Steve Krinsky: Playlist from August 20, 2002

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Artist	Track	Comments
Big Guitars from Texas	Ride of the Ruthless
Dick Dale	The Long Ride
Medeski Martin and Wood	Think
Slede	Gingerbread Man	from "Czech Alternative Music 2000" on Indies Records
Pavel Fajt and Pluto	Kohout	more Czech Alternative Music 2000
Electric Flag	Peter's Trip	from soundtrack to "The Trip" (1967). Found on Bob Brainen's "Feeding Frenzy" compilation (WFMU)
Funkadelic	Hardcore Follies	Recorded in 1976, remastered and reissued in 2002
Country Joe and the Fish	Porpoise Mouth	scratchy but cool
Country Joe and the Fish	Section 43
Kaleidoscope	Egyptian Gardens	Late 60s California psychedelic band with David Lindley
The Celeib People	Ceyladd Beyta	On "Everything You Wanted to Know About 60s Mind Expansive Psychedelic Garage Rock Instrumentals But Were Afraid to Ask" on Arf Arf (1993). From 1968 w/ Ry Cooder on Guitar
Vaqueros	69	Also from "Everything You Wanted to Know..."
Shivas Head Band	Afrodeez	One of Austin's premiere psychedelic bands resurfaced in the 1990s.
Rossy	Faraniaina	Malagasay guitarist. Produced by Henry Kaiser
Cornershop	Sleep on the Left Side	The All Music Guide calls the band an "innovative hybrid of Indian music, British indie rock, and contemporary dance."
Gerry and the Joy Band	My Name is Earl	A spin-off Australian rock group "The Loved Ones"
Barbarians	What the New Breed Say	New England garage pioneers, led by one-handed drummer Moulty
Fenwyck	Mindrocker	from the Nuggets box
Rotary Connection	Sursum Mentes
Rotary Connection	Didn't Want to Have to Do It	Mediocre cover of Lovin' Spoonful tune
Don and Dewey	Farmer John	50s rock & roll duets from Dewey Terry and Don "Sugarcane" Harris. Released on "Jungle Hop" on Specialty (1991)
Lee Perry/Junior Murvin	I Was Appointed
Wayne Wonder	No Letting Go	Dead air followed by mediocre Jamaican pop.
Raymond Scott Orchestrette	Powerhouse	Fine rendition of Scott classic, produced by WFMU's Irwin Chusid
Coasters	Shopping for Clothes	Leiber and Stoller composition
Joe Hudson and His Rockin' Dukes	Baby Give Me A Chance
Lightnin' Slim	Bad Luck Blues
Pharoah Sanders	When the Lights Are Low
Big Maybelle	Rockhouse
Junior Kimbrough	All Night Long	from the late Mississippi juke joint bluesman
Leadbelly	Looky Looky/Black Betty/Yellow Women's Doorbells	Huddie Ledbetter (1888-1949) brough a huge reportoire of blues songs-- along with his booming voice and 12-string guitar-- to NYC and white audiences.
Abba	Pick A Bale of Cotton/On Top of Old Smokey/Midnight Special	Swedes take a stab at American folk songs, including two Leadbelly tunes
Standells	When I Was A Cowboy	Leadbelly's western classic. Almost half of all cowboys in the 1880s were black or Mexican!
Lonnie Donegan	Rock Island Line	In 1953, Donegan had a huge hit (sold three million copies in six months) with this Leadbelly tune
Stan Freeberg	Rock Island Line	Humorists takes his turn with Leadbelly
Leadbelly	Midnight Special	Leadbelly sang himself out of prison twice!
Clifford Jordan	Dick's Holler
Marianne Faithful	Ain't Gone Down to the Well No More	more Leadbelly
Tailgators	Keep Your Hands Off Her	Austin twang band covers Leadbelly
Leadbelly	Bring Me Li'l Water Sylvie
Leadbelly	Julie Ann Johnson
Leadbelly	Line 'Em
Leadbelly	Who Back Buck
Nirvana	Where Did You Sleep Last Night?	Aka "In the Pines" or "Black Girl"
James Booker	Good Night Irene	New Orleans piano player did a year in Louisiana's Angola Prison-- almost 50 years after Leadbelly did time there.
Kelly Joe Phelps	Good Night Irene
Clifford Jordan	Black Betty	Wow!