satan may be bogus but the passion is real
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Terry Allen
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I Blame God
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This one was written by Jo Carol Pierce, from an amazing collection of her music, done by the best (mostly) Austin musicians: "Across the Great Divide" (Dejadisc, 1992)
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Terry Allen & the Panhandle Mystery Band
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Gimme a Ride to Heaven Boy
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Praise Be the Songwriters-- or something like that; from "Bloodlines" (Fate Records, 1983)
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Little Feat
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New Delhi Freight Train
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Lowell George & the boys cover Terry Allen
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John Train
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Mama Bake a Pie
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Nice band out of Philadelphia. This is a Tom T Hall tune, they also do Terry Allen, Butch Hancock and Rudyard Kipling on their new CD: "Mesopotomia Blues"
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John Train
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Yo Ho Ho
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Here's their Terry Allen cover
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Butch Hancock & Marce Lacouture
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Already Gone
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Recorded live at the Cactus Cafe in Austin in 1987, from a cassette: "Cause of the Cactus"
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Joe Ely
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Time for Travelin
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This is from Joe's great "Down on the Drag" album, with his great band of Lloyd Maines, Jesse Taylor, Ponty Bone and others
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Charlie Robison
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Desperate Times
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From "Step Right Up" (Columbia/Lucky Dog, 2001)
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Ponty Bone the Squeezetones
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Don't Call the Cops
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