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The Everly Brothers :: Roots

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The Everly Brothers released Roots in 1968, a pioneering country-rock album that found them covering material from their influences both past and present — including the likes of Merle Haggard, George Jones, Jimmie Rodgers and Randy Newman.

Bookended by clips from Everly Family's 1952 radio show, the album transcends time, bridging the past, present and future of both the group and the music that had traveled alongside them. An outlier in their catalog, the lp . . .

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Bill Dees :: Tennessee Owns My Soul (1969)

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Rough around the edges with driving drums, catchy guitar melodies, and even catchier harmonies and leads, the sound of Bill Dees' "Tennessee Owns My Soul" is not unlike Black Lips pre-Good Bad Not Evil material. Dees strong vocal lead with the two-part harmony brings X's John Doe and Exene to mind, only supplying the harmony on this tune is none other than Roy Orbison.

Which raises the question: who was Bill Dees? The man is virtually unsearchable online, with a scant Wikipedia page and not a single solo 45 or LP to his name, save . . .

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The Lagniappe Sessions :: Allah-Las

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Lagniappe (la ·gniappe) noun ‘lan-ˌyap,’ — 1. An extra or unexpected gift or benefit. 2. Something given or obtained as a gratuity or bonus.

Matthew Correia, Miles Michaud, Pedrum Siadatian, and Spencer Dunham are Allah-Las. This week's session finds the band recording an inspired set in a Topanga Canyon pump house, covering three tracks spanning 1969-2004. The band, in their own words, below. . .

Allah-Las :: Come On (Jesus & Mary Chain)

We recorded these . . .

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Tia Blake :: Wish I Was a Single Girl Again

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Christiana Wallman passed away in June in Pinehurst, North Carolina, at the age of 63. Those who know about the album she recorded under the name Tia Blake have long puzzled over her backstory, which in some ways, is just as hazy and enigmatic as the music she made. Here are some stray details: she was born in Georgia to a father who may have been a CIA agent and a mother, Joan Blake, who would go on to establish the Canadiana landmark that was Double Hook Bookstore in Montreal.   She herself spent most of . . .

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Walks On The Beach :: Adoption Tapes

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Summer isn't complete without a few walks on the beach, right? The vibrations of this bewitching LP from Mike Shiflet and Jerry David DeCicca are pretty far from Brian Wilson, though. Adoption Tapes is more of a misty morning ramble on a deserted, desolate shore. DeCicca, (who last year gave us Understanding Land, one of 2014's finest) provides muffled/muttered vocals which drift over disembodied guitar soundscapes that blend . . .

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

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Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35, can now be heard twice, every Friday — Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST.

SIRIUS 398:  Jean Michel Bernard — Générique Stephane ++ Jean Michel Bernard — Générique Stephane ++  David Bowie — White Light / White Heat ++ Lou Reed — Rock And Roll Heart ++ Lou Reed — Kill Your Sons ++ Lou Reed — A Gift ++  Iggy Pop — Dum Dum Boys ++ The Velvet Underground — Head Held High ++ The . . .

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Quilt — Milo :: Pickathon / Galaxy Barn

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The final installment of an ongoing series with Pickathon, showcasing footage from the Galaxy Barn at last year's fest, located at Pendarvis Farm in Oregon: Quilt — “Milo . . .

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Dwight Yoakam :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Dwight Yoakam’s been playing country so long he qualifies as a statesman, but Second Hand Heart, his fourteenth album, doesn’t sound like he’s settling into a mid-career lull. With jangly guitars, bracing tempos, and rowdy vocals, Yoakam's songs are as wild as they were in 1986, when he released his debut Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc. The record follows 3 Pears, his 2012 album produced with Beck, and more than that record echoes the cowpunk of his . . .

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The Lagniappe Sessions: Matthew E. White / Tape-estry

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Lagniappe (la ·gniappe) noun ‘lan-ˌyap,’ — 1. An extra or unexpected gift or benefit. 2. Something given or obtained as a gratuity or bonus.

Matthew E. White presents  Tape-estry  featuring Bedouine  -  a digital 45 of Carole King songs recorded on a 4-track in motels across America. This is White's second Lagniappe Session for AD. Listen . . .

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Eleventh Dream Day :: Works For Tomorrow

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Not many bands stick it out for three decades -- and even those who do usually end up as shadows of their former selves. Not so with Eleventh Dream Day. The action-packed  Works For Tomorrow isn't just one of the veteran Chicago group's best efforts, it's also one of the best guitar records in recent memory, as Rick Rizzo and James Elkington find the sweet spot between Television's precise/pristine interplay and Crazy Horse's wild abandon.

Dig . . .

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AD Presents: Kevin Morby / Rodrigo Amarante @ The Teragram

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This Tuesday night, Aquarium Drunkard presents an evening with Kevin Morby and Rodrigo Amarante at The Teragram Ballroom in Los Angeles. Tickets are still available, here, and we have several pairs saved for AD readers. To enter, leave a comment below. Winners notified by Monday . . .

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Foxygen 7″ 45 via Tanner Goods / Aquarium Drunkard

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Dig that leather 'jacket' up there ^. Last year we partnered with our pals Tanner Goods to release a free 7" featuring two two tracks from Foxygen's 2014 Pickathon performance, which found the group working out material from their (then) forthcoming lp, ...And Star Power. This weekend it is available.

The 45s will be available first come, first serve . . .

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Gems From The Jazz Vault :: Miles Davis, Wes Montgomery & Duke Ellington

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Some recent, recommended archival releases of (mostly) unreleased material from some jazz giants.  

It'd take a whole lot more than four discs to sum up what Miles Davis was up to onstage from 1955-1975. But the trumpeter's latest Bootleg Series  manages to give a solid overview, collecting performances given under the auspices of the Newport Jazz Festival (some of which take place at the actual . . .

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

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Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35, can now be heard twice, every Friday — Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST.

SIRIUS 397:  Jean Michel Bernard — Générique Stephane ++ Kevin Morby - Harlem River ++ Destroyer - Chinatown ++ David Bowie - Win ++ Jullian Lynch - Terra ++ Atlas Sound - Another Bedroom ++ Atlas Sound - Recent Bedroom ++ David Bowie - TVC 15 ++ Talking Heads - I Get Wild/Wild Gravity ++ Blur - Blue Jeans ++ The Clash - The Call Up (AD edit) ++ Pylon . . .

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Shirley Collins Tributes :: Emily Sundblad & Matt Sweeney

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Though she retired from regular public performance decades ago, Shirley Collins' influence on today's musical landscape seems to grow with every year. That's a very good thing. Her classic LPs, either alone, or with Davy Graham, her sister Dolly, and Ashley Hutchings, among others, are master classes in traditional English folk forms (with plenty of trips into other folk forms as well). They're also just fantastic records, with Collins' unmistakeable vocals and pristine delivery bringing age-old songs to miraculous life. She's one of our great voices.
That voice and legacy is paid well-deserved tribute . . .

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