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Month: March 2014

Wax Wonders :: Blue Eyed Soul (Part 1)

Posted on March 31, 2014March 30, 2014

By the 1960s, soul music began to influence musicians far beyond its African American roots, here in the States and, notably, across the pond. What started in the 1950s as […]

SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show (Noon EST, Channel 35)

Posted on March 28, 2014March 28, 2014

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. SIRIUS 335: Jean Michel Bernard […]

Captain Beefheart :: I’m Gonna Booglarize You, Baby (German TV, 1972)

Posted on March 27, 2014

And speaking of Beefheart …here we find the Captain with his Magic Band performing “I’m Gonna Booglarize You, Baby”, on German television in 1972. While the studio version that kicks off the Spotlight Kid is great […]

Kontroversial Kovers: Kinky 60’s Mod/Garage/Freakbeat

Posted on March 26, 2014March 27, 2014

There are the kind of completists for whom even the whole discography isn’t enough. After tracking down practically everything the Kinks had to offer, one such collector turned his attention […]

Bardo Pond :: Refulgo

Posted on March 25, 2014March 25, 2014

Psych rock lifers Bardo Pond go back to the beginning with Refulgo , a double LP of previously hard to come by recordings from the mid 1990s. Though essentially an odds-n-sods […]

The Residents :: Santa Dog & Residue of The Residents

Posted on March 25, 2014March 24, 2014

“Do you ever… wonder who you are?” A cartoonish voice asks this question on “Aircraft Damage,” a track from The Residents’ first official release in 1972 called Santa Dog. It’s […]

Richard Buckner :: Bloomed (Merge Reissue)

Posted on March 24, 2014June 3, 2022

The Black Swans’ Jerry DeCicca returns to AD, this time looking back at Richard Buckner’s debut long-player, Bloomed. Originally released in 1994, the remastered album was reissued earlier this month via Merge Records, also […]

Dave Berry :: The Crying Game

Posted on March 24, 2014May 23, 2022

I’m not a fantasy sports guy, but I do have a short-list of country versions I would have loved to have heard cut of certain material, including the 1964 Dave Berry original, […]

Sid Selvidge :: The Cold Of The Morning (Reissue)

Posted on March 24, 2014March 24, 2014

In his tome It Came From Memphis , author Robert Gordon called Sid Selvidge the city’s “pre-eminent folkster.” Any argument to the contrary would likely be settled by one or two spins of The […]

Sam Bush :: Sailin’ Shoes

Posted on March 20, 2014May 9, 2022

That right there is one Lowell George , he of Little Feat, whose discography has just been reissued by Rhino. In 1972 the band released their second long-player, Sailin’ Shoes , the final […]

The War On Drugs :: Lost In The Dream

Posted on March 19, 2014March 19, 2014

The War on Drugs were born with a sound. When Adam Granduciel’s Philly-bred concern released Wagonwheel Blues in 2008, they were already singular. There were familiar signifiers–woo-hoo-hoos stolen from Born […]

Jack Nitzsche / Captain Beefheart :: Hard Workin’ Man (1978)

Posted on March 18, 2014March 19, 2014

I recently re-watched the underrated/half-forgotten Blue Collar — Paul Schrader’s 1978 directorial debut starring Richard Pryor, Yaphet Kotto and Harvey Keitel. Filmed on location at the Checker Motors plant in Kalamazoo, Michigan, […]

Return Of The Repressed :: Bikoff, Taussig and McGrath

Posted on March 18, 2014March 27, 2014

While a younger generation has picked up the American Primitive torch in the past decade, some of the original 1960s fingerpickers have recently emerged from the mists with some damn […]

Greg Ashley :: Another Generation Of Slaves

Posted on March 17, 2014March 17, 2014

Greg Ashley is best known as the leader of the Texas cum Oakland psych outfit The Gris Gris , but he’s also spent time in other bands, including the brash punkers The Strate-Coats […]

T.L. Barrett :: Like A Ship (Without A Sail)

Posted on March 17, 2014

Save yr. soul. Chicago soul gospel. Year, 1971. I was woken up last night in Los Angeles by a rumbling earthquake, yet this nugget still packs the bigger wallop.

 
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