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April 6, 2009: Showers for April bring buds and the M Shanghai String Band
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| Artist | Track | Album | Label | Format | |
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| Joe Townsend & Martin Green | Friday Morning / Swirly Wurly | Return to the Woods | |||
| QQQ | Spring | Unpacking the Trailer | New Amsterdam Records | ||
| Curved Air | Jumbo | 2nd | |||
| The Reverend John DeLore | Take a Ride | Ode to an American Urn | |||
| Chicha Libre | El Borrachito | ||||
| Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks | Who Are You? | Tangled Tales | Surf Dog | ||
| Reynold D. Philipsek | Beatnik Pie | East Side | ReiPhi Records | ||
| Wretched Refuse String Band | Working on a Building | ||||
| Cedar Hill Refugees | Whitehouse Blues | Pale Imperfect Diamond | Effigy Records | ||
| Fred Eaglesmith | Killing Me II | Tinderbox | |||
| Anbjorg Lien | Inque | Baba Yaga | |||
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Live performance by The M Shanghai String Band |
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On the cusp of releasing their 3rd album, the 11-piece M Shanghai String Band is still practicing a playful slant on Bluegrass and Americana. Their new album, "The Mapmaker’s Daughter," captures the same energy that we’ve come to expect from the M Shanghai mob, in the highest fidelity yet. "Mapmakers" is testimony to their years of performing together. The M Shanghai String Band make their return WFMU to play live. |
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| M Shanghai String Band | Meteor Storm | ||||
| M Shanghai String Band | Angel Full of Burbon | ||||
| M Shanghai String Band | The Mapmaker's Daughter | The Mapmaker's Daughter | CD | ||
| M Shanghai String Band | Same Old Moon | ||||
| M Shanghai String Band | Cookie Jar | The Mapmaker's Daughter | CD | ||
| M Shanghai String Band | Dying Day | ||||
| M Shanghai String Band | No Home in This World | ||||
| M Shanghai String Band | Sun is Gone | CD | |||
| M Shanghai String Band | Groundhog Day | CD | |||
| John Fahey | |||||
| Peter Biedermann | Christiania | Rumination | |||
| Robin Williamson | The Yellow Snake | The Iron Stone | ECM | ||
| Arborea | River and Rapids | House of Sticks | Borne! | ||
| Nick Pynn | The Market and The Murder | Music from Windows | Round | ||
| Christopher Tignor | Left in Fragments | Core Memory Unwound | Western Vinyl | ||
| Garrett Pierce | When All We Knew Was No | All Masks | Crossbill Records | ||
| Anathallo | Noni's Field | Canopy Glow | Anticon Records | ||
| Fleet Foxes | Heard Them Stirring | Fleet Foxes | |||
| Fleet Foxes | Your Protector | Fleet Foxes | |||
| Balustrade Ensemble | Glorianders | Capsules | Darla | ||
| Good Old War | We've Come a Long Way | Only Way to Be Alone | Sargent House | ||
| Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 | Goodnight Oslo | Goodnight Oslo | Yep Roc | ||
Mon. 4/6/09 3:02pm
From:
Pearly Sweets
Take us on home, Irene!
Mon. 4/6/09 3:03pm
From:
V K
this show makes me happy
Mon. 4/6/09 3:03pm
From:
Sean Daily
Second comment! Woo hoo!
Mon. 4/6/09 3:14pm
From:
Kenneth
Still no Pictish Trail set? :(
Mon. 4/6/09 3:14pm
From:
GP
This reminds me of John Adams ( composer, not the ex-president)...whoa...everything just went pink on me!
Mon. 4/6/09 3:15pm
From:
Parq
Whew, Miss I, after a beatbath like Miz Liz gave out today, your show is a welcome chance to catch one's breath.
Mon. 4/6/09 3:19pm
From:
French
Like german schlager
Mon. 4/6/09 3:22pm
From:
still b/p
The color says flamingo is the spirit animal for this DJ shift.
Mon. 4/6/09 3:24pm
From:
Cecile
what did I miss?
Not the Sylvester. Yay!!!!!!
Mon. 4/6/09 3:27pm
From:
Pearly Sweets
High-Five, Cecile!
Mon. 4/6/09 3:29pm
From:
Cecile
Yes, sir! And 1 one million karma points for knowing Prince Charles!
Mon. 4/6/09 3:35pm
From:
Pearly Sweets
It is a shame. Prince Charles, much like a Slyvester, is one of those musicians that no matter how excited I am about them... my friends and family can never back me about them. They just don't like to shake their booties, I guess.
Mon. 4/6/09 3:38pm
From:
Cecile
Yes, I'm with you, Paerly. And it's a shame, I think.
I love the Funkadelic, but they aren't the only game in town.
Disclaimer - I only speak for my friends and familyu. YMMV.
Mon. 4/6/09 3:40pm
From:
Cecile
We're getting premiums that fast? AWESOME!
Mon. 4/6/09 3:44pm
From:
Pearly Sweets
When I start drinking I'm not so much talking fast as I am laid out on my ass.
Mon. 4/6/09 3:58pm
From:
bcsterrett
I love this. Do all of Eaglesmith's songs sound like this?
Mon. 4/6/09 4:25pm
From:
Pearly Sweets
My legs are bruised from all of the hamboning I've been doing at my desk.
Mon. 4/6/09 4:31pm
From:
Cecile
this has been a dancing fool kind of day here on 'FMU.
Mon. 4/6/09 4:33pm
From:
Cecile
did you just get a sex change, Pearly?
Or did I misidentify you earlier?
Mon. 4/6/09 4:34pm
From:
Irene
Oops! I just assumed from the name...
Mon. 4/6/09 4:35pm
From:
Pearly Sweets
No mic, guys. But thanks for giving my legs a break. Cecile - Sex change from earlier. Much like an amphebian I can alter according to my surroundings. It's a tucking motion, actually.
Mon. 4/6/09 4:36pm
From:
Pearly Sweets
No worries, Irene. You had a 50/50 guess.
Mon. 4/6/09 4:37pm
From:
Cecile
bwah, pearly!
Mon. 4/6/09 4:41pm
From:
Sean Daily
C'mon, Irene! I'm a GUY. Guys want power chords. And naked chicks. And machine guns. And car chases. And farting. And naked chicks in car chases farting power chords and shooting machine guns.
Mon. 4/6/09 4:43pm
From:
Cecile
you just don't want to admit you've been doing a jig this whole time, Sean.
Mon. 4/6/09 4:46pm
From:
Sean Daily
Dammit! Caught by my archnemesis Cecile. You win this round, Mr. Cecile... But I shall return! And next time, into the radioactive-shark-with-frickin'-lasers-on-their-heads tank for you!
Mon. 4/6/09 4:51pm
From:
Pearly Sweets
I love a good string band and this interview/performance/etc. has been quite entertaining. The faster the better. There is a reason my mouth waters whenever I put on my Japonize Elephants album (usually because every other song is about bacon.)
Mon. 4/6/09 4:53pm
From:
Cecile
I await you return, worthy foe.
We will face off in the squared circle again.
And this time I will put my training to use.
Mon. 4/6/09 4:53pm
From:
miketp
just checking in caught the band in the studio . sounds good. also seen curved air at the old fillmore east 1970. female vocals and violin and lots of herb
Mon. 4/6/09 4:55pm
From:
Pearly Sweets
Cecile, if the Nova's have taught me but one thing, it is that you need to do the hammerlock, you turkey neck.
Mon. 4/6/09 4:56pm
From:
Cecile
Truer words were never spoken.
And, yay! John fahey.
Mon. 4/6/09 4:56pm
From:
Pearly Sweets
Then call him a pencil necked geek and hit him in the head with a chair. This is how every fight is won. Any fight that "Ends" without this happening is, in fact, not over.
Mon. 4/6/09 4:59pm
From:
Cecile
No, the folding chair is like the epilogue in the movie, the second encore for the band, the bit of chocolate with your coffee at the end of the meal.
It is the final bit of puntuation you need for closure.
Mon. 4/6/09 5:01pm
From:
Pearly Sweets
Why can't wrestling be as good as it was prior to the late/middle 1990s. I mean there were decades of fantastic nonsense to melt your brain!
Mon. 4/6/09 5:02pm
From:
Pearly Sweets
It became less campy and more... I don't know? Rednecky? Which is hard to say... it was pretty rednecky to begin with...
Mon. 4/6/09 5:04pm
From:
Cecile
Yeah, it didn't have to flaunt it.
It was quietly and proudly lowbrow.
And you had the great characters like Baron Von Raschke and Vern Gagnon.
(I haven't watched that much wrestling myself, but you pick up a lot by osmosis in Minnesota.)
Mon. 4/6/09 5:05pm
From:
Cecile
The Baron even showed up in a Low video. And was the subject of a one-man play recently.
And of course, we had a wrestler governor...
Mon. 4/6/09 5:05pm
From:
Cecile
Gagne, not Gagnon.
Mon. 4/6/09 5:06pm
From:
Parq
Back from a [blessedly] rare all-hands meeting with the Big Bosses. Sorry that I was not here for Sean's Tarzan impression. And to 'Cile, I say, if only you would say "I care", I'd let you fold the folding chair.
Mon. 4/6/09 5:07pm
From:
Pearly Sweets
I love campy lowbrow stuff. It was more like a carny sideshow where you just know all of these people live in a small city outside of clearwater, florida when they retire.
Mon. 4/6/09 5:07pm
From:
Cecile
lol, Parq.
Mon. 4/6/09 5:07pm
From:
Pearly Sweets
In real life, however, I think they either turn to Christ or die.
Mon. 4/6/09 5:08pm
From:
Cecile
I know! Like where Lobster Boy (Man) was murdered.
Mon. 4/6/09 5:13pm
From:
annie
irene, i have no idea if it is the pink that is subduing me or the music or both. love the laid-back tunes.
Mon. 4/6/09 5:15pm
From:
Pearly Sweets
Irene has had a big show almost every week since the marathon! She's blowing up with guests!
Mon. 4/6/09 5:19pm
From:
Cecile
ITA, Pearly. Always something good.
And, yay! Jinx Lennon!
Mon. 4/6/09 5:36pm
From:
Cecile
wow, this is on anticon?
Isn't that an experimental hip-hop label?
Mon. 4/6/09 5:42pm
From:
Carmichael
So, let me see:
Martin Green
Dan Hicks
Fred Eaglesmith
John Fahey
Robin Williamson
Carmichael in boring meeting.
One of these things is not like the other ....
Mon. 4/6/09 5:44pm
From:
Cecile
this seems weird, but the Fleet Foxes dude phrases kind of like Nina Simone, a little, maybe?
Mon. 4/6/09 5:47pm
From:
Carmichael
I got a Sting vibe. But in a good way, ethereal and mystic. Not the Top 40 Sting.
Mon. 4/6/09 5:47pm
From:
Ben
Keep your secrets with you, safe from the outside
Mon. 4/6/09 5:49pm
From:
Pearly Sweets
Still no fleet foxes for me. Though I will say Irene's placement in today's show made me enjoy it more than I have any other time I've heard the foxes.
Mon. 4/6/09 5:49pm
From:
Pearly Sweets
So bully for you, Irene!
Mon. 4/6/09 5:54pm
From:
Pearly Sweets
This Good Old War is really hitting the spot for today. Like in a really good way and if my life were a movie I'd like the camera to pull back and the credits to start.
Mon. 4/6/09 5:54pm
From:
rick armstrong
While I really like the Fleet Foxes album, they sound a bit too much like a My Morning Jacket knockoff. Actually, this Good Old War band sounds like My Morning Jacket, not sure which came fist in this case. However, it can be said that Jim James has helped to launch many bands.
Mon. 4/6/09 5:57pm
From:
Ben
It's impossible to have a band that isn't outsourced from other bands before them. Uniqueness is prized, refinement is nothing bad either. I enjoy the Fleet Foxes personally.
Mon. 4/6/09 6:00pm
From:
Carmichael
I hear the Beatles and Del Amitri. Which is good to my ears.
Wed. 4/8/09 12:31pm
From:
Cool As Folk
thanks Irene for spinning the Garrett Pierce track, sounded great
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