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 a watered down, Pat Boone-ification […]
Month: March 2014
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. SIRIUS 335: Jean Michel Bernard — Générique Stephane ++ The […]
Captain Beefheart :: I’m Gonna Booglarize You, Baby (German TV, 1972)
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 in its own right, this […]
Kontroversial Kovers: Kinky 60’s Mod/Garage/Freakbeat
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 to the Kinks covers from […]
Bardo Pond :: Refulgo
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 compilation, the release works just […]
The Residents :: Santa Dog & Residue of The Residents
“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 a curious debut EP, a […]
Richard Buckner :: Bloomed (Merge Reissue)
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 marking its first appearance on […]
Dave Berry :: The Crying Game
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, “The Crying Game”. I’ll share […]
Sid Selvidge :: The Cold Of The Morning (Reissue)
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 Cold of the Morning, Selvidge’s […]
Sam Bush :: Sailin’ Shoes
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 album not swamped in the […]
The War On Drugs :: Lost In The Dream
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 in the USA-era Springsteen, Granduciel’s […]
Jack Nitzsche / Captain Beefheart :: Hard Workin’ Man (1978)
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, the film boasts one of […]
Return Of The Repressed :: Bikoff, Taussig and McGrath
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 good new material. Don Bikoff’s […]
Greg Ashley :: Another Generation Of Slaves
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 and acid-drenched folkists The Mirrors, […]
T.L. Barrett :: Like A Ship (Without A Sail)
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. T.L. Barrett :: Like A Ship