Don and Phil Everly were, respectively, 19 and 21 years old when “Kentucky” appeared on the Everly Brothers LP, Songs Our Daddy Taught Us, in the summer of 1958. Just kids who were making a […]
Month: January 2013
Elyse :: Houses (w/ Neil Young)
I slid this slice of psych-folk into the latest Sidecar podcast ( Transmission 11 ) earlier this week to a number of inquiries. The provenance of “Houses” is via the 2001 Orange Twin reissue of Elyse Weinberg’s […]
Jesse Ed Davis :: Jesse Davis / Ululu
Backing Taj Mahal in The Rolling Stones’ Rock and Roll Circus, Jesse Ed Davis plays guitar like a stone cold badass . His face looks almost too at ease to be lucid and focused, yet his deliberate licks on the telecaster are […]
Lena Hughes :: Queen Of The Flat Top Guitar
An exceedingly rare, private-press holy grail recorded in the early 1960s, Queen Of The Flat Top Guitar (now given 21st century life by the Tompkins Square label) is the lone recorded evidence of Lena Hughes. Though only clocking it at 23 […]
Aquarium Drunkard: Sidecar (Transmission 11) — Podcast/Mixtape
Extra width / Winter weight. Country gospel soul. Est. 1975. Direct download, below. Subscribe to future transmissions via iTunes and/or through the RSS, here. The first ten transmissions can be found and downloaded, here. MP3: Sidecar: Transmission / 11 Clover – Mr. Moon […]
SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show (Noon EST, Channel 35)
Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU , channel 35, can be heard twice every Friday — Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. Martin Nunez, L.A.’s Sir Psych , sits in during the second hour […]
Buffy Sainte-Marie :: Many A Mile
Comprised of now-iconic tracks like “Cod’ine,” “The Universal Soldier,” and “Now That the Buffalo’s Gone”, Buffy Sainte-Marie’s 1964 debut, It’s My Way!, first and foremost introduced the artist to the world as a songwriter. Her […]
Chris Darrow :: Artist Proof (Reissue)
Even if you’ve never heard of Chris Darrow, you’ve probably heard him. The guy has a resume a mile long, having lent his stringed instrument skills to recordings by Leonard Cohen, Linda Ronstadt, The Nitty […]
The Brothers Of Soul :: I Guess That Don’t Make Me A Loser
Oliver Wang’s Soul Sides hipped me to this record 5 or 6 years back, and its rarely left the sweet-soul stacks since. Released in ’68, courtesy of Boo Records, I recently re-encountered the track in a different […]
Goose Creek Symphony :: A Satisfied Mind (Band Not Band)
Lots of inquiries per the Band Not Band compilation I mentioned earlier this month, re: Clover’s “Mr. Moon” . The original CD-R has since been lost to the sands of various moves, road trips, etc., though I still recall much of […]
We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors Of Peace And Magic
No one will accuse Foxygen’s We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace and Magic of being a concept album. It’s as stylistically diverse, maddening and confident as the Take The Kids Off Broadway EP, yet feels ready to enter the primetime — a band confident that their set of skills […]
Vashti Bunyan :: Winter Is Blue (1966 Acetate)
While my perception of “winter” has wholly changed since moving to California 11 years ago, Bunyan’s haunting 1966 rendering of “Winter Is Blue” continues to inhabit the season existentially. Culled from an unreleased acetate, later […]
Aquarium Drunkard Presents :: The Amazing – Mercury Lounge, NYC (January 25th)
This Friday, direct from Sweden, Aquarium Drunkard presents The Amazing with Woodsman at Mercury Lounge , NYC. If you missed our 2012 Year In Review , we likened the record to a “textured glide through the past four decades of coast & canyon […]
SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show (Noon EST, Channel 35)
Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU , channel 35, can be heard twice every Friday — Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. Download the Aquarium Drunkard session with Melody’s Echo Chamber , HERE . The latest […]
Harlem River Drive (1971, NYC)
Harlem River Drive were a short-lived but righteous group of musicians brought together in 1970-71 by Puerto Rican pianist and bandleader Eddie Palmieri . Veritable king of the Latin dance floors, by the end of the 1960s […]