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July 28, 2008: Harkening back to an older world with Curtis Eller and Benjamin Wetherill
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| Artist | Track | Album | Label | Format | |
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| James Blackshaw | Running to the Ghost | The Cloud of Unknowing | Tompkins Square | ||
| David Garland | I Don't Want to Know | Noise in You | Family Vineyard | ||
| Nick Schillace | Your Memories of Oklahoma | Landscape and People | Burly Time | ||
| Matt Bauer | Rose and Vine | The Island Moved in the Storm | La Societe Expeditionnaire | ||
| Shearwater | Rooks | Rook | Matador Records | ||
| Sufjan Stevens | Jacksonville / A short Reprise for mary Todd, Who Went Insane, but for Very Good Reasons / DECATUR, Or a Good Round of Applause for YOur Stepmother | Come On Feel The Illinoise | ASTHMATIC KITTY | ||
| The Pines | Horse & Buggy | Sparrow in the Bell | Red House | ||
| Tony Trischka | The Next Big Thing | Territory | Smithsonian Folkways | ||
| Pamela Wyn Shannon | Ca' the Yowes | Courting Autumn | |||
| Anna Ternheim | The Ones They Blame | Halfwy to Fivepoints | Decca | ||
| Festival | Boxcar | Come, Arrow, Come! | |||
| Spottiswoode and His Enemies | That's What I Like | That's What I Like | |||
| Kenny Cambre | Sparked a Memory | Kings County Caravan Volume One | |||
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Live Performance by Curtis Eller |
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New York City's angriest yodelling banjo player, Curtis Eller sings about pigeon racing, performing elephants and Jesus, all of which he has seen with his own eyes. He started his show-business career at the age of seven as a juggler and acrobat in the Hiller Olde Tyme Circus in Detroit, but has since turned to the banjo because that's where the money is. His biggest musical influences are Buster Keaton, Elvis Presley and Abraham Lincoln. Mr. Eller and his band, The American Circus, have staggered their way into the hearts of audiences from funerals, horse races, burlesque revues and punk rock dumps. Curtis Eller appeared, sans band, with bassist Evan Silverman on some numbers to cheer the WFMU audience with tunes about John Wilkes Booth, Joe Louis, Fidel Castro, Jack Ruby and Richard Nixon (as well as the usual tales of Civil War generals and Elvis Presley). |
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| Curtis Eller | Sugar in My Coffin | ||||
| Curtis Eller | Daisy Josephine | ||||
| Curtis Eller's American Circus | John Wilkes Booth (Don't Make Us Beg) | Wirewalkers and Assassins | CD | ||
| Curtis Eller & Evan Silverman | After the Soil Fails | ||||
| Curtis Eller & Evan Silverman | Always Sugar for the Horses | ||||
| Curtis Eller & Evan Silverman | The Curse of Cain | ||||
| Curtis Eller & Evan Silverman | Black Diamond | ||||
| Curtis Eller's American Circus | Save Me Joe Lewis | Wirewalkers and Assassins | CD | ||
| Curtis Eller's American Circus | Buster Brown | Taking Up Serpents Again | CD | ||
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Live performance by Benjamin Wetherill |
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Benjamin Wetherill, who calls himself the"Cliff Richard of Folk," brings us beautiful folk tales from the other side of the pond. On his debut album, Laura, echoes of old-world charm are liberally sprinkled throughout the tunes, which were recorded in a castle in Budapest. With a gentle nod to the music of Nick Drake and John Fahey, Benjamin Wetherill visited from the UK to play live on WFMU. |
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| Benjamin Wetherill | We Make Plans to Strangle Your Lover | ||||
| Benjamin Wetherill | The Press Gang (Ewan McColl) | ||||
| Benjamin Wetherill | Ada | Laura | Ba Da Bing! | CD | |
| Benjamin Wetherill | Lord Franklin | ||||
| Benjamin Wetherill | Blackwaterside | Laura | Ba Da Bing! | CD | |
| Benjamin Wetherill | How Lonely the Moon | ||||
| Benjamin Wetherill | Kissing Under Poplars | Laura | Ba Da Bing! | ||
| Mariana Sadovska | Calling Bird | Borderland | EVOE | ||
| 17 Hippies | Jovano Jovanke | Live in Berlin | Hipster Records | ||
Mon. 7/28/08 3:16pm
Dead Corporate Eyes:
I saw Nick Schillace a few months ago...recommended. Sounds good!
Mon. 7/28/08 3:20pm
north guinea hills:
not familiar w/ nick schillace. love it. wfmu is the only place where i can learn of good musicians i've never heard of...., and that's getting increasingly hard.......
Mon. 7/28/08 3:28pm
Dead Corporate Eyes:
Sufjan!
Mon. 7/28/08 3:31pm
yesno:
soupjam!
Mon. 7/28/08 3:32pm
north guinea hills:
o gawd, please don't let this be about jacksonville, fl, my hometown..... as much as i love it......
Mon. 7/28/08 3:36pm
noyes:
haha ngh, check out the album title
Mon. 7/28/08 3:40pm
north guinea hills:
ahhhh, working... didn't look, but i heard decatur, and decatur, ga isn't too far a freight car jump from jax, fl....
Mon. 7/28/08 3:47pm
R. P.:
A Calvino reference, to the Baron in the Trees.
Mon. 7/28/08 3:57pm
north guinea hills:
*google earths the sufjan stevens referecnces*, wow, decatur, il is only a short jaunt on i-72 from jacksonville, il. spatially uncanny how two pairs of homophonic towns in two regions of the u.s. have similiar spatial differentials b/tn them
Mon. 7/28/08 4:25pm
north guinea hills:
the history nerd in me is digging this.....
Mon. 7/28/08 4:32pm
lori samsel:
I love Curtis Eller!!!!! I'm a long time fan! Glad to hear him on your show!
Mon. 7/28/08 4:35pm
north guinea hills:
this is cracking me up, bravo curtis!
Mon. 7/28/08 4:47pm
lori samsel:
Curtis performed the best soundtrack fro my animated short film! I wish him the best
Mon. 7/28/08 4:47pm
nicolaj -copenhagen, Denmark:
great songs curtis eller, first time listener, really enjoying it.
digging the show !
Mon. 7/28/08 4:49pm
Ismael:
go, Curtis Eller-phant!
Mon. 7/28/08 4:54pm
Rick:
Wow - this is great stuff. Irene always brings on NYC's best acts.
Mon. 7/28/08 4:56pm
Ismael:
Louis took down Max Schmeling on June 22, 1938!
Mon. 7/28/08 5:07pm
nicolaj:
can really recommend going to see mahmoud ahmed. puts on a good show.
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