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Big Guitars from Texas
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Bulldoggin' Boogie
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The theme: an album, originally two, combined into one CD, of Austin twang.
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Dick Dale
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Rumble
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King of the Surf Guitar
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Country Joe & the Fish
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Flying High
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These guys are under appreciated, although I heard someone play them recently on the station. Bay Area psych from 1969 with help from friends.
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Roberto Conrado
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Omnifarius
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Italian psych from 1972: "Flipper Psychout" on Vampi Soul (2010)
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Lloyd Miller & The Heliocentrics
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Latin
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New, on Strut.
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Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures
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Walking the Curve
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Great lineup, hot tunes. I think that's Kenny Wessel on lead guitar.
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Kottarashky
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Cheteri
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From a nice collection: "Balkan Grooves" on Eastblok out of Berlin (2009)
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Budos Band
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Reppirt Yad
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In memory of John Lennon. New from Daptone.
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Music behind DJ:
Soulive
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Day Tripper
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Not sure why but straight Beatles' covers-- even competent like this one-- are boring. That's why it's talkover music.
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Lou Donaldson
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Mambo Inn
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I have this on a nice collection called "Jumpin' Jazz" with lots of great players, like Grant Green, Eddie Jefferson, Houston Person and more.
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Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
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Give It Back
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Great new CD on Daptone. Hey, I see Fernando Velez, formerly of Jersey City, is a Dap-King!
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A.C. Reed
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I'd Rather Fight Than Switch
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This one comes off "The USA Records Blues Story"-- issued on CD in 2007, recorded in the 60s.
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Koko Taylor
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Honky Tonky
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Another USA Blues cut, this one a cover of a Mel Tillis song!
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Delbert McClinton
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Turn On Your Love Light
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Great song, amazing cover. Delbert does it as good as it can be done. I'm sure Bobby Bland would agree.
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Clyde Kerr, Jr.
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Treme
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This longtime New Orleans trumpeter and music teacher died in August; his only solo album came out the year before. Although he gigged for years, he is best known as a teacher-- with some of the best NO jazz players his students. RIP Clyde.
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Professor Longhair
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She Ain't Got No Hair
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Clyde Kerr is in the horn section, along with Kidd Jordan & Alvin Batiste. Snooks Eaglin is on guitar & Zig Modeliste is on drums. From "Mardi Gras in Baton Rouge" on Rhino; recorded in 1971.
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David Torkanowsky
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Professor Longhair is Passing By
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WWOZ DJ Torkanowsky is one of the best piano players in NO these days; this is from a Fess tribute concert from 1994.
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Roy Byrd & His Blues Jumpers
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Hadacol Blues
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This is Longhair in 1950!
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Los Hombres Calientes
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New Second Line
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Irvin Mayfield & Bill Summers are the main players in this terrific group. Mayfield was a student of Clyde Kerr
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Music behind DJ:
Clyde Kerr, Jr.
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Psalm for A King
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Bed music
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Kidd Jordan / Hamid Drake / William Parker
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Resolution
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Kidd Jordan played his horn at Clyde Kerr's funeral. Here he is on a non-New Orleans sounding album, recorded in Brooklyn in 2005 for AUM Fidelity.
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The Subdudes
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He's Got You on His Mind
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These guys have been playing around New Orleans for the past two decades-- and they are still going strong. This is from their 1997 live album on High Street Records.
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Third World
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You're Playing Us Too Close
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Written & produced by Stevie Wonder; from a 1982 album on Columbia
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Stephen Marley
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Master Blaster
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Featuring Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley, Kymani Marley, Julian Marley & Spragga Benz, from a Stevie Wonder tribute album, "Conception" (Motown, 2003)
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Tom Jones
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Nobody's Fault But Mine
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Tom's new album-- "Praise & Blame"-- is all gospel. And a great band too. On Lost Highway, 2010. Happy Birthday Janice.
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Robert Earl Keen
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That Buckin' Song
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Clever fellow, that REK. This is from his 1998 CD on Arista: "Walking Distance."
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Pete Drake & His Talking Steel Guitar
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Rick-A-Shay
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Released in 2007, this collection is half instrumental, the rest country vocals. On Gusto.
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The Avett Brothers
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Spanish Pipedream
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Nice new tribute to John Prine, on Oh Boy Records (Prine's own label). Avett Bros will be at Radio City Music Hall on Wednesday.
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Marty Robbins
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A White Sportcoat
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I have a collection of Columbia 45s with this song, which always reminds me of high school. Don't you love Marty Robbins' voice?!
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Chip Taylor and Carrie Rodriguez
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Angel in the Morning
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Chip Taylor wrote this song. He & partner have a new album, "The New Bye & Bye" on Train Wreck. Taylor has dozens of great tunes to his name, the most famous being "Wild Thing"
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Caleb Klauder
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My Baby Came Back
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A Louvin Brothers cover. From "Western Country"
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Peter Stampfel & Baby Gramps
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It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo'
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Wow. How did these two loonies get together? Album is "Outertainment" on Red Newt (2010)
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Peter Stampfel & Baby Gramps
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Surfin' Bird
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Let's hear another!
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Raymond Scott
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The Penguin
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Didn't say what kind of bird so I dug out my Raymond Scott collection, wonderfully produced by FMU's own Irwin Chusid for Stash Records in 1991.
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Frank Hutchison
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Long Way to Tipperary
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From an interesting CD: "Bloody War: Songs 1924-1939. Frank Hutchinson was a black string band player; this song is an Irish classic, the theme song for longtime (30 years!) Jersey City Mayor Frank "I Am the Law" Hague
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Regina Carter
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Reverie
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Written by Claude Debussy, from a cool album called "paganini: after a dream" on Verve (2003)
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Laura Harrison
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Berimbau
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Brazilian tune,written by Vinicius de Morales, Baden Powell and R. Gilbert. From Laura Harrison's "now...here" CD.
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Chacalon y Nueva Crema
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A Trabajar
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You can't have too many Cumbia collections; this one is "Roots of Chicha 2: Psychedelic Cumbias from Peru" on Barbes (2010)
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Los Destellos
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Cumbia del Desierto
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Another.
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Thelonious Monk
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Blue Monk
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This version was recorded live at Newport Jazz Fest 1963. And it's beautiful.
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