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Funkadelic :: Cookie Jar | Live at the Sugar Shack, Boston, 1972

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This could easily be the best ten minutes of your day—early Funkadelic laying it down hard at Boston’s Sugar Shack in 1972. This show was allegedly the first to feature the newly assimilated Collins brothers and their Houseguests cohort, who cemented Funkadelic’s MK II lineup. On the glide down from Maggot Brain and gearing up for the sprawl of America Eats Its Young, George and the gang are so tight they’re loose all over again –or is it the other way around . . .

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Lowell Davidson Trio (1965)

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The debut of the Lowell Davidson Trio is a humble stunner, freshly reemerged from the luminous back catalogue of ESP-Disk. Though Davidson didn’t make any other recordings during his lifetime, his sole LP remains alive with an untethered, reverent beauty—supple understated, always shifting . . .

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Powers / Rolin Duo :: Strange Fortune

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It’s been a prosperous year for the ever-unfolding iterations of the Powers/Rolin consciousness. Strange Fortune delves ever further into the duo’s own hall of mirrors, offering yet another facet of their diamond-mind union . . .

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Steve Gunn :: Other You

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Since it was recorded in California, it’s tempting to call Other You Steve Gunn’s most sun-kissed effort yet. And to be sure, the record features some of the singer-songwriter’s sweetest melodies, his warmest vocals, and most inviting arrangements . . .

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Videodrome :: Straight to Hell (1987)

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Using most of the standard yardsticks employed for cinematic evaluation, Straight to Hell isn’t a good movie. You could look at it as an indulgent, half-assed waste of time, money and talent — an excuse for a bunch of friends to hang out in Spain, drink wine and play cowboys and bandits. But if you tilt your head ever so slightly, you can also see this haphazard homage to spaghetti westerns as a gloriously bizarre, metatextual experiment wherein some of the greatest artists of the 1980s got together to make a DIY, punk rock movie about coffee, cigarettes and . . .

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The Aquarium Drunkard Show: SIRIUS/XMU (7pm PDT, Channel 35)

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Cowboys in the void. Via satellite, transmitting from northeast Los Angeles — the Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. 7pm California time, Wednesdays.

34.1090° N, 118.2334° W . . .

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Jon Wurster :: Transmissions

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This week on Transmissions, Jon Wurster, the drummer of Mountain Goats, Bob Mould Band, and Superchunk and one-half of Scharpling and Wurster, the long running radio comedy duo as featured on The Best Show. In his wide-ranging talk with Jason Woodbury, he discusses growing up in Philadelphia during the birth of punk and alternative rock, working with Replacements producer Jim Dickinson in the mid-'80s, his experiences at Sun Records, getting the call to join Superchunk, and much more . . .

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The Reds, Pinks & Purples :: Uncommon Weather / Vacant Gardens :: Obscene

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Skygreen Leopards co-founder Glenn Donaldson has already released one killer LP in 2021 — the very nice Painted Shrines debut with Woods’ Jeremy Earl. But wait, there’s more. And it’s all awesome . . .

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Rolling Stones :: Tumbling Dice (Live / Forest National Arena, Brussels / 1973)

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So long to the mighty Charlie Watts, whose elegant, uncluttered style was as essential to the Rolling Stones' sound as Keith Richards' more lauded guitar work. Flash wasn't Charlie's thing — instead, he gave the Stones an always sturdy rhythmic bedrock, (usually) immovable even in the band's wildest moments. Bliss out to his joyous interplay with Mick Jagger during the coda to "Tumbling Dice," live in Brussels, 1973 . . .

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The Lagniappe Sessions :: Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection

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Not one to avoid earnestly discussing and exploring the sounds of his English influences, Cullum reached into the overflowing 60s/70s British folk bag, proffering three selections from pillars of the era in Kevin Ayers, Trees, and Bridget St. John. These deft reinterpretations are patient and affecting, each take heightened by Rae's truly fine vocal accompaniments. Overt respect to the forebears . . .

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Color Green :: S/T EP

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In anticipation of their forthcoming full-length, slide into Color Green's self-titled ep from last year; a laid back twenty minute ride harnessing the spirit of peak-era 70s coast and canyon. Bootcut tall tales dripping with pedal steel, lilting harmonies and an aching sense of wonder. Something they use to call 'cosmic American music . . .

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Nanci Griffith :: Last Of The True Believers

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Nanci Griffith walked a very fine line that can be difficult as an artist. Her songs contained politics just in the very nature of being about humans and humanity. But while it was obvious that some of her songs were about her own experiences, so many others were about the people out there that she met, knew or otherwise saw. And that widescreen view of what life is about is a huge part of what made her music endearing and relatable across generations. Sometimes empathy can be some of the most radical politics of all . . .

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Whitney K :: Cowboy City Rockers

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Following the gentle cacophony of low-key album opener, "Good Morning", Whitney K's Two Years formally announces itself with a Velvets chug on "Trans-Canada Oil Boom Blues" -- but hold on, hoss, it's a few tracks deeper in that we find the heart of the album, "Cowboy City Rockers . . .

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James Matthew VII :: Stoned When I Pray

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Drawn from studio sessions recorded across North America with a variety of collaborators, the haphazard devotion of James Matthew VII’s overlooked 2019 full-length Stoned When I Pray is on full display throughout the title track’s five glorious minutes.

File next to Matthew ‘Doc’ Dunn’s recent batch of pitch-perfect cosmic country platters (which Matthew VII has contributed to)—exquisite and ecstatic . . .

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Workin’ Man’s Band :: Dead Ahead

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Dead waters run deep. Ripping out the gate, “Dead Ahead” sets a breakneck pace complete with blazing pedal steel and extremely necessary cowbell. Regarding the lyrical content, there’s plenty of smoking and drinking and unsuccessfully getting home. The endless highway, indeed . . .

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